So, at about 28k… #Nomads might be almost done 😲 #amwriting #NovemberWriting #writesky #queerbooksky

And my fave line(s) from today: #amwriting #Nomads #NovemberWriting #fantasy #romance #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚔️💘❤️‍🔥

Last line from today's writing: As he neared Ubet, however, he slowed. Ubet wasn’t going anywhere—they were slightly crouched so that the water covered most of their chest, only head and shoulders above the water, their dark hair billowing around them. #amwriting #Nomads #NovemberWriting 💘❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This part of #Nomads is so self-indulgent 😆 The 1st half was 20k words of slogging thru the wilderness with some subtexty stuff that slowly came closer to the surface - and now it’s like, let’s have all the fun scenes! 😆 #amwriting #romance 💘🏳️‍🌈❤️‍🔥 #writesky #queerbooksky

I have been making this wordcount thing way too complicated 😄 All I have to do is compare today's file with yesterday's, and the diff is today's wc. (I'm writing in my email, but every day I copy the whole thing to a Word doc & save it to my computer & the cloud) #amwriting #NovemberWriting #Nomads

This dark night of the soul really isn't that dark - which I kind of figured once I wrote the scene that happens at Castle Caran. Of which I'm glad, bc M&U have suffered so much, I didn't want to put them thru the kind of pain I originally envisioned. I just want them to be happy. #amwriting #Nomads

So, um...there's a lot of sex in this story. Like way more than I expected. (And getting a little kinky too 😈) These two need to stop doing it so we can move ahead with whatever the plot is supposed to be. #amwriting #Nomads #writesky #queerbooksy #romance 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💘❤️‍🔥🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

1) I finally got to my favorite line of the whole story 😈 *Crack!* A pebble landed on the stone beside him. He turned. Ubet stood there naked and dripping, dark as shadow, one side glistening with starlight, the other burnished by the last light of the sun. #amwriting #Nomads #writesky #LGBTQ 💘

Kicking off tonight's writing music. I love this song so much 🥰🥰🥰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLfC... #amwriting #Nomads #powermetal #writesky #romance 💘

Today is a fun one 😄 Yes, I reached the midpoint, the turning pt, yesterday, but today I'm working on a much more extended scene once M&U reach the first oasis 😈 #amwriting #Nomads #NovemberWriting #writesky #queerbooksky #LGBTQ #fantasy #romance 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💘🌴🏊‍♂️❤️‍🔥😈🌶️🌶️🌶️

Yesterday #Nomads surpassed 20K AND reached the midpoint 😮 To celebrate, here's a free snip, of the midpoint scene no less 😈 www.patreon.com/posts/142995... Some hints: a small tent, a cold night, huddling together for warmth.. 😈 NSFW! #amwriting #writesky #queerbooksky #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈💘❤️‍🔥

Ah, right! #NovemberWriting update time! Started up the mtn & surpassed my goal yesterday & today 😀 Last line from today: He lay with his head pillowed on a cushion—what luxury—and bathed in the words that Ubet had said earlier. (Ok, it’s sappy, so sue me!) #amwriting #Nomads #writingcommunity

I posted the snip where they make up from this: www.patreon.com/posts/142683... (FREE!) And I plan to post something on Patreon every day in November. That's the plan - I really hope I can do it! #amwriting #Nomads #NovemberWriting #writesky #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💘⚔️

Finally found this again at the end of the month, and ok, I'll bite (heheh) 😁😈 I have an obvious one for today's.. the Wolf from #BeauAndTheWolf certainly isn't human 😈🐺 #amwriting #Caulktober #queerbooksky #romance 🏳️‍🌈💘🐺🩸

Ok! As promised, I finally posted the river-crossing scene from #Nomads on Patreon (free!) www.patreon.com/posts/142333... and Wordpress talvilinna77.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/s... 😀 Also 😁 once it's done, I plan to post the whole story on Patreon 😀 #amwriting #writesky #booksky #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈💘

I just posted a scene from #Nomads (queer romance, enby love interest, wilderness survival) on Patreon (free!) www.patreon.com/posts/142333... and Wordpress talvilinna77.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/s... 😃 My dark fantasy/gay romance epic #ITN is on Wattpad tinyurl.com/InThyName ⚔️💘🏳️‍🌈 #QueerWritersChat

