Writing Day!

Hello lovely Readers!

Today is a writing day.  What is a writing day, you may ask? Once every other week, a friend of mine and I meet for coffee and writing time. Normally it's on Fridays but today it's on a Sunday because of scheduling conflicts.

Normally I use this time to write fanfiction, but I've rather burned myself out on my fics for some reason.  I haven't updated them in a long time and I just haven't been in the space for it.  So I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to write.  Maybe poetry?  Maybe fiction?  I don't know.  I do have some ideas for stories, one of which is based on this game I play with my sister - Guild Wars.  I have several characters but my favorite is a Nord named Dagny Ravenborne.  She's like a Norse character living in the mountains and hunting with her animals.

I feel like there is a story there that is just waiting to be cracked open.  Do I let it marinate or do I go for it?  That's the big question. 

I think the reason I write so much fanfiction is because it's easier to put myself out there with loved characters and scenarios that may or may not fit those characters.  Creating original content is scary.  It means putting out your own world, your own characters, your own original story.  Will it be well received or will it flounder?  Is my idea even good enough.

I'm thinking about investing in some resources for writing and art in general.  I've discovered I really love to create anything really.  I knit, I design knitting patterns sometimes, I color, sometimes I draw, sometimes I paint.  I write.  I like doing that sort of thing. 

I feel like life is full of colors and bursting with opportunity right now.  It's been a very long time since I've felt that way.  It's like spring is just showering down all these possibilities.  I want to play with color.  I want to play with words.  I think I'm probably rambling at this point.

I want to produce beauty into the world, be that with my hands or my voice.

My friend I write with, she's an editor for a publishing company and runs these events once a month with local authors and open mic time; she's encouraging me to come to open mic night next month and to read.  I think, even though it sounds scary, that I'm going to do it.  How else am I going to fly if I don't fall first?  Birds jump from the nest in order to learn to fly.  This is me jumping.

Also next month is Camp NaNoWriMo.  I think I've talked about this before, where I set a word count of 20,000 words and I'm going to write daily to achieve it.  I'm not sure if I should outline or not, but I do know I've been working on character sketches.  I've got a nice list of characters and I'm not entirely sure the underlying conflict but I have some ideas.  We'll see how this goes.  I really hope it's something I can accomplish.  It would feel good to have written a book even if it never goes anywhere; just the knowledge that I can.

And that is enough for today.  Thank you for reading, dear Readers and go create something beautiful.

~Birdie

Fan Fic Commissions!

Hello lovely Readers!

I've started a new opportunity. I love writing and I decided at the urging of my friend Dorothy, to try to do it to make some spending money. So...

I’ve decided to offer commissions of some of your favorite fandoms! I’m most well known for my Metal Gear Solid writing and my second person reader inserts. Samples of my work can be found here:

Single page fics (single spaced - 600 to 700 words) go for $4.

Whole chapters (single spaced - 1200 to 1500 words) go for $10

What I will write: NSFW/smut, Marvel fandom, Metal Gear Solid fandom, Supernatural fandom, blood, murder/death, characters together, reader inserts/second person (male or female) with a character. If you have a fandom not mentioned here, shoot me a message and we can talk about it! 

What I will not write: Rape/non-con

If any of this is of interest to you, shoot me a message on here and we'll get in touch and talk.

Have a great day!

~Birdie

A New Start

Hello Lovely Readers!

It's March and I've decided it's time to really push my writing muscles again. That includes getting this blog up and running again!

So while I've been gone, several things have happened: I've graduated with my English Ed degree, I've gotten a job as a tutor with a company that is really great (I teach reading, writing, math, and offer homework help), and I've been writing lots of fanfiction!  (If you feel like checking it out, just look up birdgirl90 on Archive of Our Own and you can read it! Most of it is either Metal Gear Solid - from several years ago - or Marvel, which is what I'm currently working on.) 

I also got a dog and am trying to train her to be a psychiatric service dog to help me with my anxiety and bipolar.  So far, it's slow going but I have hope. I don't fully agree with my dog trainer's tactics all the time - she's pretty hands on and a little aggressive at times - but I am hoping it's going to be okay. Worst case scenario, she stays an emotional support animal.

I'm taking on a new project this month: Camp NaNoWriMo. It starts in April - the wave I'm doing with friends - and I am very excited.  My plan is to outline and flesh out characters this month so that I'm ready to go for next month.  I've always tried to do NaNoWriMo but I always get distracted two weeks in with all the holidays and stuff.  I'm hoping this time to stick with it!  The beauty is that I get to pick my word count. I think I'm going to aim for 30,000 words.

Everything else is going pretty well in my world. Knitting projects have been started and finished, though I have several ones to still finish - including a blanket, a shawl, another shawl, and several pairs of socks, and some handwarmers.  I'm starting to really read books again, which is kind of exciting. I've also been doing a lot of coloring; mandala coloring books are my favorite, done in Sharpie.

My main goals right now are to keep being awesome at work, keep working with my dog, and to keep writing again. I want to get back to updating this blog on a weekly basis, so possibly every Friday, though I might try to do bi weekly on Sundays and Fridays.  It depends. 

Thank you for still being with me, dear Readers.  Here's to new starts!

~Birdie