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@sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#PennedPossibilities 760 — MC POV: Describe who you are in your group of friends. Tell is if you’re the motherly / fatherly type, the funny friend, the serious one, etc.

Friends, Friendship. Teammates. Buddies. Partners in crime†. Frankly, I don't get it. I do the job and make sure everybody comes back. I train them until they drop in a sweaty heap, but then they insist on group meals and singing, that stuff, and won't let me pay. Sure I have everybody's back in a fight, or with clients, or the boss, but that's the right thing to do. I am responsible for them. They ask me for advice, too. Sometime weird. I ended up punching the cheating husband when he made a pass at me, which was actually sort of fun. At times they won't leave me along to be quiet with my books, which is really all I want out of life. I am really the wrong person to ask such a question to.

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† Literally.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist
@sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#PennedPossibilities 760 — MC POV: Describe who you are in your group of friends. Tell is if you’re the motherly / fatherly type, the funny friend, the serious one, etc.

Friends, Friendship. Teammates. Buddies. Partners in crime†. Frankly, I don't get it. I do the job and make sure everybody comes back. I train them until they drop in a sweaty heap, but then they insist on group meals and singing, that stuff, and won't let me pay. Sure I have everybody's back in a fight, or with clients, or the boss, but that's the right thing to do. I am responsible for them. They ask me for advice, too. Sometime weird. I ended up punching the cheating husband when he made a pass at me, which was actually sort of fun. At times they won't leave me along to be quiet with my books, which is really all I want out of life. I am really the wrong person to ask such a question to.

=-=-=-=-=-=
† Literally.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory#RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

Jess Mahler
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@JessMahler@indiepocalypse.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
Jess Mahler
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Jess Mahler
@JessMahler@indiepocalypse.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

I'm almost done with the editing phase of both Planting Life AND Last Lady of Lună. Which means it's time to pick my next project.

The two I'm thinking of finishing next are The Bargain, and the sequel to Last Lady of Lună

The Bargain is fully written and been through a couple rounds of editing. The Bargain is a kinky found-family maybe-romance about trust, self acceptance, and getting over yourself. Sometimes what starts as a Bargain, becomes something more.

The L3 sequel will be (another) slow burn vampire why choose romance, with FF, MM, MFF, and more. Nastasia and her mates are finally working together, but her enemies and her clan have found them, and there's no saying which is more dangerous.

If either of those sound interesting, I'm throwing up a followers-only post in the reply, let me know which you want to see!

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@floofpaldi@mindly.social  ·  activity timestamp last month
#WordWeavers 7.26 — Do you have any fight scenes in your work? What are they like?

In a genre like cyberpunk, they're inevitable.

There are so many things to choose from. Here's one example, though, if you're curious.

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@stephanieburgis@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last month

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An image of the North American front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. The tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sarah Beth Durst (New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop) reads: “Full of charm, wit, and magic… I loved it!” Around the image, against a starry night background, are various pieces of text connected to it by arrows. They read: “bi villainous heroine,” “sweet cinnamon-roll hero with a fake identity,” “crow friends,” “found family,” and “flirting with fountains pens.” At the bottom of the image are the words: On sale for $2.99!
An image of the North American front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. The tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sarah Beth Durst (New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop) reads: “Full of charm, wit, and magic… I loved it!” Around the image, against a starry night background, are various pieces of text connected to it by arrows. They read: “bi villainous heroine,” “sweet cinnamon-roll hero with a fake identity,” “crow friends,” “found family,” and “flirting with fountains pens.” At the bottom of the image are the words: On sale for $2.99!
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@floofpaldi@mindly.social  ·  activity timestamp last month
#WordWeavers 7.25 — Who’s the hardest character you’ve ever written and why?

This is a /really/ good question.

My most difficult character at the moment, by far, is Noona from the series. I can't quite see her in my mind, you know? The face hasn't come to me yet. I'm trying to get a handle on her, only because she was never fleshed out (only the personality and backstory in my mind), and it's giving me some trouble. It'll come to me, though. These things just take time.

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