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God, I miss OFAB.

I was in a dark place when I wrote that, and my creativity shined through the most.

I went back and fixed up some typos, I was deep in my alcoholism when I wrote that, and sort of lost track of the plot and the muses when I sobered up.

I don't know if my original few fans are on here that followed it from the beginning?

ive lost track of the chapters and links on here, too.

Maybe its meant to be left off where it is. The whole theme was heartbreak, after all.

But I can easily spoil the ending, I think

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it's been a very long time, i lost track of any sense of blog organization i tried to keep track of on here and also never figured out quite how to undo it. a lot of that BIG fanfiction i was writing kind of fell apart like my attempt to keep it together in this blog, because i always wanted to share those passionate muses from the beginning.

i don't know if anyone that originally followed OFAB would remember the one, you know, it's still on a03 a few years later and still my proudest project. I had multiple plots and storylines, and a very strategic OC i was working into it, before i sort of just lost the muses.

i hope to pick it back up again one day, but a lot of it is sort of lost and scrambled now. i couldn't keep up with the intensity of my own plot. i don't know if anyone else would be invested or interested anymore.

for anyone that might happen to come across here, and is new, I've obviously been a fan of Detroit: Become Human for a long time now. I have set it to users-only because of any bot's ability to replicate text on the internet and sell it on Amazon for money, but, if you're logged in, i'm at archiveofourown.org/users/kritter

i had this blog open for some prompt-based writing, and I'll still/always be receptive to that as simply a passionate writer. let me know likewise if there's anything you'd like from me while I get back into writing again, because I don't really want to do it alone anymore, even if it's been a comforting sort of safety net. a lot changes and life moves fast, but i'm still really proud of and passionate about my writing

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Hey, I understand a late response, but I wanted to really thank you. You have been here since I started writing and honestly inspire me to keep going!

It’s been a rough pandemic but I have a ton of drafts I would like to post again. I’m just always like.. are they really interested? haha

so thanks for supporting me since the beginning. <3

I opened my old OFAB drafts from, well, I suppose last year or more, and almost visibly gagged at how…choppy, the writing was.

I outgrow myself so quickly, but I think when I do eventually get my chapters ducks in a line and post again, the growth in my writing will hopefully show. But it’s also been difficult because I’m rusty and haven’t proofread my own stuff in a year, and have maybe a bit drabbled in between.

The years of Covid have been rough on me, and I’ve been rough in return, but I got a lot of my old angst through Gavin and Leo, and while I write scenes more often than chapters, I do look forward to brushing things up and posting again. I’m incredibly proud of my work and some of my old one-shots still get kudos to this day. So thanks all. You keep me writing, even if it’s sparse.

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I opened my old OFAB drafts from, well, I suppose last year or more, and almost visibly gagged at how...choppy, the writing was.

I outgrow myself so quickly, but I think when I do eventually get my chapters ducks in a line and post again, the growth in my writing will hopefully show. But it’s also been difficult because I’m rusty and haven’t proofread my own stuff in a year, and have maybe a bit drabbled in between.

The years of Covid have been rough on me, and I’ve been rough in return, but I got a lot of my old angst through Gavin and Leo, and while I write scenes more often than chapters, I do look forward to brushing things up and posting again. I’m incredibly proud of my work and some of my old one-shots still get kudos to this day. So thanks all. You keep me writing, even if it’s sparse.

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If u want to write a story about a character that's just you but hotter with a dark twisted backstory and magical powers and a pet falcon or something, I think u should just go ahead and do that. Who's gonna stop you? The government?? Fuck the police.

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I really wish as a published author that I could claim this was staged.

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Writing With Caution

 Writers have lots of tricks that we use to facilitate the writing process, but there’s the risk of limiting ourselves to these tricks and to being afraid of deviating from them.

