we don't care [muke af]

Q & A

AYYYYY! I'VE BEEN GETTING A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS LATELY AND I FEEL BAD WHEN I CAN'T ANSWER THEM SO I MADE A Q & A. HAVE FUN. SKIP OVER THIS IF YOU REALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT ME, IT'S OKAY. I'LL UPDATE TOMORROW.

Something you want your readers to know :

—First of all, I want my readers to know that they're literally the best thing to happen to me in my life so far. On that note, I love getting to know you guys. I do read all of my comments (yes, every single one) and I usually borderline stalk you guys. I love when you have stories on your profile and I will always check them out.

I don't like being asked to read your story (unless I'm asking for recommendations). If the only reason you're talking to me is to get me to read your story, then I probably won't read your story.

Always, slide into my DMs or into my comment section, it brings a smile to my face.

How to layout :

—I don't think a lot of people really know how I write my stories. I start with a plot line. I open a Pages document and write the plot up at the top. Next, I decide characters (this includes their name, family, hometown, current town, age, work, schooling). Then, the most important part, the layout.

A layout is so, so, so important and many writers on Wattpad don't use one. I start my layouts with 20 chapters, by 20 chapters I usually want the climax of the story to happen. I just write a list 1-20 so I can physically see the chapters I need to fill. I think of ideas and things I want to happen, and I start writing pretty detailed chapter summaries.

I'm currently working on a co-written story with my great friend Mel (@Muking), and I'm 90 percent sure they were alarmed at how detailed my layouts are. (Also, our story is going to come out some time around the new year, so be ready. It's gonna be fckn lit). I have so many thoughts and fluff that I want in each chapter, and I don't want to forget it. Sometimes, I'll have a layout and not start writing the actual story for a few months. By the time I'm actually writing, I probably forgot the cute moments.

When does an idea become a layout :

—Ideas come from a lot of things. Usually, I think of ideas at the worst possible moment (I thought of Start A Fight during a midterm, I thought of We Don't Care during a drivers test, I thought of Blondie during a flight, I thought of What Do We Do Now? on a date).

I have hundreds of thousands of ideas, most of them are obviously complete nonsense. But, if an idea sticks in my head for a few days, a week, maybe a month, then I'll start planning it out in my head. What if ___ happened and how would ____ character react?

Planning out an alternative universe is a great way to waste my life away.

When to publish :

—I am a perfectionist, which ruins me in so many ways. As a perfectionist, I won't publish until twenty chapters are fully written and I have the layout complete. I have a few stories that have a complete layout, then I started writing it, and I hated it.

I never want to discontinue a book simply because I wasn't feeling the plot anymore. I take pride and joy in every piece of art I put out, and I won't put it out until I push my energy and love into it.

I'm not proud of my earlier stories, but at the moment in time, I was proud of them. That was the best I could write at that time, and I was happy with it. Now, I look back at it and feel completely discouraged.