#summer writing

[scealaiscoite]

heatwave prompts ˗ˏˋ꒰ 🐚 ꒱

— “it’s absolutely sweltering, how can you still want to cuddle?!”

— “this is the only time i’ll condone having ice cream for breakfast.”

— “don’t you dare say a word about my tan lines.”

— “it’s nine in the morning, are you seriously already in swimming trunks?”

— “do i even want to know why there’s a paddling pool set up in the garden?”

— “no, box wine does not count as keeping yourself hydrated.”

— “not that i’m happy you’re sunburnt, but i am enjoying getting to be the one helping you put aloe vera on.”

— “the water’s so cool! come on, just come in for a dip to cool yourself down.”

— “look, i got us matching pool floaties!”

— “it’s almost thirty degrees out! no way are we staying cooped up inside all day.”

— “are you seriously proposing a barbecue for breakfast?!”

— “you don’t need to be afraid of the water, i promise i’ll keep you afloat.”

— “hey, you said to keep hydrated! i’m pretty sure there’s some water in this cocktail.”

— “no way are we spending the day anywhere but at the beach!”

[summerandfall]

behold.... my pokemiku verse based on the project voltage collab

.// all in good fun!!! i still need to write about the protags, rivals, and gym leaders. but this is what i have for now! i will be using the #pokemikuverse tag, and maybe #voltage league au

[nakunakunomi]

This drabble is part of my summer celebration collection! Prompt: Relax Characters featured: Zoro (One Piece), 2nd person GN Reader Requested by: anon [a/n]: Zoro is my most requested character for this collection. Despite being open for 7+ fandoms at the time and only having 40 requests done by followers, 4 of them are Zoro. So I was surprised to see I hadn't written any of them yet. Here is number one, which again is longer than intended, oopsie. Enjoy!

There was SO MUCH to do. You weren’t really sure how you managed to get yourself a to-do list with an almost uncountable amount of items on it, but there you were and you were feeling yourself lose control slightly. Usually you were better at managing your lists, but it seemed like the Sunny was on imagined fire, and you were the only one running back and forth to fix it. 

No one seemed to be experiencing the same urgency as you were, but they definitely were noticing it. Sanji had made you some extra snacks, Robin had offered to read with you for a bit as a break, and Chopper had reminded you that you definitely needed some sleep, because the way things were going, you were slowly losing more and more hours, with no way to catch up on them. 

It all came to a halt when you were in the midst of checking something in storage, and you were forcefully picked up by the waist and slung over someone’s shoulder. You let out a yell in surprise, quieting quickly when you recognized it was Zoro who had picked you up. 

“Zoro, let me go!” You smacked him on the back, feeling nothing but hard muscle in return, he didn’t even flinch. Your slaps probably more akin to a massage than anything else. ���Y/n. It’s been three days of you stressing for no reason. We still have more than a week before we even reach the next island. You need rest. Now.” 

It was not a question, it was fact. Zoro very rarely interrupted your rituals and routines, the fact that you functioned well independently from each other was one of the strengths of your relationship. Him interfering was a surefire sign that you had been truly overdoing it, and you knew the minute he had picked you up, you had already lost the fight. 

You were plopped down unceremoniously in a hammock, and pleasantly surprised to notice the green-haired swordsman was about to follow you in there. You didn’t even get time to protest, before you could even open your mouth, your head was already pulled close to him, the way you always loved to fall asleep, head on his chest. 

Your muscles relaxed instinctively, and just his slow heartbeat was enough a lullaby for you to feel sleep taking over, your brain finally unwinding. Zoro was asleep before you though, and you smiled, wondering if he even realized just how much of an effect he had on you. You pressed a soft kiss to his chest and fell asleep.

[pendarling]

We Met On A 🌺Summer Vacation Resort🌺 & I’m Entranced By You💗

~Short Scenarios & Prompts~

Since it's summer where I live I decided to do some fun summer-related prompts!! <3

Character A isn’t much for getting extroverted and having “fun” and instead prefer keeping to themselves. They sat at a bar by the beach and meet Character B, the bartender

Character B gets overwhelmed by work and leaves to visit a resort with friends as a break. They meet Character A who is in a similar situation and fall in love

Character A is at a party and notices the hot surfer from across the room has been eyeing them for some time. After a while, they notice B begins to talk with their friends before excusing themselves to greet them

Character A realizes their hotel room neighbour is overwhelmingly attractive and decide to shoot their shot

At a camp near the resort, Character A is introduced to a whole team of new people, but their eyes are drawn to Character B. The group ends up lost and A finds the chance to be alone with B

Character A initially had their heart set on Character C, a suave, cool, attractive life guard but after meeting Character B, a receptionist away from the leisure of vacation activities, they are sure they're the one.

