Red Reign (The Breakers).
Red Blizzard/ Red Frost.
Red Supremacy/Red Liberation/ Red Alliance.
Red Throne/Red Palace.
GAH! TOO MUCH RED!
NOTE: I think I know what I must do with these. No, these stories have zero in common, it just follows the red theme.
Hi.
I have to figure out my character. He was a supporting character in a series of books, but his story is a standalone for ONC.
Mitchell Galestorm is the MC in question. The only things I know about him is that he’s a drag queen, he has a brother, Jasper, who is seven years younger than him, and he was a minor, supporting character in Jasper’s story where he went to the evil witch’s castle in Jasper’s place.
Also thinking he might have protected Jasper from their parents’ divorce and deaths when they were younger.
So, at the end of the book, he runs away and says he can’t support Jasper any longer. It’s just too mentally hard for him. The series ends with Jasper going after Mitchell to talk.
What happens to Mitchell after running away is that he gets into a really bad place and gets involved with some horrible people. He even begins to think about taking the magical item from Jasper because he’s the oldest and has been after this item long before Jasper found out about it. When he wakes up with amnesia, one of the first things he remembers is his anger toward Jasper. The name triggers him.
But what else is he??? Since he’s a drag queen, hence performer, he’s a good talker? Or not necessarily the case? He’s cunning, I know that. He was able to fool the witch into thinking he knew where the magical item was and convinced her somehow that he had the power hidden inside of him.
Who is this Mitchell guy other than a troubled supporting character?
If you want an answer for “more than just a drag queen” it may be time to do a bit of quick reading on those who choose drag: the difference between their stage presence and their normal life.
One of the big things I see is that many
are not wholly drawn to modern culture, at least not at first, kind of a “back in my day” thing.
It reminds me of Eddie Izzard, how most of the older career was spent that “he is a man”, that drag dressing doesn’t automatically mean trans or gay. But fairly recently, she quit being so defiant on being wholly nonconformist to the assumed labels and accepted her own.
So part of it is going to depend on the spectrum they identify under and how much they want to be seen as more than the clothes they wear.
Personally, just being seen as the others I wear would upset me, but no clue on how others take that.
Throw some other colour in there, like blue or green, maybe even some primrose… 
SD
Have not put a single word down for a few weeks now… I’m not going to beat myself up about it, but I have put much thought into it, and within my mind it is being edited (in small moments I might add).
This is just how I do things… I think about stuff and edit in my head, then after a few days/weeks I write it in fast and often long periods to complete a few chapters before the further edits over a few days…
SD
I was able to get back into writing again.
So, I am happy with that.
I tried this today, some native speaking feature in Pages. The voice that reads can sound horrible for some words, but it was still really helpful. Helped me catch a few spots where I needed edits. Thanks for the idea!
I’m glad it did the trick, for you.
I want to, just have to make it quirky. LOL!
Goal! Glad to hear it!
SD
Thanks so much!
Fun read.
It’s a bit like a seasoning you hate: rosemary, cilantro, sugar in beans. You can tell when someone has cooked them well, but you loathe the flavor.
Seriously this is a good career path if you like making a lot of money and don’t mind the risks
The psychology one might be pretty interesting. Thanks 
One is how they advertise themselves, and the other is a bit more clinical, so it’s fairly different. Good luck.
Going to get a bit of writing done for a few minutes.
Then after that, I’ll figure something out later on whether I want to go back to writing or just relax for the night.
I might go to sleep early to get a proper sleep rather than staying up late like I am so used to.
Ate a hearty dinner which is making me a bit sleepy.
I feel the itis coming on! LOL!
ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
tweaked and re-uploaded two chapters of MB because i’m being lazy about writing the chapter I’m supposed to be writing.
Immediately after realized what I should have realized before, which is that to match the tweaking, the following two chapters now have to be trashed and completely re-written. Which… I don’t want to do rn, so I have a badly disjointed story up on my page.
But it’s fine because according to my stats nobody reads that far anyways 
So has anyone seen Michelle Schusterman’s latest, or for that matter, the LitHub article it’s responding to? ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
I agree with her (that is, Michelle Schusterman), and before she ever posted the video I read that article and fumed. After all the writer scandals through the years, why do writers and publishers still think it’s a good idea to bull their way into reader/reviewer spaces? And why are publishers now requiring writers to do so? ʕʘₒʘʔ
If I had an amazing skills when it comes to drawing, I would make a webtoon then call it Happiness within a can which about a young girl from a magical kingdom who found an odd can looking object that stole every once of happiness from her. In order to release her happiness that is sealed away in a can, she needs to confront the inner turmoil that she grossly overlooked which caused her happiness to get sealed in the first place.
“Happiness in a can is what you make of it” is indeed true because the definition of what happiness is varies from person to person.
The girl is searching to regain her happiness back while facing the demons that lead her happiness to get stolen.
The real, million dollar question is this: What was her happiness like before and how much did she suffer?