So, Chapter 2 Is Out And This Time I Wanted To Talk About The Cover.

So, chapter 2 is out and this time I wanted to talk about the cover.

This is actually my 3rd favorite cover I've made.

Originally, it was going to be the main characters, but I can't really draw and couldn't handle the embarrassment of what I actually came up with 🤙

So, instead, I made this! I was thinking it could be seen as the "what do you seen in the black and white blot" test, but I made it to be a representation of the two characters and their personality/feelings.

Why it's in black and white has to do with the theme.

I didn't want to go with the gray area because the MCs aren't changing, they're allowing themselves to be who they are in a world of black and white.

Personally, trying to change who I am so people will like me or want to be my friend has never really worked, so I wanted to make a story based on that feeling. The feeling that you'll never have friends just because of who you are, but you don't want to, or shouldn't, change who you are. It's meant to be uplifting and give people the sense that there's no need to change yourself just to make friends.

While I'm in the midst of posting my college romance *ahem*here*ahem* I'm also working on like 20 million other stories, very specifically two stories I'm revising from my childhood.

I need to stop gatekeeping my damn stories so I figured there's be no harm in brain storming here.

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So, there are two stories somewhat connected as they share the same universe. My main issue is I need better world building. Rn, both these stories are just BOTW or OOT, and I don't wanna copy them.

I'm not set on having a world with extreme climates but just a world with a lot of mystery to tie in with bith the stories themes.

Oh, what are the two stories about? Well I'm glad no one asked.

One is titled Kingdom of Bumalia and it's a origin story, since I like Zelda think of it as the Skyward Sword of my universe. The people of this world are de-evolutions of the "normal" humans that show up later. It's a spin on the classic thought of evoultuon that humans evolved from monkeys or lizards. My species are called Bumalians, their defining trait is they all have some animal apendage. For ex. My MC Cassie is a rabbit born from a rabbit mother and a wolf father, which every trait was more dominate, is what the child ends up with. So far I have:

Rabbits,

Birds (specifically hawks)

Wolves

Insects (I'm terrified of bugs so I really only have one that's been described -_-')

Aquatic animals (Dolphin, mermaid, and an Orca)

And Mice

During the course of revising this story, I added a TON of animals. Originally, I really only describes the main characters which were three wolves, two rabbits, the family of hawks, and a Dragonfly. I know now I need to add more and that's what I did. However, I can't just have animals, I need other things.

I creates a fruit called a Magadear and a herb called Grayseed for tea. I of course need more, but I'm just too disorganized to actually come up with some.

I wanted to make a staple flower for a certain scene that involves the Kingdom's current Queen, so I'll be thinking about that along the way.

Really I'm posting this (and a few others) in case anyone has any good ideas. Some people come up with things that get my brain flowing and it's always nice to discuss fictional worlds, who knows maybe we can start some kind of thread of ideas and play around with stuff!

I usually have a ton if fun discussing stories and I'm honestly missing that. This is a good way to get back into it.

All the Screams World Building >

I have a story I'm currently publishing on Wattpad about a young anxious college girl who's trying to find out why she feels so different from everyone. Check it out here if you want!

I also have a few WIPs from my writeblr into and some others I did more recently.

Hiiii… Active writeblrs?

hi there. just curious about what u guys are writing about. u can link ur work here if u wanna. tell me about the new character, the plot, the vibes. go ahead :) reblog if u like (I also wanna follow some active writeblrs, go ahead and like this/reblog if ur doing ur thing)

Day 1 of 'Questions I ask when I write my stories'

What's actually needed for a teaching degree? Does it very depending on what you teach?

Context: a MC of mine is studying to become a teacher, specifically a science teacher for around the 6th grade. I just made up whatever, but I was curious to you need a science degree ontop of the regular teaching degree.

Maybe I'm looking too into it

Oh man, for some reason I got cold feet trying to post this chapter to the Discord server I'm in. That feeling of intimidation came over me and more or less I felt the exact way Cassie does in this chapter.

Sometime I managed to convince myself maybe I just self-diagnosed myself and I don't actually have anxiety, but then stuff like this happens and my hands start shaking and my heartbeat is through the roof...

I'm just gonna go play totk to calm down. We all know I won't stop thinking about this though.

Cassie has a different life depending on the story she's in. So, in my collection of short stories: Quiet Girl, Cassie is involved in a reverse harem. This is made to be a comedy, but I wanted to make this with a female main character to showcase a different side to women. All the time women fall into similar categories and I almost never see them being "perverted" characters when—let's be honest—women can be just as bad as anyone else.

I used characters from my other stories so I'll explain their origins here and you can read their personality from Quiet Girl.

Our first character is Ankara. He's an older gentleman who originally was made for a story titled The Eternal Forest. Ankara was a "warden" of sorts; he maintained order within the forest and acted as a protective figure to all the characters.

In Quiet Girl, he acts similarly, being the founder and CEO of a media company. Cassie works under him as a writer and they often find themselves enjoying their company…