1) Editing Programs

Some editing programs are great. They can highlight hard-to-read sentences, give us a vocabulary score, highlight all of our glue/filler/extra words that don’t really need to be there, find misspelled words and homonyms, find cliche phrases, and do a lot more.

However, you shouldn’t completely trust these programs. They are largely technical and cannot evaluate things like emotion, pacing, tension, and other factors that only humans can spot. If you get a bad grade by using one of these programs, don’t take it as the worst thing in the world.

If you do want to check out editing programs, here are some good ones:

StyleWriter 4 - This is an add-on for Microsoft Word. You have to pay for it, but there is a 2-week trial period that is free. I highly recommend checking it out for editing a major project. It works best for final edits and it can really help you clean up bulky writing.

Editminion - This website can check words for Latin or Germanic roots, can check for homonyms to make sure you used the right word, can look for cliches, can check dialogue for open quotations, gives you a list of how many times you used a word, and a lot more.

Hemingwayapp - This is for clear, concise writing. It also gives you a ���grade level” of your writing and highlights hard-to-read sentences.

Writer’s Diet - The Writer’s Diet is a very quick editing tool that will look at up to 1000 words. It highlights nouns, adverbs, prepositions, and more.

Paper Rater - This is more of an academic program. You can set your grade level for a better assessment and you can check for plagiarism.

2) Choosing Traits Before Writing

Creating a character profile is extremely popular among writers and they can be quite helpful for remembering details about characters, but they have a major weakness.

Listing out traits doesn’t tell the whole story about characters and when writers pick certain traits they want their characters to have, they tend to limit those characters to those traits and they have trouble combining them.

My advice is to jump into writing without knowing much about your character’s individual traits. They will come in the writing. List them out later. This allows you more freedom.

3) Strict Outlines

Outlining can be incredibly helpful for a lot of writers, but it can also be a boundary. Do not be afraid to deviate from your outline. If something isn’t working, take it out. Rewrite the outline. Add stuff. Change stuff.

This is where “kill your darlings” comes in. You might love a scene or a subplot, but if they’re not working out for the story, take them out. It’ll be painful at first, but once you get more workable ideas you’ll feel a lot better.

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RAVENCLAW: “Good fiction creates its own reality.” –Nora Roberts (The Stanislaski Brothers)

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i hope you write, i hope we both write

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i literally cannot stop. will reblog with the link once i’m done.

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its evident my posts float thru discord n i just plain furget to do the HTML in archive of our own lol. thats all fixed now!

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now that its not late at night ill actually Edit this KFDFJSD

WOW guess who thought he posted chapter 36 ages ago and just realized he didnt while writing the next one facepalms

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WOW guess who thought he posted chapter 36 ages ago and just realized he didnt while writing the next one facepalms

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thatpyroblogs said:

Don’t worry about it. Last year was insane. Hope this year treats you a lot better and may we live in uninteresting times.

i appreciate your understanding as always! thanks and same to you <3

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i was hoping to be more active here this last year but that didnt work out, and my laptop is dying, because i didnt get a reliable one to begin with. so things are slow. but i did manage to save the next chapter of ofab so hopefully i can scrap that up & post it before going MIA again & eventually coming back with more. to be continued!

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Here's a vamp au Reed900 sentence prompt "Can I touch your fangs?"

"Do you truly believe that's a safe curiosity to pursue?"

The way Cullen's eyebrows crinkled upward with an expression between curiosity and concern sent a pang through Gavin's heart as he responded with his typical sideways smirk and a scoff.

"Like I haven't been in more dangerous positions. What are you going to do, take a finger?"

"I appreciate your low rectitude in your own mortality, but how often do you touch someone else's teeth?" Gavin paused, scrunching his nose - of course the bastard had to make it sound as awkward as possible.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Gavin rolled his eyes, and the chilling gaze from his partner would never cease casting a spell on him, or some other supernatural mumbo-jumbo mortals like himself couldn't fully appreciate. If Cullen fit any vampire stereotypes, it was his adoration for monologuing, and Gavin usually lost track within the first few minutes. Still, he knew that it all boiled down to him being human and more or less fragile compared to something so far beyond, such as the undead ‘creature’ standing in front of him.

