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oh dee! :') reading this after i sent you a long, appreciative pm brought tears to my eyes. thank you for all of your kind words and overall excitement for my passion project. i've sang my praises for your wip and characters a million times (especially my girl aniyah!) but here i go again! by your character analyses alone, i can tell you pay so much attention to each detail to the point where each of your characters feel real. i know for a fact i will flip whenever i can read your prose.

Now that we know a little bit more about who YOU are, let’s get to know the people you love. Take this as a chance to recommend some of the writeblrs you love to hear from! Tell people about your friends. Become their biggest cheerleaders!

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happy september! ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ ❀

setting some personal wip goals for this month and planning to be more active. i've missed you all and i hope you've been taking care of yourselves :)

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WIP intro: The Together List

An introduction to my second WIP!!

Pinterest board -> The Together List

Spotify playlist -> The Together List

Summary: Audrey is in her first month of college. Within three weeks, she’s moved out of her childhood bedroom and into a room with a window that seems to open on its own and a door that creaks loud enough to wake up the whole floor, she’s stumbled into a friend group that seemed to pull itself together like drawstrings, and she’s gotten a job at an adorable independent milkshake shop with her roommate and one of her new friends. What more could she possibly ask for?

The world, it seems.

Audrey has a list ten miles long of all the little things she wants college to be. One night, she starts listing them out loud. Her friends—Logan, Lennon, McKinley, Aspen, and Levi—chime in with their own after a moment, and before anyone knows it it’s been three hours and they haven’t stopped. They aren’t even sure whose idea it is, but they start writing it down. Every box on this ridiculously decorated list will be checked off by the end of the year, they swear.

Someone makes an Instagram account as a joke, but by the first post it’s become as serious an endeavor as they’ve ever had. They wouldn’t call themselves local celebrities, but they certainly wouldn’t correct you if you did. The thing about fame at this age, even at small amounts, is that it's bound to go to someone's head...

Genres: realistic fiction, young adult fiction, new adult fiction, coming of age, LGBTQ+ fiction

Themes: LGBTQ+, friendships, fame, college, becoming an adult, relationships

Character Introductions

(all photos found on Pinterest)

Audrey Abigail Marshall 💙

"So make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it. You've got no reason to be afraid." - You're On Your Own Kid, Taylor Swift

Age: 19

Gender: female

Pronouns: she/her

Sexuality: pansexual

Birthday: May 16th

Star sign: Taurus

Friends: Logan, Lennon, McKinley, Aspen, Levi

Family: Julia (mom), Adam (dad), Trevor (younger brother, 16)

Occupation: barista at a milkshake shop, college freshman (studying education and sociology)

Fun facts: she was named after Audrey Hepburn

Audrey spent the past year trying to learn more about herself. "Did it work?" you ask. Nope! Now she's moving into her college dorm a year later than her high school classmates, and she can feel the desire to catch up burning in her veins. She claws at every opportunity to prove that she wasn't wasting her time this past year. She would probably do well to realize who she's trying to prove herself to...

Logan Olivia Levine 🧡

"I don't want the world, but I'll take this city. Who can blame a girl? Call me hot, not pretty." - HOT TO GO!, Chappell Roan

Nicknames: Lo, Halo

Age: 19

Gender: female

Pronouns: she/her

Sexuality: lesbian, asexual spectrum

Birthday: July 25th

Star sign: Leo

Friends: Audrey, Lennon, McKinley, Aspen, Levi

Family: Katherine (mom), Richard (dad), Carter (older brother, 21), Danny (older brother, 24), Jordan (older brother, 26), Noelle (sister in law, 26)

Occupation: barista at a milkshake shop, college freshman (studying psychology and sociology), part time middle/high school tutor

Fun facts: she asked Disneyland Rapunzel to marry her when she was seven years old

Logan knows what she's good at, including but not limited to: decorating her lecture notes, pulling off outlandishly oversaturated outfits, and making things fun. The Together List is such a Logan idea she's appalled that she didn't think of it first, but once it takes off, she's thriving. This is the most fun she's ever had. Until the real world catches up, people lash out at each other, and she has no clue where she stands. She has a lot of love in her body, but figuring out what to do with it is way harder than she expected...

