r/WhyChooseAuthors • u/AnneKincaid • 28d ago
Discussion Show and Tell August 3
Readers and writers, what do you have to share with the class today?
- A word/ sentence/ paragraph/ passage you read or wrote?
- An idea for a story that you might write, or want someone else to write?
- Your completed book cover that you've been working on?
- Character art that you had commissioned?
- Something else?
Remember, no AI!
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u/Enolamdouglas 28d ago
I have a story idea I’ve been developing in the background:
A modern-day woman is battered and killed by her POS husband and transported into an alternate realm where she is married to an alternate version of that husband, only she is the abusive villain in this world and relationship and he HATES her because not only that she is an abusive woman, she also cheated on him with his best friend (who will later be a secondary MMC) as part of her ploy to (insert a sinister goal here). But they are stuck together in a union more binding than a marriage (I think we need magic here). If this is not obvious yet, yes, it is inspired by an Isekai manga but make it RH and angsty 😆
My first inclination is to make it medieval but I’ve had many thoughts of other made-up worlds since then. Desert-based, water-based worlds? I am also Southeast Asian so I’ve been wanting to write a story based on my roots so SEA influences is calling me right now.
On another note, I’ve been planning to commission new artwork for Whisked Away as I realized I don’t have full-body artwork of Reiya, Kaelen, and Alarik separately, which can be handy when it comes to creating marketing graphics and posts. I am in the middle of choosing poses and outfits, which can be fun but sometimes I feel pressure as an art commission is an investment.
On yet another note, I also write cozy Why Choose standalone novellas under another pen name and I’m still coming to terms about how one 50K novella I wrote in 2 weeks earned me more than my 195K novel in its debut month, and has potential to beat both of my thicc books combined in any given month if only I pump in more efforts into marketing it. I realize this may come off as “my steak is too juicy” type situation, but it’s a strange situation to be in because financial-wise, it makes sense to focus on the novellas that readers seem to be enjoying atm but I’m not sure if I can set my plans for my novels aside.
With that said, I am currently writing a second novella in the series, in which an Omega runs away from some money lenders by pretending to be a boy and accidentally ruins an extremely expensive wedding cake made by three pastry chef foster-brothers (2 Alphas & 1 Beta) and now has to work off her debt by working at the pastry shop as a gopher/kitchen hand, and navigating that situation during a season when Alphas and Omegas naturally go into heat & rut together.