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#lovemakeshare Towel #towelday
#ScribesAndMakers № 24 ('26 May) Warp?
#ScribesAndMakers № 25 Stella had been dreading this moment...

Livestreaming, she looks between the scorched omelette, the warped turner, and finally the smoldering towel used as a hotpad.

#NMLMS #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#lovemakeshare Towel #towelday
#ScribesAndMakers № 24 ('26 May) Warp?
#ScribesAndMakers № 25 Stella had been dreading this moment...

Livestreaming, she looks between the scorched omelette, the warped turner, and finally the smoldering towel used as a hotpad.

#NMLMS #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#lovemakeshare Towel #towelday
#ScribesAndMakers № 24 ('26 May) Warp?
#ScribesAndMakers № 25 Stella had been dreading this moment...

Livestreaming, she looks between the scorched omelette, the warped turner, and finally the smoldering towel used as a hotpad.

#NMLMS #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 5/24 Warp

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

Ancient wood
Softly warping
Forgotten

Sun and rain
Remember still

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

#poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #PoetryCommunity #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 5/24 Warp

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

Ancient wood
Softly warping
Forgotten

Sun and rain
Remember still

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

#poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #PoetryCommunity #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers May 23: If you were going to tell a story about a #cryptid, which would you choose?

The line between a cryptid and an urban legend is fine. Depending on how you choose to define the word, I have written many stories involving cryptids. Youkai and urban myths play a key role in my fiction.

The one creature that is standardly considered a crypid I have written about is the Chīsai-ojisan 小さいおじさん (Little Uncle)

Chīsai-ojisan 小さいおじさん:

Which one would I choose in the future? Whichever one fits my current plot line.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers № 17 Link to, reply to, or summarize yesterday's poll and reveal the answer.

Most people got that it had to be one of the naming URLs. Though a surprising number guessed at that point.

Baby name sites for foreign names are generally excellent examples of cultural appropriation. They list names that are cute and attractive to the culture and have little to do with actual names used. My experience is that they are often totally fictional. I would never use a site like "the bump."

2 is a lie.

Four generated names from Japanese' actuary table and lists how common they are.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers – 16th May. Create a poll with three websites you reference for your creative work and one you don't. Ask people to guess the one you don't.

There are a lot I could have listed.

I think this one is easy, but we will see.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 15 What's going well with your creative work so far this month?

I've had a cold for the last two weeks. Writing has been slow. Barely keeping up. 🥶

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#ScribesAndMakers – 12th May. Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs

D&D (The original one with the pamphlets)
AD&D
GURPS
Shadowrun
A lot of short odds and ends campaigns in other systems.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 10: If your project will be part of a series, do you know that before you start?

I'm a serial writer, so yes, I know ahead of time. I don't usually know how many volumes it will be.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 9. How likely are you to embrace changes to language usage?

Very.

Which means I use the usage of the time period in which things are set. Including slang of THAT time.

One of the features of #TimeTravelingGhost is the clash and confusion of a 2025 person talking with a 1930's woman.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers – 1st May. Are you starting any new projects this month?

There is a Japanese contest for foreign writers in which I may enter a few stories.

Not new, but I need to kick up my reading of Edo fiction to get a better feel for how the people viewed themselves at the time. I bought two new books and hope to read them while in the backwoods next week.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers – 30th Apr. What's a problem you solved in your creative work this month?
#TimeTravelAuthors Whatever

Where I am going with volume 2 of Bijou #TheTimeTravelingGhost.

No spoilers, but it very much fits my theme of quality pulp.

#NMSAM #NMTTA #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers – 30th Apr. What's a problem you solved in your creative work this month?
#TimeTravelAuthors Whatever

Where I am going with volume 2 of Bijou #TheTimeTravelingGhost.

No spoilers, but it very much fits my theme of quality pulp.

#NMSAM #NMTTA #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 29. Someone else's promotion day. Tell us about someone else's work. Let's boost away.

• @QuasiTemporal Time Travel:
• @asakiyume Inconvenient God:
• @juliebihn Titanic Voyage:

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 25: Do you do any activism through your creative work?

Someone mentioned charity work as activism. @EmpyClaw

Every year, I take part in PIXIV's Charity Santa program, raising money for literacy. It's not a huge amount, but it's something.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 26: Talk to me Day @jessmahler

What are the five most important things you would like us to know about you?

2 as an author
and
3 as a person

#TTMD #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 25: Do you do any activism through your creative work?@solarbranka

#PoliticalPoetry
Below are links to a sampling.

• #AO3 - Midnight Machetes: Three Political Poems for Our Times:
• #PIXIV - Protest Poetry:
• Fedi - Blessed Are...:

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 25: Do you do any activism through your creative work?@solarbranka

#PoliticalPoetry
Below are links to a sampling.

