I'm thinking about starting a new (semi) original story.
I say semi-original because it came from an idea I had while fantasising about Billie Joe Armstrong and Damon Albarn, but then I kept thinking and if I continued developing it and changed them to original characters, I could have a pretty great story on my hands.
It would be a coming-of-age romance with elements of mental illness, hurt-comfort, fully bisexual love triangle, and it'll really be looking into the nature of crushes and relationships and the great and terrible things about them and how they can affect a person.
The mc will be a chronic lovergirl with major self esteem issues (self insert who?) and she'll be juggling with her desire to thrive as a human being vs her nature to run towards things and people that hurt her.
I think the real reason I want to write this is because, despite how basic the premise sounds, I really want to do justice to how genuinely emotionally complex situations like these can be. I want to give this story the time it deserves so if I ever decide to release it at all, it'll probably take me maybe a year from start to finish. I want to show people that, despite how trivial and meaningless it may sound, when young people don't take the time to process and understand their feelings, it can lead to emotional scars despite nothing actively traumatic taking place.
Love is terrifying and I can't live without it. This will be a story for the lovergirls/gays/guys/theys with copious amounts of britpop and (hopefully) Whisper of the Heart levels of introspection. This will be my story that I want to give the world.
Would you like to hear it?