Self-explanatory, I suppose. As a writer, I write all kinds of things— fantasy, horror, poetry, romance, historical fiction, and most recently, children’s. (A lot my stories are a combo of them, too, like fantasy romance, etc.) I won’t even try mystery— I think you have to have a more analytical mind for that, something I lack. I guess I have some potential for that…but I prefer reading it to writing it.
I do mostly poems and short stories, but this year I finished two novels that I’d started a few years ago and abandoned. I also wrote one…about two years ago? I don’t know what to do with that, really. Some of my poetry has been published locally, and most of my social media revolves around writing. I also blog.
And yes, I’ve written fanfiction in the past. I think anyone who has some interest in writing tries it.
I also won’t write anything overly violent or gory, or anything too depressing.
I would probably write fantasy, post-apocalypse, and urban fantasy stuff if I were writing stories because post-apocalypse genre not involving zombies are often untapped potential when it comes to worldbuilding.
Urban fantasy is definitely a great sub-genre and I love the conecpt of technology and fantasy blending together. The concept itself has great lore building material and i love writing worldbuilding and character descriptions.
I'm all over the place regarding genre, but a common theme is that my work mostly focuses on LGBT characters.
Various current projects, many in the re-drafting phase:
A fantasy series I'd describe as Game of Thrones meets Romance of the Three Kingdoms, set in a world where dragons are heavily utilised in the military. The murder of the High King leads to a continent-wide civil war. I've re-written the first book multiple times, and the second and third also need re-drafted to reflect the changes to book one. Very excited for when I can finally start the fourth.
Dystopian project exploring what the world might be like if the height of the COVID pandemic (lockdown) became the new normal and lasted decades - to the point that "COVID babies" were never socialised offline. It specifically looks into how humans interact with technology and AI. This is the newest project and is still in the first draft.
Young adult project exploring body image issues in boys. I won't delve too much into this one to avoid hitting trigger topics, but it focuses on an aspiring football (soccer) player. It's on its third or fourth redraft.
Not sure of the genre for this one, but I have a project I'm planning a third draft of that focuses on one person's unhealthy obsession with a model.
I will write almost anything, but I usually have strong emotional ties to the things I write.
I write poetry as a cathartic expression of any strong emotion I'm dealing with: grief, depression, anger, passion.
I've written a few children's books that I self-published for my nephews. They are mostly nature related with a good message or moral worked in. I use actual pictures of them interacting with things as babies/toddlers in the printed copies, so if I ever decided to formally publish them I'd need to work with an illustrator.
I've started on several novels, but I have a very difficult time remaining focused long enough to finish them. The longest novel I have is only about 50% complete and that's just the first draft. I cover lots of different genres, but the majority of my work is also strongly in the literary fiction category. What comes first for me is always the character and their progression. I'm covering a life from point A to point B in their development rather than an event or series of events.
In terms of genres, I feel like romance, drama, and hurt/comfort are my strong suits.
I’ve always loved writing fanfiction because it makes me feel closer to my favorite franchises. I also write self insert ones. Right now I’m working on a series of stories that takes place in the Flipline/Papa Louie universe. However, I decided to bring in a character from another video game franchise known as Criminal Case. Usually, I am very iffy when it comes to crossovers, but I have a friend who handles them very well, and it does give me more to work with. However, I try to be careful with cross-overs and not overdo it.
I also want to start writing my OC world. However, I am going to wait until this dress-up app comes out known as Chibimation (I can’t draw for ****), so I can give them glow ups since it looks like it’s gonna have more stuff to work with in comparison to what I’m currently using, which is Gacha Life 2. I also still have quite a few OCs that I want to make before I get started too. I will also be making an OC archive on WattPad, probably before I start doing any serious writing with them, that way, it can help me develop them some more.
However, I also like to write nonfiction. I like to write about topics that I’m passionate about and feel I’ve been affected by. This is what I want to turn into an author career. The fiction stuff that I mentioned above — I plan to mostly just do for fun.
I've written a handful of stories within the last few years.
A good majority of them are of the fantasy genre, which has magic, elves, other magical races, devils/demons, time stuffs, etc.
I've written one supernatural horror story that had lots of gore, and I'm hoping to revise it soon.
Then finally - fiction. I started a draft a while ago, which is a fictional telling of my experience in my job, but I haven't gone back to it since. I wrote 5.7k words in this.