The resort is a few miles away still and after getting lost for a while, Character A pulls over their car on a free way in the middle of a hot summer afternoon to take a break. Character B notices them and pulls over to offer a water bottle. Character A is taken aback by their kindness. They later discover they’re both headed the same direction

After skinny dipping at a lake alone, Character A is shocked to see someone else was there all along.

A special event comes to town and organizers hand out pamphlets for the summer festival. Character A meets an outgoing Character B who loves concerts and meeting friends

There’s nothing more delicious than shrimp cocktails in an all-you-can-eat buffet. So when both Characters A and B reach down to grab it they’re both too modest to take it (or fight over it immediately)

Character B works as security at the resort but can’t seem to take their eyes off of the new guest, Character A

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MASTERLIST

[inkwelloftheheart]

Each drop a tiny prism

They hold

A fleeting

Fractured blaze

Diamonds hidden in raindrops—

Unfold

A secret heaven's gaze.

-Flynn Caulfield

[pacific-rimbaud]

any chance you can give a little sneak peak or teaser into what you plan to write next? 😅🫶

You mean after Remember One Thing? I'm really not sure! I would love to write something original. I've only ever written fic, though, and have no idea what genre I'm suited for. I outlined a modern Persuasion adaptation I could work on, but I'm absolutely not a romance writer. I have an alternate world stage magician and vampire oc ship I really love, and maybe their story will be nice and make itself clear to me?

[cloveroctobers]

can you do some jealous/overprotective girlfriend Layla keating headcanons? I know u said that Layla would be the protective gf in ur Layla headcanons so I’m kinda curious to see what she would be like as a protective gf, if that makes sense? you don’t have to if you don’t want to ofc! I love ur work sm ur my fav writer on here!

A/N: hi! I’m currently putting ALL all american/hc writing on a halt for now due to lack of interactions with content I’m putting out. However I appreciate the support and request(s) you’ve been sending in, this will be my farewell piece (for now, maybe) and is in blurb form this time around as I like to give myself breaks in between any queued work I release. Thanks for your understanding 💛🫡

JEALOUS/OVERPROTECTIVE LAYLA!

“Oh just admit it Layla, you’re jealousss!” You tried and failed to hit Nick Jonas’ note as you held the door open to the surprisingly quiet Original Baker household.

Layla flinched on her way in, almost plugging one ear with her fingertip, “sure, whatever makes you feel better and…didn’t you tell me your Grams was a opera singer…what happened?”

You scoffed, “Clearly the gift skipped me but this face makes up for it.” You posed in the near by mirror in the entryway while Layla laughed at you on her way to the kitchen, “And don’t try to deflect, Missy!”

Layla rolled her eyes with her back to you as she searched the fridge for the pitcher of infused water she made one scorching yesterday afternoon, “I’m not deflecting! All I said was sure.”

“You have to add a little more to the convo than that babes,” you leaned against the island counter, eyeing the fruit in one of the bowls but found none of the options to be satisfying enough, “Like the whole holding onto me from behind when Darnell was making his way over. What was that?

Layla frowns as she poured herself a glass, “I always do that. And you like my hugs, especially from behind.”

“That’s not the only thing I like from behind,” you winked making Layla groan and slap a hand to her forehead.

“I walked myself right into that one.”

“Sure did!”

Layla sighed after taking some very long sips of water, making you widened your eyes at her, the impatience sinking in. “What? I told you I was thirsty! Fine, what do you want me to say? That I didn’t like how giggly you were as soon as he came over? The only person that should be making you happy and eyes full of stars is me.”

“You do know I kinda laugh at everything right? To the point Coop even asked me if I had some relation to Kamala Harris. I love a good laugh and what difference does it make if it’s coming from someone else?”

Layla responds, “It’s a big difference if it’s from Darnell.”

Even the way Layla said his name screamed jealousy! So what if you dated for barely three months before calling it quits and him venturing off to Germany? You weren’t going to fall in love with him because he simply made you laugh.

“You don’t see me getting like this when you’re around Asher or Spencer.” You ticked off your fingers making Layla puff out a breath.

Layla snapped, “Well, maybe you should.”

You stood up from your leaned position, facial expression serious now, “No I shouldn’t because I have trust and faith in my girlfriend.”

“It’s not about you! It’s about him. Of course I trust you, it’s him I don’t trust.” Layla massaged the space in between her brows, which indicated that she was getting frustrated with how this is playing out, “I love you okay and I’m sorry for being passive aggressive towards you on our way back home. It’s just a scary feeling to suddenly think about you deciding that you don’t want this—us anymore.”

“Have I ever given you a reason to feel like this?”

“No! Never! That’s just my insecurities settling in since I haven’t been so lucky in love before until I met you and I’ll deal with it at my next therapy session, I promise.” Layla rambled, pressing her hand into her hip now.

Dipping your head, you slowly walked over to Layla, “well…I appreciate you acknowledging that.”

