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This week’s #SundayLit prompt is: Time
**Snip "Bijou the Time Traveling Ghost," #WIP #RoughDraft
“Yeah, I can’t see myself building a raft and paddling out to the pyramids. I don’t suppose we could just time-travel over there? We don’t seem limited spacially when doing it. And it doesn’t seem […]
#SundayLit Q2. What are the benefits and drawbacks of writing short stories?
I write lots of short stories, most of them flash length. The advantage is that I can turn them out fast and run with a single item. This disadvange is primarily you need to stay focused and the idea can't take a build up.
# “Winter Night”
*_# SundayLit #PoetryOnTheFly *_
On a winter night, dark and dreary.
A computer’s glow on my face, weary.
I labored for words to out pour.
Said the Raven, "Nara Moore."
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Winter Night:
They huddled around the fire as they ate.
“What can you tell us about witches?” Eric asked, abruptly.
“Not much,” Fal replied. “They’re outlawed by the High Tower Edicts. Their magic taints them, somehow.”
“What do you mean?”
“Warts, croneism, bad-“
“Croneism?” Leira […]
#SundayLit prompt is: Games
**{Snip Konbini Idol]( https://www.pixiv.net/novel/series/11417104)**
At night, we wrote and presented poetry. We all took part, but Shishi came alive when performing. On stage, she rived Sarah Bernhardt herself. Once or twice, Kan-chan’s critiques offended her […]
#SundayLit Q2. Does your world building include games? What purpose do they have in the story?
I research and use games with cultural or historical significance. I don't so much world-build as explore the world as it was.
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Q1. Which games do your characters play as a pastime?
Several card games are mentioned, an early form of backgammon, poetry contests, sutra knowledge contests, Go. And matching humorous wit.
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Games:
She held out her two fists, fingers down. Braia tapped the left one. Sana unfurled her hand to reveal that it was empty.
“Bad start,” Sana said. “I take wood,” replacing the missing pedaille. Rain hadn’t even seen her take it.
Sana moved the pedaille positioned in front of […]
Gabe found the bludgeon of adolescent female outrage rather troublesome. He leaned his head against the glass of the Isham carriage window while Eliza, scowling, chanted, ‘Eye-shum, Eye-shum, Sir Charles and Lady Eye-shum,’ under her breath in an objectionably pointed fashion. Eliza thought that since Gabe was of Northant origins, he should have known how to say Isham before the Lamport Hall man corrected him, and most certainly before she’d wasted the short rail journey along the Market Harborough line practising it the wrong way. Gabe thought his antecedents, from Northampton Union Workhouse bastard to Cliff Row’s shoemaker’s apprentice, had equipped him for knowing the proper pronunciation of a minor Northamptonshire baronetcy exactly as well as her West London slum had for correctly addressing the Duke of Westminster. In the face of the teeth-grinding obnoxiousness, he had only the exemplar of an oath-laden bark of abuse or a clip about the ear. He thought Eliza probably expected that. She would probably respond to nothing but that, even after several months of kinder treatment.
#SundayLit prompt is: Conflict
A nice chance to share the (current/draft) opening of my new WIP.
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Conflict:
“Why haven't I heard of you before?”
Banks’ fist whitened, as he grew more frustrated.
“I still don't know who you are,” Wells said, glancing around to the others for support. “Or why I, or anyone else, would wish to share everything we have learnt with you. You say the […]
# 11/16 #Wss366 #crude #MastoPrompt #hunter #SundayLit Twist
## #FanFiction #TheHunger 1983
“I must have died and gone to heaven. I see an angel.”
I looked over, taking in the speaker. Crude like his clothes: expensive, tasteless, like a gold-plated oil donkey gushing crude.
“I thik I’d too […]
#SundayLit 11/16 Q5. Do you think characters can get away with unexpectedly acting out of character?
I do at times, but it is conscious and an explanation is always attached, even if it is only the character saying, "... out of character..."
People do act out of character at times. But it's […]
She sounded very sulky. Leo said, ‘I’m lonely, Polly.’ But when he opened the curtain, the plate snug in its lightproof case, she wasn’t there. He heard her start to laugh over the partition, low and chagrined. ‘Henry Walpole, you cheeky harlot.’ Leo came around with a deep sense of trepidation and stopped. ‘You might have warned me!’ He received only, ‘Where’s the fun in that?’ in both contralto and alto tones, neither voice holding any remorse whatsoever.
#SundayLit prompt: Unexpected
The last excerpt from Grace & Favour, as it releases today and next week I'll hopefully have a new WIP to refer to.
Harry the ill-advised fling once again featuring. I feel like he gets the lions' share of these prompt excerpts […]
[Original post on mastodon.au]
Q1. What makes a great plot twist? And what makes a bad one?
I don't so plot twists. As a reader, a bad plot twist is one where I feel the author cheated by lying or omitting information I should have.
