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Fae Trap- a digital artwork made in infinite paint. The subject is a Fae Trap. The Fae Trap has a large flower pod base as their lower half. It is light green with yellow spots. The petals surrounding the opening are yellow and orange. Out of the top opening springs the rest of the fae trap. They are made of a human spine and rib cage. Their arms are made of old, pinkish meat. Feathers and leaves are mixed into the arm from things previously digested. Various pitcher plants grow out of their body, as well as venus fly traps. Their head is made of a crumbling masquerade mask. Out of the eye sockets, more pitcher plants grow. Out of the back of their head are several venus fly traps and long, light green sundews.The fae trap stands before two torches. The torches have skulls on their tops. The background, overall, is a wall of bones and skulls.

Fae Trap- a digital artwork made in infinite paint. The subject is a Fae Trap. The Fae Trap has a large flower pod base as their lower half. It is light green with yellow spots. The petals surrounding the opening are yellow and orange. Out of the top opening springs the rest of the fae trap. They are made of a human spine and rib cage. Their arms are made of old, pinkish meat. Feathers and leaves are mixed into the arm from things previously digested. Various pitcher plants grow out of their body, as well as venus fly traps. Their head is made of a crumbling masquerade mask. Out of the eye sockets, more pitcher plants grow. Out of the back of their head are several venus fly traps and long, light green sundews.The fae trap stands before two torches. The torches have skulls on their tops. The background, overall, is a wall of bones and skulls.

A black and white line drawing of a wall of bones, featuring several skulls. There is a logo in the bottom right corner that's a small pumpkin with one eye and cat ears. It says spooky pickle underneath it.

The skull wall was created in infinite paint. The artist used the symmetry tool in make things the same on each side.

A black and white line drawing of a wall of bones, featuring several skulls. There is a logo in the bottom right corner that's a small pumpkin with one eye and cat ears. It says spooky pickle underneath it. The skull wall was created in infinite paint. The artist used the symmetry tool in make things the same on each side.

Before host today's #TBBchat on @the-book-bazaar.com, I figured I'd post what I promised to post yesterday.

Here's the final make-a-fairy! They're what I call a fae trap. They attract their meals with magic-infused pheromones (or fairymones ha ha) that smell like the thing someone desires most #art

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Oh boy! Oh boy! #TBBChat will commence in about 30 minutes.

Be there or be square!

Or answer stuff later (when you are able). We're going to talk about poetry. It's going to be a great time!

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Nothing really to promo, I'm still in and out of various existential crises. Just wish me luck figuring out all this backend shit please lol

#TBBChat #TBBSummerBonanza26 #Writing #Writesky

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Nothing for Metacosm but for a fic I recently researched heart defects, ISBN, obscure Japanese financial laws, and I'm always having to brush up on my very shaky understanding of metaphysics lol

#TBBChat #TBBSummerBonanza26 #Writing #Writesky

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Oh gods. Um. Yeah. That first thing. The Tism likes to tell me that my readers want to know Every Single Thing I Know about this thing. Infodump in writing form. Trying real hard to teach myself how to rein it in.

#TBBChat #TBBSummerBonanza26 #Writing #Writesky

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Couple days late but~

A does almost all of our research 😅 I'm shit at it, just gimme the dolls and wind me up and let me go.

On the rare occasion I do, I like to find as Official a source as possible, even if it means reading academic studies lol

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Well #TBBChat, evidently the brief research I did on neurotransmitters active when in like/love was too much, because using them turned my blokes up the pub opening into a science textbook, killing the story

Cutting that out made a lot of difference

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#ReaderSky
#BookSky
#LGBTQIA+

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Hi #TBBChat, T. M. Shannon, currently in the city of Sydney, Oz, the setting for my bisexual romance Three Ways (albeit in 2013), with more queer content to come

I'm neck deep in the overhaul and currently making quick fixes (my 3rd act bogged down)

#WritingCommunity
#WriterSky
#ReaderSky
#BookSky

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And now, #TBBChat, time for shameless self promotion!

I'm two books into my swashbuckling clockpunk mecha fantasy series, THE CATAPHRACT CHRONICLES. Think The Three Musketeers + Gundam. Out on KU!

If that sounds fun, one can get a FREE short story by joining my mailing list! (Link to follow)

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#TBBChat As for research, one of the nice things about writing SFF is you get to just make shit up (within reason). And since I write a lot of swordfights, I try to watch various HEMA demonstration vids when I can.