Lennon Lillienne Adler 💛

"Quick pause in conversation, she plays songs I've never heard." - Canyon Moon, Harry Styles

Nicknames: Lemon, Lemons

Age: 19

Gender: female(ish) (her words)

Pronouns: she/her/they/them

Sexuality: asexual, heteromantic

Birthday: November 19th

Star sign: Scorpio

Friends: Audrey, Logan, McKinley, Aspen, Levi

Family: Ariana (mom), Jonathan (dad)

Occupation: college freshman (studying photography and cinematography), campus library assistant

Fun facts: she’s Australian, they have a cat named Spritz

Lennon is about as far from home as she can get. They’ve been to the states before, but that was only ever for a few weeks to visit her dad while he worked. Now she lives here, and their plan is pretty much just go to class, go to work, go to sleep, repeat for four years, and graduate. It’s probably a good thing that plan is going straight down the drain with this new group of friends…

McKinley Savannah March 💜

"It's not a perfect narrative, there's beauty in mistakes." - Best Friends, 5 Seconds of Summer

Nicknames: Kinley

Age: 19

Gender: female

Pronouns: she/her

Sexuality: who fricken knows (her words)

Birthday: April 29

Star sign: Taurus

Friends: Audrey, Logan, Lennon, Aspen, Levi

Partner: Aspen

Family: Amber (mom), Nathaniel (dad), Cecelia (younger sister, 16)

Occupation: college freshman (studying history and anthropology)

Fun facts: she has ADHD

McKinley knows she talks too much, too fast, about things people don’t usually care about. That’s fine. It just means she should only surround herself with people who don’t mind her the way she is. The problem is… there aren’t many of those people around. Her parents, her sister, Logan, and Aspen, and that’s about it. Oh, and her cool Australian roommate. And Logan’s roommate, Audrey. And Audrey’s friend Levi. Well, actually, now that she thinks about it, there are actually a lot of people who really like her. She’ll have to get used to that…

Aspen Noel Brady ❤️

"I don't know much about love. Come find my in the crowd of all the boys and girls." - Boys & Girls, Conan Gray

Age: 19

Gender: gremlin (their words)

Pronouns: they/them

Sexuality: bisexual

Birthday: August 2nd

Star sign: Leo

Friends: Audrey, Logan, Lennon, McKinley, Levi

Partner: McKinley

Family: Andrea (mom), Matthew (dad)

Occupation: barista at a milkshake shop, college freshman (studying English and film)

Fun facts: they sleepwalk and sleep talk

Aspen sort of loves being weird. They embrace it. They’re strongly considering getting it tattooed somewhere. But in high school, “weird” is a gateway drug to “bullied”, which is harder to embrace. It was bad; months went by where they were hesitant to leave the house, and they accidentally got very good at self-isolating when life went sour. It’s been a long time since then, and once they settle into regularity with their new group of friends, they look forward to never resorting to that again. No matter how badly circumstances want them to…

Levi Declan Avery Jackson 💚

"And it ain't so pretty when you're playing cute when your body's up against some fool." - 1983, Neon Trees

Age: 20

Gender: male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: gay

Birthday: September 20th

Star sign: Virgo

Friends: Audrey, Logan, Lennon, McKinley, Aspen

Family: Phoebe (mom), Chris (dad), Lena (little sister, 7)

Occupation: college sophomore (studying journalism and creative writing/composition)

Fun facts: he has citizenship in the US (where he was born), Canada (where his dad was born) and the Philippines (where his mom was born)

Levi doesn't care one way or the other about the idea of love languages, but don't even think for one second that his isn't gift giving. He grew up with money, so anything his friends want, his friends get. The problem is that he's gotten quite used to people who would rather be friends with his bank account than him, and his only real friend since… well, ever has been Audrey. Shockingly, the people Audrey introduces him to don’t seem at all interested in his credit card. Weird…

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WIPs are still works in progress even if no progress has been made on them for a while.

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please please please PLEASE add me to the tag list!

