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[zamorawrites]

Hello Friends!

I just wanted to jump on here and give everyone an update since it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything. Five months here on Tumblr, 16 months since there’s been an update to any of my fanfics at best and 50 months at worst. (And for some reason One White Blank Page seems to be going through a renaissance period of new readers despite the fact that it’s been 16 months since there was an update.)

It’s crazy looking back at it, but I started writing One White Blank Page 4 years ago when I was a full time college student! A lot has changed since then, in the world at large, and in my own little personal bubble of a world.

In 2022 I took a hiatus from posting or updating any fanfics at all. It was a year where everything felt so incredibly out of control for me, and that feeling spiraled into my creative life and took away most of my drive to hunker down and actually create. I’m looking at 2022 as having been a ‘fallow’ year where my metaphorical fields had to sit untouched for a while in order to prepare for a new season of creating.

This year I’ve been brimming with creative energy! And I’ve been focusing most of my efforts into a piece of original fiction that I’ve talked about here a bit before. It’s a New Adult novel that I’ve tentatively titled You Got The Wrong Hero, and I do aspire to one day query and publish that novel. Of course, in order to do that I have to actually have a finished novel to publish!

So, this year, I’m choosing to focus the brunt of my creative efforts on YGTWH. At this time, I’m planning on having the first draft of YGTWH finished towards the end of this year. Because I’m going to be focusing so much of my creative energy and free time into getting the first draft of YGTWH finalized, I’m not going to have much time to focus on my existing fanfics.

Now, this isn’t to say that I’m abandoning my existing fanfics! I love those fanfics that I’ve written and I have every intention of returning to them. But this is a notice that I’m going to be on a fanfic hiatus until I finish that first draft of YGTWH.

Apologies to everyone who loves my Megamind and ATLA fanfics I have up, but it’s been a lifelong dream of mine to write a book that gets published and I genuinely feel like the idea, plot, and characters of YGTWH are enough to get me there if I can only give them the time and effort they deserve and actually get them down on the page.

I threw a (very) tentative schedule for my upcoming writing life for the next few years down below for those who are interested in when they can start expecting me to return to my existing fanfics. And below that I have a short list of tropes and ‘comp titles’ for YGTWH for anyone who might be interested in being a beta reader once I get this first draft done!

TLDR; I’m not dead and I haven’t abandoned any of my fanfics! I’ve been on hiatus and will be for a while longer while I finish some stuff up. See the (very) tentative timeline below for an estimate of when I will return to working on your favorite fanfic!

SCHEDULE

Q2 & Q3 2023 - 1st Draft YGTWH

Q4 2023 - 1st Draft YGTWH; OWBP as time permits, may add an additional chapter

Q1 2024 - One White Blank Page, add at least 3 chapters

Q2 & Q3 2024 - 2nd Draft YGTWH

Q4 2024 - One White Blank Page, add at least 3 chapters

Q1 & Q2 2025 - 3rd Draft YGTWH

Q3 2025 - One White Blank Page, add at least 3 chapters

Q4 2025 - FINAL Draft YGTWH

Q1 2026 - FINAL Draft YGTWH

Q2 2026 Onward - Focus on fanfics in the following order of priority; One White Blank Page, You Bare Your Fangs, Cupid’s Got A Gun, Gangster’s Paradise, Time and Time Again. (Not to say the fics at the end won’t be updated at all until the prior ones are done, but they’ll be updated less frequently than the others.)

If you came this far and you want some You Got The Wrong Hero deets… here ya go:

Imagine if you dumped Stranger Things, Venom, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Twilight (but only the vibes) into a big stockpot, simmered for 12 hours, attempted to perform an exorcism on the remains and failed… and you would get something similar to You Got The Wrong Hero.

An action packed dystopian with sci-fi/supernatural elements and lots of romance. You have these tropes: Long lost friends to lovers, Love across battlefields, Slow burn romance, Touch her and I’ll kill you, a Morally grey protagonist, the ‘Villain’ gets the girl (and the girl is the ‘hero’), Mutual pining but they’re idiots, Hurt & comfort, Angst & fluff, EVERYBODY has daddy issues, When he’s with her he’s a golden retriever but when she’s not there he’s a rabid dog, Extremist terrorist groups and the government agencies dedicated to catching them.

