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This or that? In my technical writing, "this" points forward and "that" points back.
This is the safe way to stop a process:...
That architecture integrates several components.
A simple rule, applied every time. Readers, especially non-native speakers, soon get used to it. They no longer stop to wonder whether to look back or ahead, or whether they got it right. They can focus on the content.
In technical writing, set a few rules and stick to them.
The Daycare Escape: Chapter 2
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https://pirca.fanbox.cc/posts/12918931
Stuck in the mechanical nursery and bound in a hefty rubber diapersuit, Nouv comes up with a plan to escape the same way they got in. But the kobold rogue isn't quite as dexterous and stealthy with such a hefty suit covering them...
#Story #Writing #Smut #ABDL #NSFW #ABDLWriting #NSFWWriting #Furry #FurryWriting #Diaper #Diapers #Bondage #BabyBondage #Diapersuit #Rubber #Latex #Messing #DiaperMessing #PircaWriting
The Art of the Plan: Preparing for My Future Using Informed Decisions
This week’s posts highlight four series. The accompanying images display many variations on the theme of preparedness. And most of the time, the theme appears as a subtext. At first, it’s hard to guess why the Harrison family laboriously tending a lemon tree in a climate with cold winters would help anyone learn the Art of the Plan. For several years, our family has done this with a fragile tree called the Pineapple Guava, so I feel this image reflects the present moment. The only thing […]
Read my Poem “The Quiet and Hungry” Published by Altered Reality Magazine
A haunted statue and hedge maze forced into different roles by their supernatural shackles. One regrets being unable to warn victims. The other hates always being hungry.
Read “The Quiet and Hungry” right here
One more poem out of this recent batch of publications released by Altered Reality Magazine. They released all three at once in one post, so you’ll have to scroll past the previous poems to find my new one.
Feel free to read the other two. They’re great. I have built speculative worlds that are lush and interesting in just 40 lines. There is also a deeply human and emotional crescendo hidden within the verses. I build something that resonates with our humanity, well exploring fantastical plot devices and settings. I love that contrast. It is what I do.
Again, you can read my poem “The Quiet and Hungry” right here
The Quiet and Hungry is my last poem published by Altered Reality Magazines. It is such a great publication. I implore you to explore this awesome lit magazine and their various voices.
You can read all that work right here.
Thank you, and have a great day!
#blogging #books #fantasy #fiction #horror #monsters #patrickWMarsh #poem #poems #Poetry #reading #speculativePoetry #writing
Life is Too Short to Waste Do Something Meaningful
Life is too short to spend it waiting for the perfect moment, seeking everybody’s approval, regretting yesterday’s mistakes or postponing the dreams that God has placed in your heart. Time is one of the most precious gifts given to humanity, yet it is also one of the most carelessly wasted resources. Money can be recovered, possessions can be replaced, opportunities may return, and relationships can sometimes be restored, but yesterday can never be brought back. Once a moment has passed, […]
How to Keep a Digital Paper Trail of Your Scrivener Projects - Kirk McElhearn
Keeping a digital paper trail of your writing can protect you against accusations of using AI to write your books.
https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/how-to-keep-a-digital-paper-trail-of-your-scrivener-projects
Review: The New Sense and Sensibility Trailer Looks Pretty Good.
Yes, I know. The movie came out weeks ago and I’m late to the party. But does that mean I’m not going to talk about the trailer?
Nope.
It’s no secret that I love a good adaptation of Jane Austen’s books. I’ve watched almost all the movie and T.V. adaptations (though I’m still finding more that I wasn’t previously aware of) and even did a post ranking them. So, when I found out that a new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility was coming out, I became pretty excited.
From the trailer, a few good things stick out to me. First of all, the movie is being made by the same people who made the 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, which, while not as accurate to the book as the BBC adaptation from the 90s, is still a delightful movie. That in of itself makes me hope that the movie will be good.
Another thing that I really liked about it was that the actors are, for once, the age of the characters. Mrs. Dashwood in the book was around her 40s and the actress they cast as Mrs. Dashwood definitely is in line with that. Elinor and Marianne meanwhile are supposed to be 19 and 16 respectively, and the new adaptation actually does their ages justice, which I appreciated since the original adaptation made them both look much older.
