Proud of my novels: "Red Daddy", gonna post a link to a sample here, you can see my writing style, etc.
Basic gist is, personal narrated history of a guy living on a mining asteroid series just as it gets hit by the shag pandemic virus. Adjusting to life after lots of people around you die painful deaths, yes it's complicated, but it's even more complicated because the virus has certain uncomfortable sexual side effects, namely, extremely high libido. How that society is affected says some things about how we have to deal with change in our own presumptions.
Just finished my new novel, "Unreliable Narrator", about a guy who discovers he's the main character in someone else's novel, and that author isn't very good.
Available on literotica AND on Kindle if you prefer ebook format, sample link here:
Guy hears a NARRATOR, realizes his life is being rewritten.
Character arcs refer to the transformation or development of a character over the course of a story. This typically involves changes in their beliefs, attitudes, or behavior in response to challenges and experiences and how the confrontation of their flaws leads to eventual personal growth.
Developing compelling character arcs is essential for engaging storytelling and characters that resonate with your readers. Here are some tips to help you craft effective character arcs:
Establish Clear Goals: Each character should have clear, specific goals they want to achieve. These goals can be external (e.g., defeating a villain, finding a lost treasure) or internal (e.g., overcoming fear, finding redemption). The arc will revolve around the character's journey towards these goals.
Create Flawed Characters: Characters should have flaws or weaknesses that they need to overcome throughout the story. These flaws make them relatable and provide opportunities for growth.
Initiate Change: A character arc involves change. Whether it's a positive transformation or a tragic downfall, the character should not remain static throughout the story. They should evolve in response to the challenges they face and the experiences they undergo.
Conflict is Key: Conflict is essential for driving character development. Characters must face obstacles, both internal and external, that challenge their beliefs, values, and abilities. These conflicts force them to confront their flaws and make choices that impact their arc.
Show Progression: As the story progresses, illustrate the character's growth and change through their actions, decisions, and relationships. Show how their experiences shape their perspective and behavior over time.
Foreshadowing and Setup: Lay the groundwork for the character arc early in the story through subtle hints, foreshadowing, and backstory. This helps create a sense of continuity and believability in the character's development.
Include Setbacks and Failures: Characters should not succeed at everything they attempt. Setbacks and failures are crucial for character growth, as they provide opportunities for reflection, learning, and resilience.
Internal and External Arcs: Characters should experience both internal and external arcs. While external arcs focus on tangible goals and obstacles, internal arcs delve into the character's emotions, beliefs, and personal growth.
Resolution and Transformation: By the end of the story, ensure that the character undergoes a significant transformation or resolution that reflects their arc. This conclusion should feel earned based on the challenges they've faced and the choices they've made.
Consistency and Authenticity: Maintain consistency in the character's development and ensure that their arc feels authentic to their personality, motivations, and experiences. Avoid sudden or unrealistic changes that don't align with the character's established traits.
Just published my 30th novel, 'An Arranged Life: Miai Kekkon'.
I'm really proud of it. I've put a lot of thought and work into this work, and although there's some sex in it (steamy, yes), it's mostly about how people cope with having their lives arranged for them, and whether that turns out for the better or not. Please feel free to comment with your thoughts, etc., since I have many other works under the same Nom-de-Plume, Fit529 Dotcom (which goes to a patreon page with links to my other works).
Summary: Growing up in different countries around a pandemic-stricken world having learned to speak man languages doesn't help a high school senior when he learns his parents have been in a tragic car accident back in Japan, their home. He returns to find his mother had negotiated a Miai Kekkon, an arranged marriage, for him, and now it's up to him to decide if he's going to go through with it. There's a lot more at stake than he realizes, and his life is turning into one dominated by other people's decisions. It's up to him if he wants to oppose them or discover meaning in his leaf-in-stream romantic and school existence.
Copyright February 2024 by Fit529 Dotcom (started 2019)
== Disclaimers ==
All names have been randomized to protect those in other multiverse shards who have the same name as you and are offended by that.
All persons engaging in or exposed to any sexual situations are over age 18.
== Chapter: In Case You Don’t Remember ==
I was only 3 years old when three impregnable Hartan spaceships arrived, paving lumbering paths of devastation.
Two ships landed in rural China and one in Siberia, but once down, they followed independent paths, slowly and inexorably clearing and mostly-leveling one 110 km square of land before moving to the next.
Each Hartan ship was cubical, 400 meters on a side (about two city blocks) and hung about 300 meters in the air, deploying energies both vast and unceasing. They had shields impregnable and elastic to projectile weapons, their black surfaces absorbing particle beams and lasers without any effect. Nothing we did could hurt them.
The ships weren’t entirely passive.
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My parents told me stories of The Before, but frankly it was all a bit disconnected from reality. The stories were a lot like those old movies where the plot depends on everyone not having a personal Device with them, able to make voice or video calls, call up any random fact instantly, or let them tell their car, ‘take me home now’.
I have seen very few of these movies in my life, maybe ten of them. Most of my life, I’ve been submerged in school, moved from place to place, and been utterly dedicated to the proposition that to survive, I had to get off of Earth.
== Chapter: School Life ==
In The Before, according to history books, kids went to school only some of the year, only a few days a week during the daytime, for just a few hours.
In The Before, there were equal numbers of boys and girls in classes, equal numbers of men and women in the cities, living unhurried lives watching videos for fun all day long.
In The Before, people could go to cafeterias called ‘restaurants’, ask for and get specific dishes made just for them, sometimes including big slabs of meat.
In The Before, the limit on how much ice cream and chocolate cake you ate was self-imposed, so you didn’t get fat.
I have seen videos of this happening. I know it was real. My parents described it.
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For more, you'll have to wait a bit, I'm putting the finishing touches on it. In the meantime, see my bio page for links to the 25 other novel-length works I've put on #literotica or made available via Kindle for (same stories) those that like that format better.
Enjoy!
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Short Stories, Novellas, and Novels, some Erotic, some Less So.
This just loads my patreon page. Equivalently, that is https://www.patreon.com/Fit529
Literotica link is: https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=3919905&page=submissions
You'll find my stuff there. Here's the direct link: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fit529&i=stripbooks&crid=1W1UUH23CSZ84&sprefix=fit529%2Cstripbooks%2C98&ref=nb_sb_noss
Archive of our own link is: https://archiveofourown.org/users/fit529/works
