#AprilWorldbuilders The dwarves of Caldera and of Borvos, the underground kingdom they split from, haven't had contact in a thousand years. The great cavern hall the Calderans departed through is now considered cursed, and it's the very strictest taboo that neither of them shall ever enter it again.

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#AwesomeCharacters I could also see the MCs of Grinks & Co. opening a cheerful modern diner (with Grinks as the energetic manager) and having their NSFW adventures with each other and their favorite regulars. Cozy porn! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting

#AwesomeCharacters I've never written an AU, but I could see Drohim the PI hiring Seff the resourceful homeless kid as his protégé; or Seff the journalism student interning for Drohim the private military contractor to learn about war firsthand. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting

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Zedenko reluctantly uses the levitation column along the outside of Oasis University's literal ivory tower. #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompt #writingprompts #amwriting

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I'd like to have a large shower in my home with a showerhead at each end, and I'd like to have tailor-made clothing. Of course, I'd also like to help fix social problems, but that's not a silly luxury.

#AprilAdventure The catalyst for StS is the mystery of who kidnapped Drohim's husband, why, and where he is now. Drohim and Seff have a good idea of who and why, but the where is still unknown - and the answer will come with far more problems than they realize. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #writingq

#WIPSnips The superhero sex comedy-drama (I need a shorter term for that): One of the reasons Flo and Paul like each other is that they're good at putting each other at ease, and not judgmental. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writingprompt #amwriting

#AntagonistApril Kevra is a full member of the Grekaan and does her part to serve the group's interests (for her own benefit). After Drohim and Seff follow clues to her door and she fails to kill them, she's given one last chance to make up for it, or else. Everyone suffers as a result. Everyone.

#AprilWorldbuilers Hallimae is the princess of the Calderan dwarves, but her significance doesn't end there. Evisto kidnaps Hallimae as part of his plan to manipulate a prophecy into coming true on his terms. She unwittingly and unwillingly plays a part in threatening the gods themselves.

#AwesomeCharacters Sekona, one of the manipulative priests in Prophecy 71, genuinely feels terrible about what she did, but she felt she couldn't oppose the other clergy. People do things for reasons we often can only guess at. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writingprompt #amwriting

I hate getting blamed for problems that come up only because I didn't know what I didn't know. Anyway, my fiancée's late father was apparently allergic to shellfish.

justherecipe.com needs to be shared with the world. You copy and paste the recipe from any other site that clogs the page with ads, pictures, anecdotes, opinions, and more ads, and this site distills it down to just the ingredients list and directions. I'm so glad it exists.

#FantasyIndiesApril In Prophecy 71, Gallara is "just a botanist." She only wants to get her library book and resume experimenting her her garden without anyone activating her social anxiety. By the end of Prophecy 72, however, she is "an *awesome* botanist." And she finally knows it.

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

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#WIPSnips CW: Hugging, with PG-13 thoughts In the superhero sex comedy-drama, Paul and Flo hug for the first time. Despite himself, Paul isn't entirely comfortable with it. Don't worry, Flo is quick to reassure him. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writingprompt #amwriting

#AprilAdventure The Grekaan mercenary organization is behind the kidnapping of Drohim's husband, so they can influence him to use his government position to their advantage. One of their members, Kevra, has a particular vendetta against Seff, because Seff killed her. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

#AntagonistApril My villains only sacrifice other people, which isn't a sacrifice for them. In Prophecy 72, Zedenko must sacrifice his hard-won friendship with the other MCs to break his curse, or sacrifice his very existence after death in order to keep his friends. It devastates him.

#AprilWorldbuilders Calderan dwarves largely define themselves by their differences with the subterranean dwarves, so they proudly eat vegetables grown in their aboveground farms and scorn mushrooms and other staples of their enemies underground. They still drink Dwarven Beer, though.

When Drohim does retire from being a Blade of the Many, he'll become either a priest or a combat instructor. The MCs of Grinks & Co. don't expect it, but they've got a happy ending coming their way, with a nice little house to share. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writingprompt

#AwesomeCharacters Gallara just wants to get back to gardening, but all my other MCs are more or less full-time adventure people; once this one is done, they'd be on to the next one, either by profession or just life necessity. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writingprompt

As a world-weary everyman with emotional issues, I'm still holding out hope that I'll get to be a Silent Hill protagonist one of these days.