However, that’s not to say that this trailer is without its flaws. For one thing, it’s certainly less historically accurate than the original adaptation, especially with the fact that for much of the trailer, the girls’ hair is down, which was not allowed for girls older than 15 or 16 in the Regency era, as it was seen as immodest. I had this problem with the BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility from 2008, and it seems that this adaptation is suffering from the same issues.
Another issue is that Elinor seems more laid back in the trailer than she was in the book. In the book, Elinor was very mature for her age. While that certainly makes her stand out from the rest, critics have pointed out how it is less believable given how young she is, especially in comparison to other characters Austen wrote who displayed similar maturity but were much older than Elinor (think Anne Elliot from Persuasion, who is 26-27.) While I can appreciate if they took the liberty to give her a softer side, I really hope they don’t make her feel so much like a teenager that it takes away from her maturity.
The final issue with this, though it isn’t apparent from the trailer, is that apparently Mr. Palmer is being played by a female-to-male actress. From what research I’ve done, this appears to be true, and it’s a stupid casting decision. I just hope that it doesn’t ruin the movie completely.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Blog #Books #Fantasy #JaneAusten #MoviesAndTV #OpinionPeice #PrideAndPrejudice #Review #SenseAndSensibility #Writing
#wordweavers November 11: Share a line from your WIP where silence communicates more than dialogue could.
Trinity felt his grip suddenly tighten and she was pulled into his embrace. She felt herself shiver with excitement unexpectedly, but it died instantly with his words as he held her in his grip. “Your clan’s tyranny is done. I can not abide, my son, being raised in moral ambiguity. Do you understand me?”
She looked up and into his blue eyes. In a whisper, “Yes.”
Her scent reached him in their extreme closeness. “Woman, you’re unbelievable.” He released her and stepped quickly away and pointed at her. “You need to find someone to answer your drive other than me.”
She smiled. “I have, actually.” She motioned towards the mansion and turned to walk in that direction. “You should meet him.” She looked back at John. “He’s like you.”
John queried, “An uplift.”
“And a soldier like you.”
John had seen other uplifts in the Dream, most were Lupinoids and never enhanced with cybernetics or wetware. The only other people he had ever known with such were LeJoansey’s race and there were very few of them. He glanced at her for she had gone quiet and rather than press her for the wolf’s name, he settled for walking in silence.
#Riders_of_the_Dream #Dreams_Out_of_Time #writing #sciencefiction #literature #Sandwolf_Ltd
Our book launches in 5 days! Here's a bit about why we wrote it:
The story behind Lens Not Label: why three authors spent over two years on a conversational guide to working with neurodivergent people.
#medium #writing #neurodiversity #books #lensnotlabel #dei #perspective
#pennedpossibilities 1181: Name a character of your creation who you believe is perfectly well-rounded, either in a good or bad way. (Depending on their intentions.)
Oof! Well... I'm going to interpret this as meaning in shills, & knowledge vise, personality or social skills. Many of the characters in #Riders_of_the_Dream are "well-rounded" they each have their strengths and week points. John, I think is maybe the most rounded. He's been a soldier, a sailor, a mechanic, a fabricator, a naturalist, and even delves in physics and other studies of science.
Llevaba once días
sin hablar en voz alta.
Hasta que la taza
le contestó.
Después habló la tostadora.
El lavavajillas.
La nevera.
Y el cajón de las sartenes
soltó tentáculos.
Hastur...
Subieron las escaleras.
Los Renacidos
ya los esperaban.
Disparos.
Sangre negra
sobre la madera.
Abrieron un atajo.
En la habitación azul
encontraron un símbolo
tallado en la chimenea:
una llave...
¡Más carbón, que se enfría el infierno… En la morgue algo despierta, y un policía con sonrisa demasiado ancha empieza a...🔥💀
Lee *Más carbón que se enfría el infierno*
https://fictograma.com/d/4556-mas-carbon-que-se-enfria-el-infierno
¡En Venecia, a trasluz, los dibujos de Leonardo revelan lo que no debían… y dos desconocidos aparecen para apagar la llama de la investigación. 🕯️🖼️
Lee el Capítulo 7 de *La Herencia*
¡Las coincidencias se acumulan… un tatuaje, un Hombre de Vitruvio modificado y un viejo amigo que vuelve a la investigación. ¿Hasta dónde...? 🔍📜
Lee el Capítulo 6 de La Herencia
Wed. Nov. 11, 2026: Sun for Veterans’ Day
image courtesy of Tumisu from PixabayWednesday, November 11, 2026
Waxing Moon
Neptune, Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Venus, Mercury Retrograde
Sunny and cool
Midweek already. It always seems to much faster because of the long Tuesday post.
