#WritersCoffeeClub SEP-12 What kinds of love appear in your writing?

Not that I exclusively write about that, but primarily gay one if the story has romantic love. However, my stories also have themes about platonic love between friends.

One thing, I despise and would not want to write, is unrealistic love that romanticizes problematic behavior or just serves the reader.

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#PhantastikPrompts JAN-01 Wo und zu welcher Zeit spielt deine Geschichte?

#SubconsciousMind spielt in #Anchorage, #Alaska. Zeitangaben gibt es keine genauen, aber die Beschreibung Anchorages basiert auf meinem Besuch dort im Jahr 2019.

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#PhantastikPrompts JAN-01 Wo und zu welcher Zeit spielt deine Geschichte?

"Ehemann" spielt in Deutschland zwischen 2016 und 2018, das hauptsächlich in Hamburg, aber auch in einigen Kapiteln in Bremen und um Trier.

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#EngenderedWriting NOV-31 If/when writing queer storylines, do your storylines tend toward tragedy? Or hope and joy?

My gay characters usually don't get their Happily Ever After, but that doesn't mean, they are left devastated. This can mean, they get insights about themselves and/or are empowered. So, it's not exactly a burial site in terms of the #BuryYourGays trope.

That doesn't apply to one of the two trans characters, I've written.

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#PhantastikPrompts DEC-12 Wie würdest du deine Geschichte beim Publikum ankündigen, wenn sie bei einem Fest als Theaterstück aufgeführt würde?

"Liebe Zuschauer*innen, ich hätte nie gedacht, dass eine Geschichte mit so viel Sexszenen auf einer Bühne aufgeführt werden würde – und das auch noch vor 22:00 Uhr. Um ehrlich zu sein, weiß ich immer noch nicht, wie die das gelöst haben. Aber finden wir es doch gemeinsam heraus!"

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#WritersCoffeeClub NOV-15 What do you owe the real people you base your characters on?

I owe Colin for the good time we had even though it wasn't meant to last and its end wasn't pretty for either of us.

I also owe Mark for being the friend he is.

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#PennedPossibilities 165 If your MC has a love interest, what would be their opinion when it comes to cuddling up in front of the fireplace on a snowy night with that special someone?

If Dennis would want that, he'd probably do it, but Samuel as no inclination on his own to do that

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#PennedPossibilities 165 If your MC has a love interest, what would be their opinion when it comes to cuddling up in front of the fireplace on a snowy night with that special someone?

The protagonist of #ForYou would strive for that—until he realizes, he's doing because "you just do that in a relationship".

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#WordWeavers OCT-29 — Has your MC ever faced discrimination?

Gareth's parents don't like their son being gay, so they get into action to change that—with rather drastic meassures.

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#PennedPossibilities Do my characters have scars?

Not explicitly mentioned. Technically, the person, Samuel is based on, has a scar.

But at the end, he sure is emotionally scared. Well, that's one way of granting one's protagonists character development … 😬 😅

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