Aroace thoughts/rants

My book

Honestly being aroace is the main inspiration for the book I'm currently writing because both characters are at least aromantic maybe their aroace (the book won't really specify but it heavily hints they're a-spec especially the girl. She's hates on romance often and it's kinda funny I think)

But anyways everytime I feel like giving up in the book, on of the first things I tell myself is, "think of the aroace representation you'd be giving them. Think about your message. Your message about friendship. A friendship that's special and unique and important and not romance." Of course I also tell myself like it's been my dream since 1st grade/kindergarten to be an author so we gotta make baby me happy. But like for this one book specifically (I think it's gonna be called No Regrets) it's about a boy and a girl and their unique and special friendship that's 100% not romantic. More books like that need to exist. And I really hope my books find and a-spec audience because even if their isn't a big aroace theme across the whole book I'm gonna try to make an a-spec character in every book I write even if it's such an insignificant part of the story and is only mentioned once or maybe it's never mentioned in the actual story and the character is just a-spec coded.

Like, I don't know right now No Regrets is just so important to me and I wanna finish it and publish it as soon as possible because I wanna share it with the world.

I'm not even done with the first draft yet but if I can get this book published before I graduate I'd be like so freaking happy and if not maybe at least by the end of 2024. That's my goal.

I'm just really excited about it and wanted to share. Here's a quick snipet of Rue, my love my favorite, this is one of her thoughts. I just wrote it like five minutes ago.

"Well I was planning on it." He says. "But you know you're a pretty special friend too, Rue." He gives me a smile.

I smile back. I don't know what it is but he and James both never fail to put this dumb smile on my face and make my heart full without it being that cheesy romance everyone fantasizes over. It's a different kind of feeling, one only one of those two dork brothers have ever made me feel.

So basically...Rue and Reggie (yes I named a character after my favorite character ever from my fav show) are ghosts. (Yeah. I named my ghost character after my favorite ghost form a tv show. This was actually originally a fanfic but I changed it up to make it my original story.) ANYWAYS Rue and Reggie are ghosts. Reggie died in 2000 when he was 17. His brother James was 12 at this time and pretty much right after Reggie died he became friends with Rue, who later died (when she was 17, so when she's a ghost and friends with Reggie they're the same age)

So when Rue said "these two dorky brothers" it's not like a triangle with a girl and two brothers. That's over done. James is alive in this story and Rue isn't friends with the brothers at the same time, she doesn't have to chose one.  It's not like that. James is just what connects a lot of my stories together (yeah. They're all gonna be connected. Or I'm gonna try at least.) and he's not the only thing that connects Reggie and Rue but he is part of it.

Hopefully I didn't like give too much information away about my book. I'm just excited! Ah.

Okay. That's all I have to say thanks so much for reading and I'll catch you one the next one. Wishing you all an amazing day/night. Take care 💚💜