Getting my daily foot cuddles. 😆 #cat #orangecat #snooze #sleep

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#PlotTober I am still turning my rough idea into an outline, this will probably come when Idaeus confronts Natsuki about her choices, both about him and some Preservation related stuff. Her answers will make him confront his past in a different way than he does in the previous novel.

Yes! I have one post masturbation scene, where it's pretty obvious what went on. I should work in a scene with it happening on page somewhere. #QueerWriter #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt

#PlotTober This will be the final book of the series, so the ending really needs to be satisfying. I have an idea of where it will go, hopefully readers will like it. It'll likely have a couple of time jump epilogues so Idaeus gets the ending he really deserves after the shit I put him through.

#PlotTober I planned this out before I even knew what the plot would be for two of the POV characters. 😅 Idaeus: traveling back to Anunitum with Hauyne, Solel, and whatever I name their Tot Pemphero: At the dock (a few days later) meeting the boat and giving Therin an enthusiastic hello 🧵

#PlotTober Antagonists Idaeus is going to have a few. He wants to be part of a case he's not allowed on His adoptive mother is in danger His estranged father could do any number of things Through all of that he's trying to take down his walls and be there for family (partner, friend, kids)

I dream a dream where, in 12 days, readers will have The First Sin in hand, whether via ebook or print, and some will choose to carry it with them on their daily commute or to a vacation spot. They'll read it and they'll love it, and they'll say, WOW LOOK AT THAT COVER. 📚🩵 🪐📚 #scifi #indiebooks

#PlotTober Giving this one to Pemphero. Their big story aside from the main, will be about their relationship with being frayromantic. They have a new relationship with someone they have intense feelings for. In the past that has always burnt out quickly. It turns into a negative, no matter who. 🧵

#PlotTober Backstory. The darkest moment in Idaeus' backstory is also the trigger point for the entire series. His early childhood was a dizzy mix of nightmare and safety, though a safe space he didn't fully trust. The nightmare reached its zenith and stopped when he was age nine (10 Earth years)🧵

#PlotTober Personality! Book #4 is told through three POVs. Idaeus - MC, a guarded perfectionist. He's learned to let go a little bit by now. But he's not the coziest. Pemphero - A frayromantic who loves people. They live by the beat of their own drum and don't come across very serious. 🧵

#PlotTober Most events in Book 4 are, on the surface, triggered by Natsuki being chosen as the next Deputy for Preservation. They can't respond to that until it happens. Natsuki has made choices in her past that will make people question and/or be upset that she's put into that specific position.

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#PlotTober Why Idaeus cares. Before book 3 he had a straightforward relationship with his adoptive mother (who is abducted in 4).In 3 he has to come to terms, to some degree, with the choices of the adults who were supposed to be his caretakers as a child. In 4 his relationship is complicated. 1/2

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#Caulktober Poly! Attaching art from @sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social. These chars are human, but I love their unicorns. 😁 This trio develops a relationship over the course of the series. Hauyne (they/them, stripes) is hopelessly in love with both Solel (she/her, brown) and Idaeus (he/him, white). 🧵

#PlotTober Idaeus had helped Candamius establish their Preservation vocation. His adoptive mother will soon be the Deputy of Anunitum's Preservation and the rest of his family is ready to move back. However, things are not going to be that simple. 1/2

#Caulktober Day 5. Trans/non-binary Billie (she/her) , the main character of book 2, is using hormone replacement so she won't present as male (no gender assigned at birth) Pemphero will be a POV of book 4 and is non-binary (they/them and sometimes he). There's more side characters as well.

#Caulktober Day 3 & 4, sexuality Missed a few days. I haven't made a Talithan cock-owning character who's straight, which I didn't realize until now. Most are some degree of bi/Pan. Therin and Pemphero only like other cock-holders. Idaeus has a strong preference towards them.