I haven't written anything that wasn't for school in a long time but when I was a kid and would make comics for fun I would usually focus on comedy. All of my jokes sucked cause this is an 8 year old's sense of humor were talking about, but I remember always writing a lot of 3 panel or single page comics, I made a couple of stories that were multiple pages long but most of the old comics I wrote as a kid were usually very short.
I feel like depending on the type of idea I have, which varies in any sort of genre, then makes me write in all sort of genres. Once I have story idea, I roll with it, so I do my best to research enough for that story to feel realistic enough that it doesn't bother the reader.
But, I would say more fantasy, more sci-fi stories. More stories that the real science are ignored. Very dream like maybe? But I do try and make some slice of life stories, with a plot. I have a story about a couple, enjoying pastries waiting for the rain to stop. Despite not really having any sort of experience in that aspect.
I wrote a story about a knight who couldn't live up their roll, which you don't always see. And it kinda rolls into the story I wanna make about a person who is dying from a sickness (that in todays medicine could fix), and asks for a knight to travel with them to places they wanna go to before they die. Kinda like a bucket list sort of thing. But the era it is in, is different.
But I do love the pos apocalypse stories as well. Seeing the world differently.
I also have a love of seeing a place that was once thriving, dead. And then a character coming and cleaning it up. Reusing a space. I have a pleasure of like an apocalypse world and bringing it back to life. Maybe keeping it more green but clearing it up etc. Why there is no game like this I wish ;_;
But there are a lot of my stories that I wanna have characters that focus on people we don't see in media much.
My spider/dream catcher witch? She's a mute. She signs.
My main character who's in a post apocalypse world, travelling through it via a circus? A surviving amputee who uses her artifical limbs for her circus acts, and getting around problematic areas as they travel. Her friend is also blind.
I have another story, that I so do wish will become a series, will focus on individual struggles of many people, and how certain ways can help some people to handle their futures, their lives, but other times it won't work on everyone.
And how ones dreams and ambitions could cause more hurt than good once you know what could happen, and morality of the situation.
The main characters we see here, will focus on sexualities and genders that aren't always seen, but that's still a work in progress.
I love writing, but I haven't done it in a while, not properly. I write a lot of poetry, and I've probably written almost 200 poems in 2 years, which I think is a feat. I've lost some of them when I deleted my notes without thinking (by some I mean about 100), but I'm slowly getting back into it.
I've written a lot of fanfiction. To be honest it's one of the only things I've written. I like writing angst and other things I can project how I'm feeling onto. I started to write a three way crossover but it got deleted with the rest of my notes
I've been doing small ficlets recently, since they're very small and easy, but can still carry weight. It's a way to get myself back into writing, but I'm not rushing myself.
i haven’t done too much writing tbh. i’ve tried to do a long-form story before, but i just wasn’t able to keep up my motivation for it (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)
i think i’m much better with one-shot fanfics ngl. i can only do them once, and if i wanna follow up on them, i just do another one-shot!! :>
This is gonna sound weird.. but I like to write dark stuff, horror in some aspects. I count most of my stories to be horror comedies, with psychological aspects
Which in general is my favorite type of horror. I love horror comedies with dark undertones like Substance, Abigail. So I put alot of that inspiration into my stories.
My current story is a Horror Fantasy, about the missery of being imortal, and remembering who you are. I have many other stories too, like thos one they include lots of animal characters. Since in the story the humans, except for the royalties have all died, and have been under the guard of various animals, who are mortal. The royals are all imortal and stopped aging at 22, but they all have different ways of handling it.
I write mainly romance; But I always want to add some sort of conflict/drama in them. While I do like the fluff department, not everything is solved that easily.
I haven't done any writing since I started working full-time, but when I used to write, I wrote coming-of-age adventure/sci-fi novels. My main series was about a ragtag group of tweens trying to prevent world domination. If these books were to be published (which I don't anticipate ever happening) I think they'd probably appeal to the 10-13 age range.
I wouldn’t have the patience to come up with full-fledged stories per se, but I’ve typed up various short stories here on TBT about the Animal Crossing villagers when the mood strikes (shameless plug for my Wahu island journal lol), and would love to continue doing so while I’m in the right mood. Due to loss of my overall motivation, however, I haven’t made anything lately. I’m hoping I can type up something again soon, as it’s fun to give some of the villagers their own backstories and such.
