#ScribesAndMakers – 12th May. Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs

D&D (The original one with the pamphlets)
AD&D
GURPS
Shadowrun
A lot of short odds and ends campaigns in other systems.

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#ScribesAndMakers 10: If your project will be part of a series, do you know that before you start?

I'm a serial writer, so yes, I know ahead of time. I don't usually know how many volumes it will be.

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#ScribesAndMakers 9. How likely are you to embrace changes to language usage?

Very.

Which means I use the usage of the time period in which things are set. Including slang of THAT time.

One of the features of #TimeTravelingGhost is the clash and confusion of a 2025 person talking with a 1930's woman.

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#ScribesAndMakers – 1st May. Are you starting any new projects this month?

There is a Japanese contest for foreign writers in which I may enter a few stories.

Not new, but I need to kick up my reading of Edo fiction to get a better feel for how the people viewed themselves at the time. I bought two new books and hope to read them while in the backwoods next week.

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#ScribesAndMakers – 30th Apr. What's a problem you solved in your creative work this month?
#TimeTravelAuthors Whatever

Where I am going with volume 2 of Bijou #TheTimeTravelingGhost.

No spoilers, but it very much fits my theme of quality pulp.

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#ScribesAndMakers 29. Someone else's promotion day. Tell us about someone else's work. Let's boost away.

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#ScribesAndMakers 25: Do you do any activism through your creative work?

Someone mentioned charity work as activism. @EmpyClaw

Every year, I take part in PIXIV's Charity Santa program, raising money for literacy. It's not a huge amount, but it's something.

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#ScribesAndMakers 26: Talk to me Day @jessmahler

What are the five most important things you would like us to know about you?

2 as an author
and
3 as a person

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Midnight Machetes: Three Political Poems for Our Times - NaraMoore - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

#ScribesAndMakers 25: Our featured creator does "a bit of educational activism on the side." Do you do any activism through your creative work?

  • Queers living "normal" lives.
  • Political poetry
  • Occationally a character will go on a rant about #Polyamory or queer discrimination. (But it has to fit the plot.)

That is about it.

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