Had an idea for my next book after I finish my WIP and my brain immediately thought "you know, this could make a good walking-sim / adventure style game!" and I had to push those thoughts aside. I don't have the time or money right now to learn game design 😄

At least something good came out of that stressful job! 🤣

Thanks to trying to have an in-universe excuse to have one of my favorite tropes in my story I found the theme that fits it so perfectly! 3/3

Not long after I started the story I realized that the theme of my story is how some people feel as if their roles in life contradict their identity, & that my main character has been beaten down by being forced into so many roles that she literally has no idea what her identity really is. 2/3

I was trying to find an in-universe reason why my MC is unnamed & it came to me that she not only forgets the concepts of names shortly before the story, but is incapable of even comprehending how one word can represent an entire person. She sees herself & others only as their current roles. 1/3

My current WIP is basically a long winded metaphor for how I felt at my last job. 😅

Also my main character is is an engineer now in a non-engineer role, much like how I recently transitioned from engineering to project management (but unlike her, I changed roles by choice).

Idk what your character’s personality is like but honestly a teen saying “perhaps” makes a lot of sense. After all during your teen years there’s a lot of confusion as you’re growing so a teen saying it seems reasonable (source: was a confused teen once 😄)

My main character says “perhaps” so many times 😅

I can’t vouch for the quality of my writing for the remainder of my book, but that doesn’t matter. What matter is that the first draft is done. Quality can be fixed in revisions.

I am honestly pretty bad at motivating myself to find betas, but I know other authors who use them. Most go to online communities for readers in their genre and put an open call for betas and take who bites. GoodReads and Reddit I understand are a good place to start.

I definitely agree! I included a “How this book was written section” at the back of my latest book since I love when authors talk about their creative processes. Planning on doing it with all future releases!

You’re welcome! As a fellow writer I know how it good feels to hear back from readers, so I try to reach out to any artists (especially small time) who’s work I enjoy, and I really enjoyed the entire anthology from start to finish ♥️