#scribesandmakers Sep 23: Shameless someone-else-promotion day. Let's boost away. First, I'm going to boost the #wss366 prompt. There are several of us writing good short fiction using it. Lots of cute and clever stories. Second, there is @QuasiTemporal Time & Ties. A lovely time-travel story […]

#PennedPossibilities 792 — Share art pieces or mood boards for your WIP, if you have any. I just did a cover reveal, so here it is again. Cover for vol. 4. This is the Ox Hour Curse: **Ushi no Koku Mairi** #NMPP #NMPrompts #Yokai @samkalensky.com

#wordweavers 2025.09.22 — Is there gambling in your world? Do any of your characters participate in it? Kan-chan: Pachinko anyone? #nmww #nmprompts

#writerscoffeeclub - 23 September. How ‘self-reliant’ are you as a writer? I run my own team. I send real betas i.e. hopefully finished drafts to my Beta readers. And commission art, but do all the post-processing on them. The artist is the only paid person. #nmwcc #nmprompts

Cover Reveal for: For Love of a Konbini Idol Vol #4 (I Fought a Cult) At: #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/novel/series/11417104 #ao3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/52770025 #amwriting #fantasy #konbiniidol #urbanfantasy #mythpunk

If you see posts by "Jimmy Truth" please report them. "Nichol, the Fedi Chick" was a pleasure compared to this vermin.

1. #webauthorscafe 9/22-28: How do you measure a story's success? I look at the number of times a story is opened. On AO3. The other metric on AO3 is too idiosyncratic. On PIXIV I balance Opened, Liked, and Bookmarked. Comments are as rare as hen's teeth, so they boost how I feel but […]

**10.#webauthorscafe 9/22-28:** How do you measure a story's success? Weekly prompts appear #webauthorscafeq Full list of prompts appear at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vuRRfDLFomqnWmUG571wz-5sXmuQZergyRsA8LnBhrM

#writerscoffeeclub Sep 22: What have you discovered about yourself through your writing? That I have more dedication and ability to work on long projects than I realized.

#pennedpossibilities 790: Think about audience or write for self? Both. I don't do binary very well. Minimum is base 4, and hex is ideal. #nmpp #nmprompts

Finished _The Troubles of Miss Nicola the Exorcist_. It was a nice romance/adventure with supernatural mixed in. I knew most of the folklore used Korobako (Child Stealing Box), Lost house, etc. Didn't know the story about the painting of a dead bride with a fictitious husband. I got a little […]

#writerscoffeeclub Sept. 21: Write a bit in praise of yourself, as if anonymously. She's an eccentric one. Doesn't talk much unless you can get her started on silent films, idols, Japanese folklore, or ghost hunting. In person, she is surprisingly inarticulate about what she writes. It's good […]

#wordweavers 9/21 Do your MC contribute to any discrimination in their world. I try to write accepting characters, but they are human so yes. No overt discrination appears besides what appears in standards of beauty. Other instances are either absent or in my blind spot. #nmww #nmprompts

#scribesandmakers Define creative rewards 9/21 Feeling I have created something buetiful.

#eroticmusings Week 17 (September 21-27) Craft: Do you show what you make, or does it never get seen by anyone else? Share something you normally wouldn't. I post almost everything and once it up, I leave it. I generally don't share R18 stuff here. Especially early stuff with is rough. I […]

#Corvids News Today, I got a good look at the local murders, enough to figure out several groups. 1. The White Family: This is my home murder. Very healthy will sometimes follow me for blocks. You can see how sleek and healthy they are in the pictures […] [Original post on sakurajima.moe]

#writerscoffeeclub 2025-09-20 How might your work be seen as a criticism of the present moment? **Arisu, Girlfriend, KonbiniIdol** : Homophobia and Transphobia intrude periodically. **Return to the Fate Gear** : The ship's mission is to tear down God portrayed as patriarchal, dogmatic […]

#pennedpossibilities 788: Out of all of your characters, who would make a “plan,” who follows along, and who knows if the plan is going to fail? Tomo: Ume makes most of the plans. Who knows why that became her job? Her plans are usually to dive in and improvise. Kan-chan or I would do a better […]

#wordweavers 20: How does society think about nature and its protection? 2020 Japan. i.e. same as our world. Kakurio: There is no such thing as a dominant society. Many of it's inhabitants are nature kami so they care about their piece of it.

#scribesandmakers 20: Do you have a lot of cooking equipment? No, I keep it very simple: a nice wok, a frying pan, a pot, and a few other things.

**Isiliel and The Lilin 🖤 Umbral Exorcism, live at The Black Heart 🖤 Camden. July 20th 2025** Links: * YouTube * YouTube Music * Invidious

Just when you thought #JapaneseFolklore couldn't get any weirder, I present you with ringo no kai. This #yokai is the spirit of apple trees whose fruit has been left too long without being picked. They appear in the evening near apple orchards, taking... #FolkyFriday 🎨Matthew Meyer @yokai.com 1/3

#writerscoffeeclub 9/19 mistake I discovered you couldn't just light up a cigarette on a Tokyo street. I reviewed what I had released and found nothing needed changing and changed draft chapters to reflect this information after reading some articles on the subject.

