adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)

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Putting words together in pleasing ways.Discover my Fantasy, SF and Steampunk books, also erotica, with LGBTQ+ and diverse leads. Patterner's World best reading order: * Dragons of Esternes (4 books, complete) * Patterner's Path (4 books, complete) * Dragons of a Wounded Land (5 books, not complete)I have no time for bigots (of any stripe). Safe for everyone else.<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WriteOnce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WriteOnce</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags

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Post #3868368
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Post #3868367
#WritersCoffeeClub 7/15. Do you read a lot outside of your comfort zone? I have a few things I won&#39;t read (horror, for example) but beyond that I&#39;ll read most things, though often as research - like lots of romance before writing romance. #writing #writingCommunity
Post #3868366
#ScribesAndMakers 7/15. Our next featured creator has made toys. Have you ever? I&#39;ve made games but I&#39;m fairly sure I&#39;ve never made a toy. Things I&#39;ve owned have become dog toys. #writing #writingCommunity
Post #3868365
@juliebihn Awesome.
Post #3868364
#ScribesAndMakers 7/16. Our next featured creator is a baker. Describe a baked good you enjoy. Eccles cake. I am not French. #writing #writingCommunity
Post #3779154
#WritersCoffeeClub 7/13. In what ways do you play with the limits of the genre in which you work? Genres are for marketing and selling. I write what I write. #writing #writingCommunity
Post #3779150
#ScribesAndMakers 7/13. Has a bear ever featured in your work? If so, what sort of bear? I can be fairly confident in saying I have never written a bear into a story. Odd in some ways because I like bears. They've just never come up. #writing #writingCommunity
Post #3510302
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Post #3424931
#ScribesAndMakers 6/27. What's your favorite woodwind? It's a toss up between the oboe and clarinet (which I learned to play once upon a time). It is said of the oboe "it's an ill wind that nobody blows good", which can be true but when it's right it is perfect. #writing #writingCommunity
Post #2381063
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Post #2154012
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Post #2136203
#ScribesAndMakers 5/7. When did you think of the idea for your current project? Do you remember how it came about? So we (my wife and I) are booked to trade at a steampunk event on June 6th/7th. My wife said, late March this year, "the theme for the event is pirates and mermaids, we could write books". So I said "That's a good idea." The file was opened March 25th and the writing completed at 30K words on May 4th. And I'm now working on the clean-ups. Coming soo...
Post #2135723
#WritersCoffeeClub 5/7. Do readers need to understand a character's motivations to understand the story? I mean, superficially, I suppose they might get away with not for the simplest stories. But generally, yes. Of course! #writing #writingCommunity
Post #2134707
OK, I have completed the "echo words" pass on the WIP. Cancelled my subscription to NaturalVoices - because they've gone 100% AI and were expensive (just in time, renewal was on the 10th) Now have a local text-to-speech solution on my Linux machine with a sexy male Scottish voice 😄 Excellent. My new computer arrives tomorrow and I should have it up and running by the time I need to create the cover elements for my designer. It's all go. #amEditing
Post #2084612
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Post #2064700
#ScribesAndMakers 5/6. Ghoti (fish) is a word created to demonstrate the odd pronunciation variations in the English language. Create a word of your own or share one you've created. So many. In the Patterners' World there are entire classes of creatures with "ancient names": kichek (ridable lizard thing), sikechak (bat like, comes in sizes up to f-ing enormous), nachak (like T-Rex), tekrak (rocket-propelled flying cabbage - no, really), xililik (nobody knows, used as an insul...
Post #2064524
#WritersCoffeeClub 5/6. Talk about something you've written which you expected would (_or expect will_) divide readers. Better than that, I'll give you something that absolutely does divide readers. "Wind in the East", the fourth book of the Maliha Anderson series, has a scene where she has herself strung up naked and insists her boyfriend whip her. Writing the scene wiped me out emotionally for two weeks, but it wasn't some random perversion. She had a very specific rea...
Post #2012151
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Post #2000409
#WritersCoffeeClub 5/5. Have you ever taken inspiration from something which could have but didn't happen? Yes? Kinda? The Great War could have started April 1911, due to the Agadir Crisis where Germany tried to provoke France. In my steampunk world, it happens. Except I've never written about it. #writing #writingCommunity
Post #1955137
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Post #1952558
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Post #1952557
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Post #1942683
#ScribesAndMakers 5/4. How many songs are there where you know all the lyrics by heart? A lot. Hundreds probably. #writing #writingCommunity
Post #1924965
Added a smidge under 4000 words to the WIP today and we're into the end game. Should finish "The Damsel and the Mermaid" tomorrow. Exciting. Kind of Disney Sirens meets Splash! but sapphic. #amWriting #sapphic #romantasy #mermay #mermaid #wlw
Post #1914857
In today's writing: --- They used a boathook under her arm to draw her closer then two men grabbed her to pull her aboard. They managed to get her halfway. “She’s a heavy thing, slippery too,” said one. “On three. One… two… heave!” Moments later the dead dark-skinned woman was dragged aboard, along with her fins and fish tail. None of them spoke for a very long time. --- ~ "The Damsel and the Mermaid" #amWriting #sapphic #romantasy #wip #writing #mermay #mermaid
Post #1913395
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Post #1903885
#eroticMusings Week 49 (May 3-9) Characters: Do you come up with your characters before their relationships, or do you design characters to fit desired relationships or interpersonal dynamics? Any interesting examples? I never know what's going to happen because I barely even know the main character before I start writing. (I certainly don't know who they're going to meet.) When I started the first Maliha Anderson book I didn't know she'd meet her LI within the first 1000 w...
Post #1903859
#ScribesAndMakers 5/3. When you see the word 'read', is your first instinct to read is as present tense or past tense? Here, now? Present. Otherwise it depends on the context. Obviously. #writing #writingCommunity
Post #1872520
#ScribesAndMakers 5/2. When you finish a project, do you tend to feel that you have everything just the way you want it, or is it more like 'good enough'? Perfect is the enemy of done. Good enough is good enough. #writing #writingCommunity
Post #1843807
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