Why Is the Witch Queen a B****? Motive Is Important (Short Answer)

ok is your evil witch queen in your faerie book just a bitch because she's the popular girl or what? b/c that's so fucking tired. girls can be popular w/o being bitches you know?

No, she’s not. Well, there are two popular girls who are antagonists. One of them is just mean for the sake of being a b**** but the other one is being forced into this position by her father. He’s incredibly abusive and views her only as a commodity to make him look good to the other adult witches because “my daughter did this,” “my daughter did that,” “my daughter has the entire school under her thrall and they fear her.”

She doesn’t really want to be this way. She’s under a lot of pressure to be in total control, to be perfect all the time, to be respected always and if possible feared by her peers, and she’s not allowed to really be a person because her father wants her to be a ruthless machine. And a big part of the story arc is how Alyssa, the MC, first is her enemy because she doesn’t know this stuff, but then helps her get away from it all and start over and she (my witch queen; her name is Lily) ends up moving into Alyssa’s house and they become friends and allies in the war to take down Lily’s dad, who’s the main antagonist.

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo is DEATH!

Okay, no it's not. But it was HARD, man! And as a Latter-Day Saint, I couldn't write on Sundays (oh, the humanity!), and I don't have time on Saturdays because those are my editing days with my critique partner. This eliminates 10 days (count them! TEN!) out of the 30 I had for NaNoWriMo.

And yet...I still managed to make it to 52,000 words! WOOT WOOT! Yeah!

Seriously, everybody, I encourage anyone who needs motivation to do NaNoWriMo. I work 40 hours a week, and November is one of those accursed holiday months, but I still managed to make my goal and stay motivated without getting discouraged. Except for the time when my husband deleted 2000 words off my document by accident. Then I broke down into hysterical sobbing for a good 20 minutes because it was 4 AM.

But aside from that, it was actually pretty awesome. Of course I had like, zero time for anything else (including my Booktube subscriptions - cue sad panda) but I definitely intend to do it against next year.

Anyway, it's December now, which makes it NaDeFiMo - National December Finishing Month! Because I've only ever written a 50,000 word manuscript once, and it was my first book, and I was 10. So yeah. I've got at least another 45,000 words to go. Wish me luck!

Laters!