"Well, as endearing as it would be to consider, I doubt this is your first time..." Gavin's eyebrows raised as he choked out a laugh, shaking his head.

"Is that an innuendo? Never mind, if you're going to be weird about it."

"You're the one that wants to touch the most dangerous part of me. Those are bones, you know."

"Full of poison, and what, your deepest darkest secrets?" This time, Cullen almost couldn't help his own laughter; it wasn't often humanity could pull such emotions from him after a few hundred years of psychological indifference, but Gavin Reed was almost a unique species all of his own, somehow full of surprises despite his age and jaded position in the world. Gavin's grin turned into a more genuine smile, and without another second to waste, brought his hand up to Cullen's cheek, prompting a look of subdued affection that only he seemed to know how to find.

"Open wide." Acknowledging the sense of perversion in the demand, Cullen's eyebrows flickered, half-lidded eyes staring down at Gavin as he hovered his thumb right above cold lips.

"What, are you afraid now?" Cullen only ever breathed in order to speak, and his breath was often cold. Lifeless. He wondered how it worked, the preservation of tissue in a way that could still remain animated, yet unalive - an aspect he doubted considering the need for blood being essential for survival was still a trait for someone that needed to live. Whether the heart beat or not, the blood had to stay some kind of animate, somehow...

"Detective?" Gavin blinked and shook his head, seeming to snap out of his daze, squinting as he visually outlined the straight, perfectly-aligned white fangs in front of him.

"You ever lay on the ground and play dead? You know, just to fuck with people?" Of course not, he knew, but Cullen's expression lightened with something sort of endearing - for a literally bloodthirsty monster, at least.

"I see your mind at work again, unraveling the greatest mysteries of all time," Cullen murmured in jest, and the brush of his lips against warm fingertips was a strange sort of intimate Gavin didn't know how to describe.

"Haha, yeah. Your existence is kind of mind-boggling." Tilting his head, Cullen's expression flattened as he let the digit pry and reach for one of his canines, waiting until Gavin nearly had the satisfaction of grazing the sharp tip before abruptly turning with a swift snap of his jaws, causing Gavin to gasp with a start and jump back, glancing down at his hand as he digested the sensation of feeling something slick slide right across his fingertip. It was nothing but a hollow threat, he soon discovered; glaring at Cullen, he exhaled an annoyed sigh, smacking him across the shoulder.

"Bitch," he hissed under his breath, catching his breath until he could finally laugh off the steam.

"Jerk. You should have known what you were doing."

"I knew what I was doing," Gavin claimed, but his uncertainty echoed through the silent surroundings of the night.

"You can't blame me for your stupid tricks."

"Is it truly stupid if you fell for it?" Gavin folded his arms and shook his head, clearly lacking a clever comeback.

"You could get hurt, you know."

"Big words coming from a bloodsucker." Cullen's stoic demeanor remained unamused as ever.

"Nothing? C'mon, Hannibal, you've gotta have something stirring around in there."

"With words like that, I'd be under the implication you want to get eaten." They shared a look of bemusement that was equally awkward. Gavin shrugged.

"I have nothing to lose."

"Does your life mean nothing to you?" A moment of hesitation meant Gavin considered the question, and solidified the fact that no matter the answer, there might be some worth in his own idea of ‘living’.

"In that case, I'll only have a nibble," Cullen continued in jest. The grin that followed left the human hypnotized, but he was fast to escape the gaze, flipping off his partner.

"Joke's on you. No chunks out of my skin tonight," Gavin steamed, before turning around to walk away. Despite his attempt at an escape, the vampire's laugh haunted his ears.

"We'll see about that."

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guess whos too lazy to post the chapter here but upated ofab!