It's Always Summer Under the Sea

What might be this month's blog title theme? Songs to do with WINTER!
This one is ironic because, yah know, Winter Is Coming.

You won't believe how badly I wanted to put that one up here, but blogger nad youtube are both being butts so... till next time...

Hey everyone! How is it going! NaNo ended with no clapping, cake, or confetti. Mostly cause it was done at 11pm and I just went "meh" and crawled into bed. Because for all intents and purposes, NaNo is NOT over for me.
I had to add 40k to my count and extend my end date to December 24th. >.>
Why? Well, because SOMECHAPTERS had to be over 10k words. Looking at you, you spotlight stealers... *cough* Ravenka *cough* Lohk *cough*

So today, I am going to be combining the events of Keenah's chapter with Meruse's chapter, which will make Meruse's lovely chapter ender thinger the opening of his chapter in the form of a flashback. Because... stuff.

But will also lead to interesting things when Keenah's chapter ends with "WHY IS THE VILLAGE BEING BURNED DOWN???!!! MERUSE WHERE WERE U LAST NIGHT DID U DO THIS???!!!"
And Meruse being all:
"Yes."

And then they move on with life.
Because Meruse is secretly a pyro or something... idk... no spoilers here.
Though that technically WAS a spoiler, sort of, not really, idk. No one reads anything anyway.
Cause yah know, it's on wattpad people...

Also, yah know, I really hate some things about wattpad. For one, everyone treats books like a damn popularity contest. Winning these "Watty awards" means absolutely nothing. It does not mean your book is good, it means that it is popular. And considering the dumb sheeple masses out there, all you need to get a popular book are the following things:
1. A Mary=Sue that is totally relatable but has like, idk, 1 flaw maybe. But everyone thinks its cute.
2. Easily categorized things (ie: clans, groups, cliques, etc where everyone is organized by race, powers, etc. And everyone has cookie cutter personalities based on their category. Except the MC. They totally need to be everything at once because that is super unique)
3. Significant other needs to be the HOTTEST person around. They need to like, totally push the MC away at first, but then fate will just be its wacky self and throw them together. And then significant other totes needs to fawn over MC's flaw because really it's not a flaw it's cuuuUUuuute.
4. They need to be kissing and/or banging by the end. Totes best ending if they have like a bunch of kids and everyone is paired off and have kids too and like, name them all cool and unique names like Storm and Deathdementiaravenway.

And voila! You have the most popular book ever.
See, now was that so hard?
**notice how "quality plot, characters, writing, etc" is not included in the above four points.

JUST A NOTE:
This is not to say that ALL winners of things like Wattys or ALL stories that get #1 on the lists are bad. I have seen great books get to the top on both counts.
Just that I have seen MOST OF THE TIME bad stuff getting to the top of those contests/lists.
And a LOT of good stuff gets lost under the fan-craze of Twi-hards and their numerously flavored kin.


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Hey, check it! A new layout!!!!

And also: another reason to hate wattpad (and its appalling lack of moderating these wild young hooligans)

So, for today's line up of "Similar Stories to Write This Down" we haaaaave:

Is It Hate, Or Love? Season three part two

This author has never heard of the chapter feature. EVERY single chapter is posted as a new story.

It is literally a reality show, slice-of-life, soap opera. LITERALLY. Nothing at all related to fantasy, and in short, not at ALL related to WTD.

Kudou no Seimei Ryokuwo

A story about two brothers reuniting. One is a famous singer. The MC is trying to...

..... to....

Okay, don't kill me. It's been a while since I read it (in full, mind you), and I've been very distracted.

It was written by an rp buddy of mine. I've been helping critique it. It's a nice slice-of-life. 

It's got brothers... That's the ONLY similarity to that one and WTD.

The Hybrid

The synopsis is literally "I'm a monster inside... is that what you want? Can you love a monsterr?"

Um... Twilight much?

Yes, a sappy, cliche "romance" *cough* about a girl and a werewolf/vampire/idk. 

Um... my book has a married couple...?

A King's Mistress

Hmm.... historical fiction??

About a bunch of Kings who have these mistresses that are seers and this is some story about one of them.

Uh........

It's got a King in it. Just like mine! *thumbs up*

Oh, oh, yah, and the King in my book has THREE mistresses! HAH! WHAT SAY U NOW???

But you wouldn't know that cause the chapter hasn't been posted...

Either you read my mind or this is just a really lame suggestion. I'll go with latter...

That wraps up today's "Similar Stories to Write This Down". Tune in next time for another list of stories that have literally NOTHING to do with WTD yet somehow get suggested.

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Oh, I could NOT resist! Here's another!

For our second line up of "Similar Stories to Write This Down", we have these four lucky duckies!

The Fates

About the fates. From Greek story. And they're in modern day doing teenage things.

So "fantasy". Much perf. Abso-nothing-lutley to do with WTD.

Home

A seven paragraph or so short about a guy who goes home and dies.

The End

Pretty much every chapter of Write This Down in a nutshell.

Congratulations "Home" you get a virtual cookie.

NOT

But you came kinda-sorta-close-ish

Holistic Medicine

Literally a short article promoting the benefits of holistic medicine.

Um...

There's a doctor amputating legs in this one chapter...

Waiting for the Beast

Oh...

Well you're just a big bag o' sacrilege, aren't chu?

It's about the anti-Christ, THE ANTI-CHRIST, being a bubbly teen girl with a hot angel bodyguard and they do all these supernatural things together.

Cause that's totally how it works. Yup. Uh-huh. 

Oh, what? Sorry, I was actually using this thing called sarcasm.

AND YOU SO DON'T GET A COOKIE EITHER!

In fact, you get negative cookies. 

- - - - - infinity cookies

(or just - cause five - equals one -)

**u been maths'd

That's all for today folks! Tune in next time for more "Stories Similar to Write This Down"