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Some writing in progress.
Mar. 8th, 2020 04:12 pmI'm working today on a story called Heart to Heart. Got it up to 20k words, and yet I'm still setting up plot scaffolding, not at all into the meat of the story, so I suspect this one will be a proper novel.
It's a trans issues sort of story. (Might eventually want a cis beta reader for it, because I feel I'm not sure where the line between "I have no idea about this stuff, the author must explain" and "I'm not an idiot, don't be so tell-y" is with trans things.
It's fun, though, because I'm finally diving into some stuff that's been headcanon to me for ages, about my Eternal Kingdom setting and the way trans people are treated in it. It's a very tolerant, positive sort of place. :3 Individuals may still be bigots, because people are going to people, but the Eternal Queen of her Eternal Kingdom is genderqueer herself, so she Gets It, and her son the crown prince is bisexual (I have a story about him!) so it's a really good place to be LGBT+.
Like, if I want to write stories about struggling with bigotry, I can set them right here in the world I live in. That's my real life. I want to sometimes write stories where the bigots are the exception, not the rule. So I made a setting for just that.
Guess I'll do the Sunday Six for this one, since it's Sunday. :3 Why not?
It all made sense in one way, but it was also a complete upending of the way the world worked. People had ranks and classes, they just did, and those things dictated the value they had to society.
“Come, reason it out with me. I’ll see if I can try a tack that might make my position clear. I assume that you’re fully human?”
Theon blinked. “Yes?”
“I’m not very human, myself. I think a quarter on my mother’s side? So if you and I had been born in Brisal, you would be considered a citizen, and I would be considered a kind of odd, talking animal.”
“What?” Theon blinked again, unable to resist looking over at Lachlan. He looked completely human.
It's a trans issues sort of story. (Might eventually want a cis beta reader for it, because I feel I'm not sure where the line between "I have no idea about this stuff, the author must explain" and "I'm not an idiot, don't be so tell-y" is with trans things.
It's fun, though, because I'm finally diving into some stuff that's been headcanon to me for ages, about my Eternal Kingdom setting and the way trans people are treated in it. It's a very tolerant, positive sort of place. :3 Individuals may still be bigots, because people are going to people, but the Eternal Queen of her Eternal Kingdom is genderqueer herself, so she Gets It, and her son the crown prince is bisexual (I have a story about him!) so it's a really good place to be LGBT+.
Like, if I want to write stories about struggling with bigotry, I can set them right here in the world I live in. That's my real life. I want to sometimes write stories where the bigots are the exception, not the rule. So I made a setting for just that.
Guess I'll do the Sunday Six for this one, since it's Sunday. :3 Why not?
It all made sense in one way, but it was also a complete upending of the way the world worked. People had ranks and classes, they just did, and those things dictated the value they had to society.
“Come, reason it out with me. I’ll see if I can try a tack that might make my position clear. I assume that you’re fully human?”
Theon blinked. “Yes?”
“I’m not very human, myself. I think a quarter on my mother’s side? So if you and I had been born in Brisal, you would be considered a citizen, and I would be considered a kind of odd, talking animal.”
“What?” Theon blinked again, unable to resist looking over at Lachlan. He looked completely human.