I loved The Nightmare Before Christmas when I was a kid, cause Halloween was and is my favorite holiday, so I loved the idea and depiction of a town centered around Halloween. The story annoyed me, but I loved the town 😄 #QueerWritersChat

Don't think so, cause I mainly write 2nd world fantasy. And I'm really bad at including holidays 😆 I need to revise my epic for that, cause it spans years & there are no holidays.. Ooh, and a Samhain-inspired post-story for my gay Beauty & the Beast, #BeauAndTheWolf, would be fun 😀 #QueerWritersChat

A little late to the game cause the phone rang right before 8. I'm Rauni (they/them) and I'm working on a side story ( #Nomads) to my epic trilogy, about two minor characters whom I wanted to get together, but didn't know how, until one day they told me in the middle of the night 😄 #QueerWritersChat

As per usual, I made my word count plan for #NovemberWriting on the evening of Oct 31 😄 And as always, here’s my mountain-shaped plan. Also got some treats, cause that’s what I write for 😆 Who else is ready for November? Or still getting ready? #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity

This song goes in every soundtrack 😆 since all I write is angsty romance #amwriting #Nomads #writesky #romance 💘🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD6V...

Oh man, too much, lol. Mongke's would have to include a convincing facsimile of his Central Asian style recurve bow, he is obsessed with that thing. & both would have to come w/ a long black wig 😆 Finally for the 1st time I think I've put together TWO chars w/ waist-length hair?! 😆 #LGBTQWriteAThon

Ooh! I actually have one, and it's super queer. My short story "In Between" (fantasy romance w/ enby love interest!) was inspired by a line from So This Is Ever After by FT Lukens 😆😆😆😆🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Free on Wattpad! www.wattpad.com/story/396118... #LGBTQWriteAThon #writesky #LGBTQ #romance 🏳️‍🌈💘🔥

At this point, just to write every day, to get a bit more of #Nomads done before November starts. And so I can get a treat next week! 😁 #LGBTQWriteAThon #writesky #queerwriters Pls forgive me if I go back in time & do some more of these, cause I missed like.. all of October

Time to get ready for #NovemberWriting! Who else is doing a writing challenge in November? Are you doing a formal challenge or just your own thing? I'm probably doing my own thing unless a friend ropes me into something. But hoping to meet up for write-ins! #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity

When two characters admitting they care about each other consists of: “I don’t hate you.” “Good. Cause I don’t hate you either.” 😆😈 #amwriting #Nomads #writesky #romance #LGBTQ ⚔️💘🏳️‍🌈

Mongke & Ubet have their first fight 😱 I did not expect or plan this, it just kind of happened. One of the joys of pantsing! 😆 (Sry again for wall of text- this story demands to be written on my phone) #amwriting #Nomads #writesky #fantasy #romance #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈⚔️💘

Added something a bit happier to the #Nomads soundtrack. M&U do start to feel...contented...with each other's company and...fulfilled...with their seemingly aimless journey, without their really noticing. Also, this song has the best #folkmetal bridge 😄🤘 #amwriting www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXLS...

Jeez, so many of the songs I'm adding to the #Nomads soundtrack are so depressing ☹️ Though to be fair, 1) I'm listening to Finnish #melodeath; 2) Mongke & Ubet have had hard, depressing lives, so the beginning of the soundtrack is full of songs about that 🙁 #amwriting #writesky

I say "basically" because I only wrote Sareb & Kuya's storyline for book 3. 😅 I don't even know what Teshem is doing during book 3 (um, staying where he was at the end of book 2?) I wrote a little of Aliesne's storyline, and today I thought about how #Nomads would intersect with it. #amwriting #EOD

This song hits different now too. (It's about Sareb, esp. at the end of book 2 & beginning of book 3.) Seeing it coming up in my playlist was actually what spurred these reflections. #amwriting #ITN #TDL #EOD #writesky #writingcommunity www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jel...

It's strange to think that the trilogy is DONE. (In terms of drafting anyway- still A LOT of editing to do.) I devoted so much of my life, not just to writing, but to envisioning Sareb & Kuya's story- all their interactions, all the angst, all the ways the story could go. 🧵 #amwriting #writesky #ITN

The feels attached to this song are different now that #EOD is (basically) done. A soft nostalgic feeling, instead of the sharp angsty pang when this scene in EOD was yet upcoming. #amwriting #writesky #fantasy #romance 💘❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWjh...

