Sinfulwolf

Heh, sounds like a slight theme crises happening. Everyone wants dark and bloody, and wants to do festive. I’m still on the fence.

I’ll be in. I’ll probably post my Krampus story I wrote last year up here on AFF as well to coincide. What to do for the anthology… not sure yet.

Mayhaps I will… just in what capacity… eh, I’ll figure it out.

Well… now I kinda wanna bring out the Lamia’s I made and then shuffled off to the side.

A pantser is basically someone who writes by the seat of their pants. They don’t put too much effort into the outline, preferring things to evolve more organically. There are pros and cons to this, just as with anything. I believe with pantsing, you get much better characterization. Whereas a strong outliner would get much better plot with a greater ability to do twists and turns. @InvidiaRed Have you really outlined the whole story, or just been very meticulous with the setting? Cause that in itself is a bit different as well.

I am very much a pantser. I’ll come up with an idea, a setting, and characters, and start going from there. I’ve had character arcs shift from original ideas and outlines entirely because it was what was working as I wrote. Current story I’m still not entirely sure what’s going to happen with one of my major characters and if she’ll be hero or villain. To me I find if I go too close to any kind of outline, things get a bit too wooden.

It’s at the other site I write at, but I’ll likely upload it here for Christmas time. If I can be arsed, maybe a follow up chapter.

Last time I wrote a Christmas story it involved the Krampus and weird shit happening.

Heh, it’s all good. But that doesn’t surprise me. Like I said, it seemed like such a big world. And damn those multiple projects eh? I feel that pain. Ha. There is, I think it might be a slight different take… but honestly only slightly. But, more reviews have been put up. Thank you! I did want to go for dark and bloody. Think I hit it. Lydia I really liked, and she’ll likely return some day. Though as a protagonist of her own. Heh. I had pondered the “NoSex” thing for a bit, but I felt it worked better for what I was going for. There was a semblance of an idea to have the grove scene a sex scene as well, but it wouldn’t have felt crowbarred in. Asides, my other work has plenty of sex. And damnit!

Problem with Thanksgiving is that it’s not nearly as widespread or international… for example, Canadian Thanksgiving is already done. Weeks ago.

Aye, someone else posted a story, with a minor tag as Bronx pointed out, but it seems to be gone now.

My original inspiration was Massilia in southern Gaul. I didn’t have enough time to explore a bit of marriage of Celtic and Greek, so only the Irish bit really came through. Glad you liked the Sluagh though, I pretty much just ran with a basic concept of them. I did do the research, but I wanted my own fantasy version that just had their roots from Eire. So glad it came across all well. And… I enjoy writing bloodbaths.

I’ll try and whip something up for Christmas, but I can’t promise much.

I don’t like how common it is for one side to completely demonize the other while completely elevating their own. I wanted to aim for some kind of balance here. Glad it wasn’t seen coming though.

We can be sometimes can’t we? The mind is a deeply odd place sometimes. Especially among writers. It’s strange what we can pull out of ourselves. And yes, I remember you talking about that before. Perhaps all the more frightening in that it feels so damn plausible. Heh, I have an idea, as we’ve chatted about it before. But yeah, I have a feeling I’ll have the same issues whenever I get around to my M/M scenes. Tip toeing that line between cheesy and clinical and what’s actually sexy to those that enjoy the material I also have reviews of my own to respond to. Woo! I enjoy doing little things like that. I like describing little ticks and motions the characters do when they’re just talking or walking or whatever. I feel it breathes a little life into them. Kind of a reminder for the imagination that they’re not just standing that yammering at each other straight backed, or strolling super purposefully down the road. I find it also opens doors for little snipits of world building. Not much, but little bits of it. And yeah, once I thought of this idea earlier this week I hit the ground running and just went for it. Lydia was originally going to be the main character, but I felt it better for her just to have a cameo. I thought it would be better for the horror vibe if I had this noble completely out of her comfort zone. I often worry about the Mary Sue thing, especially with my typical archetype that I find coming into my stories. Them warrior lasses that I enjoy writing so much. But, this time it wasn’t actually I worry for me. I found it rather different to go for the noble woman who was physically weak, but could be a powerhouse in politics. She was a fun character to write. Why thank you. The one side was certainly inspired by Rome, and the conquered city in my head was drawn from Gaul, Brittannia, and Massalia. I had a lot more stuff but… didn’t want to drown in exposition since most of it wasn’t necessary for the plot. But yes, butchered by demons/undead isn’t the best of days.

Awww, why thank you @InvidiaRed

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Woo! Managed to finish. After about 5 scraped ideas, and a few starts and restarts, I finally got something I actually had a lot of fun writing. Title: Eve of Hollow Souls Summary: A noblewoman of a conquered land goes to visit her countryside villa, on the night of a outlawed religious festival. Warnings: Violence, no sex, F/F (sorta, but not really)

Still workin on mine...

I’m part of one, and I’d suggest to allow people to post anonymously if you do want comments. Might be a bit more work to prevent spam stuff, but the site I’m a part of requires someone to have an account and to comment once and get it accepted before they can freely comment. This has resulted in very much a lack of feedback/commentary on our work.

Hmm… question to the party here, as this is a Halloween themed anthology, are we expected to write something that correlates somewhat directly to the holiday itself? Or can we expand a bit from there, as long as it’s got darker/scary/horror like themes that one can come to expect at Halloween? Was thinking of writing a short second world fantasy story.

I’m in, have something of an idea, but may change. Pretty much everything TBD at the moment.

Your welcome as always. But now I’m looking forward to Halloween!

I grabbed Sinfulwolf way back when I was 18 to join some kind of porn forum, and kinda stuck with it since (30 now). I always get annoyed when I get to a website and find out there’s already a Sinfulwolf there… that’s my internet wide Username! In those cases I go with TheSinfulwolf.

Always lots of research to go into it. Even for fantasy. But I don’t think a list of insults should really be a high priority. It’s not usually insults that stand out to reader’s unless they seem forced and just bad/cringey.