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I'm watching Season 3 of Heartstopper and writing Devotion right now, so we'll see how this goes! <3 I miss posting all the time

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Do you guys read Wattpad Origins? or their paid stories? I have ZERO plans to use that, this is not me gaging intrigue; more so curiosity. I keep seeing stuff for it, and I'm unsure if the avid fanfic reader reads them, or if they're more for the people who act like they're too cool to read fanfic? 
          
          I don't really get it, cus like, if you're gonna pay for Wattpad stories... why not just pay for Kindle Unlimited? I don't really get it lol

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Originals* the post is never from me if there isn't a typo lol
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I saw Dylan Scott + Tyler Braden on Friday, if you like their music, I highly recommend seeing them live! It was very fun, and honestly, might be my fav concert from this year lol
          
          Now imma take a few days to recover because it was a very extroverted concert for someone who is very introverted, and then we'll get back to writing and updating! Hope everyone has had a good weekend <3

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Hello! I'm popping in to say hi, and that life has been busy lately and will be for a while due to my dog needing surgery (not looking for sympathy, just updating you guys) so I'll try to work on stuff whilst she's recovering. I'm almost done with my devotion chapter, I just keep getting stuck when trying to make certain storyline decisions for the chapter. I miss posting weekly smh. Hopefully I can remember to pop in and say hi on the anniversary of this account which is in July but if it slips my mind, it's wild that I've been writing here since 2016. We've been on quite the journey together <3

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i've read 78 books so far this year alone, here's things I've noticed that I want to be mindful about in my own writing. 
          
          1: The baby is very very very rarely a boy. 
          (Do you know how annoying it is for me to go into a book and immediately know it's a girl lmao. I've only read one book and that was just yesterday where she was having a boy, but that book was lackluster, I don't recommend lol)
          
          2: The billionaire always has people do the gestures for him. 
          (Awe, how sweet, he got her a cute outfit, or yummy food... wait, no, he just texted his PA to do it. Why does none of the FMC's care? if I write a billionaire romance, my FMC is gonna have a fit. I want the gesture directly from you. Not your PA dropping it off at my house)
          
          3: Small Town Romances feels like Gilmore Girls. 
          (This could be a compliment, but sometimes it just feels like copy and paste and when things remind me of other things, I'm turned off from it, even if I like the book. I grew up in a small town. It wasn't anything like gilmore girls.)
          
          4: No one ever writes co-parenting with preexisting partners. 
          (The parents are either dead, or deadbeats. There is no happy coparenting. There is no "she's at her dads this weekend" or "His mom is coming to the sports game" I get it's easier to just make them the villain, but why is that every book? - I've tried to incorporate this into the unbroken series. I'll definitely try to do a better job at it in the future)
          
          5: He always wins the trophy. (sports romance) 
          (Why don't they lose? I've read one book where he didn't win the big game trophy. I get happy ending, but predictability is boring)
          
          6: Single dad is praised, whilst single mom is judged. 
          (Why is it that if a male is raising his kids alone, the books praise him, but if a mom is doing it, she's got issues. Like the dad is successful and the love interest is a bonus, vs the mom is poor + NEEDS the love interest to "fix her life". Why is that the go to plot?Why can't she be successful and he be poor?)

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7: Gender specific interests 
            (I'm at fault of this in my own explanation up there. How come boys are into sports and girls are into dance? Where's the girls soft ball games and the boys dance classes? Switch it up)
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