Hi, I'm WanderlustandFreedom, previously called Depressed Death.

I’m currently partnering with xez2003, who is amazing and fabulous. She was my beta-reader for "Her Royal Highness."

I also have an ongoing collaboration with Harry Potter Fan 1994

As Of April 23, 2020, I will be significantly less active on this site. Reason being is that I have begun writing a novel and that will be where most of my creative energy is devoted.

"We have such a wonderful future ahead of us; why waste any time?"

I'm going to be taking all of my current one-shots and putting them together into a separate story for you guys to find easier. The individual stories will remain up for the readers who have already followed or favorited them to find them easier. New one-shots will be added periodically(I have a couple in the works).

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Language is a form of magic, and conversation is a spell.

Spoilers coming soon!

“I’ll be okay. Who is she?”

“My girlfriend?”

“No, your sister.”

He laughed in her head. He sounded cheerful. It took the hurt away.

“Her name is Audrey.”

Audrey, Audrey, Audrey. She searched through her memory but had no memory of anyone named Audrey.

“I don’t know anyone named Audrey. First Jane and now Audrey.”

“Well, it’s not a common name, but – you haven’t heard of Audrey?”

“Should I have?”

“No, I suppose not. Anyway, Auradon is a big place you know.”

“But the Isle is small. I should know them.”

A proverbial mist dropped in her head. All his amused emotions were wiped from her system and replaced by a blank, unsettling feeling.

“The Isle?” He whispered. “As in: the Isle of the Lost?”

Mal got an extremely bad feeling. “Yes?”

If he’d been standing in front of her, she got the impression he’d have been digging his nails into his hands and struggling to speak.

“Who is your parent?” he rasped out.

Mal pursed her lips. She was pretty sure she was Maleficent’s only kid. What was the chance he’d know her? And if he did, what were the chances that he would blab to Maleficent that he was her daughter’s soulmate? But something was telling Mal that she’d misjudged his location, and that he wouldn’t encounter her mother - and tell her Mal’s greatest secret - anytime soon. She swallowed.

“My mom. She’s Maleficent.”

A different sort of ice cold ran through her veins. Fear. Real and true fear from his side of the connection.

“What?” she demanded. “What’s wrong?”

“I - don’t live on the Isle. I live in Auradon.”

Mal felt her throat close up. Oh. Oh.

Thanks for reading my stuff!!!

Out of the goodness of my heart, I have placed a guide to leaving good, helpful reviews here:

Good Reviews:

1.) Good reviews cite things from the story, such as "hey you said _ and it's actually like _ in Canon."

2.) Better Reviews help me improve the way I present my material. Such as "This doesn't make much sense or flow right. Maybe try this?"

3.) Awesome Reviews are those that don't Baby the Authors. If I'm doing something wrong, I need to be told. Even if it's a slap to the face to me. "Hey, you did this wrong here, here, and here. The entire plot is jumbled together and you need to fix it. Your characters are horribly developed and aren't like Canon at all. Fix them."

Bad Reviews:

1.) Okay Reviews consist of "Hey, this was great. You did awesome." Or "Good job." There is no information for me to work off of! Nothing to improve!!!

2.) Bad Reviews consist of. "I didn't really like this. The whole thing was just dry and I didn't like how you had the ships or your plot. It's all dumb." FanFictions won't be for everyone. If you don't like a ship or the main storyline plot (something typically warned about in summary) Please don't read it. I need advice on my writing, not which ship you do or don't approve of in a review.

3.) Awful, Horrific, Terrible Reviews typically say"You're an awful writer with dumb ideas and no Place on this website." They don't tell u what you did wrong or why they are so pissed off. These are the Real Flamers.