Usually this song makes me think of Sareb, but Mongke and Ubet are little flowers that need rain, too. 🥹💞❤️‍🩹 (Add to soundtrack, lol) #amwriting #Nomads #romance 🏳️‍🌈💘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLfC...

Oh yeah, I did write the river-crossing scene. M&U were not excited about being thrown in the river, so they didn’t do anything fun. But some fun stuff happened after 😈 Going to post all that on Patreon & my blog. Stay tuned! 😁 #amwriting #queerbooksky #Nomads #LGBTQ #romance 🏳️‍🌈💘

I was planning on channeling Brokeback Mountain in some other ways, but I wasn't planning on this, it just kind of happened 😄 #amwriting #writesky #Nomads #fantasy #romance #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈💘

So the pattern is listen to melodic death metal while working, and listen to Dynazty and similar bands while writing #Nomads 😄

I'm trying to write the river-crossing scene and Mongke and Ubet are not having it. They're like, "please do not throw us into this cold river on a chilly cloudy day, we just want to get across" 😣🥶😖 #amwriting #Nomads #writesky #fantasy #romance ⚔️💘🏳️‍🌈

Actually this is the ending theme for #Nomads 😁 It fits the ending (where the title comes from). And the story does end happily (spoiler!) “Stay a little while” can go somewhere in the second half, when things are uncertain 😣 #amwriting #fantasy #romance #LGBTQ ⚔️💘🏳️‍🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrzN...

Ok that's it, I'm making a soundtrack 😆 I usually don't for novellas and short stories, but well, I keep hearing songs that give me the feels.. #Nomads #amwriting #fantasy #romance ⚔️💘💔❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

And an ending theme? Spotify is on point today #amwriting #Nomads #fantasy #romance ⚔️💘🏳️‍🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLar...

Omg I found the theme song for #Nomads Mongke likes to act tough, but this applies to him as much as Ubet. The kind of lives they've had leave a mark. #amwriting #writesky #fantasy #romance ⚔️💘🏳️‍🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTTZ...

"Just huddling together for warmth..." Sure, and it's absolutely not going to lead to anything else 😈❤️‍🔥 (And no, I still haven't written the river-crossing scene, cause I'm writing this instead 😆) #amwriting #writesky #Nomads #romance #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈

. #Nomads broke 10K words! This is going to be a real full-sized novella 😄 And I haven't even reached the halfway pt yet. Edging toward it.. (and edging really is the right word.. 😆😈) #amwriting #writesky #fantasy #romance #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈💘❤️‍🔥

I love this album cover, so cool 😍🤘 #Sirenia #symphonicmetal www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipYi...

A quest. A soul-eating sword. A fiery mage whose people are being exterminated. A warlord's son who longs for a different way. A slow-burn romance that could change the world. If they can get past their differences before the world goes up in flames. #DVpit #A #F #DF #R #LGBT #DIS #MH #TV

Sareb just wants to survive. But when he saves a stranger in the desert, he's drawn into a quest to rescue her soul & stop her from starting a world war—and finds himself falling for her brother, even though their people wiped out his family. #DVpit #A #F #DF #R #LGBT #DIS #MH #TV

Cursed with a beastly form, the Wolf just wants to be left alone--until an attractive young herbalist shows up, creating an opportunity to break the curse, if only the Wolf wasn't impossible to love. #DVpit #A #F #R #LGBT #DIS #MH #ND #TV

It would actually be worse for Mongke’s bow than for Ubet’s arm. But I think I have a just barely plausible solution. (No, I still haven’t written this. Yesterday I wrote them camping on the riverbank 😆 Didn’t have time to write yet today.) #amwriting #Nomads #fantasy #romance 🏳️‍🌈💘⚔️

It's set during bk 3 of my epic( #EOD). The MCs broke the world at the end of bk 1, but things are starting to settle down now. The two MCs of #Nomads are traveling through a forest loosely modeled on the Appalachians. Wilderness survival, it's in everything I write 😆 #amwriting #LGBTQWriteAThon 🏳️‍🌈💘⚔️