Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9

@cometkins.bsky.social

Hi I'm a dinosaur. I'm 32 years old and a CO based artist and award winning author. Also I make the "Better Visuals" SDV Mods. He/Him. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇯🇵 Links: http://cometkins.carrd.co https://cometkins.com

My favorite hobby is writing sequels for books I foolishly said were standalones 🫣 My favorite part is def getting to spend more time with the characters and exploring more of their story. Least favorite part is battling the insecurity that it won't live up to the first book. Also the marketing.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · 5h ago

Have you written a sequel before? If you haven't, what's stopped you? If you have, what were your most and least favorite parts about doing it? #WritingPrompt

I've written two sequels (and technically a third which is like a sequel sequel lol) and in some ways they are easier, and in other ways they're harder. Easier because you know the story, world, and characters now. Harder because readers have ~expectations~ that are terrifying to fulfil!

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · 5h ago

Have you written a sequel before? If you haven't, what's stopped you? If you have, what were your most and least favorite parts about doing it? #WritingPrompt

Ive written stories since i was in grade K. During 5/6/7 i started a series called shifters written over the span of about 8 notebooks? It was going to be a trilogy but i only ended up getting about half way through the second book or just beginning the third (its been a very long time). However (1)

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · 5h ago

Have you written a sequel before? If you haven't, what's stopped you? If you have, what were your most and least favorite parts about doing it? #WritingPrompt

Although Fearless in Seir was originally intended to be standalone, I ended up writing The Prodigal Son as its sequel. The Good: - Fleshing out the characters' personalities - Building on the setting to bring life to it The Bad: - Recalling the background of each character to ensure consistency

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · 5h ago

Have you written a sequel before? If you haven't, what's stopped you? If you have, what were your most and least favorite parts about doing it? #WritingPrompt

Currently in the trenches of sequel writing and so far the best bits are: -delving deeper into relationships & world lore! -the satisfaction of closing the loop on character arcs Least favorite: -the persistent fear it won't live up to the first one -BOOK 1 LORE IS CANON NOW, NO TAKE BACKS 😫

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · 5h ago

Have you written a sequel before? If you haven't, what's stopped you? If you have, what were your most and least favorite parts about doing it? #WritingPrompt

The hardest part of sequel writing is that it's not like a singular kind of book It needs to work as a follow-up to Book 1, it needs to work as its own narrative, and it's got to lay the groundwork for the NEXT book or books I like going back to Mokosza but at some fucking cost

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · 5h ago

Have you written a sequel before? If you haven't, what's stopped you? If you have, what were your most and least favorite parts about doing it? #WritingPrompt

my gift for @cometkins.bsky.social for the upcoming release of his highly anticipated sequel, MAGUS! marriage is hard. fighting against the mad church destroying the country and corrupting its angels is hard. but fear not! there's now a fat, hairy, ragebaiting third wheel, and GOD I love him.

Drawing of 3 men. One, a sun angel with starlight freckles and a sword, holds his knife to the throat of a man sitting on a crate with his hands tied behind his back. The third, a sun priest, kneels on the floor, one hand on the bound man's knee, the other gently staying the angel's wrist as his hand drifts to the hilt of his sword. The bound man has black veins and pitch-black eyes. He also has a big belly securely encased in a leather jerkin, glory be to God. What a book.

Honestly, the entirety of Floroma is this. Saya accepts herself as a girl because no one else could or was willing to. She becomes the most empathetic of those around her and endangering herself because no one else has opened themselves up like she has.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · yesterday

What’s something your MC ended up having to do because nobody around them was willing to? #WritingPrompt

Tharaiyelagh learned to help Baleirithys rebuild Seyzharel because nobody else could do it. Akieryon volunteered himself as a decoy for Caspar. And then again later he led a rescue effort because no one else had the combination of knowledge and initiative to do it.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · yesterday

What’s something your MC ended up having to do because nobody around them was willing to? #WritingPrompt