TheGoodShip

I've forgotten how much of my behind-the-scenes updating Wattpad notifies my followers of, so I apologize in advance for any mass notifications as I update my Ranger's Apprentice theories. I'm excited to get back to them, since I abandoned my past rewrite partially through several years ago. I am a much better editor now, I hope.
          
          So far, I've edited down from 40,000 words of Google Doc to 34,000, and that's only on the first 7 + 1 I just outright deleted it was so useless!

Welcome back! Do you think you might come up with an ONC story for this year?

Going on 2 years since I last logged in... that's a lot longer than I intended.
          
          To make this short, I've been in stages of burn out for nearly half a decade so I gave myself a mental health break, quit the job giving me a lot of stress, and recently began moonlighting as a fanfic writer over on ao3 to get myself back on the horse.
          
          I am by no means ready to announce my next great novel (which will undoubtedly be a flop anyway), but I do hope to read some ONC novellas over the next few months and dip my toes into editing some long-abandoned works. I really enjoy reading and meeting fellow writers on this platform and missed y'all :(

Hey, just letting you know how much I appreciate you coming back to my story and leaving all those comments! Thank you :)

That moment where you have a minor crisis of "do I even like writing enough to fight my inner perfectionist that won't let me write even a draft?" and then come back to wattpad after avoiding everyone waiting for the promised update/s just because there's books you were reading and invested with and see your browser has logged you out it's been so long. Or is that just me?

Thank you so much for adding  “Dana Ilic and the Shadow Door” to your reading list! ❣️
          
          I hope you will enjoy Dana and Max' adventures ☺️! You will love the book if you are a fan of Percy Jackson and Shadow and Bone! 
          
          Hope you have been doing okay <3

Thanks so much for reading and supporting my new ONC story! :)

I love what you said about male romance and absolutely agree. 

I've been silent for a long time so I'll let you know that I am alive, just not writing as much, and I need to work on my editing skills. While I'm not sure where "Nolan Davey" is going quite yet, I know I'm going to take it in a different direction, with less rambling as a given. The editing the first few chapters alone dropped the word count significantly, so it might end up as a novella rather than barely above the words needed to make a novel (50,000).
          
          I'm also busy reworking a bunch of Ranger's Apprentice Theories either with new information or combining them. Somehow they're much easier and more fun to do than essays for my classes even though they're somewhat similar in form.

A monthly update: I made the long list on both of my ONC stories! That's better than I did last year, and while I don't expect to go further, it solidifies that my writing is improving. Improvement is good.
          
          I was hoping to edit some of my published stories over the summer, so we'll see how that goes. I'm currently editing The Innkeeper again because I didn't like where I left it, and then my brother got me re-inspired by suggesting a new way to view the innkeeper himself. There's going to be some massive changes to the story and I don't know how long it'll take to rewrite. It's taking priority right now. I'll post all the changes at once when I'm done because the story won't make much sense otherwise.
          
          In the meantime, I might post random short fanfictions as case studies for writing with a certain voice, which I would like to improve on. This way I don't have to invent characters and worlds every time, and I also learn how to subtly add in things I want to say in the form of references to the original work/s.
          
          I hope everyone has a nice day!