Writerplurid

Our system has always loved stories and storytelling. Our first understanding of complex narratives as a child came from cartoon movies we watched as a child, but we quickly learned that creative writing was the most accessible way to tell stories like that, so we got into writing.

We wrote prolifically as a child, especially stories about wild animals that could talk amongst themselves but otherwise did not have speculative elements (akin to The Lion King). However, we also wrote fantasy and science fiction stories inspired by the ones we were reading at the time.

In the 2010s, we had an unremarkable but existent career publishing poems and short stories under the name J--- Conlee. The full name is redacted due to its association with our IRL persona, but if you were on 2010s Tumblr and followed Tumblr user thewordsmithy/postpunkwithnail, that was me, and you might remember my poems and stories and how I said "It's a major award!" every time I got one published.

Our other writings include fanfiction on AO3, namely a series called Red Supergiant that serves as a pre-canon Hitchhiker's Guide AU. While we now have some issues with what we wrote - namely issues that would have been solved had we not had to take an indefinite break from writing fic for that fandom and were thus more able to continue and rewrite the series - we are overall proud of it, especially since, even though it's very incomplete and was going to be rewritten and continued, the original draft is about the length of the original Hitchhiker's Guide novel itself and was written in less than a year.

While we don't currently publish fiction - even informal publishing on websites - we have plans to get back into sharing short stories, including kink writing and original fiction. Some of it might be published in online magazines like we did in the 2010s, and some of it will be hosted on Neocities sites that we will call "web books".

Different headmates have different roles where it comes to writing. Some of them do the actual writing, and some of them only contribute ideas. Some of them do editing work, and some of them do notemaking, with or without writing the actual story itself. We sometimes split alters of the characters that we write stories about, or sometimes we write stories about fictionalized versions of our headmates.

Even if we don't write that much currently, writing has definitely majorly affected our life in the past, and it also affects the functions of the system. Therefore, we collectively consider ourselves a writer.