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SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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New Issue: BCS #458 out today, w stories of intensity by AnaMaria Curtis and M.E. Bronstein, podcast of the Curtis read by MK Hobson, behind cover art by Anthony Avon.
https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-458/
#fantasy #sff #shortstory #podcastfiction #zine -
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/JigsawCity
Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books -
Vehl's Reach (Parasite Wars): city tears free from a volcano at dawn, rises 300 metres into the only breathable air on the planet, clamps back at dusk. Every single day. No exceptions.
Which daily cycle would you adapt to fastest? Which one would break you?
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I'm super excited for my story “The Black Bloom” to appear in a book with MRK's work! Can't wait to share more details of where to get the "Tales from Space Bar Anthology" once I get the info too! #SciFi #SFF #BodyHorror #Future 5/🧵
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:36h6ttx2g23zqr4accilbvo7/post/3mjgnmxsmes2u -
SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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SOMEONE HAS DISCOVERED AND IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK !!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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#PennedPossibilities 1026 — What is your MC’s biggest priority?
Not letting any of her friends, who think she's simply a talented by eccentric street photographer, learn that she's really a courier for the mob. One's a high power magazine editor, another is Bolt's longtime riding partner whom she just discovered is a praetorian working for the ruler of the planet (who knows her by name and rep, which is scary by itself, even before you consider Rainy Days rules nine other worlds, also), and a journalist whom she helped get his first front page headline with her photos. The last, who is a man presenting his super-attractive feminine side, is confusing the heck out of her, and she's afraid she might act on her instincts messing things up further, especially since he's just told her he's interested in learning what her day job is (she's been coy about it, obviously)—and his first guess shows he's been paying attention to her movements around town, like a good newspaper reporter.
Bad enough she has to worry about the constabulary learning she's a criminal.
She can't imagine any of these folk taking kindly to learning her true profession. The mob boss might not take kindly to her slipping up, either!
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
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#PennedPossibilities 1026 — What is your MC’s biggest priority?
Not letting any of her friends, who think she's simply a talented by eccentric street photographer, learn that she's really a courier for the mob. One's a high power magazine editor, another is Bolt's longtime riding partner whom she just discovered is a praetorian working for the ruler of the planet (who knows her by name and rep, which is scary by itself, even before you consider Rainy Days rules nine other worlds, also), and a journalist whom she helped get his first front page headline with her photos. The last, who is a man presenting his super-attractive feminine side, is confusing the heck out of her, and she's afraid she might act on her instincts messing things up further, especially since he's just told her he's interested in learning what her day job is (she's been coy about it, obviously)—and his first guess shows he's been paying attention to her movements around town, like a good newspaper reporter.
Bad enough she has to worry about the constabulary learning she's a criminal.
She can't imagine any of these folk taking kindly to learning her true profession. The mob boss might not take kindly to her slipping up, either!
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1026 — What is your MC’s biggest priority?
Not letting any of her friends, who think she's simply a talented by eccentric street photographer, learn that she's really a courier for the mob. One's a high power magazine editor, another is Bolt's longtime riding partner whom she just discovered is a praetorian working for the ruler of the planet (who knows her by name and rep, which is scary by itself, even before you consider Rainy Days rules nine other worlds, also), and a journalist whom she helped get his first front page headline with her photos. The last, who is a man presenting his super-attractive feminine side, is confusing the heck out of her, and she's afraid she might act on her instincts messing things up further, especially since he's just told her he's interested in learning what her day job is (she's been coy about it, obviously)—and his first guess shows he's been paying attention to her movements around town, like a good newspaper reporter.
Bad enough she has to worry about the constabulary learning she's a criminal.
She can't imagine any of these folk taking kindly to learning her true profession. The mob boss might not take kindly to her slipping up, either!
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1026 — What is your MC’s biggest priority?
Not letting any of her friends, who think she's simply a talented by eccentric street photographer, learn that she's really a courier for the mob. One's a high power magazine editor, another is Bolt's longtime riding partner whom she just discovered is a praetorian working for the ruler of the planet (who knows her by name and rep, which is scary by itself, even before you consider Rainy Days rules nine other worlds, also), and a journalist whom she helped get his first front page headline with her photos. The last, who is a man presenting his super-attractive feminine side, is confusing the heck out of her, and she's afraid she might act on her instincts messing things up further, especially since he's just told her he's interested in learning what her day job is (she's been coy about it, obviously)—and his first guess shows he's been paying attention to her movements around town, like a good newspaper reporter.