It is Veterans’ Day here in the US, a federal holiday, although far too many run around acting like it’s just an ordinary day.
It’s November, so I guess we should expect the days to be dark as well as early nights. We needed the rain, but I admit I was getting a little tired of it. I was happy for a clear day today, and we’re supposed to get our first snow tomorrow night into Friday.
I got a play out to a submission call, and a radio play pitch out to a commission call. That took up more of the morning than I would have liked. I’d thought about the commission pitch, and it’s something I can use elsewhere if this company doesn’t want it. Plus, it’s a really, really cool idea. And, I worked on a proposal that has to go out next week that would be a multi-month commitment locally.
The constant noise from the construction of the arts center a few blocks away was infuriating. There is no reason to have the machines do the backing up beep for 8 hours a day. None. And no, noise cancelling headphones are not an option. I have an elder to care for.
I spent two hours putting together an LOI for a company exactly as they demanded it, and then their portal wouldn’t accept the upload. What a waste of my damn time. I let them know, but today is the deadline and they are not in the office, so. . .I guess we’re not meant to be. At least I have a cool proposal package I’ll use elsewhere. Still, I was very frustrated.
By then, it was later than I wanted to get settled into the ghostwriting. I did some solid work, even if I didn’t get as far as I hoped. I need to make up for that today.
Looks like all the book orders I placed for the books to sell at the December gallery show are coming through on time. Yay! People will be able to buy the CELLULOID CRIMES and MIDNIGHT MOUSERS anthologies, and TAPESTRY during the December gallery show.
I heated up leftovers for dinner, and spent the evening reading a book I was assigned for review.
Up extra early this morning, to start the morning routine before I headed out the door to the laundromat. I’d read that, right before Venus goes direct on Friday, it will appear in the sky as a morning star, and there she was this morning! Really beautiful.
Put through two loads of laundry. Ran an errand on the way home, stocking on some things I need for the holiday, including the platters for the cookies, ribbon, etc. I still haven’t found the bags, but I may MacGuyer something. I’ve got a few sources to check tomorrow.
Today is going to be about putting away the laundry, getting some stuff done around the house, and ghostwriting.
Have a good one!
#errands #freelance #life #Plans #writing
#writerscoffeeclub Nov 11. Is there a thread connecting your work to that of another?
This is a bit open ended, because I'm not sure if the question is referring to other author's work or others works of mine. But I suppose the short answer is yes for both.
Dialog between characters have often talked about books, both famous and not so famous. I don't know how many times characters have brought up Heinlein, Verne, or some other author of the past.
In my group project, #Riders_of_the_Dream, I slip in connecting threads regularly to tie our collective author stories together into a cohesive grand story. Currently, #Dreams_Out_of_Time is sharing characters and history with many of the occurrences from #sanquinedreams.
As a writer with a self-published book, I get the scams. All the scams.
Latest one: Pay us to translate your book into <language> or <language> to broaden your audience.
Uh huh... You want me to pay to copy-n-paste my book into an LLM and spew out machine-generated literal translations.
Nope...
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/SheConsumesPoison
Shime Yasu, a New York homicide cop, once impressed a group of monster hunters, known as the Ashen Blades, and one of them gave her their card, for the day she might be ready to see the real truth of the world. Unable to sleep and tired of being blind to the real world, Yasu calls the number and she’s brought in for training.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #books
Chapter 4 of Scarlet Eye: She Hunts Witches is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye
Lara Simmons is woken in the early hours of morning by the scream of her nine year old son, James, and rushes to his aid! In preparation for a battle, the fairy's arms transform into Tommy guns...
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #witches #demons #vampires #webseries
#wss366 11/11
Your heart in my hands,
My heart in your hands -
#Peaceful agreement...
#WritingCommunity #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction
What’s Something You Miss From The Old Days?
So let me caveat this by saying I was born in the early 90s! My old days will NOT match up with yours and that is perfectly ok.
However for me this is the missing classic rock bands in todays music. I obviously know the older bands like Iron Maiden, AC/DC etc are still going. But I feel like their sound has been slightly lost with the passing on time.