Plus, y'know. Reading.

Which sometimes gets you a chart like this one:

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Well, hi, #TBBChat. I'm Marc! General nerd, travel-junkie (who doesn't travel as much as he'd like), dog-haver, and so on.

I write rollicking genre-mashup adventure stuff, as well as the occasinal snarky skeet.

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#TBBChat it was great chatting! I'm excited for the #TBBSummerBonanza26!!!

My book, Fairy Seasons, was made possible by being a part of the #BookBazaar25.

You can pre-order stuff if you're interested!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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I'm currently researching German Australian life.

I have a lot of inspiration from a friend i grew up with, but I also need to understand a bit of what life in Cologne is like.

#TBBChat #TBBSummerBonanza26 #Writing #Writesky

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#TBBchat outro.

Promo time!

Recent anthology with my short, The First Sword:
mybook.to/InterestingT...

And get The Dark Side of Super's audio book directly!
adleraudios.com/matthew-siadak

Signed copies of my books:
backwardsknight.bigcartel.com

Everywhere else:
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#TBBChat A1: I went to my local university reference desk for help finding photos of 1980s and 90s office furniture. They suggested I look at old Apple marketing brochures (because they will have survived and been digitized somewhere.) and then I also watched Working Girl.

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#TBBChat A3: What am I researching right now?

Not much, because I know what I need to do. I need my brain to acquiesce into doing work to make progress on The Forgotten Princess again.

I really want to have it out next year and that's doable if I can get my ass back in gear.

#TBBSummerBonanza26

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#TBBChat

Today is actually one year anniversary of me starting on my writing journey.

I updated my pinned post to mark the occasion, with links to the prologue and first two chapters of The Night of Fallen Gods.

I’d really appreciate if people read them and gave feedback

bsky.app/profile/nigh...

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For sure. I’ve gotten way too deep into topics for details that would never translate into stories. As much as I genuinely enjoy learning for its own sake, there is a point where it gets too disconnected from the actual writing process 😅

#TBBChat #TBBSummerBonanza26 #Writing #Writesky

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#TBBChat A3: Chloroplast diseases. Really. I may end up bugging a biologist about this.

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#TBBChat A2: I can promise I will over-research every single detail and then leave them out of the actual story because otherwise, I’m just writing the wiki entry for the Silmarillion. But rest assured I know all about the pension plan for the guild that feeds the sewer alligators.

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Thanks for the great chat! Now’s the time you can tell us anything you want. Got a project to promote? Let us know in the comments! We’ll have a fresh new chat next week for #TBBChat. Until next time!

#TBBSummerBonanza26

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Hi #TBBChat! I’m Catherine, writing SFF about queer found family who lie and steal. And bicker. A lot of them bicker. And are late to things.

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#TBBChat currently not much. Aside from health things.

Buuuut...I do need to look into the fairy books I have to find some information I have referenced in my stories.

Like, I know things, but knowing doesn't always show that my info is reputable, ya know?

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#TBBChat

Right now I’m researching military ranks and structures.

The characters in my second book have to build an army from scratch, without any idea how to do it. So I’m learning at the same time they are!

#TBBSummerBonanza26 #WriteSky

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Linguisticss. I'm fucking around with the 3 conlangs I decided this series needed bc book 1 is fin and onto the cover/ interior stage, and I'm not ready to start drafting 2 yet. So the research is sloppy and undirected and I'm fine with that

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Absolutely there can be too much research. Mostly if you're writing fiction there can be too much information about a technical thing that can detract from the story, but if you're writing non fiction, then there can be too little research. It's finding the balance i think

#TBBChat

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#TBBChat
Too much research? Not if you're having fun and learning stuff. Can too much of it wind up in a book? For my tastes, yes, I'm there for the story rather than the historical accuracy. But that's just my taste.

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#TBBChat

Heya! MC Burnell here, I write a heckin lot of fantasy. My current WIP is a huge departure bc it's set half in what's basically modern Earth. My worlds are otherwise full of magic, intrigue, and a lot of hot queer guys with swords.*

*or they're wizards. this is a recognized variant

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#TBBChat
I stop researching once I figure out enough to make things believable. I’d rather not get so bogged down that I lose my momentum, but I don’t want to lose a reader either.

Thankfully writing fantasy means a pretty high suspension of disbelief, and that I’m in more control of the world.

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