Again, if you want to be a beta reader once the first draft is done (or want to hear more) just hmu!

Thanks for reading everyone! ❤️

#long post #one white blank page #owbp #fanfic update #writing update #hiatus announcement #ybyf #you bare your fangs or you bare your throat spoilers #cgag #cupid’s got a gun #gangsters paradise #tata #time and time again #my writing #my fics #YGTWH

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You’re waaaayyyy to kind to me!!!!! And your work is *chefs kiss* an absolute joy to read!

I’m so proud of everything you’ve done and so excited to see where you go next!

opening up Instagram to see this post from @casuallydeliciousphilosopher instantly watered my crops, cleared my skin, and made me lunch. it was such an unexpected surprise!

This entire project would be nowhere without you!

#I am stalling so hard on the last chapter because #ITS THE LAST CHAPTER #the LAST one! #and IM NOT READY!!! #I hope I can get all my beta notes together somewhat quickly #they’re all scattered throughout the doc as comment right now! lol

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the dreamworks smirk is contrapposto for the face

#Megamind #dreamworks #I can never unsee this

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OWBP Worldbuilding (Language!)

This topic originally came up in a Discord server forever ago… but I was asked about the thoughts I had on what the written Amerdian language looked like.

There’s a font I have on my computer that inspired the picture I have in my head if the written Amerdian language and I figured I would share those font snippets I posted on Discord on my Tumblr as well!

So, here’s the font that inspires the sloppy, flowing, gracefully curving letters that Roxanne always tries to describe.

The words we get in Chapter 9 that Roxanne reads from the Amerdian Encyclopedia:

(Note: written per the phonetic English spelling)

Our characters names:

(Note: written as spelt in English)

The first large paragraph of chapter 1 of OWBP:

#OWBP #one white blank page #OWBP worldbuilding #one white blank page worldbuilding #my writing #Megamind #megamind fanficton #megamind ff

[zamorawrites]

I can't believe it's been seven months since I've posted anything on tumblr and 10 months since I've posted anything on AO3. I'm getting back into the swing of my fics, and while I work on the next chapter of OWBP and the re-write. I figured I'd share a snippet of the upcoming OWBP prequel fic, TWHIGH, to get the momentum going on social media again!

“You’re coming to the press event with me.” Megamind answered, shooting Minyn a smile that he was certain looked just as fake as it felt on his face.

Minyn frowned at his answer, reaching up to unfasten the magnetic sigil from the exoskeleton of his suit as he spoke. “We both know that Elaehna doesn’t want me there.”

Before Minyn could rip the sigil off, Megamind grabbed his hands and held them in place. It wasn’t until Minyn’s frown deepened that he realized his hands were termbling. “I don’t really give a shit what Elaehna wants.” He spat, releasing his hold on Minyn’s hands so he could ball his own into fists in an attempt to stop the tremors wracking them. “She seems to want me there, and we’re a package deal.” He reinforced, taking a deep breath as he attempted to calm the rage of emotions bubbling just under his skin.

Where did his mother get off making his Mypsin feel like he didn’t belong at his side? Who did she think she was to deny him the aid he needed because of her shortcomings? And most of all, did she not realize that by denying the part of him that Minyn supported and tended to, that she was denying that part of him existed? That it was valid, and real, and that it hurt him every single day. 

She would never know what it felt like. She would never know that without Minyn by his side he felt like he was walking around with a gaping a wound. That it was slowly festering and consuming, and that it felt like it would kill him one day. 

It would kill him if he didn’t have Minyn. She would kill him to hide her shortcomings from the rest of the world. 

Goddess help him, sometimes he dreamed of challenging her to a vozroz and making her pay for everything she had ever put him and everyone he loved through.

“She’s not wrong, you know.” Minyn’s voice was a soft, quiet thing full of doubt. “I make you look weak.”

Megamind swallowed at the words. Maybe his mother was right, maybe Minyn did make him look weak to others. 

Goddess, he of all people was aware of how differently he was treated when Minyn was at his side compared to when he left him at home. But that was hardly his fault, and it was hardly Minyn’s either. 

