u/anotheraries1111

Anyone else over the moon about the added texas shows???? I’ve seen Paris both times she came to NA because I lived close to DC but now that I’m in Texas I was distraught for a while. BUT NOW IM HAPPY AGAIN AHHHH and I’m probably going alone so if anyone wants to connect lmk 🥺

My husband (26m) and I (25f) have a 7yr old dog (T). We recently bought our first home and have decided that she needs a friend as she's getting older to keep her active and happy.

BEFORE we even started house hunting, I mentioned this to my mother who told me that my aunt no longer wants her 1 year old puppy (R) because "they do not have time" to take of her. I've seen R at my aunt's house, and she is kept strictly outside in a fenced-in area much too small for her very large breed. We live in a very hot state. R was very clingy and whiny while I was there, walking up and down the fence line because they just ignore her outside. I asked my husband, and we told my mother we would take R when we get a house.

My mother told my aunt, and less than a week later, my aunt bought a brand new dog.

This is the part where I feel like we might be the assholes, because my husband had never seen R and just kind of agreed, but after researching her breed and realizing just how large she was, admitted he didn't think she'd be a good fit for our home. If I'm being honest, the principle of this situation also made me and my husband not want to take R. We think it's terrible to "not have time" for a dog and then turn around and immediately get a new one, especially before we even took R. At this time we didn't even have a realtor yet to buy a house. But we did technically agree to take her, and then changed our minds.

Yesterday, my husband was searching through our city's shelter website and found R. It absolutely broke my heart and I started crying. Even though we had changed our minds, we agreed we are going to adopt her when they open. We now have a house that has a much bigger yard than we imagined and agreed her larger size actually might be good for T, who likes to play rough and usually has to hold herself back.

So are we the assholes for not taking her in the first place? I'm nervous about how my mother/aunt will react. My husband says no, because either way it was a lose/lose for R if she had to stay with my aunt, and this is the best outcome for her. I just feel like if we had never agreed to take her, my aunt would never have gotten a new dog, and R wouldn't be in the shelter. But maybe everything happens for a reason.

Hi! So I’m entered in a short story competition where we have 10 days to write and submit a short story including the given prompts. After receiving the prompts I’ve written two drafts of my story and it is a fantasy with inspiration taken from Heian era Japan. I’m hoping to find someone from Japan/connected to Japanese culture to read it (2k words) and give me feedback fairly quickly.

Or, if you have other resources for me to look for sensitivity readers I’d appreciate it. This is my first time sharing my work with the world and looking for a sensitivity reader so this was just the first place I thought of.

Thank you!

Sorry I'm dumb but I'm writing a short story, and the sentence is: "Only the Moon's waxing light could dare to break through the cloud cover, shining on Haruka as her bare feet padded across the wooden-shingled roof, her most prized possession in hand."

Should this be changed to "wood-shingled"? Thanks in advance

Hey, so I feel like most editing advice I see is catered towards those who overwrite and need to cut, but I have completely the opposite problem. I never write enough. Interiority is a big issue for me but I think I'm improving, and even still, I'm way under the mark.

I'm writing a high fantasy novel and shooting for somewhere around 100,000 which I think is pretty average/what I should be shooting for. I've written at least three drafts already and they're all no where near the goal. Right now in my newest rewrite, I'm almost finished with the "middle" and only at 27,000 words which should realistically be the word count for just the "beginning" if I want to hit 100,000 (27/55/27 or something like that.)

Anyways, I'm just looking for advice. Should I just keep writing and at the end, go back in and see what I can add, like maybe more scenes or more interiority? I don't want to add just for the sake of adding, but I feel like something is missing. I've been working on this story for four years now and maybe it's just not working. I'm very attached to it so I'm trying not to just give up but I'm struggling. Any advice is appreciated but please nothing hateful/sarcastic.