Trixter of the Moon CouncilI am *struggling* against the urge to use this novel project as an excuse to buy that wee e-reader Aftermath just had a post about.
I want it so much but I am so broke.
Gonna start describing my novel as “Hawkwind meets Wardruna”.
(Look at it tho, it’s so neat)
https://aftermath.site/xteink-x4-cheap-hackable-ereader-crosspoint-review/
Making sure I have enough good queer representation in this story to allow for one (1) Evil Gay
Giving theme songs to my supporting cast but I'm stuck on one because his song would be, like, something from Darius Rucker's country phase or some shit.
All right, any of my buddy-pals here interested in reading my first chapter? I’m open to feedback but mostly I need encouragement and accountability at this point. Also I will warn that this is dark fantasy and not exactly cozy.
I have the whole thing written, btw, but I’m doing one last round of revisions.
I have reached the stage where I am annoyed at anything I need to do that’s not writing which is unfortunate because I have a job.
My actual goal with finally putting this novel out into the world is so I can secretly post my non-canon sexy parts as fanfic.
Writers will literally be like “look at my favorite blorbo, he is so perfect and I love him,” and it’s a damp wizard with depression
(I’m writers)
The struggle of writing a scene with a character who you know would be inappropriately horny
The difference in vibes between how I talk about my writing and the story itself is pretty significant ngl
There's a lot in this novel that's really good at this stage, but I need to put some more work into the villain arc, which is basically "men will literally join a necromancy cult instead of going to therapy".
This book isn't fanfic-with-the-numbers-filed-off but you can *definitely* tell which WoW expansion was my favorite.
Back in '00 or so I read an ebay listing for a Gundam Wing hentai doujinshi about Wufei getting sexually assaulted while in prison that referred to him as "grumpy little Wu-chan" and that's the energy I bring to talking about the emotional harm that comes to my characters in my writing.
I'm not writing romantasy, I'm writing fantasy in which people fall in love and it makes things so much worse for everyone involved.
There was a point very early on when I was thinking of telling the story that ended up as my novel as a 16-bit Final Fantasy-style game in RPGMaker, and that's not *consciously* why it ends up with a balanced 4-member main party for a chunk of the book, but I can't account for my subconscious.
I think I’ve accidentally recreated Bucky Barnes from first principles.
I'm gonna have to ask my characters to stop being horny for like five minutes.
Current Writing Status: *playlisting intensifies*
I guess I’m at the “Oh shit how it is so late” stage of Writer Brain.
No LLM could come up with the depravity of the chapter I'm working on.
(It's mostly not even that bad but the bit that gets real bad gets *real bad*.)
I feel like I’ve oversold the quantity of sex in my novel but I hope to make up for it with quality.
Honestly it’s kind of amazing how little my novel owes to any Transformers fiction considering that’s My Thing, but there is a slight hint of mnemosurgery, and also a reference to a completely unhinged alt.toys.transformers post circa Beast Wars.
This novel I’m working on is aesthetically influenced by all the Scourge stuff in Warcraft/The North stuff in GoT/Skyrim, narratively and characterly influenced a lot by Michael Moorcock, and okay, I’ll admit the main character is prone to melodramatic inner monologues that are very Simon Furman.
I just like ice zombies, I don’t care if they shouldn’t work, they’re magic
This novel is really just a cautionary tale about goth boyfriends.
I have vague memories of a post from maybe Tumblr where some fanfic writer was like, "I had a really rough night but the good news is I can now properly write about what it feels like to get shot" and that's basically how my magic system works.
I have reached the first scene in this novel that needs to be completely scrapped and rewritten from the ground up and I am pleased to report that I am still capable of producing new words on the page.
The old version has to be tossed due to being too horny.
I can confirm that my stove is still hot and I am indeed still cooking.
This is just a Extremely Inappropriate Flirting: The Novel
I actually just don’t know how much sex is appropriate to have in a non-sex-focused novel these days
Me, working on fleshing out the antagonist’s subplot for this story in my final round of edits:
Trying to decide precisely how horny this new scene should be
The kings in this novel are petty and feckless at best and power-mad monsters willing to sacrifice everyone in their kingdom at worst so yes every story is at least a little political.
Coming to terms with the realization that I’m not as in love with my protagonist as I am with most of my other characters because she reminds me of parts of me I don’t like much.
On the other hand, I’ve been putting a lot of work into fleshing out the antagonist in this edit, and he may accidentally be the protagonist now. Whoops.
Need to stop writing this sex scene that’s not actually going in the novel and get back to the actual novel
Fiiiiine, I’ll leave the tragic/toxic yaoi subplot alone and go back to the chapter with the guy who just has emotionally satisfying sex with his wife, but not as part of this story or anything.
🤖Robot Enby Xero🤖@trixter can't have yaoi because woke smh
@xerozohar smh indeed