In some ways for the better, I love the new styles of rock, but there is something to be said for the time gone by.
I’d love to know your opinion on this and also what you miss too!
#Album #Blog #Blogging #dailyprompt #dailyprompt2946 #Music #MusicReview #Review #rock #Writing
I want writers to be paid, just like I want to be paid. But here’s the deal. If I wanted to pay to follow your Substack or Patreon, I would. But posting links to those sites on social media doesn’t really make sense. It’s a tease into a paywall. The problem is, if I’m not a subscriber, I don’t have any reason to follow your social media account. There really has to be a better way.
Visiting the Everybody Votes Channel in 2026
For those who aren’t aware… Everybody Votes Channel, a now-defunct Wii Channel that originally released on the Nintendo Wii, has been revived by a service called WiiLink
I thought that I’d make a short post about it. Everybody Votes Channel was basically a Wii Channel that allowed you to partake in a National Poll (The Country and Reigon of your Nintendo Wii) and a Worldwide Poll (Every Country around the world)
The polls give you two options, and once you’ve placed your vote, you can also predict on which option would get the most votes.
Users were able to suggest Poll Questions and send them over to Nintendo for them to review them and could potentially pick them for a future poll on Everybody Votes Channel.
I’ve made a video of it below, as I’ve used Dolphin Emulator to achieve this without homebrewing a physical Wii Console.
https://youtu.be/uHNbUp72tfQ?si=oRuBz8PLkdJb6_Ez
Related Posts
#blog #blogging #EverybodyVotesChannel #gaming #Nintendo #NintendoWii #WiiChannels #WiiHomebrew #WiiLink #writing
Cover designs
My forthcoming novel, Red Cardigan on the Roof, is the third in a sequence of books featuring Jack and Ruth Rambler. Ideally, I’d have got a cover illustration in keeping with the previous two books (Codename Hirondelle and Hard Rain), but unfortunately both my talented daughters are too busy to oblige. So I was thrown back on my own devices.
I always had an idea of what I wanted the cover to be, and it was perhaps the specificity of it that put my daughters off. My first concept looked like this:
But there are issues there with the image (transformed with a few Pixelmator filters). Though I’d be willing to pay for a licence, it’s only available for “editorial”, not “creative”, which I think rules book covers out.
After that, I toyed briefly with generic “London in the 60s” pictures (the novel being set in 1968). Like this:
Then I went back to the original concept with a still from a certain film:
The easter egg there is that the font used in that design, Populaire, was based on lettering used in the Paris student demonstrations in May 1968. The slight concern here is to do with © and the visibility of spectators wearing red cardigans/coats—but in the wrong position, relative to the narrative.
So then I went for a generic placeholder, using a section of an OS map from 1968, centred on Soho and a certain London street known for its tailoring.
This doesn’t work for me. Too on the nose perhaps, and not evocative of the right things.
So then we return to London Generic, and a photo of Gerard Street taken in 1959-ish. Which isn’t 1968.
(If it looks proportionally too wide it’s because I was thinking of a “wrap around” design.) What I like here is the colour scheme, even if the period is not quite right.
Then I resorted to my own poor draughtsmanship, and I sketched the picture I wanted, and:
And a slight alternative:
Now, I think the black might be better than the white, but may be too subtle. Then again, the black conceals the shittiness of the sketch, so I might go with that.
Thoughts?
#1968 #bookDesign #Books #design #fiction #Reading #selfPublishing #typography #writing
I was rolling through the web stats when I found traffic to an old post. I read it and thought, "Man did I not see what was coming."
So I addressed it not by deleting the content, but by addressing it. I'm watching people go through that evolution in real time.
I vastly underestimated the lack of ethics that would be coming. And to remove it would be dishonest. To address it would be honest.
Things were much different in 2017.
https://knowprose.com/2026/11/ai-and-coding-precarity-a-2017-oops/
Updated the writing hashtag list with
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And the music tags list with LABR
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Have a nice day and keep on writing/rocking
I think that what a lot of people get wrong about the cyberpunk genre is that they assume the world has kinda just always been that politically corrupt in setting.
Really, a lot of cyberpunk works best under the assumption that all of the worst excesses of capitalism and authoritarianism are recent developments. To me, the most interesting part of cyberpunk is *the rot*. A living thing does not rot, and nor does something that's been dead for a long time. The rot is a sign that the resources are actively being consumed by something new as the old mode passes into the new. It's an inherently chaotic process.
