Of A King (OAK) (discontinued for now)

[safe egret]

gotta pack that slowburn into 50 words

[spiral oar]

English Teachers everywhere will never hear about it

[spiral oar]

The slowest burn

All 49 words to get to the love

[safe egret]

that sounds more like a fast burn

lighting burn

[spiral oar]

Flash fire

[safe egret]

[spiral oar]

I’ll study how to give my characters the runaround some more

See if I can dig up any insight

At least this back half of OAK should take some good words

And maybe surpass SiTS before editing

OAK has some really fun characters to write

So much scheming

And betrayin

And lesbiabin

And murderin

[safe egret]

wait what

l-l-l-l---l-l-l-l-l-l--l-lesbiabin?

lesbin!

[spiral oar]

Lebin

There’s one and a half lesbians

Fun dynamic

[safe egret]

why one and half

what happened to the other half

[spiral oar]

The other half:

(Epsilon is the half)

[safe egret]

i can see that

hmmm

lesbian hesitates.....

lesbian should just lesbian

instead of worrying about progress or usefulness

just chill

and be lesbian

[spiral oar]

You’ll understand

[safe egret]

okay

[restive pelican]

Thanks for free writing prompt Channeled my inner high schooler for this
The rhymes aren't perfect but I tried my best

The lowly beasts and rocks upon this earth
But beck'ning is the void sea undeserved
As calculations fail to prove their worth

A sliver set against the moonlight's grace
Weaves to and fro among the fields of grain
Through time they wither, trampled and defaced
Now dreams lost to the blessing of the rain

A pearl's luster dimmed by fingers closed
The last remaining of a precious few
Nostalgic pictures of the past unfold
A grieving soul clings to what it once knew

When time itself has sunken to the void
My hand in yours, our spirits overjoyed```

I can't believe I wrote this instead of ACTS

[safe egret]

[spiral oar]

Drymm wrote the silvermoon sonnet first

Fic cancelled

[safe egret]

[safe egret]

Great you wrote manhattan for ne

Me

[spiral oar]

Fic cancelled

[signal goblet]

[safe egret]

[narrow cave]

Is this lesbiabs?

In my wholesome scav fic?

[spiral oar]

There’s two lesbiab passages in this chat now

[narrow cave]

Unacceptable

The minimum is three

Remedy immediately

[plucky wolf]

“There were two lesbians. They kissed. The end.”

Fixed for you!

[spiral oar]

On it

[narrow cave]

Fan content, unofficial, doesn’t count

Tree must make three to comply with the law

[plucky wolf]

Unraveling is fan content of the original drafts, unofficial, doesn’t count. It will never be written. /j

[narrow cave]

Shame

[spiral oar]

Shame

[safe egret]

Shame

[small cloud]

bump

[spiral oar]

[narrow cave]

How’s this comin along

[spiral oar]

Like a dog I’m dragging to the vet

Which is to say, Tree still struggles with writing the middle parts of stories

The ending is going to be absolutely explosive but like

It’s a while out and I’ve not much time left

[narrow cave]

Hmmm

I’d be happy to run through the outline with you if you like

Middles are hard

Pacing

[spiral oar]

Tree about to drop the hard cut

At least I made some progress on the oneshots I’ve been writing since the Stone Age

[narrow cave]

Oneshots 👀

[spiral oar]

The HFISH spinoff is nearly there

It’s only been like 7 months at this point

Tree still writes very very slowly

[narrow cave]

It’s real??

[spiral oar]

2k words so far too

Tree still makes things very very short

[narrow cave]

2k isn’t short

[spiral oar]

I’ve been writing this intermittently for months

Anyway, just a couple more scenes and that will be finished

[narrow cave]

The prophecy….

[spiral oar]

[muted panther]

Wow, that's just like me writing my april fools story (oh god oh fuck)

[spiral oar]

May fools day

[muted panther]

April month special

[restive pelican]

It's me, I'm the May fool

[spiral oar]

Is there a different fool for every month?

[low gate]

some of us are gifted enough to be a fool every month

[spiral oar]

How do I learn this power?

[low gate]

sorry man, my stupid is a natural talent not a learned skill... you either have it or you don't

[spiral oar]

[spiral oar]

2000 words

I know how Soul feels now

Except that all the words were Essay

[spiral oar]

Tree will totally write over the weekend

Surely

[restive pelican]

ACTS-OAK solidarity: "surely I'll get to it"

[muted panther]

"Procrastination" and "writing" go hand in hand

[spiral oar]

[deft arch]

ACTS and OAK?

