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my projects for GYWO 2025!
figured I'd also post about this while I'm at it... I'm joining Get Your Words Out for 2025 in an attempt to get into a regular writing schedule! I'll be working on a few different things throughout the year, as attempting to focus on a single thing would make me drop the project near immediately. hopefully I'll be posting lots of little snippets of projects on each of these things as the year progresses!
The Aperture Record
-of course, my baby, my precious child, the aperture record. I hope to focus mainly on this through the year, but have the other things as backups to take a break and rekindle my passion for it in the dry spells.
-my overarching goal for this project is to start publishing it within the year. I want to release it chapter by chapter, but because of my neuroses I know I'll want a solid draft of most of the chapters before officially releasing anything. (I do have the rough draft of the first 2 chapters available to read here, though, if anyone is curious)
-I'd also like to tackle a lot of the multimedia elements within the year as well. I have a whole plan for linking other website pages that are coded to look like official article journalism websites, complete with fake banner ads that link to even farther little easter eggs, all sprinkled in between the narrative for viewers to find on their own time. or maybe not find at all! who knows
What Our Mothers Built
-this is a project I have sat on for a long, long time and have always been too nervous to start on, but reading Model Home really inspired me to actually take a crack at it.
-the gist of it is this: trans guy, estranged from his family and pursuing some sort of masters degree in science or biology or something, who reads in the news that a house in his hometown has inexplicably started growing what looks like flesh. he is compelled to fly back there and study it, and spends one horrifying week in the walls of a prison of flesh and memory. it's a very raw examination of my relationship with my gender identity and the horrors of womanhood impressed upon transmasc people, with a dash of pregnancy as horror. lots of fucked up meat stuff. yes, the title is intentionally worded so the acronym spells WOMB.
-I really, really want this thing to be perfect. the idyllic novel. something I could see myself pitching to actual publishing companies in some fantastical future world where I become a published author. no clue if that would actually ever happen, but I just have the sense that this is an Important Story that I Need to Tell... and I want to do it right. my main goal for this year is to let go of that need for perfection and just start on it and see where I go... any words are better than none, after all.
Misc Fics Category
-basically anything else I want to work on. since I also would like to keep writing short-form fics of my various fixations, I'd like to build room for that in my GYWO pledge, so I'm not overwhelmed with trying to keep up with multiple writing responsibilities at once. also, considering how big and time consuming TAR and WOMB are gonna be, I figured it would be good to decompress with some silly jaws fanfic every now and then!
-I've enjoyed writing things for fan_flashworks so far, and would like to try to keep up with that, so that's likely where the bulk of this category will come from. fun times!
anyway, yeah! look forward to this stuff, hopefully. I've got a lot of writing mojo currently, but considering I'd also like to try and rekindle my passion for art this year, who knows how much of my creative energy will be taken up by what. I often find myself wishing I could pause time, just so I'd have the ability to give each of my creative pursuits an even amount of time... but sadly, I have to make room for life in there.
very excited to see what others are working on this year, though, and snooping through the GYWO community!
The Aperture Record
-of course, my baby, my precious child, the aperture record. I hope to focus mainly on this through the year, but have the other things as backups to take a break and rekindle my passion for it in the dry spells.
-my overarching goal for this project is to start publishing it within the year. I want to release it chapter by chapter, but because of my neuroses I know I'll want a solid draft of most of the chapters before officially releasing anything. (I do have the rough draft of the first 2 chapters available to read here, though, if anyone is curious)
-I'd also like to tackle a lot of the multimedia elements within the year as well. I have a whole plan for linking other website pages that are coded to look like official article journalism websites, complete with fake banner ads that link to even farther little easter eggs, all sprinkled in between the narrative for viewers to find on their own time. or maybe not find at all! who knows
What Our Mothers Built
-this is a project I have sat on for a long, long time and have always been too nervous to start on, but reading Model Home really inspired me to actually take a crack at it.
-the gist of it is this: trans guy, estranged from his family and pursuing some sort of masters degree in science or biology or something, who reads in the news that a house in his hometown has inexplicably started growing what looks like flesh. he is compelled to fly back there and study it, and spends one horrifying week in the walls of a prison of flesh and memory. it's a very raw examination of my relationship with my gender identity and the horrors of womanhood impressed upon transmasc people, with a dash of pregnancy as horror. lots of fucked up meat stuff. yes, the title is intentionally worded so the acronym spells WOMB.
-I really, really want this thing to be perfect. the idyllic novel. something I could see myself pitching to actual publishing companies in some fantastical future world where I become a published author. no clue if that would actually ever happen, but I just have the sense that this is an Important Story that I Need to Tell... and I want to do it right. my main goal for this year is to let go of that need for perfection and just start on it and see where I go... any words are better than none, after all.
Misc Fics Category
-basically anything else I want to work on. since I also would like to keep writing short-form fics of my various fixations, I'd like to build room for that in my GYWO pledge, so I'm not overwhelmed with trying to keep up with multiple writing responsibilities at once. also, considering how big and time consuming TAR and WOMB are gonna be, I figured it would be good to decompress with some silly jaws fanfic every now and then!
-I've enjoyed writing things for fan_flashworks so far, and would like to try to keep up with that, so that's likely where the bulk of this category will come from. fun times!
anyway, yeah! look forward to this stuff, hopefully. I've got a lot of writing mojo currently, but considering I'd also like to try and rekindle my passion for art this year, who knows how much of my creative energy will be taken up by what. I often find myself wishing I could pause time, just so I'd have the ability to give each of my creative pursuits an even amount of time... but sadly, I have to make room for life in there.
very excited to see what others are working on this year, though, and snooping through the GYWO community!