Rauni Reivonen - swords and mages and gays, oh my!

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Luckily a little research bore out my idea. Mongke would have a water-resistant case (maybe even waterproof for the string) for his bow and arrows. So as long as he gets that out of the water quickly he’s probably fine.
#amwriting #writesky #fantasy

Yesss! Crossing continents and facing down armies for each other- that’s what I’m all about!

A quest. A soul-eating sword. A fiery mage whose people are being exterminated. A warlord's son who longs for a different way. A slow-burn romance that could change the world. If they can get past their differences before the world goes up in flames.
#DVpit #A #F #DF #R #LGBT #DIS #MH #TV

Sareb just wants to survive. But when he saves a stranger in the desert, he's drawn into a quest to rescue her soul & stop her from starting a world war—and finds himself falling for her brother, even though their people wiped out his family.
#DVpit #A #F #DF #R #LGBT #DIS #MH #TV

Cursed with a beastly form, the Wolf just wants to be left alone--until an attractive young herbalist shows up, creating an opportunity to break the curse, if only the Wolf wasn't impossible to love.
#DVpit #A #F #R #LGBT #DIS #MH #ND #TV

It would actually be worse for Mongke’s bow than for Ubet’s arm. But I think I have a just barely plausible solution.

(No, I still haven’t written this. Yesterday I wrote them camping on the riverbank 😆 Didn’t have time to write yet today.)
#amwriting #Nomads #fantasy #romance 🏳️‍🌈💘⚔️

It's set during bk 3 of my epic( #EOD). The MCs broke the world at the end of bk 1, but things are starting to settle down now. The two MCs of #Nomads are traveling through a forest loosely modeled on the Appalachians. Wilderness survival, it's in everything I write 😆
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And then of course, they’re going to have to let their clothes dry afterward.. 😈

Ok, but how about this? They fall in, but instead of a dangerous situation, they get in a splash fight 😆😏😈

I just have to figure out if it’s ok for Ubet’s injured arm
#amwriting #Nomads #romance 🏳️‍🌈💘

I think it has to be Mongke, cause he's the less competent one, and Ubet really shouldn't be getting that wounded arm wet

'Bout to write a river crossing scene. Which means someone has to fall in/be swept away. People will be disappointed if they don't
#amwriting #fantasy #Nomads

I found itttt

Ok, I will try to get on reading the old one then :P
Ooh- if I open it on my phone- cause I don't have an e-book going right now (well, technically I do, but it's research and I need to take notes and never seem to have my notebook nearby..)

Yeah! I haven't felt this alive in ages. But, I could feel alive better if I could get enough sleep 😆 maybe tonight

"Let me do it," Mongke said, reaching out his hands. "Are you good?" Ubet signed. Mongke dropped his hands. "I've never sewn up a wound in my life." "I have. I'll do it." Ubet spread ointment from the clay pot on the wound, knotted the end of the thread, and began to sew. Mongke crouched, waiting. He couldn't take his eyes off the needle stabbing through skin, the thread being pulled tight, even though he winced with each pass. He'd never had to suffer through something like this. With Tainian, if he was injured, Falconbow had made the mages heal him, even though they didn't usually bother with nameless ones. And luckily, he'd not yet been injured after striking out on his own. Now that there were no mages left, anyway. With Ubet's position, though... Had they not received similar privileged treatment? Or was this only because they were out in the field? They'd said they'd sewn up a wound before. Just how many times, how badly had they been wounded? His eyes ascended to Ubet's face. There was a tightness there, the shadow of a grimace. Otherwise, the other's harsh, stuttering breath was the only sign of what they were enduring. Finally, they finished, knotted up the thread and bit off the end. Only then did Mongke think of something he could do—he fished out his water canteen and held it out to Ubet, so they could wash their hands and arm and needle, and have a drink of water.

I thought I was going to write a hurt-comfort scene, but then Ubet was the one who knew how to stitch up a wound, so they had to do it themselves.
Mongke wanted to/tried to be comforting but didn’t really know how 😆
Man I love tropes, but I love messing with them even more
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Shower time = problem solving time
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I have been meaning to read the version you sent me for ages! I was really looking forward to it, but am so bad at doing things (also: have an enormous physical and digital TBR). If you want me to read a newer version, LMK! (Email is better than bluesky, but I will try to check back here soon)

This whole trilogy is just a study in autistic characters.. 😆
#amwriting #ITN #TDL #EOD #Nomads

Wow, found this on just the right day, as Ubet, one of the characters in the new story that I started yesterday ( #Nomads) is non-binary 😄🏳️‍⚧️
Not many of the other characters know this, but Mongke picked up on it & is intrigued.. 🤔👀
(Sry for wall of text; writing on my phone. Snip is SFW!)
#Caulktober

It is an ill-defined and outdated word..

Forgot to tag the new story: #Nomads
That's probably gonna grab a lot of things unrelated to my story, but hey, maybe I'll get some new readers 😆

Geez, I can barely remember past yesterday. This weekend has been pretty good though, since I'm on fire with a new story ( #Nomads). But also tiring because my muse won't let me sleep 😆
#LGBTQWriteAThon #amwriting #queerwriters

I handwrite almost all of my drafts these days 😊 It feels like I can just scribble my way past writer's block.
When I'm really on fire though, I write in my email 😄

I have been editing recent chapters of #ITN so hard, I thought about going back and re-editing the beginning of the book.... But, nah. Just gonna consider it lessons learned for the future.
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Teshem ground his eyes open, despite their gritty, bleary resistance. Pounding in his temples…his mind awash in fog… Distant aches filtered in from all over his body, and…and…inside his mind— A dull throbbing ache at the base of his skull, as though he’d been bludgeoned inside his head, and a wave of nausea when he thought about it. He closed his eyes and just lay there for a moment, and the nausea faded—but the ache remained. What had happened? Where was he? He was lying on hard ground, rock and gravel. When he cracked his eyes open again, the uniform gloom of a tent loomed overhead. He rolled—pain stabbed from his shoulder to his collarbone; he rolled the other way, groaning as every muscle protested. Someone might hear, but who cared? After everything that had happened— Everything that had happened. The red-draped figure sitting at the far end of the tent.

I can only give you the very beginning of the chapter, cause all the rest is too awful to post here.
Don't worry..it gets worse 😣
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Finallyyy, a new chapter of #ITN. I edited this one a lot too.

This is the worst part in terms of Teshem's situation. Also, you get to see the Consul's POV - prob more than you wanted to.

It's gonna get better! (eventually)

#amwriting #writesky #fantasy #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈⚔️❤️‍🔥
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I guess that "drawing" words on the phone (I use swipe typing with my index finger cause my thumbs are too clumsy) and having to pause a sec to check each word is so different from typing on a keyboard, I literally cannot write the story that way

Also, I already knew writing by hand was a different process, but apparently so is writing on my phone. I started this story on my phone, & when I tried to write on the computer it fell flat.
#amwriting #EOD #Nomads #writingcommunity #writesky

I may or may not have started writing a side story about Mongke & Ubet, and may or may not already have 6800 words.. 😄 But in other news, the draft of #EOD is (basically) officially DONE 😱😱😱😱
#amwriting #writingcommunity #fantasy #romance #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈⚔️💘💔❤️‍🔥