[spiral oar]

Anti-bump ()

[hazy bane]

Counter-bump

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/867638200461033483/1358251644256653463/Watcherwatchingyou.gif

[deft arch]

Watching the Watcher bump

[spiral oar]

Counter bump again

[hazy bane]

Does this mean it's an anti bump again?

[spiral oar]

[spiral oar]

Tree bump

I promise I’ll start writing after finals

I swear guys

[cursive ruin]

[spiral oar]

[spiral oar]

Woe, first chapter be upon ye https://docs.google.com/document/d/12vE3rue1pi-MRmoqd1QuFgspgr7nJP5xxFUKA1fvQ9o/edit?usp=drivesdk

To distract from my crippling laziness

[cursive ruin]

slogchamp?

[spiral oar]

I just realized that’s the unedited version of chapter one

I promise my fics get good on the third draft

[vocal sequoia]

guess I'll wait for the whole story doc like SitS back then

[vocal sequoia]

Universal truth /hj

[cursive ruin]

I think it's pretty good actually

[spiral oar]

Just wait until you see the edited one

(In 4 weeks)

[spiral oar]

It’s okay editing is my favorite part

It’s like a little puzzle

And I anhilate half of the already paltry word count

[narrow cave]

does this have the first wave edits?

[spiral oar]

Not even those

It’s just the sampler chapter

[narrow cave]

the teaser

[spiral oar]

[spiral oar]

Me, writing any first draft

[muted panther]

you just didn't start appreciating it enough yet

[cursive ruin]

Writing first drafts? couldn't be me

Sounds like a skill issue

[hazy bane]

First draft? Normally that's called the final draft

[spiral oar]

It really is

But it’s much easier to progress when I’m not worried about things being good

[cursive ruin]

[narrow cave]

this is what holds me up v_v

and my standards have risen since I started writing, I think... I kinda cringe at my earlier chapters

[spiral oar]

you must become one with the abysmal dogshit

[narrow cave]

hfish is abysmal dogshit, confirms tree /j

[restive pelican]

Me when I'm getting hit with it

[spiral oar]

I wrote one sentence

Praise my success

[safe egret]

[hazy bane]

priase be your success

[hexed hornet]

[spiral oar]

Live footage of OAK progress

@safe egret

[muted panther]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[safe egret]

WHAT THE

NOOOOOOOOOO

I HAT EThiSYURI

THIS YURI SUCKS

[spiral oar]

[muted panther]

signalis

[safe egret]

[signal goblet]

Signalis is fire

Does this fic have a released chapter yet?

Haven't read it yet

[spiral oar]

No

It is merely a figment of my imagination

[bronze obsidian]

YESSSS

DEATH TO ARTIFICER

AHAHAHAHAHA

now I can read live

[spiral oar]

Oh you read the sample chapter one?

[bronze obsidian]

no

WHERE

GIVE

This?

oh I

thought this was new

this is months old

[spiral oar]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14e9izq30tFw1NJ5e88VCJCcDg8YviPgx4Lvsz2775R8/edit?usp=drivesdk

[bronze obsidian]

woah

dark mode..

[spiral oar]

I don’t think this is the proofread one

[bronze obsidian]

[glad otter]

Looks like a cool fic, and I'm always down for inspiration on how to write my own scav pov

[spiral oar]

Chat the motivation is returning

My post college slump is over

[bronze obsidian]

[vocal sequoia]

🥤 can I have some of the wroter juice?

[bronze obsidian]

LTTM:

[spiral oar]

I think it’s about getting back into the rhythm slowly

Just go punch out some edits or a quick couple sentences

And build from there

[vocal sequoia]

Maybe I have to lose that expectation that I have to write a lot at a time and to accept that writing a few sentences can be enough...

[bronze obsidian]

It's about building yourself a really tall wall of expectations and then exploding 5000 words the moment you figure out how to reach those expectations

don't do this

[spiral oar]

I think just opening the doc and looking at it for a time helps too

Even if you’re not even writing anything

Just re-reading and absorbing what’s there helps prime you

[bronze obsidian]

tree... broke core tenant of writing in casual dialogue. my vision is shattered.

used same word... twice...

I can never see you the same way

[spiral oar]

I have sinned

[bronze obsidian]

[spiral oar]

For there is no second draft in casual conversation

[bronze obsidian]

New supervillain plot. Writer tries to make a "second draft" of the world.

[spiral oar]

The words we release are what exist in our minds forevermore

I have been reckless

[bronze obsidian]

not my mind :slugunwoke:

[spiral oar]

[hazy bane]

Thankfully the 1st draft always ends up as the final one

[bronze obsidian]

true...

zoomer triangle???