Bad enough she has to worry about the constabulary learning she's a criminal.
She can't imagine any of these folk taking kindly to learning her true profession. The mob boss might not take kindly to her slipping up, either!
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1026 — What is your MC’s biggest priority?
Not letting any of her friends, who think she's simply a talented by eccentric street photographer, learn that she's really a courier for the mob. One's a high power magazine editor, another is Bolt's longtime riding partner whom she just discovered is a praetorian working for the ruler of the planet (who knows her by name and rep, which is scary by itself, even before you consider Rainy Days rules nine other worlds, also), and a journalist whom she helped get his first front page headline with her photos. The last, who is a man presenting his super-attractive feminine side, is confusing the heck out of her, and she's afraid she might act on her instincts messing things up further, especially since he's just told her he's interested in learning what her day job is (she's been coy about it, obviously)—and his first guess shows he's been paying attention to her movements around town, like a good newspaper reporter.
Bad enough she has to worry about the constabulary learning she's a criminal.
She can't imagine any of these folk taking kindly to learning her true profession. The mob boss might not take kindly to her slipping up, either!
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
[Archivist's Footnote: I have read 11,497 daily maintenance logs from Clamp Station Four. Every one ends with the same line: "Ascent nominal. No exceptions." A system with no recorded failures is not a system that has never failed. It is a system that does not record them.]
#TheParasiteWars #SFF -
#WordWeavers 2026.05.26 — What is your antagonist’s earliest memory?
My chosen antagonist has been the protagonist in several stories, so this is pretty easy to figure out, and might even be canon. Rainy Days is maybe five, a decade before the story she will appear in. Her earliest memory would be of her kneeling on all fours in a yard, her knees and hands dirty and mashed into the soil, the smell of sawdust in the air, watching over her autistic twin brother Harvest Days as he plays with counting stones—currently arranged in piles of primes. She's doing so because their mother died in childbirth and taking care of children is girl's work. They're out there because their carpenter father, who is engaged in alternately planing and sanding some piece of furniture, is hoping to interest his son in his craft, to no avail because the man can't understand how his son is actually special. What made this day different is Rainy Days suddenly hears a voice, or thinks she does, and heart racing, she turns suddenly to the purple and orange horizon to squint, palm shading her eyes, at what we would call the sun. Did it speak to her? Why did it sound lonely?
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory #autistic #actuallyAutistic -
#PennedPossibilities 1025 — Would you or have you ever killed off a member of the main cast? How would or how did you feel afterward?
Twice, that I can recall so far. Both times, the person was a secondary character that served as an emotional focus for the story. Both were 3rd person POV characters written in close, which let me emphasize their strange pure spirit. One was a warrior priestess; the blood made that part hard. The other was a daughter and a working mother who reconciled the desires of generations of space colonists: the pioneers with the native born. The temporary POV allowed me to wring every bit of juice out of the tragic crushing scene when her world collapses around her—literally, not figuratively. Both were necessary to the plot. While I can't remember the details of the warrior priestess, the other served to drive the protagonist (her mother) over the edge and drive the story to completion.
However, I was emotionally devastated that the story had to work out that way! I revived the character, reconstructed but disabled and having none of it, in the epilogue, implying a vengeance vs. reconciliation sequel which I am pretty sure would be too hard for me to write, but there you go. Of course, I also had to write the epilogue such that those emotionally frail readers who read the end of the story first would need the context of the story to figure out who the character in the epilogue is, ensuring no clues to the actual plot. I'm mean† that way…
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† Mwahahahaha. 😇😈[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
This series begins next week! I am so happy to say that, thanks to student interest, we are revisiting #TheHungerGames books this Summer-Fall in SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity. #TheHungerGames series of modules starts in June!
May the odds be ever in our favor. 🏹
https://youtu.be/Tlwojys1CR0?si=ZaYdjoDqyzcvmdf2
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0930/
#Dystopia #SFF #YoungAdult #YALit #ScienceFiction #SuzanneCollins #Books #Bookstodon #Resist
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This series begins next week! I am so happy to say that, thanks to student interest, we are revisiting #TheHungerGames books this Summer-Fall in SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity. #TheHungerGames series of modules starts in June!