WIP INTRO

Synopsis 🧡

Firefighter Shenanigans is a comedy/satire play that follows the adventures of idiotic firefighters who suck at their job. The play begins with the three knuckleheads, Guy, Iguana, and Maisie, introducing the new recruits Agua, and Le Feu to the team. The latter duo (who have yet to confess their mutual feelings) quickly regret their career choice as they soon realize the team they joined is insane. For on their first day they are asked to cross burning coals, and are later greeted by a short angry man as their Fire Chief. The rest of their careers is just as intense! Some of their adventures include high speed chases with paramedics, rescuing a cat, visiting a high school, setting the beach on fire, saving a forest from a gender reveal party, bullying Iguana, comforting a gay teen's heartbreak, learning how to lip read, and discovering that not all colored drinks come from apples.

Main Cast🧡

Reginald: The Fire Chief Guy: The Captain Iguana: The Lieutenant Maisie: The Engineer / The Driver Le Feu: New Firefighter #1 Agua: New Firefighter #2 The Weiner Dog: The Dog, obviously Parfait: The Villain

Minor Cast🧡

Fii: Some girl Guy likes Pear: Parfait's Ex

Tag list (please ask to be added or removed): @delusionisaplace

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sometimes you'll meet someone

I think I met someone again.

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You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended

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·˚ ༘₊· ͟͟͞͞꒰➳ OC POLL TAG

Thanks to @honeybewrites for the tag! This is their post :)

RULES:

Make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite!

Who else rather than the When Art Talks crew aka my babies. I don't have the intro posts up for Nadia and Elena yet, but there are character descriptions for them here. For everyone else, we have Aniyah, Noah, and Jacqueline!

TAGGING (no pressure): @pixies-love-envy @mundanemoongirl @the-golden-comet @moltenwrites @leitereads + open tag! ♡

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When I mention I’m writing a novel and someone asks how far along I am but I haven’t actually written anything- just made my fun lil characters and made random plot points that don’t connect yet

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Writer's Block: Nausea and Commas

Written by me in 2013.

i have this idea and it's epic.

my head feels like lead and mom's feet are on my back but i have this idea and it's everything i've ever wanted to write about but never did.

i try to picture the faces―the eyes―the dialogue―the commas between the heartbeats, and it feels real. nothing feels contrived. Times New Roman font and punctuated heart-lines are running down and out and it's real.

it's not throwing up purple prose and witty sentences for the heck of it.

it's not leaving my characters in paper cuts or folding them down the margin.

this is not about the grammar it's about my veins.

i want to leave the bed and write it down but it's 5:40am and i have to make breakfast at 6. There are boxes i still need to unpack; Mom needs her mattress out of the garage by 7. Then I have to help her set up her room and scrub the floors. The kitchen needs cleaning; the clothes need folding; I need money for groceries―does Dad have any? But I can't go without Mom because I don't like facing people's faces by myself; everyone's eyes end with periods and they never talk outside the brackets.

Maybe Mom will just let me push the basket. After that―....

crap.

I had this idea and it was epic but the semicolons broke up the heartbeats and i think i just broke the plot. i try to think back to the images. The faces have lost clarity [lens focus] and I can't make out the words. The edges of the font are blurry, and so are the character's chins.

Look at it―it's far out there now. Like the whole screen just boated out to the Atlantic Ocean and now all i've got left between my commas is sand and space.

Look―it's far up here now. it's not on my heart anymore it's on my eyelids.

i keep trying to pull it back down but it's making my eyeballs water. that must have something to do with the sunrise; whenever the sun comes up, i can't see my ideas anymore, because the heat always burns my thoughts and all i can think about is the sting.

i close my eyes. easier to see them in the dark. i wish i could put the pen to my brain and write them on the pinkest part before they're gone...

"Honey?"

There's an acid bubble in my throat; it's that feeling i get when i can't get the story up. or down.

"Honey, is everything okay?" The sun is peeking through Mom's hair, making the strands look gold.

"Yeah, Mom...just felt a little sick."

"Sick?" The wrinkles under her eyes have no stories or plotlines.

"Yeah, trying to figure out if I'm nauseated or hungry."

"Do you need tea?"

"No, thanks. I'll try to go back to sleep."

"If you say so...just don't throw up on the sheets."

i turn on my side and press my mouth against my wrist veins. i wish i could draw the story out of my blood with my teeth.

because i had this idea and it was epic...

