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Encouragement (Story)

Sorry I've been quiet this month. I've working on a post about magic systems that will be up by Sunday. In the mean time, the pandemic has been on my mind, so this month's story is about current events in a world with uplifted animals. I have ...

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Writing During a Pandemic

  

I hope everyone is staying safe and following your local social distancing guidelines. I expect all of us are under a stay-at-home order of some kind. Currently, I barely leave the house, limiting my time out of the house to ess...

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GOH at Fur the More 2021

I’ve excited to let you all know I’ve been asked to be the Guest of Honor at Fur the More 2021! This was announced last weekend at closing ceremonies and I got to go up on stage and introduce myself to the audience. This is a great honor and...

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Unsatisfied (Story)

To celebrate my birthday this week, I've decided to put the sequel to A Moment of Darkness online today. This story continues to build up the relationship Ammar and Ezra have while still being a kinky story with a positive view on the...

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12 Minute Fantasy World

I had a few minutes before the fantasy panel I did today at Texas Furry Fiesta to draw a map to talk about during the panel. It is a bit rough, but it gets the point across.

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A Moment of Darkness (Story)

I haven't had time to revise the story I wanted to put up this month, so I decided to run a reprint. This story originally appeared in the book Knotted back in 2016, and is one of my favorite pieces. I don't write a lot of heavy kink,...

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Naji and Zayn by GoldenDruid

Also, since I was just talking about the novel, I've got a pic of Naji and Zayn I would like to share done for me by GoldenDruid. She did the sketch for this a couple years ago, but I finally had her color it. 2020-02-24 00:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Novel Update

  

I wanted to take a moment to give you an update on the novel and where things stand right now. I did submit the book to a publisher back in November, but it got rejected. I did get some feedback on it I’ve been pondering. Sinc...

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The Importance of Conflict in My Writing

One of the things it has taken me a while to realize is I can’t write a story without knowing the conflict that drives it. Tension is good, but until I understand the conflict and decide what that is, I can’t seem to bring the story toward a c...

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The Tomb Guardian (story)

This months story is set in Egypt and deals with Ancient Egyptian mythology. 

  

Irsu crouched behind the pillar in the darkness, his tail lashing silently behind him. Only the faintest light crept in from outsi...

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Quantity, Quality, and Taking a Seat

There is an antidote that goes around the art world every few years I want to share with you, and break down. 2019-12-31 17:55:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Scars of the Golden Dancer, Chapter 3 - Crimson Lines

Dear Patrons

I hope everyone had a good Christmas, if you celebrate, are having a happy Hanukkah, enjoying any holiday they celebrate, or at least not being too stressed by the holiday season if it's not your thing. I've been ru...

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Loving You is Wrong (Story)

This month's Patreon story is the vampire fox story I've been poking at. This is actually the third attempt at a story with this protagonist, Radic. I was working on attempt number two earlier this week, and while that reached a near complete ...

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Improving Your Fiction, an Example

Editing is a big part of the writing process. The words we write in our first drafts aren’t always very good. Spelling, grammar, and stylistic issues often exist in these early drafts. I’m not able to give you a comprehensive view of how to im...

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Thank you guys!

Writing is inherently a lonely profession, and posting on the internet is throwing something out there into the ether. You never know how people will respond to it, or even if they will. It's been a journey doing this, and since it's  #ThankY...

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Scars of the Golden Dancer Book Blurb

 Hey guys, been a little busy this month doing novel edits, so I don’t have a lot I can share right now. I do have some scenes for a vampire fox story I’ve been wanting to work on, but haven’t been able to squeeze in. I’m actually doi...

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Furfur's Violinist (Story)

I've been hard at work on novel stuff this month, but I still need to write a new story for Patreon this month. First though, I'd like to offer you one of my older pieces that was published back in 2014 in Trick or Treat 2, published by Rabbit...

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Why I Think The Bechdel Test Matters for a Novel About Two Gay Men

This is something I’ve pondered for a while and would like to talk about. First though, for those of you now familiar with the Bechdel Test, a definition. This test is a way to measure the role of woman in movies that is increasingly being appli...

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Scars of the Golden Dancer, Chapter 2 - A Repeat Customer

I have some other content I want to post this month about the novel, but I've been head down on editing the novel. Thus, I'm going to put up Chapter 2, which is the second half of the novel preview.

  

The weight of ...

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Scars of the Golden Dancer, Chapter 1 - The Caravanserai

As promised, the first chapter of my in progress novel.


The desert moon shines like a jewel in the night sky, full and bright, watching over the caravan town. Now that the sun has set, the dry air is cool, and the wind sh...

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Slight Delay

You'll notice I just posted a piece of world building tidbit about the novel today, and have not yet posted the sample chapter I promised. I'm sorry about that, but things got a little backed up. Both of these posts have been quite serious. I've a...

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The Male Dancer Archetype and The Historical Record

I’d like to talk about some of the research that’s gone into the world building for the book. Research is critical to writing a book like Scars of the Golden Dancer. For this discussion, I’ve included citations, should you the reade...

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Why It Has Taken Me Nine Years to Write A Novel

The originally concept for the world that Scars of the Golden Dancer is set in came to me in 2010. The year before, Eurofurence’s theme was the Arabian Nights, and I recall looking at some of the art for the con and being fascinated by ...

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Upcoming Patreon Content

  

This month and next month, I’ll be working on finishing editing my first novel, Scars of the Golden Dancer, in preparation to send it to a publisher. This project has been in development for a very long time, but slowly it has...

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Loosening Up (Story)

For a Patreon marked as 18+, I've posted surprisingly little adult content, and nothing sexually explicit has appeared here yet, until today. This story came to me earlier this month, and I wrote the first draft in two hours and ten minutes, w...

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Research and Erotica?

  

Since I’ve been working on that “Unknown Stains” story I showed you guys an excerpt of last month, and I have edits on a different story I need to work on for Heat, I want to talk about some of the research I put into writ...

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Overthinking the Writing Process

 It is time to write this kick-ass story, and you know what you want to write. This story is going to be better than everything you've done to date. You've got a plan. You have a plot. The characters have agency over the story. You have world...

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Tweaking the Tiers

First, I want to thank everyone who's joined this so far. You guys rock! I've been doing some thinking, and I made a decision that I think will benefit all my patrons. I've decided to merge the $1 and $5 tier to be a single $3 tier. This won't aff...

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The Color of the Rainbow (Story)

I wrote this story last year, when I first heard that Straight Pride was a thing. Like the protagonist, I was angry about this form of culture jamming. Being LGBTQ+ can be hard, and I want to be proud of who I am. Yet sometimes I feel society ...

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"Unknown Stains" Story Excerpt

I'm a personal fan of characters who show personality and like a good laugh.  They're fun to write, and sometimes they pop out on the page. As a teaser, I thought I'd  share the beginning of a story I'm editing so I can submit it to ...

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