May the odds be ever in our favor. 🏹
https://youtu.be/Tlwojys1CR0?si=ZaYdjoDqyzcvmdf2
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0930/
#Dystopia #SFF #YoungAdult #YALit #ScienceFiction #SuzanneCollins #Books #Bookstodon #Resist
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This series begins next week! I am so happy to say that, thanks to student interest, we are revisiting #TheHungerGames books this Summer-Fall in SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity. #TheHungerGames series of modules starts in June!
May the odds be ever in our favor. 🏹
https://youtu.be/Tlwojys1CR0?si=ZaYdjoDqyzcvmdf2
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0930/
#Dystopia #SFF #YoungAdult #YALit #ScienceFiction #SuzanneCollins #Books #Bookstodon #Resist
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This series begins next week! I am so happy to say that, thanks to student interest, we are revisiting #TheHungerGames books this Summer-Fall in SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity. #TheHungerGames series of modules starts in June!
May the odds be ever in our favor. 🏹
https://youtu.be/Tlwojys1CR0?si=ZaYdjoDqyzcvmdf2
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0930/
#Dystopia #SFF #YoungAdult #YALit #ScienceFiction #SuzanneCollins #Books #Bookstodon #Resist
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This series begins next week! I am so happy to say that, thanks to student interest, we are revisiting #TheHungerGames books this Summer-Fall in SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity. #TheHungerGames series of modules starts in June!
May the odds be ever in our favor. 🏹
https://youtu.be/Tlwojys1CR0?si=ZaYdjoDqyzcvmdf2
Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0930/
#Dystopia #SFF #YoungAdult #YALit #ScienceFiction #SuzanneCollins #Books #Bookstodon #Resist
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Not fast. Not slow. The speed of something enormous remembering that it can move.
https://newsletter.a2rkcreative.com/
#TheParasiteWars #SFF #WorldBuilding -
Ebook omnibus: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion
Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books -
Ebook omnibus: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion
Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books -
Ebook omnibus: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion
Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books -
Ebook omnibus: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion
Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books -
Ebook omnibus: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion
Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books -
A vertical world split between those who breathe filtered air and those who taste metal. Eight clamps holding it to a mountain at night. Airborne by dawn.
The interactive map is live.
Free. Ten minutes. The most visual issue yet.
https://newsletter.a2rkcreative.com/
#TheParasiteWars #SFF #WorldBuilding -
#EroticMusings 2026.05.25 — Week 51 (May 17-23) Craft What kind(s) of intimacy do you find hardest to show in your work? How are you trying to improve?
[Note: This is a discussion about how to include sex in a story. —RS]
Well, there was a time where a friend reading a draft of a novel said, I love the story but I don't believe these people ever have sex. They fade to black.
Well, I was still writing my stories as if they were YA, and I was the type of shy person that was quite okay with tell not show in certain areas of life, and could be quite "appropriate" about hinting at chemistry in bed with intimacy outside of bed.
These last few stories have been a culmination of wanting to write more spicy stories, of trying to show don't tell tastefully yet naturally for the character, to make sex integral to the plot of the story by proving it a raison d'être. It is hard†, no pun intended, for me to do as my censorious mind objects and balks and tries to stop me from writing.
My solutions have been to never use the common, crass, or anatomical words associated with sex in the English language, to always address the event from the racing heart and senses of the first person narrator, what she sees, feels, smells, tastes, hears, or worries about—her assessments, enjoyment and what captures her attention—not what someone standing in the room or looking at a movie expects to see to fulfill their interest. No demonstration sex—what the narrator reports was for her benefit not yours, though once you get into the flow… However, the phrase "being demonstrative" does have a special meaning in the right context. I'm not above using innuendo, double entendre, unusual phrasing, or misusing meanings of words to get the point across!
So far, it seems to be working.
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† Okay, sorry, the pun was intentional.[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#EroticMusings 2026.05.25 — Week 51 (May 17-23) Craft What kind(s) of intimacy do you find hardest to show in your work? How are you trying to improve?
[Note: This is a discussion about how to include sex in a story. —RS]
Well, there was a time where a friend reading a draft of a novel said, I love the story but I don't believe these people ever have sex. They fade to black.
Well, I was still writing my stories as if they were YA, and I was the type of shy person that was quite okay with tell not show in certain areas of life, and could be quite "appropriate" about hinting at chemistry in bed with intimacy outside of bed.
