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I have cover art! NineStar Press is republishing my Witch’s Apprentice series, and Ghost’s Sight, the first book, has cover art. I’m really excited, and I can’t wait for the release date!

Okay, so personal rant coming up… I was reading A few posts off site that a couple friends had shared and I felt absolutely disturbed by them. It might be a few years back and all, but... To have published authors who readily compare fanfic to home invasion (because (imo) free publicity is certainly the same as having someone break in and take everything), immoral (... not touching that idea...) making them want to 'barf' (excellent wording, btw), and referring to it as adultery... Are you serious? I understand the idea of not liking it (I don't agree, but that's a personal thought process and one I can't force on others)... But really? Sorry, just a little growly over this...

Definitely! If the author wants to show off, or wants to indulge in a fantasy language they created, or they’re just obsessed with languages and enjoy playing with them, all the more power to them. I respect that kinda passion and creativity. I probably won’t enjoy that part of their stories, but I grudgingly accept that not everyone and everything needs to cater to me.

Oh my goodness!! I love it!! While I personally have difficulty with using a ‘created language’ in my writings, I most definitely and absolutely spend an enormous amount of time researching and developing the various aspects of culture for my original works. Just like in ‘real life’ there are so many different cultures, I want that same ‘richness’ in my stories, complete with social customs, beliefs, politics, etc. I think this ‘setting of mixed cultures’ helps to build and expand the possibilities for creating tension, intrigue, and other things that can pull the reader into the story. It gives them ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ to both love and/or hate as they root for whichever one ‘does it’ for them LOL I also brought this topic up in a discussion with a few other writer friends of mine and their feelings were pretty similar to mine, as well as something you said about ‘slang’ terms. I brought up in that discussion one of my favorite authors, Mercedes Lackey and her Heralds of Valdemar Series. There is a group of people in her story that most definitely have their own entire language, but she didn’t use it a lot in the story, just dropped a word here and there when a character from that particular group of people could not think of how to express something to someone outside of their group. But she would have that character go right into an explanation of what that word meant in their language. That worked out really well in my opinion.

It’s Friday! Maybe I’ll get a bit of work done on the story?

This is AFF, we love stories around here, especially if there’s stripping involved In the Potter fanfics that I did write, I’d switch a bit too often, IMO, between 1st and 3rd. Since then, I’ve kinda formed my own rules. I’ll avoid 1st because there’s a lot of “I’s” not to mention it’s tougher to remember the main character’s name. When I started SR, I did a utterly detached, third person, no-mind-reading, but I’ve come to let a bit slip in if it saves a lot of awkward exposition/dialogue, or as a hint to the reader (ie, “lied” or “changed subject”) so they know there’s something off. I think it came down to .. I want the narrator to be truthful, always truthful, but the characters can lie and get it wrong So, which dialect of Klingon are you’re looking for? A google search claims there’s at least eighty. If the author is really wanting to show their bilinguistic skills, there’s no reason they can’t have English subtitles when it’s meant to be understood.

I have managed to resist the urge to write an F/F fic about Michelle Obama and Melania Trump’s transition meeting.

Downside of using your phone to write porn: When you search for a restaurant called Fogo de Chao, "Fogo" autocorrects to "cock."

Congrats to all y'all who survived NaNoWriMo!

_I_ have a doctorate. Where's _my_ friggin' TARDIS?