a rambly gush about my future novel ideas 

That is such a smart way to keep your story ideas together! A great way to get inspired when you're feeling low.

I love this idea! I used to save all of my 'shiny new ideas' on my old computer until it crashed and I lost every idea I had. Your story ideas are great!

Oh my god, I am so inspired with the whole jewellery from a murder weapon of a loved one

I NEED A SOUP MAGIC BOOK

Im a huge sucker for the classic hero’s actual journey- backpack on, heading off into the wide world to find the sorcerer/return the ring/save the world/whatever. I love me a journey!

I love seeing your story ideas!

I love this! Such an interesting way to talk about some of your ideas. I don’t have notecards for any of my ideas. I remember really struggling coming up with an idea for my PhD dissertation (wrote the script first, then the novel)-but I cycled through a bunch of ideas and even though I liked the themes/tropes, the ideas themselves weren’t working and I ended up using a script idea that I’d already been working on and thought I could adapt. And it turned out better than I hoped for! But I guess I don’t constantly have a ton of ideas unless I have some sort of deadline for the current project I’m working on! My YA fantasy short story, CALLER, was published in March 2020 in Prismatica Magazine and it’s a portal fantasy about a queer disabled teen and her wolf companion! I agree about animal companion stories. I always wanted to write about a disabled girl and her wolf companion. Tropes/themes I constantly go back to: enemies to lovers (I think this will end up in the YA horror I’m drafting!), parallel universes (tried to write about this for my PhD dissertation and it didn’t work), time travel in different ways (I have 2 pilots and a novella about this, but I love it), child gets stolen from birth parents, raised by antagonist, and grows up and has to save the world (wrote an Adult fantasy novella with a different take on this than what you described, queried it, got rejected, still love the story). For recurring themes/characters: sibling relationships, friendships, grief, and loss-somehow all these always show up! 🥰

Low Energy, Low Quality?! You got me super exciteeeed! I am now querying a Dystopian Queer novel (debut) and was so meh for some weeks and today I got this idea for a cosy fantasy/magic realism and our vibes are so matching. I do the cards too aha

I love this video! I don't know what it is, but I love hearing other writers talk about their WIPS and ideas. Maybe because dreaming is the most fun part of the process. There quite a few story ideas I want to work on in the future but to name a few: a space opera, an epic fantasy that revolves around dragons (more Eragon than Fourth Wing lmao); I'd also love to write a book that incorporates shonen tropes from anime I grew up on ie Naruto and HunterxHunter.

I love your system for pulling novels together, that's so smart. I just have brain dump documents on Google Docs lol Two ideas I recent decided I wanted to play around with are a sentient forest and theocracies!

I loved this video! I also keep ideas on notecards and I have a Word doc that goes on forever with randomly wild ideas. haha

You said about tea magic - have you read Becky Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild-Built? there's a tea-making monk there which has some great vibes (in fact, all her stuff is great and you should definitely check it out if you haven't already!). There's also the Tea Dragon graphic novels which are great, cosy reads. Love hearing all these ideas and seeing your process behind melding the cards together.

Dude, totally here for the 'darker ideas'! Love the postcard organization. I have a running list of ideas in the back of one of my notebooks, and if I have enough of a start to a certain concept, I just create a new Scrivener doc so that I can go back to it later. It's been working well for me so far. - I'd love to give Sci-Fi another go. I started one a long time ago involving genetic manipulation, complicated family dynamics and architectural hierarchies, but I got in over my head. - I'm also really into anything involving gods finding new ways to maintain their existence (or escape from it). My current WIP touches on this, but like, barely. - Ooh! And one day, I'd love to incorporate my music background into a paranormal/horror story that does NOT involve a band selling their souls to the devil to be famous. I think I could come up with something less obvious.

This is so much fun!

I can see one of your villain ideas with that big fantasy family saga you don’t have time to write. I have a page in Notion called To be written ideas and that’s where I dump all of my book ideas.

Love hearing your ideas! I need a pirate with tea magic. Salt water tea!!!

Side note - I Love this concept of using note cards to organize/keep track of your ideas. I’d love to see more- a video of how you use it/how you organize/ how you record them? Whatever you feel inclined to share would be welcome! (I am SO nosy and fascinated with people’s systems for things 😂🤷🏻‍♀️)

This video was so oddly comforting.☺️ I can't figure out why or how. But I wanted to leave a comment and say thank you!

I have a witchy YA Romeo & Juliet retelling finished! I can't share much about it but there are Fae, Witches, Werewolves, DRAGONS! So, excited to revise it. I'm also very interested in cemeteries, and have some ideas about that. I have so many ideas, I think I should do something similar to you, and keep them in a box with cards. Maybe an old library catalog box!

Love the ideas, the dark ones always appeal to me too!!

I love the idea of using notecards to separate the ideas into categories. Right now I just have a page on my notion and it is just a jumble of random thoughts haha.

For the waring magical families idea you should check out “All of Us Villains.”

I love the band of huntsmen idea! It’s kinda similar to a project I plan on working on in early 2024. 🫶🏻

Have you read Daindreth's Assassin? I just started it and it is similar to the bastard child turned assassin. The author posts shorts here on youtube so that's why I gave it a shot. I'm enjoying it so far.

Oh and you should def read Daisy Darker based on one of your ideas lol

Have you read the Throne of Glass series? Just based on some of these idea I feel like you should lol

I love love love the "appears weak but is secretly more powerful than the villain" trope that's common in anime and manga. It doubt it would be easy to execute well in writing though.