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I want badly to do a story that is based on Daenerys and Drogo from Game of Thrones, in which Drogo's character never dies. If you have seen the show, you know that the Khal dies and Daenerys is kind of the sole leader of her people as she takes over cities and makes her way slowly towards Westeros. I want to write the story where she doesn't lose her husband, where she doesn't lose her child, and they, together, take on the world. The story up to his death is written, obviously, and can be tweaked and played with, but everything beyond that is up to us entirely.
Now, I am not 100% stuck on the idea of this having to take place within the world of A Song of Ice and Fire. I am totally cool with us creating a world of our own and making up new characters that are just based on Dany and Drogo for the sake of full creative freedom. I think that no matter if we conjure up a world that is totally our own or if we write within the world of ASOIAF, there is a lot of room for imagination!
I am 28 years old and have been writing fairly consistently for about 10 years. I work from home and am on my own schedule, so that does give me a decent amount of freedom. I can usually post 1-2 times a day, sometimes less. If I am going to be longer than expected with a response, I do my best to let my partners know. I know this is not any of our main priorities in life, so I do not expect completely constant and/or immediate replies to my posts every time I write. I do ask, though, that you generally be able to respond at least once every 1-2 days simply to keep interest alive in our story. Life happens, and there are always exceptions, of course, but I think you know what I'm getting at.
I prefer to write in third person in the past tense. I am a teeny bit of a grammar freak. Don't get me wrong, we're all human, everyone has slip-ups, I know that I certainly do (I will proofread this post and there is still likely to be a mistake here or there), so I am not talking about the occasional mess-up. I'm talking about those who never use capital letters, commas, periods, and quotation marks, or the folks that still don't know the differences between the most basic homophones (there, there, their, wear, where, weigh, way, whole, hole, too, to, two, etc.) It just immediately takes me out of the story, and I can't focus on what you wrote, but how badly you wrote it. I'm sorry!
I enjoy world-building for my stories! It's something that I used to hate; I thought it was tedious and annoying, and I would do as little as possible before jumping into a story that my partner and I would mostly make up as we went, but I've come to really love coming up with and discussing the details of the setting that the story takes place in. I don't think that everything has to be talked over. I do think that there needs to be a certain level of "winging it" in this form of writing so that you're looking forward to whatever your partner is going to type next rather than knowing for certain what's coming. If I wanted to know everything already, I'd write on my own!
When it comes to the length of my replies, I can crank out 3-10 paragraphs, but my average post is usually 3-6. For those of you who are able to type out novella-like messages every time, I just don't have that in me. I always do my best to write out my character's thoughts and emotions, and describe the scene while trying to match my partner's efforts, but to give 15+ paragraph replies every single time is just not something I have the brain capacity to do. When we really get into the heart of the story, my replies can get a bit shorter just because something I struggle with is one of us typing out a wall of text where our character does things A-F, setting it in stone and forcing the other one of us into a corner where we can't properly react to thing B like we want to because it might ruin thing D. (I hope that makes sense!) Basically, I do my best with my responses, and I ask for you to do the same!
I'm personally not into the easy and simple lovey-dovey stories. I'm not anti-romance; I'm all for it, but adding conflict and drama or bringing darker themes into the mix makes it all the more interesting. I don't want cliche and sappy. I want dark and twisty, drama and conflict!!
I enjoy smut as much as the next person, and it will always have a place in the stories that I take part in. With that said, I like to make it clear that I'm not looking for stories that are just sex. Too much sex and it gets boring, repetitive, and leaves no room for other interesting plot points. I think that smut is important to the stories I like to write that have couples of various sorts in them, but the platonic interactions and the adventures they go on or that go on around them are just as important. I don't like to give a plot-to-story ratio because not every writer or every story needs the same parameters; I think that with a fellow mature writer, we can come together and create a good story with the right balance for us and our plot.
If you're interested, please reach out! Thanks for reading!
