2024 Writing Project Retrospective!

 2024 Writing Projects

I've done an art retrospective for my first year of making art on other social media (tumblr and bisquick) and I just realized this morning I could also do one for writing!

Learning visual art took up the largest part of my year and I think I spent it well! I have tended my plant nicely, I think. However, I did get some writing done and had some fun ideas! 

My goal for 2025 is to do a lot more with my writing, so my intention is to make shorter works. Novellas, short stories. Things that pack a punch and things I can do fun illustrations for because that sounds really rewarding. I'm going to try to keep track of my writing ideas better this year and maybe the following format will work for it! Time will tell <3 

 

Ordinary

ingredients: An Empath, a fashion designer's daughter, and an internet friend

description: Allie is someone who just wants to live a good life, but her powers mean she's forced to deal with things far outside her purview. She can feel emotions and sometimes that means she needs to stop things before the malintented people do the harm they're looking to do. She's also deeply alone save for a single internet friend and longs for physical companionship and the kind of life where she can get lunch with someone. 

status: it would be a fun graphic novel! I do want to get in there but it's not my top priority

 

Bad Dreams 

ingredients: silent hill, tarot magic, myth as truth, unreliable protagonist, "we had bad dreams the night [she] rolled in," "jenny calls from montana. She's only passing through. Probably never see her again in this life, I guess. Not sure what I'm gonna do."

description: This is a story about Sarah Shaw, a woman based on TMG Jenny who always comes into people's lives like a force of nature. She is a storm chaser, but the storm she chases is a supernatural phenomenon that destroys (consumes) cities. She is more or less in an eternal war with the storm.

status: unfinished, but I'm interested in revisiting it! I derailed myself heavily with trying to design the tarot cards (in the first few weeks of starting to draw)

 

Obscura

ingredients: litrpg levels and skills, a kind of ready player one sense of secret hunting, heists, lesbians, ghosts, and a kind of found family

description: Prometheus, Theo to her friends, is the sole survivor of a job gone wrong and seeks a revenge that burns hot and bright. Her heist brings her an item she's never heard of and it turns out to give a new skill to the person who reads it. Things spiral rapidly until she finds herself with a crew set on an impossible prophecy. 

status: I do want to have this finished, but it's in the fridge at the moment. Off the burner and in storage. 

 

Startide 4 aka Spent Gladiator

ingredients: ghosts, psychopomps, [redacted], "do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive," "just stay alive/just stay alive," persona

description: Harbor, an exhausted, anxious trans girl, moves to a new city for a fresh start. She is immediately given a vision and offered a choice to have powers in exchange for helping to save a city. In over her head, she meets Bee and her entire band and must figure out both how to be the person she wants and what being a psychopomp entails at the same time. 

status: actively working on it!