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English teacher, writer, lover of cats & dogs. Recovering conservative, now Agnostic Christian Democratic Socialist. Unfortunately stuck in Texas. 🥲 A feed of my writing samples: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:br2rslmo7elrd3hp5dfsx3ye/feed/aaaksewrcngo4
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Quote your favorite anime character Hard to pick one but I ❤️ this precious bean

This is Sangor, a god of chaos in my book To Inherit Chaos. He is a shapeshifter, sometimes dragon, sometimes other things, sometimes unwillingly. I drew this character art for the book.

#MayWeDance 30 Write people as opposed to tropes. It's all well & good to describe your couple as 'grumpy/sunshine', but if you try to stick to those tropes too rigidly, it gets old very fast. Second, let your spicy scenes be a little awkward now and then. Have your characters not necessarily know

#WIPSnips 5/30 2nd day in a row posting a non-Neverland snippet. This one had to come from my superhero rom-com. We find comics artist & part-time superhero Quinn answering a call at an inopportune moment. #Fantasy #SapphicSuperheroes #WriteSky

In this scene, Scruffy befriends a depressed skeleton. "Fellow" instead of "dude", it was the closest I had! 😅 From an action-comedy novel about the adventures of a girl, a small robot, and the heist crew they call family. #WIPSnips #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📚

#MayWorldbuilders 30 Would I want to visit Atalantis? HELL YES, especially if it was not imminently going to sink, lol. Alas, the closest I can get in reality is the Azores, and I don’t have the means to visit there now. But maybe one day! ~The Dream~ 😩 #writingcommunity #writers #writesky

#MayWorldbuilders 30 I would absolutely go to Fenholt. Unlike Wren, I wasn't trained to scale buildings and pick locks from a young age, so I don't know what marketable skills I'd have, but I'd figure something out. Probably take my hubby and sell Texas BBQ. #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

#MayWeDance Day 30 I think my advice for writing romance is my advice for writing any genre. Focus less on doing it the "right" way and more on doing what works for you. Writing is thinking, and everyone thinks a little differently. Embrace that. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #Romancelandia

#WIPSnips | dude Possibly unsurprisingly, not something I have, but 'mate' I can do you - in this specific case, Mortimer running into a surprisingly friendly stranger who seems to know entirely too much about the current state of things ( saranadosfiction.com/2021/06/26/s... )

Lucky that Friss is the kind of guy who says ‘Dude’ unironically … From “The Sole of Discretion”. #WiPSnips

This was tricky - nothing remotely 'dude-like' in Flock, so I settled for Nap casting an admiring look at Captain. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts In this thread, I post a page a day from my novel: Flock bsky.app/profile/shak...

For the #WIPsnips One dude in Ansifer. Ybart learning about the female experience of men who feel entitled to your attention. Technically he's the one being paid to protect Zabelle, but she's much better at it...

No “dude” in either of my books, so I’m going with “guy”. A snippet from Applied Leverage, book one of the urban fantasy series Origin Key, in which we post-game a fight that went… badly. We’ll be seeing this “guy” again. #amwriting #WIPsnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #fantasy 📚💙

✨Dude = Guy✨ When this 'dude' was being raised, or at least socialized, by TV From "Endlings" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips

Happy #WIPSnips 30 - Dude! Bless you O giver of word prompts to snip, with this Dude I knew immediately share Manny's catch phrase 😁❤️ from BLUDEYE BEACH!

G'morning #WIPSnips! I gots the word for today! Also, I think I’ll be finishing the first draft today as well! Only a few more Epilogue parts to go! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips My self-imposed rules prohibit me from using 'dude' or even 'guy', so one of the closest words I can use is 'fellow' or the in-world term 'drook' (derived from the Russian 'drug' but obv I couldn't use that word spelled that way, and I didn't want to copy Clockwork Orange with droog.)

#WIPSnips *dude* (you're getting *guy* instead) Sparx is irreverent about as much as Talia hates men. #lesfic #sapphic #WIP

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #writingprompt Duels ofBlood (Dude sometimes means man so? And they're all dudes in this scene? I'm trying 🤣)

dude=kid Wren is going undercover with a little help from Elton. From my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

#WIPSnips #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity #writers #writesky I have ONE (1) solitary instance of "dude" in all of my wips. Believe it or not, this is from Book 3 of my #Atlantis trilogy. 🤣 I offer zero context for this. Only @khonri.bsky.social knows lol.

#MayWeDance 30 Don't write any character merely to be a love interest. Know who both/all of them are equally, separate from each other. Know why your characters are compatible & why they fall in love. Give them chances to laugh with each other sometimes. 😊 #writingcommunity #writesky

Happy #MayWeDance 30! Try to find specific things your MC and LI like about each other - big or small. Anything from who they are as a person to a specific way they drink their soda. It doesn't have to come out right away, but having that detail anchor the relationship will help it feel real ☺️

Write what you like, even if it's "unpopular" or "problematic." You'll have the most fun that way, and you're more likely to finish the story, too. Make sure, though, that the attraction between MC and LI feels real, or it'll be harder to believe. #MayWeDance #WritingCommunity

I caught up on #MayWeDance!!! One of my promises to my reader is "somehow, everything will turn out all right". There's gonna be some STUFF but by a combo of panache, will, and dumb luck, they'll make it out alive. My personal goal is that no queers die in the entire series, except for maybe one.+

Mireia would try as hard as she could to do the exact opposite of whatever the prophecy said, because fuck that, lol. She'd probably unintentionally end up making it come true. #writingcommunity #writesky

If you were a deity, what would you be the god of? Doing this for Mana and Mori respectively and... I'm kind of impressed. uquiz.com/quiz/nTavqo/...

Alexandra is planning, Manny and Viola are wandering, Cat is napping at the hotel, Milo wants to be napping at the hotel but is uncomplaining as Edie drags him to all the museums

Planning every detail: Othelia, no contest. She would seek out the paths less taken. Botanical Garden: Sepera, she would meditate and seek oneness with Kreshen. Napping: Bobo, enough said. Spending time with everyone else: Tok~

Answering this family style: Mori's planning, Mana's wandering, Morgan's napping at the hotel (and playing his legally-distinct Gameboy), and Nakine wants to see every museum and pesters dad to make sure it's on the agenda as if he hadn't already done it (Mori? Not know his daughter? Please✨).