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 been wondered what a dog would be going though working in a hospital as a social worker, so without further adieu... Encouragement.
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2020-05-01 00:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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 essential activities only. I’m working from home, so my morning commute is the twenty to thirty seconds it takes me to get over to my desk when it’s ...
2020-04-12 22:42:39 +0000 UTC View PostTo 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 their relationship. This also continues with Ammar's battle against cancer. Anyway, enjoy!
I whine. I whine like I need it more tha...
2020-03-04 15:55:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2020-03-01 21:27:31 +0000 UTC View PostI 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, so this story and it's sequel are unique among my writing. I also am glad I was able to do a piece like this that is so serious while also making it ...
2020-02-29 17:38:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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. You can find this on FA if you want to leave a comment for the artist. She does amazing work and it's we...
2020-02-24 00:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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. Since the book got rejected, I’ve passed it off to some beta readers, who I’m still waiting to get back to me on what they think of the entire book. I...
2020-02-24 00:09:47 +0000 UTC View PostOne 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 conclusion. I have always been more of a panster than a planer when it comes to how I write. I feel that is starting to change, but I still like to jus...
2020-02-01 04:37:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 outside, but the two fennecs the cheetah was watching had entered the tomb carrying an oil lamp that cast long shadows through the antechamber. The fennecs...
2020-01-30 05:21:54 +0000 UTC View PostThere is an antidote that goes around the art world every few years I want to share with you, and break down. You can read one take on this story, but I’ve got the full excerpt here:
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that ... 2019-12-31 17:55:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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 running around a lot for the holidays, and while I made some progress on a new story for this month, I'm running short on time. Thus, I decided to put u...
2019-12-27 15:26:15 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 first draft, I was still unsatisfied with it. However, after putting down that draft for the day, this idea popped into my head, and I wrote this fair...
2019-11-30 19:44:01 +0000 UTC View PostEditing 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 improve your fiction in a single post, but I do have an example of awful fiction and how I made it better. Better yet, I wrote this atrocity, so I feel ...
2019-11-19 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWriting 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 #ThankYouPatrons Day, I would be deeply remiss to not say how awesome having people actually supporting me is, so thank you all. I appreciate it immensely. 2019-11-19 15:22:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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 doing some final tweaks tonight so I can submit the novel to a publisher this week. I’ve decided I’m not going to pause the campaign for November bec...
2019-10-31 02:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostI'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 Valley:
"They say he can summon the dead," said the stranger. A lynx, he ha...
2019-10-15 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 applied to fiction. The test has three simple criteria:
1. The movie has to have at least two women in it,
2. who talk to each other,
3. ...
2019-09-30 21:47:02 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 the silver dinari feels good as I play with the coins in my hand. Three silver is an excellent night for me. Sometimes, in the middle of summer when t...
2019-09-26 00:11:25 +0000 UTC View PostAs 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 shifts lazily over the dunes, ruffling my fur. With the stifling heat of the day fading away, it's refreshing to be outside now.
I've never been h...
2019-09-02 21:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostYou'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 also for the last few days been tracking a hurricane that has been a possible threat to the part of Florida I'm in. As of writing this, things are look...
2019-08-31 22:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostI’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 reader wish to read up on the topics I’m going to discuss. One of the things I’ve struggled with the most finding information about is the Köçek. Kö...
2019-08-31 22:41:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 it. A specific piece of art with a fennec prince caught my intention, and it stuck with me. I wanted to read a story like this, but no such story exis...
2019-08-13 13:42:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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 come together. The story is complete, and I’ve started thinking about the sequel. The prequel story to the novel, Silk and Sword was published this...
2019-08-04 19:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostFor 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, with a break for lunch, a surprisingly quick first draft for me. It uses the same characters from "Unknown Stains" and has been a good tool for me to u...
2019-07-31 12:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 writing my fiction, specifically with these two erotica pieces as examples.
At first glance, the idea that you would need to do any research to writ...
2019-07-23 02:47:31 +0000 UTC View PostIt 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 building to support your setting and characters. You know who your characters are. You know what they want. You even know what they had for breakfast...
2019-07-13 21:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, 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 affect existing patrons though, so I've marked those tiers as "founder" to signify I won't change those. The way Patreon works, I can't reprice a tier wi...
2019-07-12 00:44:05 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 in general just want to but us all back in the closet.
A lot has happened in the last year about this topic, and there apparently...
2019-06-30 23:43:08 +0000 UTC View PostI'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 Fang 10. I previously wrote this when I attended RAWR back in 2017, but I've had some trouble finding the right tone I wanted to strike with it. This ...
2019-06-21 00:10:24 +0000 UTC View Post