#writing expectations

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Writing Guide + Expectations

Formatting: I'll always provide...

"Gender" of the reader or preference

Ratings - Mature and Explicit pieces will be tagged and marked with *NSFW*

Tags - to highlight the content (sometimes including kinks)

And usually a little summary/bit of the work :)

MY MAIN GIRLIES:

Marc-André Fleury - Pens + Wild

Will Smith (Hockey) - Sharks + Boston College

Brad Marchand - Bruins

May dabble in Sidney Crosby, Ben Kindel, Macklin Celebrini....

Types of fics/concepts:

I usually write 1k-5k words per fic

Will write mostly fluff or angst (hurt/comfort + comfort) - I'll only write a couple of smut pieces here and there

Will navigate some concepts, as I'm aiming to dabble more

Kinks I'll write:

slight dom/sub, bondage, edging, etc.....

Who/what I'll NOT tolerate writing for or speaking about:

Quinn, Jack and Luke Huges

Brady and Matthew Tkachuk

Trevor Zegras

Auston Matthews

Carter Hart

Vegas Golden Knights

Team USA '26 Winter Olympics

Types of fics/concepts that are a NO-GO:

Anything incest, underage, domestic violence, or drug abuse

Kinks I will NOT write:

age play, watersports, anything with blood or vomit, puppy play

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Buzzwords #4

Sometimes when I tell people I write fantasy, they go off about JRR Tolkien and Robin Hobb and all these big name fantasy authors. I don't have the heart to tell these people I don't really read or like them! Does that make me a bad fantasy writer? If it doesn't, how can I turn not reading the genre I write into a positive when people put me on the spot like that?

Answered by Buzzwords blogger KJ Taylor 

Don’t worry, anonymous fellow fantasy author – you’ve asked exactly the right person about this. The short answer to your question is “No”. The long answer is: “Absolutely not, and that’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.”

And now for the even longer answer. To date I’ve commercially published thirteen novels. All of them were fantasy. Dragons, swords, griffins – I’ve written about all them and more. But guess what? I’ve never read Robin Hobb (though I’ve met her). I’ve never read Feist, Bishop, Rothfuss, Sanderson, or any of the “big name fantasy authors”. I have read Tolkien, and I didn’t like him (though I did like The Hobbit as a kid, I found LoTR boring and pretentious).  I had a look at Goodkind, but didn’t get more than a couple of chapters before losing interest. I made two determined efforts to read Jordan, but got bored and gave up. It’s true. In fact, I read pretty much no “epic fantasy” at all. It just plain doesn’t interest me. Most of the time, all I have to do is read the blurb before I decide that, no, I don’t want to read this story.

I think not being particularly into the mainstream stuff is a good thing, because it means you won’t be influenced by it. Too much fantasy is all the same. Every other book seems to be about Saving the World From the Evil Overlord, or the story of how a Humble Nobody Got Mad Powerz. Or the struggle to Save an Ancient Kingdom. Also, randomly capitalised Nouns because that’s how they did it in Old English (and modern German). So the next time someone puts you on the spot like that, tell them “forget that lot – I’m doing my own thing, thanks”.

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