Partner Search
Helloooo. <3
Here I am. Again. At this point, searching for a long term writing partner has become less of a hobby and more of an annual migration pattern.
I promise I am nice.
I just want someone who also enjoys taking perfectly functional fictional people, handing them several avoidable problems, shaking the container vigorously, and seeing what happens.
I’m 21, UK based, and write anywhere from literate to novella depending on what is actually happening. Sometimes a scene needs 600 words. Sometimes somebody pauses halfway through making a cup of tea and apparently I need to submit a small dissertation explaining why. There is no in between. I love character focused, long term stories with actual plots. That's probably the biggest thing I'm looking for.
I don't want the entire story revolving around one single element or interaction. I want our characters to actually have lives. Jobs. Families. Friends. Responsibilities. Goals. Problems. Hobbies. Weird neighbours. That coworker they would happily launch directly into the sun. A mother who somehow always calls at the worst possible moment. A favourite takeaway where the staff already know their order. A car that's been making a concerning noise for three months that they keep choosing to ignore.
Give me LORE.
I want something where we start with a vague idea and six months later we're discussing the implications of an event neither of us had even invented when we started. I want plots that actually move. I want consequences. I want character development. I want stupid decisions. I want characters confidently announcing that they have everything under control approximately twelve seconds before everything becomes considerably less under control.
Most importantly, I want collaboration. Please throw ideas at me. If you suddenly message me at 11:47 p.m. with: WAIT I HAVE AN IDEA I am listening. If your idea is completely ridiculous? Even better. If it requires us to rewrite seventeen pieces of established lore and introduce somebody's estranged aunt who lives in Wisconsin?
GET THE AUNT.
Half the fun for me is plotting OOC and gradually building this ridiculous little fictional universe together. And I mean building it. I will make side characters. You will make side characters. Our side characters will accidentally become important. Some random neighbour called Dave who was created exclusively because we needed somebody to collect a parcel will somehow acquire a job, a divorce, two children, an ongoing dispute with the local council and his own subplot.
We will become emotionally invested in Dave. Nobody planned for Dave. This is how it happens. I want families with actual personalities and histories instead of conveniently spawning whenever the plot requires a parent. I want friendships. I want workplaces. I want recurring locations. I want inside jokes that make absolutely no sense anymore because they originated 200 replies ago. I want tiny details becoming important months later completely by accident. I want one of us to casually reference something that happened ages ago and the other immediately appear OOC screaming: YOU REMEMBERED THAT????
I also need you to understand something extremely important before contacting me. I use Pinterest irresponsibly. I will find houses. I will find apartments. I will find outfits. I will find restaurants. I will decide what their kitchen looks like. I will find the exact stupid little coffee cup sitting beside their sink. Nobody asked me to do this. It will happen anyway. At some point I will send you a board containing 184 images and say something incredibly helpful like: "okay hear me out" There will be no further explanation. You will simply have to enter the enclosure and observe.
As far as characters go, my main OC will always be a woman (sometimes i play male characters, but I'm more picky), but you can bring whoever you enjoy writing. I genuinely love hearing about people's OCs, especially the ones you've been carrying around in your brain for an unreasonable amount of time waiting for somewhere to use them.
I'm also completely happy chatting OOC. You don't need to disappear into the mist between replies unless that's your preference. Send me memes. Send me plot thoughts. Send me a picture and say "this is literally them." Send me a completely incomprehensible message about something our characters did three months ago. I will probably understand.
Basically, I want a long term writing partner who wants to create something big, messy, detailed, funny, occasionally painful, and actually alive. Not one repetitive storyline. Not characters existing in a vacuum. I want a whole stupid universe. A plot with other plots hiding inside it. Characters who change. Side characters who refuse to stay side characters. Running jokes. Callbacks. Bad decisions. Unexpected consequences. Entire conversations OOC beginning with "technically..." and ending with us completely restructuring the next month of writing.
If that sounds like your particular flavour of nonsense, please come say hi. Bring me your characters. Bring me your ideas. Bring me the deranged Google Doc. Bring me the plot you've restarted four times because nobody has ever quite matched your energy. Bring me the Pinterest board you should probably be embarrassed about but absolutely aren't.
I promise I'm nice.
I just want to put some fictional people in a little terrarium with you and study them for six months. <3