“Yeah?”

“Mhm,” you reached forward to play with one of her waves, “you’re cute when you’re jealous.”

“Oh god, stop saying that.”

You grinned as you placed a hand on your own chest, “A little bit of jealousy is healthy though. Shows that you really care about little ‘ol me.”

“So is purposely spilling Dom Pérignon on Darnell’s gorgeous, gorgeous shoes so he wouldn’t lean any closer to you, enough to show you?” Layla added sheepishly, molding her lips together.

You snapped your fingers and pointed at the tall girl, “I knew it! You’re a terrible actress and a bad liar. Go on then, lay it all out on the table for me.”

“Why so you can gloat about it for the rest of the night?” Layla scoffs, “No thank you! you were right. Is that what you wanted to hear?”

“Happy wife, happy life.”

You weren’t married but the statement still stands!

“That works both ways,” Layla points her fingers back and forth between you two, “considering what we identify with.”

You hands were wrapped around her waist now, “want to know something else?”

“I’m afraid to respond to that.” Layla honestly says, resting her wrists over your shoulders.

“That new artist that you’re considering signing…”

There were a few but the most recent one came to mind first, “um, Kendra?”

“Yes! Guess what? That’s Darnell’s new girlfriend.”

The glow almost seemed to fade as Layla hears this, “No way.”

“I’m serious. That’s what we were ‘giggling’ about majority of the time since I proved him wrong twice about his heart only belonging to football. He really found it in Kendra.” A smirk was on your lips then, especially at the shocked expression on your girlfriend’s face.

“And—

“Nope! We’re not back pedaling.” You warned.

Layla closed her eyes and breathed before reopening them, “agree. And now I really look like a dumbass.”

“Just a little bit,” you pinched your fingers together.

“How long have you known?”

“We still follow each other on Instagram and I liked Darnell’s birthday post for Kendra back during…spring break I think it was.”

“Has he liked any posts of us together?”

“Layla.”

“What? I’m just curious!”

“Yeah a few of them, even complimented us saying how good we look together.”

She’ll have to do some research on that later but she kept that to herself.

Instead Layla sassed, “If only he knew the half of it.”

A laugh bubbles through your lips, crinkles by the corner of your eyes, “sure.”

“Oh, whatever.” Layla shoved your shoulders back before hugging you to her frame.

Your temples were pressed together as you softly caressed the small of Layla’s back. It seemed like the tension released with the deep exhale Layla let out in your arms.

“That’s whyyyyy,” you started after some silence making Layla toss her head back in annoyance, “C’mon, you have to join in and have a laugh about it now!”

Layla makes a impressive rewind noise, “Cause you’re so sexy, beautiful, and everybody wants a taste, that’s whyyyyy.”

“I still get jealoussssss!” Both of you belted into each other’s face with one of you sounding like a dying cat and the other’s voice started of soft but cracked right towards the end of the note.

Layla held her throat and cleared it, “I should have done a vocal warm up but I’m supposed to be off today! I think I’ll need some lemon and honey tea tonight.”

“You know I got you,” you told her with a wave of your hand as if it wasn’t in the daily night routine, before your thoughts got the best of you, “I wonder if Priyanka ever feels that way.”

“Have you seen her?”

Your reply was instant, “I mean I’m looking at you.”

Layla gasped, “Fair point,” before laughing and placing her lips right on yours.

🍋 🐚🍋🐚🍋🐚🍋🐚🍋🐚🍋🐚🍋🐚🍋🐚

Continue along with my summer anthology prompts here.

[frogwaltzes]

on summer sickness.

(original poetry by me!!!)

[the-orangeauthor]

Summer Chaos Writing Challenge

Hello my loves, I am back after what feels like months away from tumblr!! The academic year is over and summer is upon us so as stated in my post here I would love to get the Summer Chaos Writing Challenge going if anyone is still interested!!

I will probably make another post on it but essentially what it is is that there shall be a shared document on which one story is written. The only thing that will be pre-planned are:

Genre/themes - though I recommend fantasy for maximum levels of unhinged revelry

Age/maturity rating for more intense scenes

A description of your main character/s

A rough writing schedule!

Once that is decided each person will take turns writing part of the story and the next person has to continue it and so on and so forth until the story reaches its end or otherwise!

A few rules:

Writers may not discuss the plot of the story, only themes/tropes they may want included

Writers cannot delete or edit the work of their partners you must work with the scene that has been written

If you cannot stick to the schedule/need more time at any point - let your partners know

Rights to this story are shared equally between all people working on it - no one can use the story to gain profit without approval from the whole group

Writers may withdraw from the story at any point in the challenge - its supposed to be fun but if you’re no longer enjoying it then it’s okay to stop!!

That all I have for now! I’m going to tag people who showed interest on my initial post, feel free to reblog and get involved! If there are quite a few people interested then I’ll see about breaking it down into groups to make it more manageable so everybody gets a bit of writing time during the week!

