Firlefanz

Firlefanz, 4 days ago to random

Gute Nacht, Freunde.

No writing today. Early morning Zoom, Valheim, a nice, long nap.

I cooked a meal, read a comfort book and when I was getting ready to write, I noticed something strange on my Amazon reports.

Got it sorted with support (would have been a great promo, sadly, it went away just minutes later), and that killed my writing time.

Ah, well. There's always tomorrow.

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Firlefanz, 5 days ago to random German

#PhantastikPrompts 4.6. Beschreibe ein Vorurteil (fiktiv oder nicht), das innerhalb deiner Geschichte herausgefordert wird & wie das geschieht.

Ashleys Nachbarin ist eine alte Dame, die etwas wirr und konfus erscheint. Es ist ja nichts besonderes, dass Leute im Alter ein bisschen seltsam werden.

Aber Missy ist schlau und weiß genau, was sie tut - und sie gibt Connor den entscheidenden Hinweis, wie er Ashley retten kann.

A Wolf's Fury, Wolves of the South 4

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Firlefanz, 5 days ago to random

#WordWeavers 5.4 — Antagonist POV: is it easy for you to apologize? Can you apologize to someone right now?

Sam Beechcroft: "Apologize? Whatever for? If anyone needs to apologize, it's my daughter and her despicable lover.

"They ran away, they set up a kidnapping with a ransom demand, they tried to undermine all my plans. They got everything coming to them - and it will be my pleasure to make their lives miserable."

A Wolf's Fury, Wolves of the South 4

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raemariz, 5 days ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub 1. Intro update.

I signed with a new agent and spent the last 5 months on a major restructure of a maximalist ecofiction novel imperfectly disguised as a contemporary workplace comedy. #WIP Hollywood has taken over casting for a televised mission to Mars. It’s back up to over 400 pages and my agent is going to be so mad when I finally turn in this draft. Just need to untangle the final 50 pages, which is why I’m playing here. Procrastination is part of the process.

Firlefanz, 5 days ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub 5.4 — How do you handle highly intimate scenes?

Well.

They used to scare me. Most of my books do the fade-to-black thing.

And then I got adventurous (after reading a lot of Romance) and wrote an SF series with a LOT of bed scenes. Explicit ones. Yes, it was a challenge. And yes, since I had a male MC, I asked a friend to check those scenes. cue blushing

Because I have friends who will not read spicy, those books are published under Joanna Steenen.

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Firlefanz, 5 days ago to random

Gute Nacht, Freunde.

A good day.

I wrote 400 words for Sun.
Played Valheim.
Took a nap.

And a friend came over and did some repairs in my apartment. Most of all, he made sure I have good light in the kitchen again.

I'm delighted and much relieved and very happy. I also fed him cake and Earl Grey tea.

And tomorrow, there will be more writing.

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Firlefanz, 6 days ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub 6/3: Should books include a content warning?

I'm divided about this.

I do not think that trigger warnings actually help much.

On the other hand, readers should know about certain tropes that happen in a book, so they can avoid it if they do not like those.

I suppose it's up to each author, and I would certainly not want to impose them.

There's already too much book banning going on. (And lets not even talk about erotica and how they are handled.)

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GeePawHill, 6 days ago to random

Of all the things I miss from pre-COVID times, I think I mostly just miss American bar culture.

Strangers, on barstools, at the bar.

Watching a game, or Jeopardy, or a classic movie. Chatting with each other. Sometimes, in my case, just reading quietly, or maybe with my laptop playing a game.

But just, hangin' out, really.

Becoming, for a month here, a month there, once a whole year over there, a "regular".