weirdly enough, this is the only manuscript I’ve written without a writing playlist. I’ve been writing purely without music, but not on purpose. I can’t really find its music style? But I have been listening to a lot of 70’s music, even though the story has nothing to do with that decade lol

#mememay 29 A bit more zeroed on my WIP than intended, but my own music is relaxing for me to write to and soothing in grief. Here’s a raw excerpt of an early part of Drisal & Rushak’s theme, The Work, with the core motifs thereof. Me in hoodie, playing brown upright not well, in messy house.

I don’t really have any specific actors in mind, but can I cast a character instead? lol Marc Evan Jackson’s Shawn from The Good Place is a whole vibe

I'm awful at actor names, so I'm just going to say Kida is absolutely one of the driving influences behind Gielle, and she could easily step into the role. #MemeMay #MindWalkers #YA

#Mememay 28 I usually struggle with fan-casts because I don't think in terms of faces, really. I don't think in terms of voices either. One could argue I don't think, at all. With that said, Xyd would be a 'slurpasaur' played by a pangolin. And Werner Herzog as Blob.

#Mememay 26 No friends to lovers (or anything to lovers—Sam is not at all interested in romance). Grace does have a "leave the city to return to your small town and meet a local cutie" thing going on, but the cutie is a girl, and we're not overly romanticizing small-town life; there are flaws!

ive purposely avoided most tropes popularized by fics as my story just doesnt seem to fit cleanly into those. but traditional fantasy tropes, I believe I’ve kept a lot of those but tried to do it my way

something like this #mememay

❤️lying is good when I do it ❤️I don’t need to apologize ❤️I’m sorry but I’ll do it again ❤️It was wrong, but they deserved it

Lia's red flags: 🚩 delusional af 🚩 enormously selfish 🚩 lies to everyone except Roman 🚩 will argue for no reason Bonus Roman red flags: 🚩 manipulative asshole 🚩 emotionally constipated 🚩 lies to everyone 🚩 cool with murder #MemeMay

Cozy fantasy. I think Janine would love to put her feet up in a Legends & Lattes style world.

romance. my mc is heartbroken and would love to be in a story that sweeps her off her feet

#Mememay 22 Narok's favorite song is Dragula, but he's also listen to divorced dad rock like Nickelback.

#Mememay 22 This feels right.

not one song, but probably anything by Olivia Rodrigo

no context spoiler for today

#MemeMay Actually, the tag lines were the working titles. I'll do a jokey alt-name for the series instead: Distressed, Overstimulated, and Emotional For those curious, here's the original titles/tag lines Lemon Balm — A Vampire and a Werewolf Walk In To a Church... (No, There's No Punchline) 1/2

this WIP has had so many alternate titles. I think the very first draft title was like “magic WIP” lol as a joke title, I would alternatively call it:

#Mememay 20 The Cryptid of Sunnyside came to me immediately, but it goes by CryptidWIP sometimes to save on character count. It'd be funny to add an A word so TCoS could be TACoS. Or, alternatively,

there is a style of humor where the tension is immediately cut off with a joke, and I’m often not a fan of that style because I do think a serious moment needs to be processed first. but I absolutely love to follow up a serious moment with a lighthearted in-character moment.

#Mememay 18 Callum from The Bird and the Blade loves birds, especially birds of prey, and could talk about them for hours if anyone would let him! (Unfortunately, his father wants to marry him off and has decided that “babbling” is unattractive. So no info-dumps. Not until he gets kidnapped!)

#Mememay 18 This one is tricky because Ray kind of lives for her work, so she doesn't have many outside interests. She can talk about improvised weapons and fighting techniques for quite a while. But probably her favorite subject would be psychology/social engineering. 🧵

Lilia could go on & on about D&D campaigns she’s been in, and she’s also apt to reference the LotR franchise. Nico could infodump on nothing. He can’t speak 😜 #MemeMay

I imagine there’s a lot of things she’s interested in that I don’t have time to talk about in my manuscript, but she’s a foodie for sure

my mc would be these macarons for no other reason besides they are cool and aesthetic. her favorite dessert would be some special type of coffee.

i looked this up the other day. it’s slightly relevant to my urban fantasy novel, I promise 😭😭🤣

#Mememay 15 Sam's social bio, if modern day: Sam (they/them) Cryptid hunter. Coffee drinker. Rain watcher. 💚🤍🖤🖤🤍💜💛🤍💜🖤

my mc would have been in a really long relationship, so she doesn’t have a lot of experience on the apps. she would probably create a profile out of curiosity and then turn it into a bit of joke (like the profile example below) because she hates the idea of online dating

#Mememay 14 This is my best conceptualization of my antagonist in less than 60 seconds. This was, somehow, harder than drawing Beverly. 🌈✒️ #lesfic #FLBC #WritingPrompts #QueerWriters #Sapphic

Liam with the punchable face #mememay

not my best work, but I think this may capture *some* essence of my antagonist

my mc would find this hilarious as she pretty much relates to this over the course of the entire story #Mememay

#Mememay 13 This would make the cryptid hunting team (Sam/Grace/Hubert) laugh. Hubert would be the one wanting to kiss Mothman and Sam would be the one bringing up infrastructure.

#Mememay 12 I love editing because I get to reread and improve a story that was written exactly for my tastes!

I like editing a bit too much to the point that I will edit and re edit the first page before I even finish the first draft lol

I think this sums it up quite nicely #mememay

it’s kinda a childfree story in a way, or at least, no one has young kids and my characters are generally older. but i do mention my characters’ families and there are plenty of moms represented in my story. #AwesomeCharacters

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters What is your character's favorite small luxury? A little thing they don't always get, but will seek out when they can? Clean socks? A hot meal? A massage? A quiet moment? Do they get it in the story? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Fastest I've ever done anything, #mememay but it's actually a face, not the best face but a face. His poor jaw...

#Mememay 9 Behold: professional cryptid hunter.

well…this is a drawing, i can give it that. i feel like it’s giving “mysterious old woman who tells protagonist about a prophecy” and that is not my mc at all. 💀

#Mememay 8 🌩️👾🌲🕵️✈️✋🔎👣

I’ll answer for what sets off the chain of events in 1661: 🚗🤬🔪 #Mememay

💰🚔 kinda sparse but I think that says a lot lol #mememay

#Mememay 7 The very first scene is the MC not paying attention at a lecture, so I guess this fits.

#MemeMay Day 7 #writesky #YAlit at the start of We’ll Never Forget, Meghna just wants to get through the final year of high school without any more drama. When the inciting incident/call to adventure comes, she’s like

essentially this #mememay