#WritersCoffeeClub 3/30. What got in the way of your writing this month?

[Waves hand at everything]

No, I actually did get some writing in this month which I wasn't expecting (about 1000 words for a story I wasn't expecting to write), but mostly I've been working on my websites and slowly moving my books out of KU.

I had planned to do some more writing this weekend but then discovered a bug in my deployment code which took hours to nail down.

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Well, what can I say? Yes, I still maintain a FB account but I engage only with other writers (a little), and belong to the "Artists Against Generative AI" group.

People post a lot of original art there - some are expert while many are just starting, but people always get lots of encouragement.

Which is nice.

Anyway I posted this image to that group and the crowd went wild. A clear demonstration of the FB algorithm, once it started winning it's just being put in front of *everyone*.

I hadn't done any alt text for it on FB, but now i'm going to have to. 🙃

If only I'd posted a link to my books.

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#eroticMusings Week 43 (March 22-28) Characters: Share some erotic fanfic or fan art of someone else's character(s)

Well that's easy Erie and Esther by @art_of_goulwenr a 3D render for his art book.

I started with basic figures and then adjusted the features.

Just for practice I've done some Disney characters.

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#eroticMusings Week 40 (March 1-7) Studio: Where/how do you promote your erotica? Is it effective? How do you evaluate that?

It's pretty hard (ahem).

Mostly I promote in Bookfunnel promotions, although my erotica stories really aren't a good fit for most of them because my work is not kink-based.

I measure it by any sales I get.

I would add the series to my other regular promotions but I don't want to annoy folks with too many. And it needs to be better targeted.

I need to set up new channels with new accounts just for the erotic stuff - but that's not today.

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#eroticMusings Week 37 (February 8-14) Setting Does any of your erotica take place during festivals or cultural celebrations? Why do/don't you include such events in your work?

The second two books in the "Salacious Journal of Winifred Churchill" take place at Christmas and New Year. (The image here is late on New Year's Eve perhaps even past midnight.)

I haven't reached Guy Fawkes Night, Christmas, New Year or Easter in "Veronica's Life" but I will eventually.

In my non-erotica sex scenes are not usually coincident with such things.

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Wow! My 3D-rendered art has been accepted for (paid) publication in the British Fantasy Society magazine.

Which is nice.

(The one shown isn't the one accepted.)

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#WritersCoffeeClub 1/18. Are you comfortable making a reader uncomfortable? How far will you go?

I cannot control how a reader reacts to anything I write, whether unpleasant or not. I'd only worry if they felt nothing.

I write what's necessary for the story and some of that might be very bad indeed (depending on genre and target audience). However, in general, I do not dwell on the bad stuff.

I have driven at least one reader away - except I happen to know they came back to finish the series eventually.

CW: Female nudity, and implied violence (it's neither torture nor BDSM).

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#WritersCoffeeClub 1/14. What’s a service or skill you’d like to offer your fellow writers?

I don't mind answering questions on things about which I know stuff - even things I know nothing about, that's always fun.

I would consider doing 3D renders of characters, I don't have a lot of bandwidth (it can take a while) but I enjoy the process. And it's always good practice.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 1/12. How do you get to know your characters before you start writing?

I don't. I learn about them as I write.

Even for my rare planned stories I don't go into any detail of the MCs beyond what I need to know to outline the events.

For CAT PEOPLE, which is planned out, I had decided the MC, Geeta, was bisexual (not that it was much to do with the main plot) but when I started writing I discovered how much she was in love with her BFF but keeping it a secret so she didn't mess things up.

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