#LGBTQWriteAThon Check in Setting my goal at the beginning of the week really helped me keep focus this week. I would love to have this in to my editor by Tuesday morning, so we'll see how this weekend goes. Then I can more actively move on to the next projects. (New novel Handled, 2 shorts)

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 20h ago

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 10: Check in day! How was your week? Share your progress and support others! @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

#QueerPrompts At first I was going to say "no," but I realized that wasn't true. All the different queer books have helped me normalize queer joy. That's been important.

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · yesterday

#QueerPrompts October 10: World Mental Health Day: Has positive queer rep in books helped your mental health?

Happy Fri #lesficfri Friends! 🤗 Today’s theme is ****QUICK**** Who has some QUICK action to share?! 🏃‍♀️⏱️

Kandy Muse Says 'Make It Quick!'

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#LGBTQWriteAThon Secrets... Jenn from A Work of Art is 20 years old and still hasn't figured out her sexuality. She's annoyed by the expectation that she should know and also tell everyone. She doesn't have it completely figured out by the end of her novella, but she's probably demisexual for Mari.

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 2d ago

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 10: Today we're talking SKELETONS in the CLOSET! What deep, awful secrets are your characters hiding? @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

#QueerPrompts [A Work of Art] In a world riddled with cars that continually break down, Mari Wilkes must sell her body to get the bare minimum to pay for the repairs on a vehicle that left her dangerously stranded and scared for her life. She is left at the mercy of a paint-stained purveyor of Art

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · 2d ago

#QueerPrompts October 9: Free Friday or describe your story as a horror novel

Season two is outlined... season one omnibus is available now! Six adventures with a fluteblade assassin. Music, death, Irish music festivals, Renaissance Faires, protecting actual honest trans politicians... #WeeknightWriters

Jevin Darke: Transgender Fluteblade Assassin, Season One Omnibus by Joanna Masters

Six missions. Six appointments with death.

joanna-masters.itch.io

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2d ago

Q6: Do you have any recent or upcoming publications? Share them here, and be sure to include links if you have them! (No AI, and please add alt text to all images) #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q6 I released a book this week! The Witch of the Wood is a cozy horror MM romance novella! The perfect way to kick off your spooky season! Uni: books2read.com/u/bw6gwP Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/the-witch-of... Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur... Cover by @isthiseva.bsky.social

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2d ago

Q6: Do you have any recent or upcoming publications? Share them here, and be sure to include links if you have them! (No AI, and please add alt text to all images) #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters A6 Self-promo Celebrating the 5 year anniversary of my debut novel with a 99 cent sale all month. books2read.com/feralspark Also, I'll have details soonish about a release date in November for my sapphic artist/model novella, A Work of Art.

Available now at your favorite digital store!

A Feral Spark by JD Cadmon

books2read.com

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2d ago

Q6: Do you have any recent or upcoming publications? Share them here, and be sure to include links if you have them! (No AI, and please add alt text to all images) #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters A5 Started with Lina, who is a 45-year old librarian. She wants to have orgasms without the complication of dating or the danger of hook ups. Then, suddenly, I've got a story where there's infrastructure to make this happen. Speculative "what if?" for the win! Seth is her MMC.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2d ago

Q5: Tell us about your main character. Who are they? What do they want? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters A4 I'll borrow a sentiment from @jessmahler.bsky.social Character descriptions! Too often, this is the last thing I do, so my characters are usually "vaguely people shaped." Turns out there are readers who don't like that.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2d ago

Q4: What aspects of character development do you find most frustrating? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters A3 Character development I enjoy the research. Example Seth from the upcoming spec romance Handled was a former baseball player. I had to dig deep and find a position for him to have played and a series of events as to how and when he got injured and lost his scholarship. Fun!

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2d ago

Q3: What aspects of character development do you enjoy most? What goes into making a character? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters A2 I don't approach this with the same method for every character. I figure it's like meeting a real person. You might find embarrassingly intimate details about one person right away and still struggle for years to find something out for a different person.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2d ago

Q2: What aspects of character development do you consider most important to your story planning process? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters A1 Usually, I'm a characters first kind of writer, but the setting is closely related. If I had a certain kind of character, what kind of environment would produce that? So it often feels seamless, but yeah... characters first.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2d ago

Q1: Do you typically create characters to match the story you want to tell or build your stories based on character(s) already living in your head? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Intro I'm JD, writer of speculative bifi (aka, Fiction with bisexuals in it). WIP is to finish editorial revisions on A Work of Art (out next month). Planning for #FirstDraftFall? I am doing that intermittently. Have to finish one project first, but still getting forward momentum.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your #FirstDraftFall planning is going!

OUT NOW! It's the October edition of my newsletter -- and hoo, boy, have I got a LOT of treats for you this month. . . . . #mmromanceauthor #mpregbooks #indieauthor

#LGBTQWriteAThon 8 Favorite outfit In A Work of Art, artist Jenn dresses up for an Art Department party in a halter top and palazzo pants. She's got surprisingly buff arms and looks good doing it. (Her love interest thinks so at least!)