...

...

...

...but now i can't find a heartbeat.

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did you just read my mind…?

The most frustrating experience as a writer is having a clear vision in your mind of the story you want to tell but being too afraid to put pen to paper for fear of failing to do the story justice. I’m so scared that my actual execution will fail to meet my expectations that I’m paralysed to even start.

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Snippet from Act II, chapter 6, "Mirror, Mirror."

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Writers shame: When you want to write but avoid doing it because you hate how you have to force yourself to write

Even though you know that once you start writing, you will enjoy it

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·˚ ༘₊· ͟͟͞͞꒰➳ WRITING SHARE TAG

Thanks to @moltenwrites (post) and @mundanemoongirl (post) for the tag!

RULES:

Post a snippet from your WIP.

Here's the first paragraph for When Art Talks :)

I always picture myself in a field of dandelions. I’d pluck one out from the sprouts of green surrounding its stem and close my eyes. I stand still and allow my wish to consume every fiber of my being, but only for a moment. As soon as the wish is ready to become one with the wind, I release it all out with a blow from between my lips. The cool, airy breeze carries the dandelion seeds further into the distance, and all I can do is watch it happen. I’m a bystander to my own hopes and dreams drifting further from my grasp and becoming another silly bygone. When the seeds are no longer in my sight, only then do I pick a new dandelion to make a wish upon.

TAGGING (no pressure): @pixies-love-envy @ray-writes-n-shit @hudsuns @honeybewrites @ominous-feychild + open tag! ♡

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·˚ ༘₊· ͟͟͞͞꒰➳ TEMPORARY SCHEDULE

Hi! I haven't been crazy active on here now that I'm working on getting When Art Talks going. I figured I would make myself a schedule for the time being since time management is my arch nemesis. Let’s hope my INFP self can actually stick to the schedule I created.

SCHEDULE UNDER THE CUT!

SUNDAY

NO POSTS — sundays are my rest days, so the most i'll do is lurk and reblog stuff.

MONDAY

WEEKLY GOALS — this is probably more for me so i can hold myself accountable by the end of the week. but i think it’d be fun to share what i’m expecting to get done for the following week.

TUESDAY

NO POSTS — i have more time on tuesdays to write, so i'll be focusing on that. will probably lurk and reblog by the end of the night.

WEDNESDAY

TAGS — i'm still drowning in tags, so i'm dedicating wednesdays to completing them and catching up with the ones i've missed :) with that being said, please keep tagging me because i love seeing people talk about their OCs and WIPs.

THURSDAY

NO POSTS — writing and watching The Walking Dead for research purposes... and because i'm heavily addicted to it right now. please send IMMEDIATE help (i swear if anything happens to michonne—).

FRIDAY

NADIA AND ELENA'S CHARACTER INTROS (only the first friday) — these should've been up forever ago, but i got too excited about finally getting the momentum going. i need to finalize their playlists and moodboards before they go up :)

UHH — i have no clue what i plan on doing after posting the last of the character intros because i never know what my fridays are going to look like. i guess it'll all depend on what i'm feeling like that day.

SATURDAY

SIDE CHARACTER INTROS (only the first saturday) — this will be the last of the character intros! i'm still debating if i should post backstories for my main characters since it'll be revealed in the story pieces at a time. if so, then i'll post one character each day for the following week.

END-OF-WEEK REPORTS — a weekly progress report on my writing progress. word counts, chapters completed, if i achieved my goals for the week. all of that stuff :)

The schedule will probably stay this way until the end of summer. It's a busier summer than normal for me, but I really want to make sure I make progress with this story. It's been an on and off project for what feels like forever. I've gotten to a place where I'm content and ready to set this story in motion. Here’s to a productive summer! ♡

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౨ৎ 　๋࣭ ⋆｡ die for you!

˖⁺‧₊˚✦ OVERVIEW. After a failed hook-up between two afflicted celebrities, Micah Adair and Jules Garcia, they slip into a complex relationship.

˖⁺‧₊˚✦ CHAPTERS. To be added.

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Writing ideas: Pls put me on paper

Me: No ❤️