You mean like a 90s filter? Something that makes it look like an old photo? I’m going for a memoir style story.
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Something like that.
Look at book covers that have faces on them. They’re always a little muted down, have a filter on them or a partial frame that distorts the photo.
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3 chapters are up.
I have to say, I’m loving my story. I’m fangirling over it. This story is exactly my jam.
How is everyone doing? Did you post your story yet?
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Okay, thanks. I will see what I can do. I like the Viola Davis one, but I think that would look weird on my cover, doing it black and white like that. I’ll play around with it.
That’s great! 
It’s great when you write something you love!
I am on 2.5k, and on the second chapter (my first one was a bit long because I was introducing the characters, and letting them talk a bit). I haven’t posted it, but I will post it shortly. I’m not too sure about it, but maybe that’s because I am getting used to the first-person narration.
I usually do third-person past, but this is first-person past.
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I really like the image and the title colors.
3 different “pictures”: a college library, a Victorian era woman, and the stained glass pattern I made, just to get to that thing.
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I might be in trouble. If I continue writing what I think I need to be writing, I would be moving through the plot too fast.
I’m at 9872 words right now. If this is the middle, then that’s okay. Pretty much perfect. The most novella-sized novella I’ve written. But if we’re past the middle, then that’s a problem. I’m an underwriter so I think I should be able to add words when I edit (I’m massively missing descriptions in this story), but there are limits to how much you can add.
But I don’t want to stop writing. While it’s strong in my head, I want to keep pushing through it.
I have an idea for what should happen next but not what to happen right after.
My characters have been on a road trip for a few chapters and it’s been just the two of them. I’d like to expand their setting and the cast. Maybe they should go into town? Hmm. That might work.
Ooh. They should run into other vampires. Yes. That could make things interesting.
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The end result still looks great.
My second one is just twisted, not going to be nice, it think. I made this as a dummy cover last month, and I think Im just going to use it as the cover…
It’s #99, with the royal heir off the crazy man.
So, this will be tweaked for it, and going to go for twisted mess. Yay me.
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If I get another idea, imma use it. 
Enter them both, more chances of winning.
Watch more ideas come when I get this first one to 8k 
/badchurroslapchurro
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I’m going to be real, that is very cool.
It’s a dual-layer alteration: watercolor (which does a kind of Camo blocking), then Gimpressionist (allows you to do specific patterns as a replacement for the face). Then it’s a matter of overlaying the 3 layers and adjusting their blend so that the original still dominates the pattern enough to be recognizable. Then there’s tweaking unwanted things, like I didn’t like the distorts on the eyes as much so that was cut out and eyes were darkened to match the darker coloring. And the words turned the jaw yellow in one little spot, so I had to get that cut out and replaced. Otherwise, this was pretty quick.
If the basic layer is ready to go, this work is 10, maybe 15 minutes, at most. The base layer needs to look reasonably realistic, first.
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Seeing all these people writing amazing books for ONC and I’m just sitting here writing a sequel for it. I’ve had some comments with people not actually reading the small hints at book 1 I’ve left in there already, criticising me for not being more “obvious”. I dont WANT to write a whole bloody recap of book 1 for you, and I get you dont want to read book 1. I’ve dropped the major hints, and people just dont freaking read. (not anyone here, I’m just venting).
Idk I’m getting down about it. Feel like I should write a 2nd one just so people won’t criticise me. But I’m drowning writing one WIP, rewriting another for publishing, life in general. I just want to cry. I decided to write a sequel because I wanted to, some readers wanted one and a prompt sparked an idea.
I love ONC for the community feel, and the last 2 years I had some real fun, but it seems if you’re writing something where someone needs some prior knowledge, people don’t make it fun anymore.
breathe
okay vent over. Bac to finishing chapter 3 I guess!
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You write for you, first.
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Well, if you’re writing it for ONC, it makes sense that they expect it to be a standalone.
If you’re just writing it for yourself because you want to write a sequel, then ignore those comments.
For last year’s ONC I wrote a sequel to 2021 ONC. I tried to make it standalone enough but I think people didn’t take a chance on it because it was a sequel. It was a shame since it was possibly the strongest/most focused story I’ve written up to that point.
Oh well. Wattpad isn’t my target audience anyway. I’m still glad I wrote it even if hardly anyone read it.
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Wattpad rankings have been frozen for a few days. I keep waiting, hoping that posting every day actually does something.
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It works as a standalone but I’m putting in enough backstory so people will know the main points of book 1. But people aren’t reading the words properly and ignoring the backstory I’m putting in. So I keep getting people criticising.
I’m just done.
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