@forthesanityofsome @ink-fireplace-coffee @rokokokokolores @ryorine

[rubywrite]

I’m planning on finishing the first draft of The Mirror Effect this summer before I start college classes again. And I’m so close, I’m working on chapter eleven out of twenty-one right now.

Next I’m probably going to work on my other WIP: You’re Being Hunted, but I have so many to choose from I might work on multiple at once.

That’s all for my mini update for now. I hope everyone has a good day or night.

[summerandfall]

Reconnecting:

I love the headcanon that Blue just reads Red's mind without breaking a sweat because they're so in sync, but i also like reading about how during the fallout of their rivalry, they’re desynchronized, out of balance, and strayed too far from each other’s life that they cannot read one another.

When Red goes missing Blue looks for him in places he thinks he will be but Red’s changed - Red’s not the same timid kid who would forgive him for forgetting to include him in their little games at the play park. Red is a champion, who tore through Team Rocket's hideout and demanded justice and responsibility for those they've wronged. It’s not farfetched to think he wants the same kind of responsibility from Blue for all those years he’s failed to be a friend to him, it’s not so impossible to believe that he’s come to hate what Blue has turned their friendship into. He’s almost certain that Red is denying Blue the gratification of finding him, and well, Blue isn't sure if it makes him sad or angry.

When they reunite it’s all Pokemon battles and flying fists, trying to hurt each other again. Paying each other back for causing them pain. It’s Blue who apologizes, surprisingly, cause while Red stubbornly planted his feet in the freezing mountain, almost begging for time to stop, Blue kept moving forward, kept living life day after the other and he’s grown. So when Blue does it, it is so unexpected that Red is finally awash with the realization that he hasn't been doing any maturing all this time, instead just keeping himself holed up in a mountain and holding onto his grudges, his pain. So he decides to let go of them.

It takes a while for them but they get there, they reconnect. They meet in the middle, Blue rewinds his clock to give Red a chance to catch up, and Red finally leaves his checkpoint in a sprint.

.// may put this in my hnhk fic drafts. I swear at this point im just publishing that fic here in parts lmao.

[nakunakunomi]

This drabble is part of my summer celebration collection! Prompt: Sprinklers Characters featured: Luffy (One Piece), 2nd person GN Reader Requested by: @some-piece [a/n]: this one became so long too, I apologize but not really. Hehe. I hope you enjoy some silly Luffy antics!

After passing through a whole group of summer islands, and then some more dry climates, Nami’s tangerines had been suffering a little. So Sanji -in his gentlemanly ways- had gotten some sprinklers for her, thinking it’d be a nice gesture. While Nami was definitely grateful for the thoughtful present, the sprinklers had come with an unexpected side effect: it had turned the tangerine grove into a playground for some of the members whenever the weather was getting hot and they would like an opportunity for a little cooldown. 

Initially, you had stayed away from it, laughing at the antics of mainly Luffy, Usopp and Chopper as they raced across the deck, trying to avoid or run into specific sprinkler streams. You were mildly amused to see Sanji set one up to aim right at one of Zoro’s preferred napping spots, mumbling something about that ‘damn marimo finally getting washed’. 

But your boyfriend wanted you to join in on the fun. Initially by just asking, or playfully splashing some water your way. You wanted to focus on your work instead, promising Luffy that you’d be joining them as soon as you were done. He seemed to agree with your condition at first, but soon grew impatient -as Luffy usually does when there is fun to be had. 

You were right in the middle of finishing up a task, when you felt something wrap around your waist once, twice. Your eyes widened in realization as you heard Luffy’s signature laugh in the distance. You knew there was nothing that you could do to stop what was coming, besides drop whatever you were holding, and focus on holding the rubber arms around your waist instead. This all happened within a matter of seconds, and you couldn’t suppress a yelp as you were picked up and practically flung across the ship, right onto an air mattress that the boys had been using to sit on while taking breaks from their shenanigans. Luffy was laughing loudly as you were immediately soaked, a carefully aimed sprinkler already doing its job.

You blinked a few times to process what happened, and then grabbed a water balloon that Usopp was so kind to offer you, already menacingly grinning at the man you loved. “Oh Luffy… I will have my revenge.”

[writteninargentstars]

happy august

happy sun

happy warmth

happy fun

happy nights

happy you

happy us

september blues.

[acupunctures]

Independence Day

After the fight, the mother took the children across the state line to buy fireworks, and the father went to the garage to work on the car he’d been restoring. As soon as the mother left the house, her remaining tears evaporated instantly from the heat. Inside the garage, the father’s sweat formed a clinging bond between the back of his shirt and his skin. He bent over the hood, peering into the…

[tubesock86]

80s BABY!

[leave-her-a-tome]