#except it's wednesday

[livinginteo]

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[indecentpause]

Happy Storyteller Saturday!

How do you answer the question "What kind of thing do you write?"

And a bonus ask: Have you ever given a sanitised or otherwise 'creative' answer because you knew the person asking wouldn't vibe with an accurate description?

ohhhh I love this question. I usually answer with whatever I'm currently working on, like "three teens go on a bank robbing spree to pay for their adopted father's cancer treatment" or "two twenty-somethings with ADHD solve a murder". Sometimes the little tagline I make up is interesting! but sometimes I have to dull it down a lot.

like with Get Loved, Idiot, it's about two guys who work in different offices in the same building meeting and getting closer and learning about each other. but also it's about kink and how it isn't always necessarily sexual, and working through trauma, and a demisexual man feeling attraction for the first time. but I can't say that if like, my aunt asks me what I'm writing about. so I sanitize it and it probably makes it seem boring but they've all still been very positive and supportive about it. :)

with people I don't know I just say 'slice of life romance' because that's what most of my stuff is when you boil it down to its bare components. they usually don't ask for more details, and that's okay. I actually have a very hard time talking about it with people face to face because a lot of people tried to discourage my writing when I was younger and so it's kind of a defensive, protective thing to say 'oh, well it's just xyz, you know,' and downplay it a lot because if they don't ask for details they can't shoot it down.

[carl-sweet-serial-killer]

uhh I uhhh 😳😳😳🥵🥵🥵 👉👈 am I the only one who thinks uhhh AHEM 💖💖💖💖 Ya know what im sayin 😏😏😏

[sunnysilver8]

Out of Touch Thursday is Out of Touch Everyday if you want it to be

[steverogersnotebook]

His tongue KILLS me.

[neitherknightnorlady-a-blog]

It’s not Monday, but fuck it, have some selfies anyway.

And the most important photo I took today, my son at his promotion ceremony. I am officially a mother to a middle school age child. I don’t know who’s more worried about that, him or me.

[not-orphaned-account]

the lucky star intro created tik tok dances btw

[gemmahale]

Talk Shop Tuesday: Have you ever considered writing a fic in a different format? Like not in a novel (I think that's what it's called) format. Some examples: - texts between characters - emails between characters - an AlTA post - a screenplay - letters between two characters If you have written a fic in a non-novel format, what was the hardest part about it? What was the most fun part?

Hi! Gemma! Hope you're doing great!

Hi Tats! 💚💚

I actually have a chapter/section of a chapter (designation depends on where I cut it for publciation) of Call of the Wild where Shannon and Kyle are sexting each other.

Shannon's at her uncle and uncle's house, Kyle's on base. It alternates between text messages and image descriptions they send to each other. And it's STEAMY. Probably one of my favorite smutty scenes I've written in a while.

Journal Exchange is also meant to be a story told via journal entries/letters sent between Ezra and Geena as they settle into their careers across the universe. But that's more just a concept than tangible than anything at this point. (And if you haven't seen the film Prospect, I highly recommend doing so.)