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Let’s take a moment to appreciate all the cannon LGB characters in Borderlands
Axton - Bisexual
Mad Moxxi - Bisexual
Athena - Lesbian
Janey Springs - Lesbian
Mr. Torgue -Bisexual
Hammerlock - Gay
Tiny Tina - Probably Lesbian (she makes comments that seem to point to her being interested in women, but nothing is ever explicitly stated)
Why is it wrong to have only LGBT+ characters die? Like, if I have a book thag only has 2 characters, one is, say, trans, and that person happens to die instead of the other, why is that problematic? I'm genuinely curious.
When I was growing up the message I got from mainstream fiction regarding my sexuality was “you are doomed to be beaten/murdered violently/die tragically from suicide at a young age and you will lose all your friends and family.”
There are so few lgbt+ characters in mainstream fiction and death and tragedy almost always follow them. So when the rare lgbt+ character appears in mainstream fiction, it’s a big deal for a lot of people. When the only character(s) who dies also happens to be the only lgbt+ character, it’s frustrating and it sends the message that I wrote above.
There are exceptions to this. A lot of things depend on context. For example, if a story has a small cast and the only lgbt+ character is an elderly person who dies from old age, I doubt I would associate that death with tropes surrounding dead lgbt+ characters. Others might disagree. Furthermore, violence and suicide are huge issues for lgbt+ people in real life and there is still a place for stories about those issues. It’s just that the “lgbt+ person dies tragically” plot seems to be the go-to plot for many writers and we’d like that to not be the first thought that comes to mind.
Happy Valentines Day
New #blog post: Valentines letters from my characters #amwriting
My partner and I don’t do anything for Valentines Day, so I forced a couple of my characters into a room to write to their significant other. Harry was not allowed to take part in this exercise. It would have only descended in dick pics… Finn, I don’t know why I’m doing this. I don’t see what this will achieve. I’m no good at letters. This must be fifteenth version and the others are all crumpled…
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Red Velvet
For @LH_Writes, a story about two lonely people, from the perspective of a cake. #amwriting
For Laura Heffernan. Hope you’re feeling better! RED VELVET 6.00: I awaken. New. Fresh. Warm. Steaming slightly as the baker busies herself at the sink. Her name is Janice, I know instructively. Six others of my kind sit in a line beside me, and there are more on another counter: sponge, fruit, coffee and walnut, and one quite ugly lemon drizzle. 7:00: Janice smothers my surfaces with a mixture…
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Happily Ever After, chapter one rewrite
#nestpitch, #amwriting people, anyone fancy taking a look at my 1st chapter rewrite? Hoping to polish up for #pitchwars
I’m looking for feedback on the first chapter in order to get it polished up for a mentoring competition. Any feedback gratefully received. I’m home. The castle rises out of the mist, an imposing monolith in the pre-dawn silence. For the moment, two armies sleep and everything is still. Soon, though, those walls will ring with the sound of steel and screams. Soon I will kill a man and end the…
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Sun vs Snow Query Critique Workshop
Sun vs Snow Query Critique Workshop #sunvssnow #amwriting
See here for details. Of course, of anyone has any feedback I’d appreciated it. This is an unedited manuscript, so I haven’t really considered the query. As such, it’s very rough, I’ll warn you now!
Title: Happily Ever After
Wordcount: 107,000
Genre: Fantasy, Adult
Query:
Dear [agent name]
They say that endings are just new beginnings and that could not be more true for Lavie Streaver. A…
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Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Goblins
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Goblins - first chapter. Please note this is only a first draft. #amwriting
This is a first draft, and the title likely to change too.
Two hours to sunrise and I was already running for my life. Not the best start to the morning, I had to admit, even for me. The sound of dogs – large, angry dogs – was horribly close as I pounded down the muddy streets. I was going to have very strong words with Jake the Lock when I caught up with him. Selling shoddy lock-picks was fine…
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New project
New project - Lock Stock and Two Smoking Goblins #amwriting #fantasy #novel
I had an idea for an evil circus plot, (because clowns are terrifying and you’ll never be able to convince me otherwise.) I really want to make something from it, but I wasn’t getting into the beginning. I think it felt a bit too much like a prologue and I don’t tend to get on with them, certainly when writing. I need to have a think about the characters and come back to it.
I hate not having…
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