AkiHaze

whenever I rewrite TAW i need to give Skie something to do because regardless of how we leave off in FTB it really doesn't make sense for her to be the next head girl

AkiHaze

By this I mean we need her to be more confident in herself (at least a bit) because head girls are supposed to have leadership potential or whatever and that’s not necessarily who Skie is as a person. It would make far more sense for Hannah or Dani to do it and honestly at this rate Skie is absolutely chosen by Hazel having too much influence LOL. Don’t get me wrong I think Skie is a great head girl but she needs to prove that a bit.
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AkiHaze

whenever I rewrite TAW i need to give Skie something to do because regardless of how we leave off in FTB it really doesn't make sense for her to be the next head girl

AkiHaze

By this I mean we need her to be more confident in herself (at least a bit) because head girls are supposed to have leadership potential or whatever and that’s not necessarily who Skie is as a person. It would make far more sense for Hannah or Dani to do it and honestly at this rate Skie is absolutely chosen by Hazel having too much influence LOL. Don’t get me wrong I think Skie is a great head girl but she needs to prove that a bit.
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AkiHaze

You know a one shot is going to be good when we're four pages in and Hazel is still giving exposition

AkiHaze

honestly this one is really weird. I'm still going to post it because I'm putting far too much time into it, but it's definitely not like my normal stuff.
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AkiHaze

yeah this is gonna be a fun non-canon one for sure but i think some of yall will really like it
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AkiHaze

Guys I’m thinking about Haven againnnnnn

AkiHaze

on that note this is also changing the end of FTB slightly bc Hazel telling Raven she has anxiety is news to absolutely No One, Hazel is a walking ball of anxiety and ADHD and all of her friends are entirely aware of it.
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AkiHaze

Raven's main character thing currently is that she's incapable of opening up to people and surely this won't be a problem for hazel jamison, teen therapist.
            
            
            there's gonna be angst when I restart FF and yall are NOT ready
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AkiHaze

I think I might change the Haven timeline slightly, I realized that the end of For The Better is like, 3 months before they get together and I think they need a little more time. I think one of them probably *comes out* that summer (probably Hazel) but I don’t think they actually start dating until closer to the end of TAW
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AkiHaze

Hello! 
          Another new chapter in my Tales of East Hill book today, and it's little baby James and Lil, featuring the first time I've ever written James getting in trouble LOL. Check it out now, and as always, thanks for reading! 
          <3 Aki

AkiHaze

My biggest issue right now with TAW is that it so heavily relied on "Lil is being abused by everyone in her life basically and is taking that out on the people around her" as the only plot so now that I'm trying to Not do that, I'm struggling with elements of the plot. Specifically when it comes to the cheerleaders and especially Tina, because honestly that girl had ZERO motive to act the way she did. I would almost switch that up completely if I didn't need Tina to be a bully so that a different character in For Forever could remind Lil of Tina.

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Along with that: I think that the whole "Lil is abused and her choices are a response to her environment" isn't necessarily a story I want to tell again because that's what's going on with the Matthews sisters but in an infinitely more nuanced way. So this one's gonna take me a while because I really want to tell a different story with Lil.
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AkiHaze

I'm writing some initial things for the rewrite of TAW and I think some people will not be happy with how I'm handling James because I fear I am writing his and Lil's dynamic as an actually realistic depiction of a 16 year old boy and his 13 year old sister LOL

AkiHaze

TAW lore drop of the day: initially i was going to make the plot that Mrs. VG told Lil and James that their father was MIA/dead so that it would’ve been a bigger shock when he walked in. So basically no, I was not doing great in 2020.
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I really need them to have a distinctly different dynamic than Raven and Skie because the Matthews sisters 1) are close and 2) actively realize that their dad is abusive and realize that that's not right. Whereas James and Lil aren't close, especially at the beginning of the story, and do Not realize how bad their mom has gotten (especially James.)
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AkiHaze

I’m not posting this as an announcement so idk who will see this but I just wanted to put out there that my main goals for the year are:
          
          1. Finish posting For The Better
          2. Start posting the TAW rewrite (working titles: Somewhere Only We Know/Something to Rely On)
          3. Write whatever I want in Tales
          
          That’s really it. I’ve been having a lot of fun writing recently and I want to stay creative rather than boxing myself in by doing things in a logical order LOL. 
          
          I also want to officially say that this is the final year that Thin As Water will be published, as soon as I start writing the new version it will be taken down. There’s a lot of reasons for that but the general gist is that that book was written while I was really mentally unwell and I don’t think it really does a disservice to my characters, especially Lil, James, and Hazel. I’m pretty uncomfortable with some of the themes that I put in there (read: James and Lil’s absolutely awful dynamic) and there are other themes (read: Mrs. VanGrayson) that I think I can handle with a lot more nuance now. The original version of FTB is fine, that’s just unpolished writing, but TAW is genuinely *bad* and I don’t want that story to be a reflection of my work anymore. 
          
          tl;dr - i’m writing things and TAW is not one of them LOL
          
          Cheers! 
          <3 Aki

AkiHaze

I fear now Wicked has become extremely mainstream and people will probably figure out where the titles of Skie's stories came from
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AkiHaze

Oops, I’m sleepy. *It does a real disservice to my characters. LOL
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