#SundayLitQ 5. Does your character like the body they inhabit?
Two are trans, but are happy with their bodies now. Not so much pre-story.
The rest seem to be fine with their bodies.
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Unexpected:
“Ahaaaaaah! I bet that was unexpected.”
“Well, I did call a plumber.”
“And?”
“You’re in my kitchen, at three o’clock in the morning.”
“Aaaaand?”
“You’re completely naked.”
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaad?”
“You’ve fixed my tap?” […]
This week’s #SundayLit prompt is: Unexpected
The prompt is open to interpretation. Share a WIP snippet, short story, poem, or whatever the theme inspires.
I'll also post discussion Qs related to the prompt during Sunday under the #SundayLitQ tag.
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Q6. If you removed the physical description from your prose, would the reader still get a sense of who the character was?
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what an interesting question...
i'd have to say that NO!, they would not.
for one thing, most of the female characters […]
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Physical appearance:
“He was massive, in exactly the same way that a mountain is tall...except without the snow on top. He had no hair at all. His shoulders...they were massive also. You could land a 747 on each of them without using reverse thrust. That is, if you could find a […]
Undeterred, Walpole went on, ‘The ceiling was my favourite, though, and, you know, I think Winter may have been my favourite figure up there.’ Decent only by dint of bent knee, the naked Winter was fuller in the body than Verrio’s other men, with a head of cream-coloured tousles, round eyes too dark for his complexion, a longer than necessary nose, and a vacantly surprised expression, perhaps a result of finding himself tangled and tied by the star-spangled crimson ribbons garnishing bare calves and rounded stomach. ‘I always think he looks a little gormless,’ Leo said, still unwilling to play. Walpole unfurled his full smile. ‘Do you, Mr Winter?’
This week’s #SundayLit prompt is: Physical appearance
One of the tricky bits of a single close POV is describing the POV character's physical appearance in a natural way.
I personally get a kick out of how I get Leo's appearance across in my […]
[Original post on mastodon.au]
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Geography:
“What if we call it, something like, Earth-writing, but in Greek. Isn’t that how its done?’
“Do you mean geography, sir?”
“See! That’s it. Geo...gee...it’s a nice big word.”
“Geography already means something, sir.”
“Well, change it. I have full immunity. I can do […]
#SundayLit prompt: Geography
My geography is usually made up. I have a general idea of the world (or at least the continent), but I mostly set my book in one place, or with very limited travel.
I could sketched the layout of the stronghold for Fairhaven, and the street for Domesticated Magic […]
#SundayLit Q2: The Mentor archetype is often depicted in popular fiction as an old white man.
An interesting observation. I write in a Japanese millue, so this isn't quite what happens. It's an old, wise Japanese man.
How easy it is to slip into genderized stereotypes. I will have to think […]
It was Eliza who had taken him to London to introduce him around, now he had no more family who cared to know him in East Molesey. For, she said, he would never be free of the stories that trailed him within this smallest of worlds, and he was like her, and needed to find his people, as she had done, not spend the rest of his life socialising solely with elderly widows.
#SundayLit prompt: The Mentor
Continuing with W-almost-no-longer-IP, Grace and Favour.
You might assume Leo's mentor is the ghost who has followed him about since he was eight, but no. His real mentor is Eliza Smart, his older, more experienced, queer friend.
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The Mentor:
“The shock collar. It’s just for show.”
“Ow!”
“Mostly.”
“It hurts!”
“What have you learnt?”
“That you’re a bast- owwwwwwwww!”
“Try again.”
“That’s you’re a vindictive bastard!”
“And?”
“Owwwww.”
“AND?”
“Trust nobody.”
“Very good. In the next lesson, we’ll harness the plug […]
This week’s #SundayLit prompt is: The Mentor
The prompt is open to interpretation. Share a WIP snippet, short story, poem, or whatever the theme inspires.
I'll also post discussion Qs related to the prompt during Sunday under the #SundayLitQ tag.
#WritingCommunity #Writing #Prompts #AmWriting
#SundayLit Q4: Dreams can equally mean goals. Do you, as an author, let your protagonists achieve all their dreams?
I like "happy" endings. So love is fulfilled. Some of the characters' secondary dreams are fulfilled. Usually in the form of found family and finding a purpose for their life […]
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Dreams:
The arachnid raced towards me like a hungry mouse about to descend upon a wedge of cheese. It’s gossamer envelope shimmied with each movement. Within it, I could perceive the mechanism in its entirety. Every opening and closing actuator. Every snapping effector. Each […]
A faceless girl leads a cow with a human face.
#SundayLit A3: Has a dream you’ve had ever sparked a story or poem?
Some of the more biazzar bit of my dreams show up in stories. No full stories are inspired by dreams. The illustration below is from a dream and is part of For Love of a Konbini Idol
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#SundayLit Apologies, my submission is going to be late. I've been very busy. Hopefully tomorrow.