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧙TIS TIME 🎃 Join us for #LGBTQWriteAThon October 1-31! Answer each day or just the days you like. Have fun & make friends while working on your WIP! Prompts repost daily to @queerwriters.bsky.social (follow & turn on notifications for reminders!)! @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writesky

#QueerPrompts Lesbian/sapphic reading recs My characters are usually Bi sapphics. I have had lesbian characters, but not as the lead. Yet! The closest I get to this is The Handyma'am and the Werewolves, a sapphic bi4b talei: books2read.com/u/mBKq2O

Available now at your favorite digital store!

The Handyma'am and the Werewolves by JD Cadmon

books2read.com

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d ago

#QueerPrompts October 8: International Lesbian Day: Lesbian character(s) or sapphic reading recs

#LGBTQWriteAThon Masks? Mari, the bisexual model from A Work of Art (out in Nov), wears a metaphorical mask. Though she is often naked in the story, she defends herself with emotional distance from others and shallow relationships. Though she gives gregarious extrovert, true close friends are rare.

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 4d ago

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 6: Does your MC wear a mask? Real or metaphorical @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

#QueerPrompts Inner vs Outer Beauty? A Work of Art (out next month!) sort of touches on this. The main characters are an artist who sketches a nude model. The model is beautiful, which isn't a requirement for figure drawing, and the artist likes her for more than obvious charms.

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · 4d ago

#QueerPrompts October 7: National Inner Beauty Day: Does your story discuss inner vs outer beauty?

#QueerPrompts Coaches? Yes. In Handled (planning stage), sex work is a regulated industry covered by insurance. The staff who are in direct contact with the clients are sometimes and quite jokingly called "sex coaches." Funny as the male lead is a former shortstop who could have been pro.

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · 5d ago

#QueerPrompts October 6: National Coaches Day: Any coaches in your story? (fitness, life coach, etc.)

#LGBTQWriteAThon Fears In A Work of Art, Mari's fear is being a burden or too dependent on someone else. She likes her freedom and hte ability to leave at will. [I haven't figured it out completely for the characters in Handled yet.]

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 5d ago

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 6: Today we're talking BUGBEARS aka sources of anxiety or fears. What causes anxiety or fear in your characters? @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

#LGBTQWriteAThon Goals I have a busy week ahead, and would love to be finished with my revisions for A Work of Art. I'll shift my goal to something achievable. ***Spend at least 30 minutes each day working on revisions for A Work of Art. If I finish, then go to planning Handled (November project)

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 6d ago

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 5: Goals day! What are your goals this week? Let us know so we can cheer you on! @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

#QueerPrompts Jenn (A Work of Art) would teach Art if she were into teaching. Angela (Handled) would teach better sex. It's her mission in life. Orgasms are achievable for all. Amen.

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · 6d ago

#QueerPrompts October 5: World Teachers' Day: What subject would your character(s) teach?

#LGBTQWriteAThon Line Share (I got foreboding and foreshadowing mixed up. In this, the end result is still bad.) "I take jobs when there are bills to pay, and I need the money to make sure my car goes vroom vroom." [Obvious spoiler: Her car eventually doesn't go vroom vroom.]

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 7d ago

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 4: Line share day! Today's theme is 'foreboding'. @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

#QueerPrompts Ban my book? For the one in edits (A Work of Art): Nude modeling and a romance between two women For the one I'm planning (Handled): Legalized sex work, libraries as non-judgmental sources of information (and intellectual freedom in general), that sexual health is healthcare

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · last wk.

#QueerPrompts October 4: Banned Books Week Begins: What might someone try to ban your story for having?

October 19th marks the 5-year anniversary of my debut novel, A Feral Spark. On sale for 99 cents all month! An escaped genetically modified werewolf A woman who can control fire with her mind A scientist bent on professional glory Danger at every corner books2read.com/feralspark

#LGBTQWriteAThon Check in I've been juggling promoting my debut novel anniversary and some editing. I'll be doing some more editing focus through the rest of the weekend. Once I finish the scene I'm working on, it might be easier. It will feel like polishing, not making something new.

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · last wk.

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 3: Check in day! How was your week? Share your progress, cheer and support others! @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

#QueerPrompts 3 Foreshadowing In A Work of Art, we already know that Mari's car is running on a zip tie and a prayer. So when it eventually breaks down on her in the scariest way possible (the middle of a busy intersection with cars coming at her from all sides), that feels foreshadowed.

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · last wk.

#QueerPrompts October 3: Line that foreshadows danger or scary scene/snippet

#LGBTQWriteAThon WIPs of the month are... A Work of Art: a sapphic college age artist/model romance. Finishing editorial revisions; out next month Handled: a MF bi4bi Speculative Romance on the premise if women's sexual wellness was treated as healthcare. (To be crass, doing it + insurance claims)

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · last wk.

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 2: Let us know what you're working on this month! Feel free to drop a moodboard if that's your thing! @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

#QueerPrompts Queer history? I don't have any mentions of it in A Work of Art, but one of the leads is firmly in the questioning category through most of the novella. In her process, she realizes that she may be a demisexual lesbian. It's part of our history and growth to have more aro-ace nuance.

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · last wk.

#QueerPrompts October 2: LGBTQ History Month: Free Friday or queer history mentioned in your story or queer historical reading recs