#AuthorAugust26 | Day 23: Ideal Reader
People who enjoy reading, and particularly those who enjoy comedy served with emotional topics. I imagine my ideal reader would be similar to myself. I’d hope that they would connect to the characters and find either comfort or some changed perspective. I’m not writing with the intention of my work becoming a future classic that…
#AuthorAugust26 | Day 22: Status Update: Say Nope to the Tropes
Say Nope to the Trope is technically on schedule. The first draft of the first volume is complete. Rough, but complete. “It’s only a draft,” I keep telling myself. What “technically” means is that I scrambled to catch up on the end of June and have been twiddling my thumbs towards the end of August…
#AuthorAugust26 | Day 21: Writing Competitions
I’ve tried my hand at a few writing competitions. It is bizarre to go from tentatively entering them to just getting up and self-publishing my book this year. When I was entering competitions, I was basically limited by the cost to enter them. I didn’t have the confidence in my writing to be “wasting” money…
#AuthorAugust26 | Day 20: Book Aesthetic
Category is: Scruffy Australian Watercolour Realness … if I’m interpreting this prompt correctly. An umbrella, pies, birds, the city “bush”, rain, parks, scissors, hoodies and a butler uniform. Running around through the trees and navigating the concrete jungle. I sometimes worry that the aesthetic of Rini & Butler means it might not find its readers.…
#AuthorAugust26 | Day 19: Dinner with a Late Author
Most of my favourite authors are still alive, and so the two that it came down to were Jane Austen and Mary Shelley. I’ve decided that I would love to dine with Jane Austen, so I might apologise to her for my ignorant misconception of romance novels until reading Pride & Prejudice. Reading Pride &…
#AuthorAugust26 | Day 18: Tuesdays Teaser: Say Nope to the Trope
What’s even the point of getting isekaid into a world with magic if one cannot use magic 😮💨 Say Nope to the Trope is an experimental series that I will publishing to Wattpad in October! It’s a love-hate letter to the isekai rom-com genre … and an excuse for me to keep reading them and…
#AuthorAugust26 | Day 17: Main Character Monday: Rini
Fun fact: Rini was named after Chibiusa/Rini from Sailor Moon 🌙 Rini wasn’t modelled after Chibiusa at all, neither in appearance or personality, but I just liked the name as a placeholder when I started writing and it stuck. In the anime/manga, Sailor Moon (Tsukino Usagi/Serena/Serenity) has a daughter in the future and she is…
#AuthorAugust26 | Day 16: What Inspired the Book
It started as a writing prompt that was supposed to inspire a 5,000 word university assignment … now I’m publishing it in October 🥳 Rini & Butler is very much an exploration and expression of myself on the page. A writing prompt started the concept of Rini & Butler but the filling is inspired greatly…
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