hii!! thank you so much!!🩷 okay so speaking of writing, i definitely don't consider myself some amazing writer or anything now, but i guess i can share some advice 😭 and hopefully i'll write my own book someday lol..

i've been writing for quite a long time now (although with breaks) so i think one of the biggest things is just writing consistently. writing is a skill just like any other and honestly, sometimes i can look at something i wrote like 3-4 years ago compared to what i write now and actually see the improvement. janitor was actually such a nice discovery for me because i was like.. wait i can enjoy my hobby, improve my writing a little, AND people can actually interact with the things i create, wow.. so yeaa i think consistent practice is really important. one of the rules is that quantity eventually turns into quality. your first few thousand words will almost always be not really good and that's completely okay!

alsoo i think reading helps improve your writing a lot! like, if you really like the style of a certain writer/author/creator whatever you start paying attention while reading to how they structure their sentences, how they write dialogue, how they build tension, how they end chapters etc etc. personally, i think it's good to read books in the genre you want to write in, but also just good literature in general, like classics. classics helped me expand my vocabulary in my native language at least and i've only recently started reading literature in english, but even that helps me understand how narration works in english, both in fanfiction and in actual literature

getting feedback is also really important. i had a couple of close friends who read my shitty writing when i was just starting out but not in a "omg everything you write is amazing" way. i actually asked them for constructive criticism. and i think it's important to ask people who understand at least a little bit about writing, and they don't necessarily have to be your friends. it just happened that my friends were also book nerds lol. i went through that stage where criticism would hurt my feelings at first but eventually i started noticing my weak points because of it. and honestly i think i'm still improving at this and i'm definitely nowhere near perfect

it's also important to remember that almost nobody writes something amazing right away. a normal process is basically draft, take a break.. edits, edits, edits!! another edits lol. and you really shouldn't compare your drafts to finished books by famous authors or to fanfics by authors you love. so basically: write > read > get feedback > edit > write again. the biggest improvement usually comes after you've accumulated enough writing. and btw you don't have to write something huge either. sometimes you can practice with little scenes

as for the images if you're talking about bot cards, it's basically trial and error. i try new combinations of codes every time and also make my own ones besides the existing ones, because i know exactly what kind of style i like and what i want. although midjourney genuinely pisses me off sometimes because pretty faces often refuse to generate properly on the first try 😭 so yea it's really just trial and error. sometimes it gives you something amazing on the first try and sometimes i'm sitting there doing it for a week (not literally 24/7 ofc lol) trying to create exactly what i have in my head, and then i still edit some things in photoshop afterwards. i usually don't use references directly in mj. i can usually picture roughly what i want in my head and then just write a detailed prompt. but if you mean generating images in gemini like realistic gens then i use references pretty often, usually stuff i find on pinterest

sorry for writing so much i got carried away lol! i hope my rambling helps at least a little 🩷

hii scarlett!! thank you soooo so much for taking the time to write this to me!! genuinely, reading your message made me smile rn 🥺 and honestly, i don't think it's dramatic at all. i completely understand why you feel this way. i love my characters with all my heart and put so much care and time into creating them, so when someone tells me that a character has become dear to them and that they genuinely enjoy interacting with them, it makes me really happy!!

and please don't ever feel embarrassed for telling me something like this. i'm genuinely grateful that you trusted me enough to share it. knowing that my work can make someone feel even a little better during difficult moments honestly means a lot to me, and it gives me motivation to keep writing when this site is driving me absolutely insane sometimes lmaoo😭

and also! one more thing, i want you to know that i remember your comments hehe! 🩷 and they always managed to make me smile. it's honestly such a lovely feeling to recognize a familiar name and know that there's someone on the other side who is enjoying what i've created this much 🥺

and please, be gentle with yourself okay? i know life can get incredibly heavy sometimes so please don't forget to take care of yourself too. eat something yummy, get enough sleep and give yourself little breaks when you need them! and while i'm just a creator on the other side of a screen i'm genuinely happy if my characters can give you a little escape for a while or just take your mind off things. i'm really glad that you found romeo and i'm even more glad that he became something special to you. please keep taking care of yourself! sending you a warm hug!! 🩷💞

this is genuinely one of the sweetest things anyone could tell me, thank you sooo soo much! 🥹🩷 it really means more to me than i can properly put into words!!💌

as for future characters, i actually have quite a lot planned, although i’m not the fastest creator so all of it will probably be spread out over quite some time lmao. right now i’m finishing aiden, and later i’d really like to expand that series with a few more characters and introduce another law firm as well. i also really want to finally start working on two rival yakuza clans soon. i already have part of the lore and some ideas sitting in my notes so that’s another bigger series i’m slowly putting together

i think i’ll also finally finish the first hmm let’s call it chapter of the vitello family by writing silvio, who appeared in adriano’s bot. his story will basically open the door to several future characters connected to colombian and mexican cartels, so there’s quite a bit i want to build from there too

that’s mostly what i have planned when it comes to larger series similar to my previous one with vitello. besides that my notes are full of little concepts for standalone characters who might not belong to any bigger series at all and they definitely won’t all be limited to crime or dark romance. and also there a few side characters who have already appeared in existing bots that i’d love to give their own stories eventually, like konstantin from roman’s bot and elías from thiago’s bot

and please don’t apologize for writing a lot especially when it’s something this sweet, genuinely loved reading every bit of it. please take good care of yourself too 💌