sounds a little bit like a horror story lol, I would love to read it!

I'd love to talk to others about their writing, and what books they love! If you want I can comment my Instagram account (or something similar) if you want to chat since BP doesn't really have that feature.

hah I don't really have social media except for WeChat (I live in china), but I would love to know what you write about if you don't mind chatting through the BP comments?

sure, that's fine :) I wish BP made it a littleeee easier to have conversations with people (especially because my notifications are unreliable; I mainly use the app on my phone). Anyway, I'd still love to talk writing with someone else! I write as a hobby, and while I have taken a few classes specifically for creative writing, I much prefer doing it on my own without a grade attached. Mainly I write fantasy-ish stuff, with elements of sci-fi and dystopia. I like writing characters that don't have a lot of representation, tending to be LGBTQ+/queer, disabled, of diverse backgrounds and/or straying away from a focus of a romantic subplot, as I much prefer found family plots instead :) Romance is fine, but more often than not I'll get into a book and the romantic subplot slowly starts to take over from the cool fantasy elements and it's disappointing. I really like researching and creating intricate magic systems and world histories too; all of my WIPs have more character/world–

hahaha absolutely. I write fantasy too! though I have to admit im a hugeee romantic so a lot of my stories have romantic subplots...

–/background development outside the main doc, and I tend to stray into writing little side scenes rather than focusing on the main story, lol. I tend to get a lot of inspiration from shows, movies, and books I like, and if you saw a timeline of the media I consume versus the story ideas i come up with, there would be a clear connection, lol. What do you like writing about? Do you also have countless ideas started but not yet finished because you keep coming up with more? It's fun, isn't it :D

there tends to be a trend in the length of the piece to the genre for me, I think. For a lot of my shorter stories I tend to use realistic fiction or romance, because none of the world building for fantasy (my preferred genre) can really fit into a couple thousand words. For novels it tends to be fantasy with a touch of scifi/dystopian (ive tried a LOT of novels but only one is really working rn), and for slightly longer stories but not novels I lean towards sci-fi (haven't written a lot of these though). I have thousandsssssss of unfinished works because they simply didnt work out, but I have one novel that im pretty good with rn. and yeah, its super fun!