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1. Introduce your apprentice! Just their name, personality, appearance, and likes/dislikes for now! If you have pictures of them, post them today!
2. Who is their LI? What’s their relationship like?
3. Give a short summary of their relationship to the other main characters!
4. What about the couriers? Have they met them? What do they think of them?
5. Do they have any other friends outside of canon? What about the minor characters? 
6. Now, do they have any rivals? Maybe even a WORST ENEMY!? Spill the deets now!
7. Second week! Let’s go back to their physical description, but go even deeper! Do they have tattoos, piercings, scars, etc? What sort of clothes do they like?
8. Now let’s give their familiar the spotlight! Tell us all about them!
9. Do they have a patron arcana? Who is it? What’s their relationship like?
10. What is their relationship to the other arcana like?
11. Do they have a gateway? What does it look like? If they don’t have one, describe their ideal spot instead.
12. What does their home look like? Their room?
13. Can they cook? What’s their favorite meal?
14. What does their magic look/feel like?
15. What are they proudest of?
16. What’s their deepest insecurity?
17. Do they have any family, living or non living? List their family tree!
18. What were they like as a child?
19. If your mc fights, what is their fighting style? If they don’t, why not?
20. Remember the Valentines Day event where you could pick between 3 gifts to give the LI? What 3 gifts would you write for your mc?
21. Now what kind of gifts are they most likely to give?
22. What does your mc do to show their love?
23. What parts of Vesuvia is your mc most likely to be at?
24. Does your mc like parties, festivals, and masquerades? What do they do at them?
25. What’s your favorite thing about your mc?
26. How has your mc changed since you first made them?
27. Has your mc ever KILLED anybody? What are their thoughts on MURDER?
28. Are they afraid to die?
29. What is a fact about your mc others would never guess?
30. Is there anything else you’d like us to know?
31. Name another mc you read about and enjoyed! Shout out your favorite mc!

1. ✏️ typing BEFORE i know what happens i used to think i had to outline everything before writing. wrong. i get more done when i let the scene surprise me. just start with vibes and a line of dialogue. the rest shows up once you start moving.
2. 🗣️ saying the scene out loud like a play no joke. talking my scenes out like a script?? life-changing. the pacing, the emotion, the rhythm of it all makes more sense when i act like i’m gossiping about my blorbos in a voice memo.
3. ⌛ 20-minute timers (not for productivity, just to start) i tell myself “just 20 minutes.” sometimes i stop. sometimes i blink and it’s 2 hours later and someone’s been emotionally eviscerated in chapter 12. this one’s black magic. use wisely.
4. 🕯️ re-reading my WIP like a book no editing, no judging, just reading through with snacks like it’s already published. changes how i see the pacing and emotional arcs. also reminds me it doesn’t completely suck.
5. 🧂 leaving in the messy parts i used to delete scenes that felt “off.” now i just write a little comment like “THIS IS BAD BUT KEEP GOING.” turns out momentum matters more than vibes. shocking, i know.

“There’s a corner of my heart that is yours. And I don’t mean for now, or until I’ve found somebody else, I mean forever. I mean to say that whether I fall in love a thousand times over or once or never again, there’ll always be a small quiet place in my heart that belongs only to you.”