#wordweavers 9/19 is there someone your antagonistic misses. That is the whole reason for Mikawa's existence, regaining Shiome.

#scribesandmakers Sep 19. If you could do anything in the world, regardless of complexity, what would be your dream project? This is a prompt question, not a genie, devil, kami, or angel. I am not looking for loopholes. (Because there are a lots as worded) Also, I did work on the project for […]

# Empty Birthday (Chiya Birthday 2015) Part 1/2 ** #istheorderarabbit? (#gochiusa) #fanfiction ** ** #宇治松千夜生誕祭2025 #chiyabirthday ** #wss366 The water bowl shone with a faint blue light. In it, Chiya saw her reflection and an empty, rippling blue. She stared for a full minute, hoping something […]

Day Twenty-nine: With something burning **Isiliel Moonbow Rebellion** Not sure what is burning, but there is plenty of fire...

#pennedpossibilities 787 — How does your MC view the gentler, daintier things in life: as things worth preserving and caring for, or things only bound to wither and disappear? Ume: Never thought about it. But I think both are true. That they wither and disappear doesn't that make them sweeter […]

#scribesandmakers - 18 Sep. If you write novels, do you strive to have your chapters a consistent length? Yes, between 1.5K and 2K words. This is a good length for commuter readers. (My novels are serialized on posted to a platform used by commuter readers.) #nmsam #nmprompts

#writerscoffeeclub - 18 September. Have you written something blasphemous? Tell us about it. Perhaps “Return to the Fate Gear” is about killing God. I try not to pin it exactly down to what God. But if the shoe fits, wear it: patriarchal, dogmatic, monotheism. But heretical for sure. I’m an […]

I am not sure if my family has moved north or if they are out of town. Anyway, I am now running into them on my walks. They definitely know me. This may be the northern family. Left Crow on a bench with a peanut Right: Family on the street #corvid #corvids #crow #crows #birds

#ScribesAndMakers 17 If you have creative parents, do you read what they write/appreciate their art or craft, or keep out of it altogether? My father took family photographs and started writing and illustrating his travel log. It was boring with long […] [Original post on sakurajima.moe]

At the Japanese Embasy of Norway

The Butterfly Lovers is considered one of China’s four great folktales. Set in the Eastern Jin dynasty, it tells the tragic love story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Zhu was the only daughter of a wealthy family. Despite living in a time when women were not allowed to... #LegendaryWednesday 1/6

#writerscoffeeclub 17 September. Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM? The **shouldn't** , but they may need to. I'm not sure most people care as much as we do. think, a better response is to write the best work you can. At least at the moment, it's […]

#wordweavers 16. Share a snippet with a color in it. Also describing the undescribable. _Snip_ #wip At first, all I saw was a blur of sand-yellow, but then streaks of motion. Three gecko soldiers were running. I saw their movement more than I saw individuals. Then, they were gone. Some […]

#pennedpossibilities 785 — If you could give a piece of advice to any of your characters, what would it be? Kan-chan, Tomo: You got figured out all wrong. Talk to each other. #nmpp #nmprompts #konbiniidol

#writerscoffeeclub 16 September. What was the hardest writerly lesson for you to learn? Or unlearn? Not to do it alone. #nmwcc #nmprompts

#scribesandmakers - 16 Sept. Which part of your work makes you unique/different from anyone else? There is nothing I do that in itself makes me unique; it's the combination of things. I write yuri (a smaller genre) with adult characters (Josei), no high schoolers. I write in a poetic […]

# The Norns ノルン ## Chapter 3: The Norns Author Nara Moore (Me) **# FanFiction #tearmoonempire** Desc: Great Sage of the Empire is introduced to the three Norn, or as she calls them, The Three Wyrd Sisters. No, she doesn’t call them that. She is a noble and would never stoop so low. But maybe […]

Konbini Idol, Side Stories ## Punks チンピラ By Nara Moore Art Mai-sensei Tsugumi and Matsumoto (Furyō Shōjo Warukyūre) run into more trouble than they anticipated on the streets of Adachi-ku. ## Noir Urban Fantasy At […] [Original post on sakurajima.moe]

/9 #webauthorscafe 9/15-21: How do you measure your personal success? (Individual Fics next week.) 1. My satisfaction with my work. 2. That I am producing the best stories that I can. **Entertaining** stories without plot holes or excessive grammatical errors. As they say in Japan: "Work […]

1. #webauthorscafe 9/15-21: How do you measure your personal success? (Individual Fics next week.) Weekly prompts appear at #webauthorscafeq Full list of prompts appears at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vuRRfDLFomqnWmUG571wz-5sXmuQZergyRsA8LnBhrM

#pennedpossibilities 784 — Is there a mistake your antagonist keeps repeatedly making in their life? Explain. She should give up on Shishi. But controlling love doesn't work that way, so she won't. #nmpp #nmprompts #konbiniidol

#scribesandmakers Sep 15: How's your creativity going? Need help/critique? Writing is going well. I am managing to keep up on 4 or 5 projects I have going. Help: I am looking for a free text-to-speech reader that runs on the web or a Mac. No spy stuff if possible. Ideally, would recognize […]