His mother was the one who had been enabling their branch to treat the Mypsin and everyone who had one in their lives like second-class citizens. His mother was the one who had practically turned her scorn into a social stigma by doing everything in her power to public erase Minyn from his life for the last twenty-six years. 

But surely Minyn understood the same exact thing his mother did, though she was loathe to admit it. 

It wasn’t Minyn that made him look weak. People didn’t look weak just because of the others who chose to stand by their side. His mother made him look weak by trying to sweep Minyn’s existence under the proverbial rug like some sort of dirty little family secret better left unseen and forgotten. His mother made him look weak by trying to sweep his own existence under that same rug for the last fifteen years that he’d been trapped in the hellacious purgatory that was forced house arrest. 

Sure, maybe he hadn’t died when that doctor shoved the lethal injection needle into his arm, but he sure as shit hadn’t lived a day in his life since then. 

Well, except for that one stint with Aennier… but then his mother had to rip that away from him too.

No, Minyn didn’t make him look weak.

He made himself look weak by allowing her judges to have any say in his life when he could have just ignored their sentencing and went on with his life; because he knew just as well as everyone else did that the legal system couldn’t actually stop him from doing what he wanted unless he allowed it to. He made himself look weak by allowing his mother to hide the dark nasty parts of him that didn’t look good in the light. He made himself look weak by refusing to stand up against her for so long.

Well that ended today.

His mother may have named him after the soaring heavens above, but he was hardly the goddess-blessed son she’d hoped for. 

She wanted heaven from him, and he was going to give her hell.

“You can’t honestly tell me you believe that.” Instead of answering, Minyn just frowned at the floor beneath their feet; and his silence spoke in volumes. “Minyn.”

His Mypsin leveled him with an annoyed glare before his terse voice was breaking the quiet. “Do you want me to come because you want me to come? Or do you want me to come because you know it’ll piss her off?” His fins fluffed out as he spoke, and Megamind really didn’t need the visible sign of anger and aggression to know the thought of being used like that pissed his friend off.

He struggled to answer the question for a moment, because Minyn knew just as well as he did that the answer wasn’t so simple. That those two reasons weren’t exclusive of each other. 

“I want you to come because you’re a part of me Minyn.” Megamind answered, and just like he knew those words were true, Minyn did as well. What Minyn didn’t know were the truths he hid from everyone… the truths he hid from himself because they scared him that much. “Sometimes I feel like you’re the only part of me that’s any good at all.”

~ From They Wanted Heaven From Me, I Gave Them Hell prequel fic to One White Blank Page

#my wrtitng #they wanted heaven from me #twhigh #owbp prequel #one white blank page prequel #Megamind #megamind fanficton #megamind ff #megamind fanfic

[zamorawrites]

Sometimes it feels like I take up too much space

Like my presence annoys others, like I don’t quite fit into place

I’m either too loud or to soft

I don’t talk enough or I talk to much

No matter what I do I can’t seem to please you

It gets so exhausting trying to be

Something for everybody, I just want to be me

But I’m stretched too thin and I work to much

I keep giving away parts of myself and it’s never enough.

#just got done spending two days with my family for my moms birthday #and this poem is really hitting home #four years ago I moved out of my home state to get away from my family #in that time they have not come up to see me once #I’ve gone back home to see them 6 times #because they guilt me into feeling like a shit child #and then they don’t appreciate the fact that I have to take time off work to see them #or that going down to see them costs me nearly 1k every time between gas food and hotels #and I just #this time it broke me #I’m so tired #I’m just #exhausted

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My Brain: You need to work on You Bare Your Fangs, you said you would update it next!

Also My Brain: You need to finish writing Kaiya and Enoli’s story so you can try to get published!

Sadly Also My Brain: Just work on another update for One White Blank Page, people liked the last chapter!

My Brain Making Things As Hard As Possible: Here’s a shiny idea for a new fic!

And Then My Brain: You know you left Cupid’s Got A Gun on a terrible cliffhanger, maybe you should fix that!

My Brain Screaming At Me: NO WRITE, ONLY READ!!!

#a call out post for me! #why am I like this!? #😭 #the horror of having so many WIPs

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Lucky 13, unlucky 13. No matter your superstitions, what is the 13th song on your spotify wrapped? 