#PlotTober I'm switching to the novel I don't have all perfectly plotted out, since it will be more useful. Still Talitha Harbor.. but the last novel of the series. Artful Ambition. Right now it's planed to have one lead MC and two additional POVs who are important. 🧵

#PlotTober Broken Mist takes place in Talitha Harbor, a planet named after the colony ship. I wanted to imagine humanity with a do-over, so to speak. The planet was healthy and they could rewrite their society. Humans will still human, but without the mess that is our current planet. #SpecFic

#PlotTober Yes, my inspiration for Mist No 2 (1 was yesterday). The song, "Hand of Sorrow," by Within Temptation. @wtofficial.bsky.social There's no crowns and Mist wasn't raised to kill. I used the theme of having to choose between who you're supposed to be and the person you love. 🧵

#OctoberWorldbuilders Week 1: desert dwellers Talitha Harbor has a small population. The entire human population is at 1.4 Million. So, with so few they can choose their environment. They all live in one of three cities and there's no plans to build one in a desert. #SpecFic #scifi

#PlotTober Initially, I wanted to write the story of an investigator who a side character in what is now book 3. Marga, a tall and broad redheaded woman who takes her job seriously, but also has a mind of her own. The inspiration for Mist came from a couple of sources. 🧵

#Caulktober I only have one, maybe. An Ace character who is also, by our terms, transgender. She's in a world with no gender assigned at birth. She's been on hormone therapy for some time, but I have gone back and forth on the surgery question.

Going through the old manuscript and making notes for the re-write. I love this line, and this character. "As he started tapping on his screen, Ziva looked around. Adults were always tapping on their screens. It wasn’t interesting." #SpecFic #Sci-fi #QoTD #WritingCommunity #BrokenMist

Just a suggestion.

#Caulktober Talitha Harbor doesn't have legal marriage. Of my more important characters, Councillor Robert Foster has been in the longest committed relationship. He and Luna had a Union Ceremony. It's not a monogamous relationship and they argue a lot. But they still love each other.

Des, chaos writer, ha The project I am revving up for is draft 3.0 of Broken Mist, the first novel of my Talitha Harbor series. Mist is a thief, Marga an investigator. They live two very different lives and their worlds are about to crash together, for a second time. #SpecFic #PlotTober

The hashtag for this is great. Hopefully Oct will be less stressful than September so I can actually finish one of these. 🤞 #Caulktober

The hill I die is on is that getting dev editing feedback or beta reading feedback from a machine like autocrit or even prowritingaid is useless. You need feedback for human beta readers because humans are the ones going to buy your books.

#WriteSky Looking for recommendations for a blind/VI sensitivity reader to work with starting end of the year/beginning of next year 🙏🏻 #WritingCommunity #SensitivityReader (shares appreciated 🫶🏻)

Updated the cover page for Talitha Harbor. I have bigger plans for it, but they will have to wait as I gear up for Nov and World Ember in Dec. There's also links to my Discord and Twitch if you want more spaces for writing and world-building. www.worldanvil.com/w/talitha-ha... #SciFi #SolarPunk

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He's an asshole, but a cute one. Snuggly as long as you don't try to pet him more than about 10 seconds. #OrangeCat #CatsofBsky #Cat #Cuddle

This is such a fun prompt. I only have one rough draft in full book form, so you get a bit of Broken Mist. Draft 3.0 will be my Nov project. #WritingPrompt #WriteSky #SpecFic #QueerSFF #SciFi

I can't deal with certain romance genre love interests. If the MC is chasing an asshole with no consequences for being one, I will DNF. If it's a different genre where the romance is a subplot it doesn't bother me as much, usually. I am twice divorced and cranky, ha. #writingQ

#QueerPrompts Short answer, no. No one is going to assume anyone's sexuality on Talitha Harbor since there's isn't a majority norm, which is more or less the treatment Cis people get. There's no gatekeeping either. They also have a very different attitude towards having children. 🧵

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The House of Pod podcast has a recent episode about this as well (highly recommend the podcast in general). They interview Mariah Blake who wrote, "They Poisoned the World." Which is all about this topic and the industry's involved. It's in more than plastic food containers. #environment

#Septopolis This is a fun question for me. I built a gov system. The short version. A decentralized gov that manages all basic resources and services. There are 13 mini govs called Vocations. Each great city has its own 13. The longer version: www.worldanvil.com/w/talitha-ha... #Solarpunk

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#QueerPrompts I wrote a world with a culture focused on keeping their environment healthy, so most of them. Some would be less enthusiastic about it. I have a few antagonists who wouldn't. Clean up day would also be pretty easy. Probably more invasive species management than trash. #Solarpunk

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