Alexandria Francetic

It's been a while since I posted any updates, but I do have some good news to share~
          
          I am expanding my work to Honeyfeed, a new web novel site that focuses strongly around anime-inspired novels, which is very much my style of writing so it only made sense to expand my collection to this wonderful website~
          
          Honeyfeed has been a great site so far, I plan on using it along with Wattpad as a supplement to my writing collection from now on, I'm currently working on transferring my collection to Honeyfeed so if anyone is interested, please give it a look: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/u/25476/novels

New short story addition to the Dark Shards anthology! This is an old relic from my Fanfiction.net account dating back to 2016, back when I used to write fanfiction instead of prose fiction like I do now. This is an odd little experimental piece, a Pokemon and Madoka Magica crossover of all things, but I enjoyed rediscovering this piece and wanted to share it with you all here~
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1411096138-dark-shards-an-anthology-of-fear-and-wonder-short

Thought I'd throw out an update for the end of 2023 with an announcement for a new set of poetry added to the Dark Shards anthology! This is a collection of all the poems I have written in 2023 (including The Drowning Machine, which is contained in its own chapter). Happy reading~
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1347674958-dark-shards-an-anthology-of-fear-and-wonder-poetry
          
          I also wanted to let out a few things about future writing, because as of now it is kind of uncertain. Grad school has been kicking my butt this year, with each semester being mentally and emotionally exhausting, and not only have I not had as much time as I used to in order to write, I have also not been feeling the same level of passion and inspiration for creative writing that I used to. I find it physically and mentally taxing, and I just don't have the energy for the massive creative process of writing novels that I usually do. Throw several bouts of sickness and some really rough mental health struggles into the mix, and that results in no new novels for 2023. Basically, I don't know when or if I'll be writing any new novels anytime soon. In the meantime, I may continue to write poetry, short stories, and possibly rework older stories of mine to re-release. I do have a large body of work currently that I am very proud of, so there is still plenty of content for old and new readers alike. I hope to return in 2024 with more stories~

I usually don't use this space for life updates, but since a lot has changed recently it'd be a good idea to update folks about things going on right now, and what might be in store for the future of my writing.
          
          For starters, in December of 2022 I graduated with my Bachelor's degree, and last month I began my first semester into a graduate program. While I am glad to have my Bachelor's degree and be working on my Master's, being a grad student has been a bit more complicated and stressful. On top of all this, I have been looking into getting a part time job. All of these factors will significantly decrease the extra time I have for writing, so I would expect future stories to be much more sporadic from now on. I have also been on hiatus ever since finishing Requiem of the Villainess, and as of right now I have no more creative projects in mind. While this will change eventually as new inspiration and ideas come to me, there likely won't be anything new for a while, aside from occasional updates to the Dark Shards anthology. For me, making a new novel is a massive creative process that takes months of planning and writing, and I tend to need long breaks afterwards to recover. Coupled with all these new responsibilities, my creative writing is somewhat on the back burner. This does not at all mean I plan to stop writing- it's my passion and you'd have to pry the keyboard from my cold dead hands to make me quit, but I probably won't be as active as usual. Just something I wanted to talk about for folks to keep in mind~

I wrote a lot of poetry in 2022, and I wanted to share it with you all! I'm quite proud of many of the pieces I created, most of which were for my poetry workshop class, but I learned a lot and I enjoyed them nonetheless. I experimented with many different styles and played with several different themes, so if that's something that interests you, check out the poems of 2022 in Dark Shards: An Anthology of Fear and Wonder~
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1304827301-dark-shards-an-anthology-of-fear-and-wonder-poetry

My latest completed novel, Requiem of the Villainess, is now fully released and ready for reading! This is my final novel of 2022, inspired by the very popular otome villainess isekai anime/manga, which is a genre I have fallen in love with recently thanks to titles like "My Next Life as  a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom," "I'm the Villainess, so I'm Taming the Final Boss," and "I'm in Love with the Villainess," which were all big inspirations to me while writing this story. I wanted to put a slightly darker twist on this very common genre, so I hope you all enjoy it~
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/329212772-requiem-of-the-villainess

I was looking for a fanfic and instead I found one of your stories. I’m not going to lie to you, your work looks very interesting so I’m going to read it, in addition, in some synopses the names of your characters remind me of musicians of the visual kei scene! It all looks very interesting, rest assured that I will read your works ❤

I added a new short story to the Dark Shards anthology! Check out "The 11th Floor" in Dark Shards: An Anthology of Fear and Wonder~
          https://www.wattpad.com/1270936865-dark-shards-an-anthology-of-fear-and-wonder-short

I finally worked up my courage and submitted my most recent novel, Poison Princess, to the 2022 Wattys! I've never done this before but I'm very excited to see how things will go, even if I don't win anything it'll at least be a chance to get my work out there better~
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/308678991-poison-princess

A brand new original short story has been added to the Dark Shards anthology! 
          I haven't written a short story in ages and I was in a mood to write some vampire yuri content connected to the vampiric mythos of my universe, so if that sounds interesting to you, check out "Dead Flowers" in Dark Shards: An Anthology of Fear and Wonder~
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1258052798-dark-shards-an-anthology-of-fear-and-wonder-short