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"She asks if I'm fine and I smile. There's no word she'd like to hear. There's no words I want her to witness. There are things better kept hidden so a smile is the best answer I can give. And she smiles back. She knows but won't say anything. We don't need words. We know.

She's just a reflection of everything that we could have been."

~ Sybille, Stories from the past

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The thing about writing is we’re taught to write in a very specific way as children that is deemed as the “correct” way. And it’s so important to have those fundamentals — to know how sentences are constructed and what is proper paragraph structure and to become familiar with grammar. Those are essential building blocks.

But because schools have to focus on essay writing and technicalities and whatever is needed for the latest standardized test, it’s often the only way we learn how to write when there’s so many ways to write. There’s technical writing, journalistic writing but also editorial writing, copywriting, letter writing, free writing … to infinity and beyond.

We often don’t explore creative writing in an academic setting until later in life when we seek it out (or never at all in most cases). And while there’s guides for these looser types of writing, as well, it’s important to know you can just say FUCK ALL and bastardize the rules that were beat into your brain by red pens all your life.

Make up words. A paragraph can be one sentence, one word, or a whole damn monologue. Run-on sentences can be a style choice. Make a chapter one line. Use capitalization however you see fit. Start sentences with conjunctions. Be abstract in imagery. Forget commas exist and keep using ‘and’ instead (<- my favorite). Fragments can be fire. Create your own voice in the remnants of a burned language.

Learning the rules also means knowing how and when to break them. So break them to tell your story the way you want.

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Giving a fic its own file is the moment I realize something went wrong with my "let's write a quick sad OS with Sky and Rain". There's nothing close to a One Shot with this story

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Sunshines Bloom After the Storm: chapter 3

"let's get the boys some plant" or also known as the florist side of the author is showing

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It's not an "abandoned" WIP, I didn't intentionally leave it in the forest to die and forget about it, it is a lost wip who wandered into the forest despite my pleas not to. I sit at the edge of the forest every day and hear it calling for help but there is nothing I can do. It is a haunting wip

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Seems unfair that I don't have 18 hours a day to read and write fanfiction. Sleep? Work? What are these nonsense tasks?

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I feel this in my soul

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"Sleep Sweetheart, everything would be better after."

"You know it's a lie Sky."

"Some lies are so beautiful that we can't help wanting to believe in them."

"But it hurts when reality comes crashing down."

~ Sunshines bloom after the storm, chapter 2

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Sometimes, a fic doesn't have to get published, it can just be a series of messages on a Discord channel, between a dedicated group of friends going "oooh, you know what else would be cool?" continuously over a period of weeks and months :)

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Me: Let's write fluff today!!!

Me 5 minutes later: start writing an unplanned chapter 2 of "Sunshines bloom after the storm" where Rain is even more anxious than in chap 1 and really need some Sky's hug

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"i remember the days when you were rarely seen without a book in your hand" father you don't understand you STILL rarely see me without a book in my hand it's just that the book now comes on my phone and is usually Two Blorbos Experiencing The Same Situations Over And Over in an attempt for me to feel something inside

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Extremely displeased to announce I just opened my writing doc to find the fic has not yet written itself. Will check back in tomorrow to see if it’s made any progress

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You don’t have to, but I’d highly appreciate it if you could help reblog this for bigger sample size

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Going through some of my older prompts file and this one has big KimChay vibes 💚 could be fluff, could be angst but more than anything would be Pathetic Kim.

Can you hug me? Just for a moment then I'll go back to hating you.

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AFW Round Four

It's almost time for Arospec Fanworks Week Round Four! This year, we'll be running or the week from February 20th to 26th. Now is a good time to take a moment to reacquaint yourself with the guidelines. This time around, there threre are two sets of prompts with themes of arospec experiences and a selection of lesser-discussed and represented arospec identities. Daily prompt posts during the week itself will include additional information and inspirations. Remember you can use either prompt, both, or neither.

Day One (Monday, 2/20) Experience Prompt: struggling with one’s identity Identity Prompt: non-SAM aro

Day Two (Tuesday, 2/21) Experience Prompt: pride in one’s identity Identity Prompt: loveless aro

Day Three (Wednesday, 2/22) Experience Prompt: facing arophobia Identity Prompt: aroflux

Day Four (Thursday, 2/23) Experience Prompt: educating others and/or oneself Identity Prompt: frayromantic

Day Five (Friday, 2/24) Experience Prompt: aro stereotypes Identity Prompt: lithromantic

Day Six (Saturday, 2/25) Experience Prompt: meeting other aros Identity Prompt: aegoromantic

Day Seven (Sunday, 2/26) Free Day

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Every year I tell myself "I will not forget aromantic awareness week and write things early." Well... You can be sure every year I forget but at least I remembered on a Monday this year and not a Saturday.