#WordWeavers 17. How far beyond the local home of your MC does your story extend?
#TimeTravelingGhost has so far extended all back to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
#Airisu, #KonbiniIdol, #MyGirlFriend, and #TheGirlWhoSawGhosts extend into the Shadow Land, Kakuriyo. Which is literally an unmeasurable distance.
#ScribesAndMakers 16. How do you feel about illustrations in (non-comic) books?
I write light novels, which by definition have illustrations. They are my biggest out-of-pocket expense.
#ScribesAndMakers – 15th Apr. What's a smell that has featured in your work?
There are many smells featured in my work. Picking just one, a trademark of my work is that each LI has a unique scent, and when the narrator notices it, it's a sign that the romance arc is heating up. Shishi's from #KonbiniIdol were sandalwood and violets.
Bijou from #TimeTravelingGhost should soon be noticing Emily's scent. Perhaps gardenia or perhaps not.
#ScribesAndMakers 14: What's something that's going well with your creativity this month?
The final word count for the #KonbiniIdol cycle was 191K in 4 volumes plus 7 side story collections.
#EroticMusings 46: Does your work ever explore its own unreality? Part 2
So far, my narrators have tried to be honest brokers. But they can only tell what they know and believe.
For example, Ume in #KonbiniIdol can be very hard on herself, and if you took her words at face value, you would believe she was a totally selfish, self-serving person. Things she can be, but not to the degree she blames herself for.
Similarly, in #MyGirlfriend, Kao believes herself fatally cursed and worthless. While Shiro battles between what she was taught about social conformity and proper sexual conduct and her own impulses.d.
In #TheGirlWhoSawGhosts, Arisu comes to believe she is a youkai who has possessed someone.
From that point of view, it explores how self-image and reality don't always match.
For Love of a Konbini Idol, I Fought a Cult
Chapter 65.1 Released:
殃 (Yāng) Evil Destiny
By Nara Moore
The dragon bone he’d brought didn’t even need to be baked. The fortune was plain to read.
“Your destiny lies in the East.”
“The water spirits must be appeased.”
I didn’t tell Lǐ Zǐhéng that I saw Yāng, “evil destiny.”
But not even I saw the Dragon King of the East Sea (東海の竜王 / 東海龍王)
This is a side story about the apothecary from chapter 65 of “Konbini Idol.” It is a standalone story.
Tags: #KonbiniIdol #Mythpunk #Fantasy #PIXIV #AO3 #Yokai #Dragon #SongDynasty #HistoricalFantasy
#wordweavers 13 fav scent.
Ume from #KonbiniIdol loves Violets and sandalwood, which is Shishi’s signature scent.
Rice and grilled fish, the smell of good food.
#PennedPossibilities 983 MC POV: If you had been able to choose, would you rather have been an only child or part of a very large family?
#KonbiniIdol
Ume: "I wouldn't wish my parents on anyone. Then again, if I'd had an older brother, things might have been easier on me, or then again, maybe it would have just been one more person to make my home life miserable.
#EroticMusings 46: Does your work ever explore its own unreality?
#KonbiniIdol is Ume writing about what happened to her family. She is a conscious writer, so she seldom breaks the 4th wall.
The side story The Two Authors of Konbini Idol completely departs from this and is about me & Ume, the authors of the same story, meeting.
#PennedPossibilities 982 — For characters with a significant other, what is their happiest shared memory?
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