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    Merie replied to the topic hullo peeps! in the forum Introduce Yourself 4 years, 1 month ago

    @rose-colored-fancy

    Also that remark in your blog post “I’ve recently discovered that contrary to prior belief, I’m actually illiterate in English as well as Chinese and Korean. So there’s an irrelevant little note for you.” Literally made me laugh out loud because that’s exactly what it’s like. I feel basically illiterate in every language I speak XD

    It can so difficult, being a writer and yet, also illiterate xD By the way, which languages do you speak?

    I actually do the same thing in my books, the first book of the trilogy doesn’t have any romance, the second book has a close friendship that leads to a realization and the third book is a close friendship with mutual pining that s l o w l y turns into a romance. I really took slow burn to the most extreme point, it’s three long books and they don’t kiss until the last chapter of the last book XD It’s quite glorious, even though I generally don’t get excited about romantic subplots. I never realized they were this fun to write!

    I love that! I’m so glad you agree with me about friends-to-lovers. It’s great when romance takes it time developing slowly; it makes it so much more meaningful, I think. Good job making your slow-burn sound painfully slow, though… not that that’s a bad thing, in the long run xD I definitely tend to ship slow-burn, friends-t0-lovers more often than any other kind of romance!

    LOL, that’s such a mood! I have a few characters who are like that XD It feels like all characters either run in the wrong directions or just lie down and whine and you have to drag them through the plot XD

    No kidding. It always gives me a headache, trying to figure out ways to get my characters to move themselves. Um like, I need you guys to write this story for me? But alas, that’s not how writing works 🙁 I’m the one who has to brainstorm stuff for them to do, ugh.

    There are some other things like that, but I can’t think of them just now XD

    Oh right, you already mentioned some *facepalm* Those are all really interesting though!

    THANK YOU!! Not everything has to turn romantic and it makes me happy to see just a platonic relationship be central! Also, it’s awesome that you’re planning to keep Pax single, I love it when main characters don’t end up in a relationship by the end of the story! Sometimes it’s just not necessary! But why would that be obvious? 😅 I might have missed something…

    Lol, you’re welcome? But I totally agree, I do wish there were fewer main characters with love interests, even though I understand why their circumstances would make that happen. And noooo, it’s not really obvious, I guess… but if you knew me and my tendencies toward my main characters’ love lives, it would become obvious xD There aren’t that many female characters in TFE, and any who would have opportunity of romantic attachment become attached to someone else. Sorry, Pax.

    One of my main characters is actually one of the assassins, and when they tell Faye it’s quite a hilarious interaction XD Like “So you can turn into a shadow, right?” “I can what now? No??”

    Hahaha, when that happens xD

    Well, I got spectacularly stuck on them already, so I might end up leaving the concept for some other time XD But thanks, when/if I finish them I’ll post them on Insta! (I think we already found each other there XD)

    Oof, good luck with that! It’s definitely frustrating 🙁

    Awesome, thank you! I’m planning to send out the next one sometime next week, it should be fun! I’m having way too much fun with it XD

    Looking forward to it!!

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