You don't develop the technologies typical of a cyberpunk setting within a failing, hyper-capitalist, fascistic regime. But you *can* develop fascistic hyper-capitalism under the same society that produced those technologies, and watch as the new ideology devours the existing society that produced them.
The endgame economically is that nobody will even be able to afford the bio mods and crazy technology and decadent lifestyles that characterize the genre. But hey, the capitalists are only eating our legs off so far. For now, let us eat and drink and kiss, so long as we have our mouths. We are on the chopping block and can witness our own inevitable demise, but we still momentarily have the power to truly embrace the moment, surrounded by the gifts of the prior decade.
It is worth remembering, after all, just why the cyberpunk genre is so inexplicably tied to the culture of the mid- to late-80s....
Quite proud of how the new serial I'm writing is turning out :3
https://ko-fi.com/post/Pillow-Talk-Chapter-1-Here-Z2Y32AGIPI
I remember back in the #winter of 2022/ 2023 it was so warm that the ice rinks normally set up for the season were turned into roller skate rinks + visitors were asking vendors for #cocktails nt #MulledWine. It`d be funny if it weren`t so sad.
New #Christmas story coming out in #December: What Has Happened To Santa Claus?
#fantasy #writing #reading #SelfPublishing #book #books #author #ChristineMunroeAuthor #NorthPole #Santa #SantaClaus #ChristmasMarket #excitement #PushingBoundaries #adventure
Let them eat…
“If the story-tellers could ha’ got decency and good morals from true stories, who’d have troubled to invent parables?” – Thomas Hardy
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For years now, we’ve all eaten three buckets of manure for breakfast every day.
It wasn’t always this way, but everyone alive has never known a time when we haven’t eaten three buckets of manure for breakfast every day. This country produces a lot of manure and spends a lot of resources to produce that manure. We export it around the world so that others can eat three buckets of manure for breakfast every day. We pity people who can only afford to eat two buckets of manure for breakfast every day or who even have to go without any on some days. Weirdly, while we export a lot of manure, we also import a lot of manure. This is because there are different grades of manure. Thin, grassy manure is better for a light snack while you’re on the go but thick, gloopy manure is better keeping folk warm in the winter.
Things are changing. We’re starting to recognise that eating three buckets of manure for breakfast every day isn’t actually good for us. It’s actually really, really bad for our health. It’s not even that fun. Only a very few people actually enjoy eating three buckets of manure for breakfast every single day.
One of the big problems with eating three buckets of manure for breakfast every day is that the companies that produce the manure are some of the biggest and most powerful on the planet. They pay a lot of taxes, as do the people who buy the manure, but they also spend a lot of money convincing politicians to keep the taxes that they pay as low as possible.
There have been a few people out there who have been trying to develop alternative breakfasts. Porridge, they say, is better for us and the oats can be grown readily here. We wouldn’t need to import so much manure and we’d probably all enjoy our breakfasts more. Even the people who say they like eating three buckets of manure for breakfast every day generally quite like the benefits of porridge once they try it.
The manure companies are pushing back though. They say that they understand that porridge is a better breakfast and it would be better if we transitioned to it, but it must be a transition. We must continue eating manure for breakfast for a long time. Sure, maybe we can do our part to eat smaller breakfasts – maybe two buckets is enough – and maybe we could mix some oats into the manure to spread it out a bit. But it is important that we keep eating manure for breakfast every day because we’ll need it for a long time. Maybe we could even start recycling and eating our own manure from time to time!
One of the latest political battles is over a new field that has been found up north. It’s rough farming but the manure companies say it could produce enough manure to provide one bucket a week to everyone in the country. And because it’s local manure, it’ll be better than importing manure from elsewhere – though nowhere else seems to be saying that they’ll reduce their manure exports if we stop buying it from them. Eating three buckets of locally produced manure for breakfast every day doesn’t seem like fewer people overall will be eating less manure.
Maybe the porridge eaters are right and we do need to transition away from eating three buckets of manure for breakfast every day at some point but, right now, the politicians and the companies tell us that it’s very, very important that we all eat manure.
Anyway. That wind turbine is ugly and Rosebank is such a pretty name.