#WIPSnips Oops! I posted the snippet from yesterday. Here's the one that actually goes with today's word, and with the melancholy blurb I wrote in the original response. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writingprompt #amwriting

#FantasyIndiesApril Prophecies: Jorang was raised in a stern, Spartan paramilitary order and became a model warrior. Gallara grew up in an overcrowded home with emotionally abusive parents. Alakshi was a hated pariah because she's half human. Zedenko was homeless and alone from very early childhood.

#AprilAdventure Drohim reluctantly hires Rhugada as a guide, and they excel at what they do - but they also provide a foil for his earnest idealism, and competition for Seff's admiration. Drohim isn't happy about either of those. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #writingq #amwriting #writingprompts

#AntagonistApril Many members of the Grekaan are admired and envied by the general public for being rich, and theoretically competent enough to make themselves that way. The thing is, most people don't know the Grekaan organization *exists*, or that its members commit atrocities for political power.

#WIPSnips When Jorang was a young kid, his parents decided he was too much to handle; they left him to be raised by a paramilitary order and never came back for even a visit. Yes, this has affected him deeply. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writingprompt #amwriting

Autocorrect isn't so bad sometimes. My girlfriend is terrific always.

ID: post by user ghostapop; text reads: i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and misogynistic than the source material as well. could be revolutionary"

#AwesomeCharacters Gallara is a more-than-avid gardener and plans her land use very meticulously. The planting patterns and combinations of plants for mutual benefit, pest resistance, and esthetics is an artform by itself, and she loves it. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writingprompt

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I'm writing a porn story with an ensemble cast, and I want to make it racially diverse. The trouble is, so much of porn is so overtly racist that I worry that specifying race will look like I'm feeding the problem. I'm not using stereotypes or stock characters, but I still worry people will assume.

#WIPSnips This sadistic troll refuses to stay down, even after Jorang crushes its hip with a combat hammer. That's bad news for the Prophecies MCs, but they don't quit, either. Gallara can negate friction, or something like that. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writingprompt

Describe your WIP badly: Sure, this teenager nearly gets killed a bunch of times because she's apprenticed to a religious warrior, but none of it would have happened if she and thousands of other people had been grateful for what the rich people gave them and just worked hard enough to not be poor.

#AntagonistApril Evisto has rarely, rarely suffered consequences of any kind, since he's a demigod with power beyond what mortals can handle. One reason he hates Gallara is that she *did* punish him, by tricking him into a nest of grabby vines after he got aggressive when she kept turning down.

#AprilWorldbuilders Dwarves in Prophecies have large eyes that help with nightvision, adapted/evolved after millennia of living underground in low light. This is true even of the Calderan dwarves, who have lived aboveground for about a thousand years.

#LateNightWrite Gallara calls herself an oaf and a stooge at different times (she berates herself often). I used to have a lot of creative insults in her story, but I eventually removed them since they started feeling juvenile and more mean-spirited than I wanted. RIP "inbred turd golem."

#LateNightWrite Gallara, one of the MCs in my fantasy genre satire, uses "figging" as an expletive, since no one uses the F-bomb. I lampshade it by mentioning that she's a botanist who just doesn't like figs ... but it's also a very niche Adult Practice that most people would rather not try.

#LateNightWrite My sentences get long if I let them, but I manage to avoid run-ons. I love the semicolon more than a gastroenterologist would. I narrate with what my POV characters think and feel, rather than what's objectively true in the story. My loglines use a lot of adjectives.

#LateNightWrite I'm Fox and I write character-driven SFF with deep explorations of human psychology. My active WIP at the moment is a sex comedy-drama about the personal lives of (original) superheroes, with complex characters and very NSFW sex scenes in every chapter.

#AwesomeCharacters "Adventure" implies being excited for it, and most of my MCs didn't want to be involved in their stories' plots. Grinks, though, is delighted to ruin the duke's plans and has fun doing it. The new friends and frequent sex don't hurt. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

So many "leftist" guys I've met have talked to me about sexism they've witnessed, and when I ask them what they did to step in, they say nothing. You don't get accolades for noticing suffering but remaining a bystander. Be brave and call out your guy friends, fellow guys!

Yes, I made significant progress in a scene that I'd been stuck on for a while. It's rough, but I'm happy with it overall, and a first draft is easier to work with than a blank page. That said, the scene is very NSFW. The final line (so far) is in the comments. #BookSky #WriteSky #SaturdaySnippet

It says a lot about the state of humanity that we didn't all dress up in ape costumes for the return of Artemis II.

#pretendpanel Religion shows up in all my longform fantasy projects in one way or another, and so do its sociocultural aspects. I can't resist writing about how people see, value, and treat the gods, and drawing parallels with real-world religion. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts