A taste of the future, or maybe the past, the present? (WIP)(13/03/24)
https://satan-speaks.com/2024/03/a-taste-of-the-future-or-maybe-the-past-the-present-wip13-03-24/
Paradox. (Working Title) By Lee Wilson. Prologue. Time is broken. From the dawning of man, time flowed like a stream. […]
Written by Satan & Lee Wilson.
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Dear #scribesandmakers and #writingcommunity
I’d appreciate your assistance. Which of these four blurbs is most likely to pique your interest as a reader:
1. Growing up in the North Shields of the 1990s is tough for teens Billy and Esther. Will the wall they sit upon every day cement their relationship or cause their love to crumble?
2. From a brick wall overlooking the River Tyne, teenagers Billy and Esther put the world to rights. But will the wall provide a foundation for their future or cement their emotional fragility?
3. For Billy and Esther, teenage feelings flow less freely than the Tyne. Will their evening conversations on a red brick wall overlooking the river see love be harboured or drift out to sea?
4. Will Billy and Esther ever admit their feelings to each other? Will they even admit them to themselves?
A red brick wall. The River Tyne. A teenage couple. The 1990s. Complicated homes and complicated lives. Growing up is never easy …
#ScribesAndMakers 1/25. You're going on a creative retreat. What's the most important thing you need to bring with you?
Very boring but: my Linux laptop and charger.
There are few stories where I've used today's #WIPSnips word “notice”, but decided to share this one I'd written for #BlueSkyArtShow last year.
(You can read on my website)
ss.lucidillusions.in/bsky/2025/09...
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#ScribesAndMakers 1.25 — You're going on a creative retreat. What's the most important thing you need to bring with you?
My laptop and my Kindle.
Comfy clothes.
DAO for my histamine problems, so I can eat whatever.
That's it.
#WritersCoffeeClub 1/25 What comes first: setting, character, plot? What comes next?
It's usually the characters, especially with the Wolves.
Since I've been writing that series for a few years now (book 10! *cough*), the setting is pretty much given, even though I did move away from Asheton and Wilmington to a small town in Louisiana.
Plot comes last - I am a pantser at heart, and even though I generally have some landmarks, the plot tends to develop while I write.
#WordWeavers 1/25 If traumatic events happen, do your characters process it on page for longer than a chapter?
Not continuously.
Trauma tends to pop up over and over again, and that's how my characters deal with it - whenever it pops up. Alas, many times, they just have to fight for their lives and suppress it.
It takes a long time for them to let go of it, some never will. (There is no therapy in most of my worlds, so they have to deal with it on their own.)
#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.01.25 — What comes first: setting, character, plot? What comes next?
I don't agree with the assertion that these three concepts are atomic, or represent the complete periodic table. While I am tempted to say character comes first, what comes first to me is a synthesis of subparticles that includes a sense of a person's personality, problems, goals, and aspirations together with the brick wall that stands in the way of their satisfaction or satiation that motivates them forward, as well as possible solutions, resolutions, (and, yes) necessary revelation or final convolutions to a mystery the final synthesized character must work through or work out. That brick wall could be a real brick wall or a dragon that exists only in someone's mind, other characters, or events that must unfold as part of on-going plot. While I can only think of one of these components at a time, they coalesce conceptually into a bright shiny bauble as a story forms in my mind until I think, "Ohhh! Sparkly!"
The only thing I can state with certainty is what comes last: As I compose and complete the story, something resembling a plot becomes apparent. It's only then that I finish backfilling missing plot elements, foreshadowing, and tying up what—if the story underwent literary analysis—might be dubbed a plot.
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#ScribesAndMakers 1.25 — You're going on a creative retreat. What's the most important thing you need to bring with you?
Books for breaks, packed clothes and stuff, CBD, laptop, notebook(s), lots of chargers, and a few pairs of my bluetooth earbuds, etc. You gotta be prepared!
#WritersCoffeeClub 1.25 — What comes first: setting, character, plot? What comes next?
Sometimes it's the plot. More often than not, it's the characters. They'll come to me first. A lot of my characters were created for either the purpose of TTRPG stuff (tabletop roleplaying games) or roleplay stories (which is just collaborative writing that I do with friends or my girlfriend), so I've already written a plethora of stories with these characters. The plots come to me later if I finally decide to knuckle down and write a long serial or just a novel with them. C'est la vie.
#WritersCoffeeClub 1/25. What comes first: setting, character, plot? What comes next?
Not the plot but I have know the overall setting and the end I want to see, and then the MC also in general.
But, as a pantser, the actual plot develops as I go.
#eroticMusings Week 35 (January 25-31) Culture: Porn, romance, erotica, smut, etc. – how do you define and distinguish them? Does it matter?
Porn vs erotica is all I'll talk about, and for me it's a question of barriers.
By my definition, in porn the MC achieves their intention without any real barriers, or set-backs. There's no story, at most it's just a sequence of events, leading to an unchallenged climax (pun intended).
Erotica is a story. The MC has a goal (which may have nothing to do with sex) and things happen. It's a real story that happens to have sex in it.
The Satanic Curses – A Welcome Death.
https://satan-speaks.com/2022/11/the-satanic-curses-a-welcome-death/
I can feel the pain starting in my legs. Feeling returning from a cold nothingness. How did I get here? […]
Written by Satan & Lee Wilson.
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#PennedPossibilities 912 — Describe your MC to us. (Looks, flaws, character attributes, their struggles, etc.)
After writing and refining my reply, I realized there were simply too many spoilers. I am keeping my original in my notes. More vaguely—
Bolt has a third pair of limbs—wings with blue feathers—and can fly extremely well. She is strikingly athletic, "cut" without bulk and extremely proud of it, but not particularly feminine in appearance. Despite this, she makes men she's attracted to quickly aware that she's indeed a woman. She's earnest as she is cagey, which doesn't seem to go together until you understand that she works as a courier for the mob. As a result, she avoids letting "innocents" enter her lonely life, which thanks to events in her story becomes increasingly unavoidable. The part of her mind that can justify doing what she knows is wrong (she considers herself "poison") works overtime to let her "juggle" having new friends, even as she perpetually worries for their safety. She's playful when not anxious, but acts like a kicked puppy often enough that people want to help her. She reacts not with gratitude but by helping and supporting her friends instead, becoming emotionally torn when she fails. She's a good person, despite being a criminal. She was blackmailed into her job, but knows full well that the constabulary won't care if she's caught.
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#PennedPossibilities 912 — Describe your MC to us. (Looks, flaws, character attributes, their struggles, etc.)
Stark features, seafoam green eyes, tall and lean. When he’s angry, his eyes will turn a stormy, steely gray (which is the way with vampires, their eyes changing color). His hair is curly and silver, his eyebrows are dangerous and expressive, and he looks every bit the gentle, charismatic, charming vampire that he is.
While he always tries to do his best, he might sometimes fail at it. He isn't perfect, and would never claim to be, and he hates whenever he gets things wrong. He's a writer, an artist, and can play piano, so his long-fingered hands are often moving about as he speaks. He's expressive in every way. He can be rather silly when he wants to be, incredibly loving and tactile, and yet rather ruthless when the moment calls for it as well.
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#WordWeavers 2026.01.12 — Does your MC have a good support system?
For Bolt, it is definitely a work-in-progress. She starts the story with zilch, and is so apathetic that she thinks she'd be okay if she died. Her earnestness—and talents she doesn't acknowledge but shares rather freely—builds that system around her, though she doesn't realize it. The test will be, of course, when these people discover she's been blackmailed by the mob.
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nothing screams "I understand language" like pretending words stopped evolving in 1837. amazing used to mean confusing. awful meant awe-inspiring. maybe let 'incredible' finish its character arc before lecturing the #WritingCommunity ✍️📚
#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.01.24 — Share something you’re proud of but had to cut from a work.
If I am proud of something substantial I've cut from a work, that's usually because I've overdone working on a character's back story. My first published novel was that. The cuttings, whether passages or ideas, often ends up with me writing a side story using that material. My current WIP is essentially of that breed, backstory that was too good to ignore. The WIP is the glue between a set of what might be three or four other stories.
Sometimes a good sentence or paragraph will be great but unnecessary or contradictory. Occasionally I save the scrap, but usually I simply delete it.
Nothing to share, here.
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January 24: Share something you’re proud of but had to cut from a work.
I'm really proud of some of the artwork I did to help me visualize scenes from my books. The print format doesn't really support publishing them.
However, subscribers to my newsletter are occasionally treated with digital versions of these works.
#WordWeavers 2026.01.24 — Your MC has to start a new business with their current skills. What do they do?
In the story, Bolt, the MC, is begged to share her photos by a newspaper reporter with a broken camera at the scene of front-page news. Turns out she has a talent at candid and street photography that would quickly make her in demand. However, she works for the mob as a courier; she does everything to (futilely) resist becoming a paid photographer because she doesn't want her wannabe new colleagues and friends to come to the attention of her employer.
Of course, were Bolt to want to start a new business, being a photographer would pay her very well. Especially if the pin-up calendar she's currently been maneuvered into photographing does as well as is expected!
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