diaryofateaholic

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There is something so cathartic about writing an mc with the same struggles as you. Oh, what’s that? I haven’t been feeling well? Congratulations, it’s now canon the mc rots in bed some days because she’s handling everything at once at that takes all of her energy. Cried yesterday? Guess what, so is the mc, we’re twins. Trying to write an mc who is perfectly healthy and happy makes me feel like an imposter, so we’re not going to do that.

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The feminine urge to write an entire book. Consume mountains of literature. Stand in a bookstore and allow the realm of words to envelop you. Move to the fae lands to become a mystical eldritch being.

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Oh to have unlimited, overflowing passion but zero creativity.

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This just in: I’ve resorted to making an actor au to flesh out/build my characters.

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THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

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This is literally so true. My current campaign I’m in is dmed by a friend and then the party is either ppl I’ve met briefly or I’m meeting for the first time. We are our own fandom.

being fixated on characters from your ttrpg campaign sucks especially if the campaign ended because you wanna read and write about it and see cool art about it and constantly talk to people about it but the fandom is literally only you. and maybe just some guy you see every saturday.

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Oh right... The curse. The curse of Strahd. The curse chosen specially to torture Strahd, Strahd’s curse.

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My aasimar got trapped in a fairy's body.

Yep. You heard me right. I haven't played dungeons and dragons in about over a year, but I've recently gotten into a new campaign, and I'm already so excited about it. Being a girl who reads more fantasy than she drinks water, I've always wanted to play a fairy. At first, I was going to make her a bard. Then. I remembered Wild Magic Sorcerers exist. Ever since watching Dingo Doodles dnd series, I've been itching for a chance to play a wild magic sorcerer. This was the perfect opportunity. Imagine a little spitfire fairy fluttering around with a chance of blowing something up just because she cast speak with animals??? Of course, I'm a writer, so the brainstorming didn't stop there. A few days after I sent my dm the idea, a spark came to me. What if my fairy wasn't actually a fairy? In a matter of a day of brainrotting and brainstorming, the concept arrived: an aasimar with wild magic was killed at a dinner party, and her wild magic reincarnated her into a fairy (it's an actual thing that can happen, look it up on the wild magic chart.) And this is how Harper Sunroot, my aasimar wild sorcerer trapped in a fairy body was born. She has been in one session, and already she is being framed for a crime she didn't commit. I expect nothing less of the chaos of dungeons and dragons.

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One thing I wasn't prepared for was how hard it is to write a second book. It's worse than writer's block. It's the feeling of constantly comparing this story to the last one you wrote. I fell so deeply in love with my other project, Project Divine, and I'd been working on it for four years. Those characters practically live and breathe with me. This new project, though? I'm writing these new characters like I'm trying to answer icebreakers on the first day of school. I barely know them, and I'm trying so hard to get invested in their stories the same way I was with my other characters. I know this idea is good. I know it has potential, and I know these characters have a story worth telling. I've just gotta figure out HOW to get connected to this story. How to be passionate about a new idea.

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Just a girl in need of matcha

Who am I? I'm Danni. I'm an author, reader, and gamer. I'm a nerdy eldritch fae bundled up into a sweater. That sort of thing. What am I posting on here?

Bookish content, author-related rambles, and the occasional dnd story time. Honestly, I just wanted a little side place to be creative that isn't related to my work. Helpful Tags

#spill the tea -- book reviews #wins and woes of an author -- author life #you won't believe what happened at dnd -- dnd rambles #tea-tangent -- random side tangents