Interesting Author Tips:

The Importance of Fonts: For my rough-draft work, I pick a large, unique font and write the baseline story in that. This is called my WorkFont. My WorkFont for my upcoming 700 pg story is 16pt light grey Calibri with normal page margins. My Workfont for my smaller, 70pg Miraculous fic is black 9pt Dubai with Narrow Margins. The specific WorkFonts help when I'm switching in between stories. I've trained my head to recognize which story I'm writing based on the font, so I don't accidentally start typing elsewhere and mix myself up. When I begin editing, I switch to an EditFont, usually something I really hate so that I'm automatically more critical of my work. Then, when I'm done editing, I format into a style that makes uploading that much more convenient. For FF. net, I switch to Verdana 9pt black font, which is what stories are published on on here. Et Viola!

Editing Order: When you're editing a piece, if you're like me, you may find yourself getting so incredibly pumped about what's happening that you may forget you're supposed to be, well, editing. Solution? Read it backwards, paragraph by paragraph. It messes up the order your brain had already established for the story and makes you focus. Ta-Da!

Comma Laws: (The explaining sentences will be examples)

1.)A short sentence needs no comma. See?

2.)If a sentence has two thoughts, then you need one comma. This sentence has two parts, so there's a comma.

3.) Let's say you have a sentence with two parts and an 'and' in it. Then you don't need a comma and the 'and' will suffice as a conjunction. The same rule works for 'but' and 'or'. This is because both a conjunction and comma can suffice as a connector.

4.)If you have a series, a list, directions, a checklist, or something similar, then you need commas to separate all of your points. Do you see how that sentence has multiple points, steps, and pieces?

5.) You can use commas to make an interjection, which is where you add additional information, by using two commas to block around the extra details. Comma interjections can be made with other punctuation marks, such as hyphens(-), instead.

6.)Hey, let's say you have an introductory word. So, you would separate that word with a comma. Yes, it has to be at the beginning of a sentence.

7.)On December 4th, 2019, I told you that you can use commas when typing dates.

8.)If I'm turning a statement into a question, what do I do? It's best to use a comma, isn't it?

(Nine and ten are super hard and most Native English Writers don't know what they're doing with them so ask for clarification if you need.)

9.)The Oxford comma, which is used in America, Britain, and other places, is an optional comma that comes after 'and'. Remember how I said earlier in point 3 that if you have an 'and', 'or', or 'but' you don't need a comma? It's technically not grammatically correct, but many people use it to avoid confusion.

10.)"My sentence has dialogue, so I'll end it with a comma," Suzzie declared, crossing her arms.

"It depends," I hummed, tapping my foot. "If your dialogue comes after your verb(in this case, hummed), then you can end it with a period."

"Oh, that's right." Suzzie nodded her head. "And if your verb isn't describing what your voice is doing, then you can use a period again, right?"

"That's right. You don't need commas if your dialogue tag is describing body language, but it's not incorrect to use them anyways. You can also use periods in dialogue that comes before your voice-describer if another sentence comes after it," I told her.

"What if I need to use a question or an exclamation mark?" Suzzie asked, biting her lip nervously.

"That's perfectly fine!" I exclaimed. "The question mark or exclamation mark will take the place of the comma without causing the sentence to end like a period would."

"I'm confused." Suzzie furrowed her brow. "Why does it matter?"

"Because a period ends a sentence no matter what. See? That sentence is done. If you use a period before 'he said', then 'he said' is its own sentence, and it doesn't make sense on its own. Technically, all of the dialogue inside of your quotation marks should act 'grammatically' as if it is one total sentence with the dialogue tag - even if there are periods in between it. You just need to end the last sentence with a comma so the dialogue tag doesn't become an incomplete thought," I tried to explain, knowing it was a very hard concept to grasp. "and if your dialogue tag breaks your thought, then you end the tag with a comma and start the following sentence without capitalization."

"My head is spinning," Suzzie complained, "and I think I need a nap now."

"That's understandable." I felt pretty bad to dump this all on her.

"Wait! One more thing!" Suzzie called. "What if I don't include a dialogue tag or a describer?"

"Then just end with a period."

"Is that all?"

"Pretty much."

An opinion of Fanfiction.net:

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