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Shakespeare would be jumping with joy at the use of twins Seb and Vi. Xxx

#PlotTober 11th October:

How does your main character grow & change in your #book

Janet matures, she finds inner courage & strength to complete tasks that are potentially life threatening/changing to her & #TamLin Experience makes her wise, more canny

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stop thinking right now

#QueerPrompts

In a queernormative world, there's no need.
Bayle does reveal his previous homosexual relationships to others, but it's never in a "BTW, Im Bi" way. It's more in a "My experience with my ex is relevant to this convo (but his gender is not the part that's relevant)" way.

Jane Eyre, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and Dracula are all novels I go back to (semi) regularly and then get the joy of not only loving them but the joy of remembering how much I LOVE them.

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I can not overstate what a bad idea it is for a writer to get into a petty argument with random guy on the Internet about their book.

You're not going to get everyone to like your #book or get everyone who would like your book to see it. Ignore and move on. It looks unprofessional.

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😊 there's lots more to come I promise.

#WritersCoffeeClub 11th October

Have you ever written an unlikable protagonist?

The protagonist in my WIP #TamLin is heroic and brave. But in #BrookbankLane she is manipulative, scheming, selfish, self-serving & violently ambitious. The joy is hopefully reading her comeuppance

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#WritersCoffeeClub 10th October:

Have you written a likable antagonist?

The Queen of the fairies who has captured #TamLin is willing to sacrifice him as a tithe to hell after kidnapping Tam and holding him hostage for seven years. She's an angry fairy queen, but she is a force of nature
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#PlotTober 10th October

The story and plot of Tam Lin is centuries old, yet the original text gives us very little information or idea about the backstory or traumas that may have formed Janet's personality and motivations. Tam Lin's is all plotted out. Janet's will need work.

#WriteSky #Writing

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 10:

It's promo Friday! Today, share something that makes you happy! Don't forget to boost others' posts!

Everyone knows I love writing, books, Doctor Who, Lego & the smell of freshly cut grass in summer. But which to choose?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Revolver is a great album that still works all these decades later.

Is it my favourite Beatles album, no. But it is a mighty fine album with some stunning songs, From, I'm Only Sleeping, Eleanor Rigby, And Your Bird Can Sing, Here, There and Everywhere to Yellow Submarine. There's not a dud song.

Advertising shot for the ITVX series Frauds with Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker.

#Frauds with #SuranneJones and #JodieWhittaker is in turns hilarious, stylish and gripping.

Best thing on #ITVX for a long while

News reporter: The three men who are wanted in connection with an ongoing police investigation...

Sorry. That's just shit. It shouldn't be like this. x

*trans

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The best revenge is to live happily.

Keeping posting tans joy and ignore/block the f**kers.

Don't let them steal your joy!

#LGBTQWriteAThon 9th October

There's no pride or LGBTQ+ representation in Tam Lin. While I've included a feminist interpretation, I decided against adding a LGBTQ+ interpretation as it's too far away from the feel of the original text

Feels strange, as I normally have LGBTQ characters🏳️‍🌈

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#QueerPrompts 9th October:

Bad luck is the catalyst for the plot of #TamLin

Tam Lin falling from his horse among the hills where the queen of the fairies dwells is how he becomes her capture and is put under threat of being sacrificed as a tithe to hell.

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#PlotTober 9th October

Janet's determined and brave in the face of danger. She acts fearlessly even when she and others are in great danger and she's wildly independent, unafraid to buck expectation. She's also too stubborn which makes her undiplomatic and impulsive.

#WriteSky #Writing #TamLin

'I wrote my thesis in 90 hours and got an A. AI can't do that'

No you didn't. No university is that shit it'd give an A to that thesis. You can't function properly after three nights of no sleep.

#AI can't reproduce the creativity and EI of humans but lets not enter into ad absurdum rhetoric.

That's hilarious and makes the point really well. Unless it's enthusiastic, willing consent it's not consensual. Of course a Brit had to use tea as an analogy, we're practically pumping the stuff through our veins 🤣🤣🤣

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Brilliant bit on consent by Brit mum using tea as an analogy.

It's funny but gets the point across.

Always, always get enthusiastic, willing consent, or sex is not consensual.

#Consent #WomensRights

Not only have editors prevented me from showing my ass in public, so has hiring sensitivity readers. I’m a big fan of both. Having someone be honest with you while also keeping your best interests at heart is something to be valued not dismissed

#PlotTober 8th October

Janet's conflict comes from both the mortal and spirit world.
The strict morals of the mortal world demand she conform; in the spirit world she must survive the trials she faces as the queen of the fairies tries to prevent her rescuing #TamLin

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#QueerPrompts 8th October

Most of my characters are LGBTQ+ but not in my current WIP. I'm working on a novelisation of #TamLin a 16th century Scottish folk ballad. As you can appreciate there were few out characters during that period so instead let me wish you a blessed #InternationalLesbianDay &

It seems unlikely

Other people being unable to understand that a critical analysis of text or an ability to critically think is the exact reason we need people who read English for their degrees as they can provide intelligent analysis of political culture wars which endanger our democracy.

Thanks, it sorted itself out after a bit. Who knows what shenanigans were going on. I have past prompts from our lovely host so I wasn't completely adrift.

Just a gremlin in the machine I guess.

For the pure hedonistic joy, who couldn't love animal ❤️