#climate #Energy #food #politics #UKPolitics #writing
When I joined #DjangonautSpace, @mahryekuh commented
> Also, for those new to Juhis: It’s almost scary how this guy here has a blog post about whatever it is you’re thinking about, and a good one too!
I wrote down some random ideas about blogging as a developer in my blog today.
https://hamatti.org/posts/theres-a-blog-post-for-everything/
Daily Prompt: Do you prefer coffee, tea, or energy drinks to start your day?
#WritersCoffeeClub 11/11. Is there a thread connecting your works to that of another?
In my head there are connections to various authors, most notably Ursula K Le Guin and Jane Austen. Whether this is apparent to readers is another question entirely.
#books #writing #writersofmastodon #NoAI
"I loved makeup. I always admired the way TV stars looked glamorous on the screen, and I wanted to be one of those people who did their makeup. So, I thought I could get into the beauty industry, learn to plait hair and do makeup to earn an income."
See our Stories #SisiStories
https://sisifilmcollective.org/i-can-now-dream-of-building-a-brand-for-myself/
#WordWeavers 11/11: Share a line from your WIP where silence communicates more than dialogue could.
“They sat for a minute just looking. South, apart from the distant hump of Pendle Hill, softly papery against the light, there was little to see but the moors. Slow skylines, a deceptive promise of easy walking; dark slopes, scabbed and sullen under ponderous cloud-shadows. Connoisseur’s country, the guidebook said; that might be as good a word as any.”
#books #writing #writersofmastodon #NoAI
#ScribesAndMakers 11/11. This month's featured creators host the #WritersCoffeeClub, #EroticMusings, #TimeTravelAuthors, and #FinishOrFrogAlong hashtags. Have you heard of and/or participated in any of them?
Imma just going to copy-paste what @art_of_goulwenr wrote, 'cos I'm lazy.
I mean what the frog?
#writerscoffeeclub ☑️
#EroticMusings ☑️
#TimeTravelAuthors ❌️
#FinishOrFrogAlong ❌️
#WritersCoffeeClub 11/11. Is there a thread connecting your works to that of another?
You mean is "Her War of the Worlds" related to "The War of the Worlds"? Yes.
And the Iron Pegasus books are linked to the Biggles books. And the Frozen Beauty books are intended to have the feel of the Firefly TV series.
That's about it. I think.
#WritersCoffeeClub 11th Nov ~ Is there a thread connecting your works to that of another?
Almost certainly! It depends on the work... obvs...
Interesting twist in the Harpers story, where an attack on two people is considered more worrying than someone finding a dead magician...
**New post: Obsidian plugins – Books**
Books is an Obsidian plugin for writing and organising long-form manuscripts in your vault
https://md-handbook.com/blog/obsidian-plugins-books/
#markdown #markdowneditors #Obsidian #plugins #Books #writers #writing
Five Great Quotations about Readers
#writer #writing #books #readers #amwriting
inventingrealityediting.com/2...
#PennedPossibilities 1181: Name a character of your creation who you believe is perfectly well-rounded, either in a good or bad way. (Depending on their intentions.)
I'm taking this as a meta question about character quality and utility in a literary sense. Becoming well-rounded is a function of how often I've featured a character. Plenty now who will show up in the reluctance series have distinct personalities, vulnerabilities, agendas, and histories. They've become their own people. As a pantser who discovers story by letting characters live their lives, I tend to delve imprudently into character backstories (even for supporting and antagonistic characters) and spin off side stories. The devil-girl is full spectrum. She could feature in drama, mystery, slice-of-life, romance, or a thriller. Comedy, also, were I to write that. Inherently funny, darkly and cynically so, she's especially snide with an eye for the absurd. She's an SC in the current WIP.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion #RSstory #RSreluctanceStory
¡Buda me guarda entre los pliegues de su barriga… hasta que una flatulencia me arroja de nuevo al lodo. Un poema sobre ser humano. 🧘♂️🪱
Lee *Buda me guarda*
¡El sueño vuelve… y con él, el corazón en llamas. Mientras el museo borra las huellas, Lucio reconoce el tatuaje que le arrebató todo. 🔥💔
Lee el Capítulo 5 de *La Herencia*
¡Durante la inauguración, las preguntas se vuelven personales… y un cuerpo aparece en el pasillo con los mismos símbolos grabados en la piel. 🔍🩸
Lee el Capítulo 4 de *La Herencia*