These last few stories have been a culmination of wanting to write more spicy stories, of trying to show don't tell tastefully yet naturally for the character, to make sex integral to the plot of the story by proving it a raison d'être. It is hard†, no pun intended, for me to do as my censorious mind objects and balks and tries to stop me from writing.
My solutions have been to never use the common, crass, or anatomical words associated with sex in the English language, to always address the event from the racing heart and senses of the first person narrator, what she sees, feels, smells, tastes, hears, or worries about—her assessments, enjoyment and what captures her attention—not what someone standing in the room or looking at a movie expects to see to fulfill their interest. No demonstration sex—what the narrator reports was for her benefit not yours, though once you get into the flow… However, the phrase "being demonstrative" does have a special meaning in the right context. I'm not above using innuendo, double entendre, unusual phrasing, or misusing meanings of words to get the point across!
So far, it seems to be working.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
† Okay, sorry, the pun was intentional.[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#EroticMusings 2026.05.25 — Week 51 (May 17-23) Craft What kind(s) of intimacy do you find hardest to show in your work? How are you trying to improve?
[Note: This is a discussion about how to include sex in a story. —RS]
Well, there was a time where a friend reading a draft of a novel said, I love the story but I don't believe these people ever have sex. They fade to black.
Well, I was still writing my stories as if they were YA, and I was the type of shy person that was quite okay with tell not show in certain areas of life, and could be quite "appropriate" about hinting at chemistry in bed with intimacy outside of bed.
These last few stories have been a culmination of wanting to write more spicy stories, of trying to show don't tell tastefully yet naturally for the character, to make sex integral to the plot of the story by proving it a raison d'être. It is hard†, no pun intended, for me to do as my censorious mind objects and balks and tries to stop me from writing.
My solutions have been to never use the common, crass, or anatomical words associated with sex in the English language, to always address the event from the racing heart and senses of the first person narrator, what she sees, feels, smells, tastes, hears, or worries about—her assessments, enjoyment and what captures her attention—not what someone standing in the room or looking at a movie expects to see to fulfill their interest. No demonstration sex—what the narrator reports was for her benefit not yours, though once you get into the flow… However, the phrase "being demonstrative" does have a special meaning in the right context. I'm not above using innuendo, double entendre, unusual phrasing, or misusing meanings of words to get the point across!
So far, it seems to be working.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
† Okay, sorry, the pun was intentional.[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#EroticMusings 2026.05.25 — Week 51 (May 17-23) Craft What kind(s) of intimacy do you find hardest to show in your work? How are you trying to improve?
[Note: This is a discussion about how to include sex in a story. —RS]
Well, there was a time where a friend reading a draft of a novel said, I love the story but I don't believe these people ever have sex. They fade to black.
Well, I was still writing my stories as if they were YA, and I was the type of shy person that was quite okay with tell not show in certain areas of life, and could be quite "appropriate" about hinting at chemistry in bed with intimacy outside of bed.
These last few stories have been a culmination of wanting to write more spicy stories, of trying to show don't tell tastefully yet naturally for the character, to make sex integral to the plot of the story by proving it a raison d'être. It is hard†, no pun intended, for me to do as my censorious mind objects and balks and tries to stop me from writing.
My solutions have been to never use the common, crass, or anatomical words associated with sex in the English language, to always address the event from the racing heart and senses of the first person narrator, what she sees, feels, smells, tastes, hears, or worries about—her assessments, enjoyment and what captures her attention—not what someone standing in the room or looking at a movie expects to see to fulfill their interest. No demonstration sex—what the narrator reports was for her benefit not yours, though once you get into the flow… However, the phrase "being demonstrative" does have a special meaning in the right context. I'm not above using innuendo, double entendre, unusual phrasing, or misusing meanings of words to get the point across!
So far, it seems to be working.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
† Okay, sorry, the pun was intentional.[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#EroticMusings 2026.05.25 — Week 51 (May 17-23) Craft What kind(s) of intimacy do you find hardest to show in your work? How are you trying to improve?
[Note: This is a discussion about how to include sex in a story. —RS]
Well, there was a time where a friend reading a draft of a novel said, I love the story but I don't believe these people ever have sex. They fade to black.
Well, I was still writing my stories as if they were YA, and I was the type of shy person that was quite okay with tell not show in certain areas of life, and could be quite "appropriate" about hinting at chemistry in bed with intimacy outside of bed.
