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