#Evil (Acoustic) - AViVA

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Happy

Happy shows up ten times in this next chapter, and not exactly in the context we might want...

“I only hope that you can build a life here that makes you happy.”

Send me a word, and if it's in the next chapter of One White Blank Page, I'll post that sentence!

#one white blank page #owbp #my writing #writing games #megamind fanficton #megamind fanfic #the new chapter will be here on 11/26

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The word is “information”

The word information comes up only three times in this chapter, so have a lovely angsty sentence!

Other than question Elaehna about her decision to keep literally life-altering information from her son, and argue about her decision to allow Megamind to go to trial over protecting someone from a hideous crime, she’d tried to be everything Elaehna could possibly want.

Drama is coming...

Send me a word, and if it’s in the next chapter of One White Blank Page, I’ll post that sentence!

#one white blank page #owbp #my writing #writing games #megamind fanfic #megamind fanfiction #the new chapter will be here on 11/26

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god

Okay nonnie! I re-submitted your word to myself since I didn’t want that spoiler at the end of your original ask right there at the top of the post, haha! (Just in case someone who has avoided spoilers or someone who doesn’t even know what my fic is about happens to stumble upon this answer and immediately gets smacked with that big spoiler, lol)

Anyway, you wanted me to do the word God. The word God comes up nineteen times in this new chapter! (And if that’s not a warning of what’s coming, idk what is.)

Here is a spoiler free sentence with the word God in it:

He made her name sound like some sort of prayer, and good God, she really wasn’t prepared for the surge of tingly warmth that sent through her.

And here’s a spoiler one...

Perhaps two halves of a demigod can make one God.

#one white blank page #owbp #my writing #writing games #megamind fanfic #megamind fanfiction #the new chapter will be here on 11/26

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Suprise

The word surprise comes up four times in the next chapter of OWBP!

“It needs to happen.” Drae’s blunt answer caught her by surprise.

Send me a word, and if it's in the next chapter of One White Blank Page, I'll post that sentence!

#one white blank page #owbp #my writing #writing games #megamind fanfic #megamind fanfiction #the new chapter will be here on 11/26

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softly

The word softly comes up six different times! Here's the sentence that makes the most sense when there's no context to go with it:

She barely caught the tail end of a quick string of words as she softly spoke up, “Megs?”

Send me a word, and if it's in the next chapter of One White Blank Page, I'll post that sentence!

#one white blank page #owbp #my writing #writing games #megamind fanfic #megamind fanfiction #the new chapter will be here on 11/26

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confusion

The word confusion only comes up once in this entire chapter!

The group of Amerdians standing before the door were fuzzy, and it was like being stuck in a fuzzy fever dream—hearing the chorus of their laughter before they all looked into the elevator and their smiles faded into contorted mixtures of shock and confusion.

Send me a word, and if it’s in the next chapter of One White Blank Page, I’ll post that sentence! (The new chapter is coming out on 11/26!)

#one white blank page #owbp #my writing #writing games #megamind fanfic #megamind fanfiction

[zamorawrites]

The next chapter of One White Blank Page has been fully written! I’m currently working with my beta to get it all edited, and I’m planning to post on 11/26!

Until then, lets play a game! Send me an ask with any word, and I’ll answer with a sentence with that word in it! (If one exists.)

#one white blank page #owbp #my writing #I can't believe it's been so long since I've updated #ask game #writing update #megamind #megamind fanfic #megamind fanfiction

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This fits perfectly! Lol.

Though Roxanne and Megamind do not kiss for a while…

#we almost get a kiss on day 7 #key word almost #we do finally get a kiss on day 15! #OWBP #one white blank page #my fic

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Just dropped the one-shot gift fic I’ve been writing for @nientedal for what feels like forever! If anyone else is interested in reading it here’s the link!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34075714

Ps: please read the tags for trigger warnings!

#my wrtitng #my fics #the compassion in our nature #I have been working on this literally since 2020 #writing fluff is like pulling teeth for me lol #but I’m happy with the final outcome #and it was approved to have a fluff content of at least 80% by my beta #so I hope you enjoy Dal! sorry about the short beach drabble gift forever ago lol