The thing is I’m really bad with keeping up to date on social media. Surely my last post was a mere five minutes ago, right.

The seemingly impossible task of changing a character’s role in the narrative vs realising that writing is a collection of smaller ideas all weaved together & a few sentences here and there will fix the problem.

Here’s the main four from Asterion! Finley, Alexandria, Luna, and Rydal. All she/her, save Rydal, they/them. Art by @laceandsilk.bsky.social!

This is the most important part of my writing set-up…

I actually wanna talk about Asterion for a bit. It’s a project that’s been around in some form or another for about four years, and it uses lots of bits and pieces from other books that didn’t quite make it. Big fan of never wasting any ideas and recycling them into new stories.

The best thing about writing a book is that after years of work, rough drafts and rewrites and endless edits and publishing, you get to start on a NEW book.

samfarren.substack.com/p/asterion-b... Latest chapter of Asterion! Book two, chapter four—meaning there are thirty-five chapters uploaded and ready to read.

My final round of edits tends to take the form of a battered proof. How did I read this a dozen times and not notice it said “withing” instead of “within”? The typo-fairies keep getting hold of the document.

Worst part of writing is how easy it is to give a character a would instead of a wound.

Dyskrasias is about the intimacy of the self and I’ll be honest. It’s not intentionally homoerotic but I can’t deny the homoeroticism IS there. I’m just a simple lesbian at the end of the day!

I’ve been playing sooo much Fields of Mistria lately, here are some quick pics of my farm.

A new chapter of Asterion book 2 goes up tomorrow! I’m experimenting with posting regular updates of rough drafts, rather than having to keep everything under lock and key for years. You can start with book one here: samfarren.substack.com/p/asterion-b...

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