#QueerPrompts Since the story begins in media res, there's a rather long flashback that explains whatever the hell the readers just went through.

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#PretendPanel I’m not proud of it, but I will skip them if they last more than a few pages. However, I’m okay with long ones if they’re 1)funny, 2)linked to the themes/character’s psychology, 3)atmospheric 4)if I’m love with the style. I guess I favor the short, evocative ones in general.

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#JulyWorldbuilders Got a MC vampire, and sun makes him sleepy. He's a bit of an exception - usually sun burns vampires very badly. Their eyes are also not adapted to daylight and they can't see much without protection.

#SummerOfStories I make my own! I have A) files that make a mini-encyclopedia for general search, B) files that sum up writing reminders/tricks from stories I like/don’t like/my own work, and mini-exercises to practice them. That way it’s adapted to my voice, taste and needs. (1/2)

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Inarora is sent into the past by an unknown group where she meets her great-grandpas and stays with them. While she waits for the Council of Sorcerers to get her home, she finds herself on a journey of self-discovery. Meanwhile, her father is left in the present, desperately searching for her.

#SpoonieAuthChat Since I was 4 year-old at least, but showing my stuff to eventually get *published* is very recent, and it seems like I've chosen the perfect decade! What could go wrong?

If you see this, post your comfort characters ✨

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#HorrorWritersChat Easter Eggs! I love slipping little things that are not necessary to understand the story but are fun for people who discover them. Otherwise I come back for atmosphere and a well-constructed story for stories and games, so I hope readers will too.

#HorrorWritersChat The closets are full of white shirts and never have pants. Meanwhile I'm best friends with oil and tinder, meat is evil, Laudanum cures bruises, bleeding, and mauling by creatures who keep jaw-dropping at me.

#HorrorWritersChat I’d say- story => video game. You inherited a manor and a fortune and a curse. It’s up to you to explore the place, find those secrets, and see who you can trust among your guests with no real way to fight back. Not groundbreaking, but with good visuals and atmosphere...

#HorrorWritersChat Hi! I’m doing psychological horror/horror comedy, and it’s a close tie between Amnesia The Dark Descent, Bioshock and a few others.

The mirror's frame rotates on its handle. Your eyes widen at the glass separating you from him. It's you. Sunken eyes of deep red hollows. Papery skin marked with words of forgotten languages. It's you. And him. And you. Together. As one. The tomb smothers your screams. #HorrorWritersChat

#SpoonieAuthChat Since a regular old novel kills me, I just don’t have stamina for a series – unless a tiny bitty bunch of flash fictions counts. But I like one-shots. I miss them.

#SpoonieAuthChat I need fiction to understand reality. Simple as that. It allows to play with themes and feelings and questions that can’t be so easily tackled otherwise.

#QueerPrompts MC forgives surprisingly easy most things, including murder attempts. Whatever it is, he did worse than you, after all. He gets it.

#SummerOfStories I am a happy-go-lucky pantser who slowly turns into an insane plotter as I’m making (slow, slooow, sloooower) progress. The road to “ahah I’m just throwing on paper this *mindless light fun story*” always leads to “if a continuity error is discovered I will set myself on fire”.

Jay Jordan thought space junk salvage would be easy money. Just find an old ship that nobody’s using, and grab it. But then he got hired by gangsters who sent him to a weird mystery spot that warped his crew’s minds. Now everyone in the galaxy wants to steal his claim. mybook.to/screamingvoid/

In an unlikely confluence of events, projects I’ve been working on for the past six months are all coming out within one month of each other. So this is the summer of Samantha‘s stories!

#QueerPrompts MC is safe pretty much everywhere and he knows it, but he doesn't feel safe anywhere anymore. His home is gone, his current place is invaded with villains obsessed with revenge, he's worried that his wife is getting sicker and he's surrounded with people who hate him.

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This is excellent advice that I, an author who never published anything officially and can't even get 100 followers yet, proudly endorse.

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I'd say it's more about the general vibe of their character and what part of their personality pushes them through that development. For Current MC, it's that hesitation that makes him suspended between worlds. He knows something must change, but not how nor why it matters.

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#JuneWorldbuilders -29- Demon King Daughter I'm feeling pretty good about books 2 and 3! Book 2 is releasing on July 14th! My drafting WIP is part of another setting, and THAT is kicking my butt, but I'm hanging in there XD Buy Book 1: pjccahill.carrd.co

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#JuneWorldbuilders This thing. Should not be that big. I was made for smol formats - flash fiction, short story, the occasional novella/little 60K novel at most. Now it’s clear that it’s gonna be well above and beyond the 100K word mark, draining most of my life energy and mental health on the way.

#JuneJottings It's more like "I like it but I don't know where this is going yet". It sums up the character's mindset neatly so I hope it makes it into the story.

Like a cat bringing you little presents - it might not be what you want, but the intention is here and he'll aim for quantity over quality, so at least one of them will work.

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I love them I love them I love them

This was how he reacted to notes on HIS films... ...when he was producing and defending another creator's work from the studio's editing scissors, he had a completely different tone like this bit about The Elephant Man. Mel Brooks is the best.

MC’s wife, no question. From the peasant girl owned by landlords to the woman who conquered an empire and swore to put humanity in its proper place. Though she’s dethroned and sick, she’s still the most powerful person in the universe with the strongest will. Lots of women’s wrongs in that novel 👍

#QueerPrompts Plenty. Powered people are ostracized, villains even more so. MC has inflicted and was victim of countless atrocities, but it’s okay, he found a trick: he forgot stuff, so he’s 100% fine! MC’s wife copes with being the last elf by making a lot of human corpses. The list goes on.

That's a greay bundle. I cna vouch directly for A STAGE OVER RUTHLESS STARS, BIRTHDAY LANDSCAPES, and SECONDHAND ORIGIN STORIES Also I haven't read BE NOT AFRAID but S. Jean is just a solid writer, I'd trust that

Hey cozy fantasy fans, in addition to my Chai and Cat-tales and Haroun and the Study of Mischief, several more of the Queer Heroes books are also cozy-forward 😄 @feelingsandmagic.bsky.social 's How I Became a Therapist in Another World, @clh2oars.bsky.social 's Awakenings & more (but out of letters)

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I'll be reading with a bunch of other horror writers at 7PM EDT!!! Join ussss to hear an excerpt from Woman of Sorrow and Blood!

Okay here we go, a little thread of all the things that involve me available in this ✨

For fans of flintlock fantasy, cosmic/body horror and doomed expeditions to nightmarish liminal spaces comes a dark fantasy-horror novella about the cost of lies, breaking out of indoctrination, and the thin line between heroes and traitors. #booksky #arc #arcreviews