• #AO3 - Midnight Machetes: Three Political Poems for Our Times:
• #PIXIV - Protest Poetry:
• Fedi - Blessed Are...:

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 25: Do you do any activism through your creative work?@solarbranka

#PoliticalPoetry
Below are links to a sampling.

• #AO3 - Midnight Machetes: Three Political Poems for Our Times:
• #PIXIV - Protest Poetry:
• Fedi - Blessed Are...:

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 25: Our featured creator does "a bit of educational activism on the side." Do you do any activism through your creative work?

• Queers living "normal" lives.
• Political poetry
• Occationally a character will go on a rant about #Polyamory or queer discrimination. (But it has to fit the plot.)

That is about it.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 24 April: Our next featured creator has a "love/hate affair with common tropes." What's your relationship with tropes?

I think people confuse tropes with cliches. It's all in delivery. Tropes can be done in original, interesting ways or as clichés.

I use a variety of disaster lesbians in all my work. Found Family appears in all of them. I am sure "Normals vs. Evil" has a name. Bijou in #TimeTravelingGhost makes a joke out of being the "Chosen One."

On the other hand, I have put down 3 novels in the last week where the open page was Protag is dumped by the prince at a ball. It's not that they couldn't have done something interesting with their twist on the trope, but the work was almost identical to each other, i.e., cliché.

I even do a trope list for my newest serial Bijou the Time-Traveling Ghost:

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 23. Have #FairyTales influenced any of your creative work? Part 2

Chapter 72: Yakubyō-gami (疫病神) of KonbiniIdol: is full of delusional fairy tale renders.

“Take the apple, dearie, and make a wish.”

#SleepingBeauty #KonbiniIdol #Yokai. #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 23. Have #FairyTales influenced any of your creative work? Part 2

Chapter 72: Yakubyō-gami (疫病神) of KonbiniIdol: is full of delusional fairy tale renders.

“Take the apple, dearie, and make a wish.”

#SleepingBeauty #KonbiniIdol #Yokai. #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 23. Have #FairyTales influenced any of your creative work? Part 2

Chapter 72: Yakubyō-gami (疫病神) of KonbiniIdol: is full of delusional fairy tale renders.

“Take the apple, dearie, and make a wish.”

#SleepingBeauty #KonbiniIdol #Yokai. #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 23. Have #FairyTales influenced any of your creative work? Part 2

Chapter 72: Yakubyō-gami (疫病神) of KonbiniIdol: is full of delusional fairy tale renders.

“Take the apple, dearie, and make a wish.”

#SleepingBeauty #KonbiniIdol #Yokai. #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 23. Have #FairyTales influenced any of your creative work?

• Princess and the Pea:
• Stone Soup: Stone… Err, Knife Soup:
• Goldilocks: Goldilocks and Three Grim Fates:
• The Little Match Girl:
• Generic fairy tale: Saint Lilly Lillum of Charity:

#NMSAM #NMPromots

#ScribesAndMakers 22 What fictional character do you find the creepiest? (Modified prompt) Part 2

Magagami-sama

Alt. Text edited for character count.

From KonbiniIdol:

#Creepy #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 22 What fictional character do you find the creepiest. (Modified prompt)

Magagami-sama from a creepy-pasta of that name. I have used it in two of my novels. I'll do an snip when I'm up and around.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 4/21—You turn a corner on a dimly lit street and see...

The ghost ahead of me disappearing around the next corner.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 20 — Have you ever read or performed your work in front of an audience?

Just TRPG.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 19: Have you ever been to a poetry reading?

No. I came to poetry late in life, after becoming a semi-recluse.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers Do you ever read out loud, either to yourself or someone else?

I read all my writing out loud at least once and then listen to it being read to me by my computer as I work on rhythm, echoes, and other fine points.

Also poetry. Both mine and others.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 17: What's something you've learned in recent research?

• I can't reference milkweed.
• There is no henbane in Japan
• Read through several versions of Bancho Sarayashiki (The Dish Mansion at Banchō)
• There was no dance floor on the Titanic
• What the murals on the Hindenburg looked like.
• What a standard 1st class cabin on the Titanic looked like.

i.e., a lot of misc. stuff.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 16. How do you feel about illustrations in (non-comic) books?

I write light novels, which by definition have illustrations. They are my biggest out-of-pocket expense.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol

#ScribesAndMakers 16. How do you feel about illustrations in (non-comic) books?

I write light novels, which by definition have illustrations. They are my biggest out-of-pocket expense.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol

#ScribesAndMakers 16. How do you feel about illustrations in (non-comic) books?

I write light novels, which by definition have illustrations. They are my biggest out-of-pocket expense.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol

#ScribesAndMakers 16. How do you feel about illustrations in (non-comic) books?

I write light novels, which by definition have illustrations. They are my biggest out-of-pocket expense.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol

#ScribesAndMakers 16. How do you feel about illustrations in (non-comic) books?

I write light novels, which by definition have illustrations. They are my biggest out-of-pocket expense.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol

#ScribesAndMakers – 15th Apr. What's a smell that has featured in your work?

There are many smells featured in my work. Picking just one, a trademark of my work is that each LI has a unique scent, and when the narrator notices it, it's a sign that the romance arc is heating up. Shishi's from #KonbiniIdol were sandalwood and violets.

Bijou from #TimeTravelingGhost should soon be noticing Emily's scent. Perhaps gardenia or perhaps not.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers – 15th Apr. What's a smell that has featured in your work?

There are many smells featured in my work. Picking just one, a trademark of my work is that each LI has a unique scent, and when the narrator notices it, it's a sign that the romance arc is heating up. Shishi's from #KonbiniIdol were sandalwood and violets.

Bijou from #TimeTravelingGhost should soon be noticing Emily's scent. Perhaps gardenia or perhaps not.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers – 15th Apr. What's a smell that has featured in your work?

There are many smells featured in my work. Picking just one, a trademark of my work is that each LI has a unique scent, and when the narrator notices it, it's a sign that the romance arc is heating up. Shishi's from #KonbiniIdol were sandalwood and violets.

Bijou from #TimeTravelingGhost should soon be noticing Emily's scent. Perhaps gardenia or perhaps not.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers – 15th Apr. What's a smell that has featured in your work?

There are many smells featured in my work. Picking just one, a trademark of my work is that each LI has a unique scent, and when the narrator notices it, it's a sign that the romance arc is heating up. Shishi's from #KonbiniIdol were sandalwood and violets.

Bijou from #TimeTravelingGhost should soon be noticing Emily's scent. Perhaps gardenia or perhaps not.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers – 15th Apr. What's a smell that has featured in your work?

There are many smells featured in my work. Picking just one, a trademark of my work is that each LI has a unique scent, and when the narrator notices it, it's a sign that the romance arc is heating up. Shishi's from #KonbiniIdol were sandalwood and violets.

Bijou from #TimeTravelingGhost should soon be noticing Emily's scent. Perhaps gardenia or perhaps not.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers⁩ 4/14—What's something that's going well with your creativity this month?

Next week will start the broader release of "Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost ."

This will be the #PIXIV #AO3 serialization based on what was done here.

Cover Release below:
Art: https://bsky.app/profile/maisart.bsky.social

#NMSAM #NMPrompts #TimeTravelAuthors #TimeTravel #HistoricalFiction

#ScribesAndMakers 11 Talk to me day @orionkidder

What are the 5 things you would like for us to remember about you. Two as a writer and three as a person.

#ttmd #NMPrompts #NMSAM

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 9: Our next featured creator is a professor. Does any of your work involve professors and/or universities?

Short answer: Yes

• #TheGirlWhoCouldSeeGhosts: The MCs are university students. The special university for people with high reikon/霊魂 is mentioned for the first time.
• #MyGirlfriend Almost Got Me Killed: Mikito-sensei (光尊) is introduced.
• #KonbiniIdol The special university and Mikito-sensei play an ongoing role. The MCs are not students anymore.
• #Airisu: The Ghost and the Witch: Airisu was a professional student. Otherwise no.
• Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost: Bijou was a professor of metaphysics. Arkam University is the only location so far the characters visit more than once.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 9: Our next featured creator is a professor. Does any of your work involve professors and/or universities?

Short answer: Yes

• #TheGirlWhoCouldSeeGhosts: The MCs are university students. The special university for people with high reikon/霊魂 is mentioned for the first time.
• #MyGirlfriend Almost Got Me Killed: Mikito-sensei (光尊) is introduced.
• #KonbiniIdol The special university and Mikito-sensei play an ongoing role. The MCs are not students anymore.
• #Airisu: The Ghost and the Witch: Airisu was a professional student. Otherwise no.
• Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost: Bijou was a professor of metaphysics. Arkam University is the only location so far the characters visit more than once.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 9: Our next featured creator is a professor. Does any of your work involve professors and/or universities?

Short answer: Yes

• #TheGirlWhoCouldSeeGhosts: The MCs are university students. The special university for people with high reikon/霊魂 is mentioned for the first time.
• #MyGirlfriend Almost Got Me Killed: Mikito-sensei (光尊) is introduced.
• #KonbiniIdol The special university and Mikito-sensei play an ongoing role. The MCs are not students anymore.
• #Airisu: The Ghost and the Witch: Airisu was a professional student. Otherwise no.
• Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost: Bijou was a professor of metaphysics. Arkam University is the only location so far the characters visit more than once.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts