Written Work:

Monika’s writing passion began at thirteen with fanfiction, developed into a creative writing minor at NYU, and became the source of her income. She always considers this a blessing, as she gets to do what she loves and call it “work.”

Genre: Romance

A God of War ponders the similarities between tea and love as he watches the object of his affection plan an invasion.

Genre: Thriller

An documentation of the terrifying psychological repercussions of “Winter”" in the most powerful empire of all, recorded by historian captured on a pirate ship.

Genre: Prose-Poetry

Broken hearts don’t happen often, fortunately, but they make us feel a lot. The best way to capitalize on the pain is to use it as creative inspiration.

Journalistic Articles:

Monika writes for Dir.bg— the biggest Bulgarian online media platform. Her articles range from video game reviews and informative articles to recommendation pieces and news.

An article detailing the coolest multiplayer PC games for people to play with their significant other during lock-down!

An informative piece explaining how Genshin Impact earned 1 billion dollars on mobile platforms within six months of its launch.

Blizzcon 2021 and The Panel from Hell 2’s news summarized: everything fans need to know about Diablo 4, WoW Classic, Hearthstone and Baldur’s Gate 3.

Narrative Design

Everything from dungeon design and worldbuilding to high fantasy writing, poetry, dialogue writing, and lyrics! Anything that tells an engaging story that Monika has worked on and put out.

Inspired by Lovecraftian horror and Dungeons & Dragons, this little adventure is a twist on the “experiment gone wrong” trope, with a humorous ending. It is a “dungeon” experience written for a role-playing website that Monika used to work for.

Monika’s biggest passion project, where her D&D Campaigns are set, and where all of her short stories come from. It is a world not yet fully explored, where the gods roam free among mortals and blend in…until one of them disappears, unable to fulfill their duties, rendering an entire continent in Chaos.

A giant flying balloon houses a D&D and steampunk-inspired dungeon that is ahead of its time. Davenport Steelworks is ultimately a tragic tale of a chimera trying to keep its creator’s craft alive after their passing. Constructs are the preferred type of enemy and ally.

Other works:

Everything from tabletop RPG builds, to non-fiction articles and

A fantasy tabletop pen and paper RPG that only requires six-sided dice to play! Inspired by popular video game mechanics surrounding elemental interactions. Based on Lasers and Feelings and Honey Heist. A really fun party game.

A non-fiction piece was written for one of Monika’s creative writing minor classes in New York. The work touches on the topics of family and “happiness” in the 21st century.

Monika’s graduating research essay that covers how word choice in video games can emotionally affect players. Compares and contrasts Divinity Original Sin 2, The Witcher 3 and Pokémon Ruby to show writing fails and triumphs.