[spiral oar]

God, sending Noah’s flood

[bronze obsidian]

ty for zoomer triangle pochs

[hazy bane]

Bill

[vocal sequoia]

Just use the frist triangle I found lmao

[hazy bane]

I think that was the target reference? Was it?

[bronze obsidian]

cursed with bill nye the science guy theme

[spiral oar]

Illuminati

[bronze obsidian]

ngl I thought the illuminati was literally a made up evil shape for a while

invented specifically by conspiracy theorists

[spiral oar]

My favorite 18th century democracy society and something people are very normal about

[small cloud]

bump

[spiral oar]

Hear ye hear ye

Tree comes bearing dread news

On account of tree having three ( ) jobs now, my indolence, and the increasing complexity of this project, OaK will be delayed until late July

I sincerely apologize to anyone who was looking forward to the release this month

[muted panther]

Three jobs?

[glad otter]

I quite honestly didn't know it was going to release this month. I can wait an extra month or two

But at the same time, 3 jobs? Man, good luck.

[narrow cave]

A busy tree…

[restive pelican]

You could say that he is quite industree-ous

(Shot)

[narrow cave]

[spiral oar]

[small cloud]

should i bump this yet

i dunno

[spiral oar]

Shhhh this forum is a secret

[bronze obsidian]

[spiral oar]

Such noise in my forum

Could you keep it down please?

[bronze obsidian]

Oag I can’t tell if you’re serious or silly bc of the barrag sorry tr—💥

[spiral oar]

[bronze obsidian]

Woah. 6 days since last comment. Cannot let it fall on the seventh. Glory to tr—💥

[spiral oar]

Glory to Tr-💥

[signal goblet]

Glory to the oak

When is the sequel birch coming out?

[small cloud]

bump...

[spiral oar]

Progress is progressing

Tree has been using a new strategy for being productive

[small cloud]

bump

[small cloud]

bump2

[spiral oar]

Tree has not been progressing

[small cloud]

oh this hasn't been bumped in quite a bit

[spiral oar]

Rewrite hell

[hexed hornet]

real

[plucky wolf]

One must imagine Stories happy.

[spiral oar]

[spiral oar]

When you read your own work and remember that you’re not actually unequivocally terrible

[hazy bane]

dont you have a job that has to do with writing?

[spiral oar]

I do

[spiral oar]

This is what I'm doing instead of writing OAK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UF-TFnfstWwQzhhqFZFZhDHuJSKYNwo48zPQNeKQllQ/edit?tab=t.0

[muted panther]

I'm glad i am about to go to sleep so that i can forget what i've just read /lh

Also @restive pelican

[spiral oar]

[restive pelican]

I helped make this monstrosity real

[restive pelican]

@spiral oar I think I need to wash out my eyes with mountain dew now

[spiral oar]

I’ll have it finished in a couple hours I hope

[muted panther]

No no don't finish it i think the world would be better off without this /j /silly

[spiral oar]

I need to add gags about Hunter and Five Pebbles’ shared cancermaxxing and Monk having a mental breakdown about a lifted Dodge Ram pickup truck

🛻

[restive pelican]

Tree using his field knowledge

[spiral oar]

I’m channeling my experiences

My writing desk looks out over my neighbors driveway and I have to look at his lifted Chevy Silverado 2500 every single day

It’s an absolute abomination

[spiral oar]

God it’s only getting worse the more I write it

[muted panther]

Stop while you can

[spiral oar]

I was supposed to go play hockey, but I was so lost that I didn’t even notice that I missed it until now

[restive pelican]

How will you even tell them

[spiral oar]

I needed to write my looksmaxxing robot’s homoromantic subtext in just the right way guys

[spiral oar]

Alright it’s done

Took me a little longer than 4 hrs

This has to count as a writing crime

Anyway I’m going to post it so that I can inflict it on everyone

Kinda got dark at the end though

[spiral oar]

kicking my feel in the air gleefully waiting for chat to observe my sins

[wind helm]

No way

Looks hype imma read this rq

[spiral oar]

its on ao3

check #stories-library★

[wind helm]

I can’t finish that

This paragraph is worthy of jail time

[spiral oar]

dammit

[wind helm]

After great pain

I will finish it

[spiral oar]

[spiral oar]

he did not, in fact, finish it

[restive pelican]

DO I WANT TO??????

[plucky wolf]

It's the best thing we can get for Tree writing, these days. /j

This is golden, by the way.

||Are you sure, Pebbs?||

[spiral oar]

[spiral oar]

It was way too fun writing that dynamic

[restive pelican]

||Asgore driving meme except there's nothing on the road, it's all in the car||

||Never mind I just read further ||

[spiral oar]

||nah the thing on the road is the poor poor green lizard that got its ass kicked three times for no reason ||

[spiral oar]

Drymm hasn’t read the ending yet

[restive pelican]

I DID NOW

[spiral oar]

Wheeze

Help

[restive pelican]

Wait why isn't it kudos-able

Oh because I'm co-author

[spiral oar]

Probably because you’re an an author

Yeah

Oh well

[restive pelican]

It's too gigachad for a kudos

[spiral oar]

https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-chad-gif-20773266

[restive pelican]

The only tag that matters

[spiral oar]

||They never knew that it didn’t have an IIHS safety rating||

[spiral oar]

Tagging this fic was so bizarre, so much random shit happens in every paragraph lmao

I love writing crack

[spiral oar]

Oh god Funky commented on it

Also, what does “mirin” mean?

[restive pelican]

The cooking ingredient?

[spiral oar]

Is that what it is?

I’m deciphering this

[plucky wolf]

Type of rice wine.

[plucky wolf]

Also, Narilamb.

We love our Yaoi in this corner of Stories.

[spiral oar]

Ah I see

I’m not familiar with Yaoi terminology it seems XD

[plucky wolf]

No, it's not a Yaoi term!

I think!

I'm just saying, NariLamb is, to me, a Yaoi ship.

NariLamb is the ship featured in the user's profile.

[spiral oar]

Ah I see

Does mirin mean that it’s like a spicy fic then?

[plucky wolf]

The honest answer is "I have no clue".

Didn't the internet use, like, citruses for that stuff?

I can also not decipher what Mirin actually means here.

[spiral oar]

Yeah lemon and stuff

I could just like ask them

[wind helm]

LIES

DECEIT

I finished it rn!!!

(As painful as it was)

[spiral oar]

[wind helm]

I’m ngl I didn’t think it was possible to write something that could reach out from the screen and strangle you

[spiral oar]

I put all my hate into it

[wind helm]

I appreciate you turning your hate into art

As much as it pains me to call it art

It’s like a well written eulogy

[spiral oar]

glad to see someone suffered as planned

[wind helm]

It’s a labor of love

I’m happy to see you writing again

[spiral oar]

I plan to start picking up my lethargic pace

[wind helm]

I will be greatly anticipating it.

[spiral oar]

So this was a lie

[hazy bane]

its not a lie if it was a plan but you didn't do it

[spiral oar]

Tree exists

It’s coming along

Ever so slowly

I’m channeling my car ad writing

I shall be making progress, I feel it in my bones

Tree schedule:

• writing for work
• writing for fun
• writing for fun (different kind)
• writing for work (different kind)
• writing for college clubs
• writing for college clubs (different kind)

[spiral oar]

After a lot of reflection the past couple days, I finally understand where I went wrong with this fic

Now there’s a couple substantial revisions that could solve this, or I could hang the towel and move on to Dark Waters (my next planned fic)

[restive pelican]

Or be like the rest of us and delay and delay and delay and delay and

[spiral oar]

But that’s what I’ve been doing

And I’ve delayed so long it threatens to disrupt my spreadsheets

My time tables that I’m very not autistic about

I do believe it would do me some good to either rewrite it, or just take notes and move on to the next one

My intuition tells me that I’ve honed in on the problem that’s been keeping me locked up, but my logic says that there’s no guarantee that the revised version will be any better

[restive pelican]

Moar

[spiral oar]

But the timetables Drymm!!!

I’ll have to reschedule everything

[muted panther]

Where is the ACTS

[spiral oar]

I eated it

[muted panther]

Spit it out

[spiral oar]

Hongry

[slow patrol]

wawa

[spiral oar]

A Wawa in my forum

Preposterous

[deft arch]

We like wawaing

[spiral oar]

So it seems

Also,

I bear dread news

I have decided to move on from writing OAK for the foreseeable future, and will instead start on my next project

Of A King (OAK) (discontinued for now)

[restive pelican]

The oak has fallen

Did it make a sound though

[deft arch]

A tree has fallen, the forest remembers

[hazy bane]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-falling-fast-gif-18043850

[spiral oar]

Not fallen, just sorta left abandoned for a time while I write my next fic XD

But chat: I invite you to consider next fic

Rivulet-Rot horror story

[slow patrol]

FUCK YEAH

[deft arch]

Interesting

👀

[spiral oar]

I have learned the other real reason why OAK failed

[muted panther]

[spiral oar]

Infectious mononucleosis

Again

[muted panther]

[spiral oar]

[deft arch]

Wh

What does that mean

[hazy bane]

Means Tree got sick, and lost motivation

[deft arch]