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, 4 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".

teacherrogueone, 6 days ago to random German

Hühnerprojekt abgeschlossen. Sie sind da. :) Rosie, Jackie und Cookie. Meine Tochter (8) hat sie mit ihrem angesparten Taschengeld bezahlt. Sie gehören ganz allen ihr. Und sie ist schon den ganzen Tag draußen und kümmert und beobachtet ihre neuen Lieblinge. :)

Firlefanz, 7 days ago to queer

#PennedPossibilities 333 — Do you write any characters who are a part of the #LGBTQIA+ community?

I don't have a lot, but West (West Flows) surprised me by declaring he was gay. I will admit I struggled with that, until I realized that love is just love. And he is very much in love with his Jeko.

I hope that more characters will come out as queer. I think my Moon might be. (She's the MC in the book after Sun Burns.)

Winds of Destiny / Pillars of the Empire

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jeridansky, 7 days ago to climate

"On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the sea and tourism will trade that next week for the mainland’s solid ground."

One of the photos that grabbed my attention: The rows of identical concrete houses they'll be moving to.

https://apnews.com/article/panama-island-guna-climate-change-f368711649ff6986ea25a79534405a84

h/t @knittingknots2
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Firlefanz, 8 days ago to random

Gute Nacht, Freunde.

No writing today, but that's okay. I'm still building the habit.

In very good news, I saw a preview of the cover for Sun Burns today - my awesome cover designer is at it. I nitpicked a tiny detail, and she'll fix it. I hope I can share it soon. (Can't wait!)

I also joined a climate march today (not that I marched far), and while I was a bit disappointed at the size of the crowd, I'm glad I went.

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kodyboye, 9 days ago to random

Haven't posted much because there hasn't been too much going on, honestly. Mostly just been playing Pokémon LOL.

Firlefanz, 9 days ago to random

I have to do something difficult today:

Announce to everyone that I'll start raising the prices on my books this weekend, i.e. tomorrow.

I'm telling you anyway because I want to give you the opportunity grab any of my books you've waited to read before the price goes up.

(At least that's what I'm telling myself. And you now.)

Here's a Books2Read link to everything I've written in every store where they are sold (except my own).

https://books2read.com/hannahsteenbock

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Firlefanz, 9 days ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 331 — Has your MC ever desired the feeling of a fresh start, or a better understanding of themselves and / or the world around them?

Connor's worst moment was when his pack fell apart. When his leader turned out to be cheater, when he turned against his own second, over a woman.

He does get a fresh start, ending up as the pack leader himself, albeit of a demoralized and injured few men. Still, he does the best he can.

A Wolf's Fury

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Firlefanz, 9 days ago to random

Gute Nacht, Freunde.

Slow day. Wrote 450 words for Sun in the morning, survived the office, grabbed groceries on my way home.

Played a LOT of Valheim. Starting to feel comfortable in the Swamp. Time to tackle the boss, methinks.

Didn't take screenshots - the Swamp is a dreary, dark place.

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Firlefanz, 9 days ago to random German

#PhantastikPrompts 30.5.: "Was ist auf dem Cover deines Buches abgebildet? Wer hat es erstellt?"

Da ich gerade mit Connor spiele, der in meine Wolf Shifter Serie gehört, sind natürlich Wölfe auf dem Cover.

Aber meine beiden Hauptfiguren sind auch drauf, Connor und Ashley. Ich freue mich sehr, weil meine Designerin sie so gut getroffen hat. (germancreative auf Fiverr)

Das Kanu im unteren Teil kommt in der Geschichte auch vor. Ich hatte darum gebeten.

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SheDrivesMobility, 9 days ago to random German

"Bestsellerautorin Katja Diehl beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit Fragen der Mobilität. Wie werden wir uns in Zukunft fortbewegen? Welche Konzepte und Transportmittel sind zukunftsfähig - auf dem Land und in der Stadt? In ihrem neuen Buch "Raus aus der Autokratie - rein in die Mobilität von morgen" untersucht sie, wie es um die Bereitschaft zu einer Verkehrswende steht - gesellschaftlich und politisch."

https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/das/das-mit-mobilitaetsexpertin-katja-diehl/ndr/Y3JpZDovL25kci5kZS9wcm9wbGFuXzE5NjM1MDk4MF9nYW56ZVNlbmR1bmc

ScribblingSandy, 9 days ago to random

When you open up your new research book and immediately stumble across something that will be PERFECT for your story. :blobcatheart:

Dianepatterson, 9 days ago to random

Extreeeeeeeeemely not impressed with the weather forecasting so far on this trip.

(Fourth unexpected downpour in the past week. Do y’all not have forecasting here in Central Europe?)

MissJonesTravel, 11 days ago to random German

Liebe Community,
ich steuere gerade nicht auf eine Katastrophe zu, sie ist schon da!

Ich habe ab übermorgen keine Krankenversicherung mehr und suche deshalb dringend einen anderen Job. Leider, nach wirklich vielen Bewerbungen, Gesprächen, Probearbeitstages usw. hat mich niemand eingestellt.

Es geht mir nicht um den coolsten Job des Jahres, es geht darum, überhaupt über die Runden zu kommen. Vielleicht kennt ihr ja jemanden, der gerade, wen sucht:
https://www.miss-jones.de/bitte-teilen-suche-dringend-job/