The Nomad King and the Dragon Princess
I want badly to do a story that is based on Daenerys and Drogo from Game of Thrones, in which Drogo's character never dies. If you have seen the show, you know that the Khal dies and Daenerys is kind of the sole leader of her people as she takes over cities and makes her way slowly towards Westeros. I want to write the story where she doesn't lose her husband, where she doesn't lose her child, and they, together, take on the world. The story up to his death is written, obviously, and can be tweaked and played with, but everything beyond that is up to us entirely.
Now, I am not 100% stuck on the idea of this having to take place within the world of A Song of Ice and Fire. I am totally cool with us creating a world of our own and making up new characters that are just based on Dany and Drogo for the sake of full creative freedom. I think that no matter if we conjure up a world that is totally our own or if we write within the world of ASOIAF, there is a lot of room for imagination!
About Me:
I am 28 years old and have been writing fairly consistently for about 10 years. I work from home and am on my own schedule, so that does give me a decent amount of freedom. I can usually post 1-2 times a day, sometimes less. If I am going to be longer than expected with a response, I do my best to let my partners know. I know this is not any of our main priorities in life, so I do not expect completely constant and/or immediate replies to my posts every time I write. I do ask, though, that you generally be able to respond at least once every 1-2 days simply to keep interest alive in our story. Life happens, and there are always exceptions, of course, but I think you know what I'm getting at.
Writing Style:
I prefer to write in third person in the past tense. I am a teeny bit of a grammar freak. Don't get me wrong, we're all human, everyone has slip-ups, I know that I certainly do (I will proofread this post and there is still likely to be a mistake here or there), so I am not talking about the occasional mess-up. I'm talking about those who never use capital letters, commas, periods, and quotation marks, or the folks that still don't know the differences between the most basic homophones (there, there, their, wear, where, weigh, way, whole, hole, too, to, two, etc.) It just immediately takes me out of the story, and I can't focus on what you wrote, but how badly you wrote it. I'm sorry!
I enjoy world-building for my stories! It's something that I used to hate; I thought it was tedious and annoying, and I would do as little as possible before jumping into a story that my partner and I would mostly make up as we went, but I've come to really love coming up with and discussing the details of the setting that the story takes place in. I don't think that everything has to be talked over. I do think that there needs to be a certain level of "winging it" in this form of writing so that you're looking forward to whatever your partner is going to type next rather than knowing for certain what's coming. If I wanted to know everything already, I'd write on my own!
When it comes to the length of my replies, I can crank out 3-10 paragraphs, but my average post is usually 3-6. For those of you who are able to type out novella-like messages every time, I just don't have that in me. I always do my best to write out my character's thoughts and emotions, and describe the scene while trying to match my partner's efforts, but to give 15+ paragraph replies every single time is just not something I have the brain capacity to do. When we really get into the heart of the story, my replies can get a bit shorter just because something I struggle with is one of us typing out a wall of text where our character does things A-F, setting it in stone and forcing the other one of us into a corner where we can't properly react to thing B like we want to because it might ruin thing D. (I hope that makes sense!) Basically, I do my best with my responses, and I ask for you to do the same!
I'm personally not into the easy and simple lovey-dovey stories. I'm not anti-romance; I'm all for it, but adding conflict and drama or bringing darker themes into the mix makes it all the more interesting. I don't want cliche and sappy. I want dark and twisty, drama and conflict!!
I enjoy smut as much as the next person, and it will always have a place in the stories that I take part in. With that said, I like to make it clear that I'm not looking for stories that are just sex. Too much sex and it gets boring, repetitive, and leaves no room for other interesting plot points. I think that smut is important to the stories I like to write that have couples of various sorts in them, but the platonic interactions and the adventures they go on or that go on around them are just as important. I don't like to give a plot-to-story ratio because not every writer or every story needs the same parameters; I think that with a fellow mature writer, we can come together and create a good story with the right balance for us and our plot.
If you're interested, please reach out! Thanks for reading!
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