These last few stories have been a culmination of wanting to write more spicy stories, of trying to show don't tell tastefully yet naturally for the character, to make sex integral to the plot of the story by proving it a raison d'être. It is hard†, no pun intended, for me to do as my censorious mind objects and balks and tries to stop me from writing.
My solutions have been to never use the common, crass, or anatomical words associated with sex in the English language, to always address the event from the racing heart and senses of the first person narrator, what she sees, feels, smells, tastes, hears, or worries about—her assessments, enjoyment and what captures her attention—not what someone standing in the room or looking at a movie expects to see to fulfill their interest. No demonstration sex—what the narrator reports was for her benefit not yours, though once you get into the flow… However, the phrase "being demonstrative" does have a special meaning in the right context. I'm not above using innuendo, double entendre, unusual phrasing, or misusing meanings of words to get the point across!
So far, it seems to be working.
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The interactive map of Vehl's Reach is live.
Every district. Every elevation. Every zone. Skyside to Shadowside. The Spire to the Deep Point.
A city 3.2 kilometres tall and 5.8 kilometres wide, floating above a volcanic bay under two suns. Click any point. See where the story happens.
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CW: #EroticMusings — Week 52 2026.05.25 (May 24-30) Culture: May 25 is Towel Day! Share something with a towel (or otherwise related to Douglas Adams or the world of the *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*). CW: Read the hashtag!
#EroticMusings May 25
Actually, turns out towels add spice to the right kind of story.
In a society that is more permissive than ours with far more restrictive rules on consent, where what they wear has different standards and function than what we are used to, when they go bathing in public bathhouses—a cultural norm—towels have meaning. Look up onsen and konyoku. My "trope" has shown up in a few stories now (and I'm about to write a sensuous bathhouse scene), but it is etiquette to wear a towel around your hips if you want to say you don't want to be propositioned.
If you are a man.
Women wear a towel around their hips to signal they aren't hunting to lower the anxiety level of the men around them.
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CW: #EroticMusings — Week 52 2026.05.25 (May 24-30) Culture: May 25 is Towel Day! Share something with a towel (or otherwise related to Douglas Adams or the world of the *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*). CW: Read the hashtag!
#EroticMusings May 25
Actually, turns out towels add spice to the right kind of story.
In a society that is more permissive than ours with far more restrictive rules on consent, where what they wear has different standards and function than what we are used to, when they go bathing in public bathhouses—a cultural norm—towels have meaning. Look up onsen and konyoku. My "trope" has shown up in a few stories now (and I'm about to write a sensuous bathhouse scene), but it is etiquette to wear a towel around your hips if you want to say you don't want to be propositioned.
If you are a man.
Women wear a towel around their hips to signal they aren't hunting to lower the anxiety level of the men around them.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
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#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
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#RSdiscussion
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CW: #EroticMusings — Week 52 2026.05.25 (May 24-30) Culture: May 25 is Towel Day! Share something with a towel (or otherwise related to Douglas Adams or the world of the *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*). CW: Read the hashtag!
#EroticMusings May 25
Actually, turns out towels add spice to the right kind of story.
In a society that is more permissive than ours with far more restrictive rules on consent, where what they wear has different standards and function than what we are used to, when they go bathing in public bathhouses—a cultural norm—towels have meaning. Look up onsen and konyoku. My "trope" has shown up in a few stories now (and I'm about to write a sensuous bathhouse scene), but it is etiquette to wear a towel around your hips if you want to say you don't want to be propositioned.
If you are a man.
Women wear a towel around their hips to signal they aren't hunting to lower the anxiety level of the men around them.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
CW: #EroticMusings — Week 52 2026.05.25 (May 24-30) Culture: May 25 is Towel Day! Share something with a towel (or otherwise related to Douglas Adams or the world of the *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*). CW: Read the hashtag!
#EroticMusings May 25
Actually, turns out towels add spice to the right kind of story.
In a society that is more permissive than ours with far more restrictive rules on consent, where what they wear has different standards and function than what we are used to, when they go bathing in public bathhouses—a cultural norm—towels have meaning. Look up onsen and konyoku. My "trope" has shown up in a few stories now (and I'm about to write a sensuous bathhouse scene), but it is etiquette to wear a towel around your hips if you want to say you don't want to be propositioned.
If you are a man.
Women wear a towel around their hips to signal they aren't hunting to lower the anxiety level of the men around them.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory