Hi good people here, late last year I was very involved here and did a lot of story work and read many fine works from you all.
Then I had an accident, I tripped on the pavement and went headfirst into a stone gate pillar.
It meant a trip to A&E for thirty stitches to my head and a repair to a damaged small artery, I have a scar line starting just above my eyebrows going vertically to the top of my skull.
Today I cam across two pieces of news, the first about J K Rowling (anyone on this site who is still defending her.... how?), and covers her view of what a trans woman is.
"a man revelling in his misogynistic performance of what he thinks 'woman' means: narcissistic, shallow and exhibitionist".
I have an entry written, peer reviewed, all ready to go.
Now do I publish day 1 and hope no one betters it, or revises theirs to compete, do I wait for the end and hope to trump the others, or slide it out in the middle, hoping to impress the judges but go under the other entrants radar....
Christmas has always been a goodish time for me, decent ones as a kid, quiet, riotous or drunken ones as an adult. I like the time of year. Not the stress, the crowds or the harrying but the festiveness leading into the turning of the year.
This last year I have been climbing out of a deep pit (life, the universe and other things) back into living, and it is good’ish.
Plans for the future are being made, small ones and big target (but achievable) set.
Advice for authors that I received and am passing on.
One of the best pieces I ever received was simple, a setting is not a plot.
It sounds odd, but it is true, you get an idea for a place, you detail it exquisitely, but people do not (generally) come out of the theatre quoting the scenery….
Yes knowing your background is important, knowing how a school is set up matters for a story set in a school, but unless you are very good, very weird or just odd (like me) the school is not the story, just the scenery.
Reading a story here, that set me on trains of thought. The story had dark and light, but I identified with a bit I really do not like having identified with.
The idea of suicide by neglect. It rang true and hit home hard.
And a lot of the other issues about growing up and acceptance and self doubt etc.
So here is my story, not for enjoyment or sympathy but to see if I can put it into some semblance of order that makes sense to me. Some info will be relevant, some is just me hanging it into its place for me.
I published a story that had plenty of Trans content, but also Female Domination, Bondage, BDSM, Slavery the whole 9 Fetish yards really. It had the caution warnings, then had more added because apparently people ignore the content warnings and read anyway.
It got comments of the ewww and not for here, and can you not write sweet gentle stories like wot we want?
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