《Meet the authors Showcase Edition #1 (Est. 2/17/2020)》A showcase with @PaleAire, author of to marry an heir
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Representation. Now we begin to see the LGBTQ+ community being represent on media and on books, though most of them don't represent the members of this particular community in a good light. Also almost every Gay romance has a sad ending or a lot of promiscuity. So, I decided to be the change I wanted to see in here!
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That's a good question, it actually still is a struggle I face, the story is now complete though I plan to re-edit. I struggle a lot with descriptive writing, which is contradictory to me as I can see everything playing out as I write it but it still reads flat and dull to my readers.
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I enjoyed that this began as a modern fairytale. Like a modern Disney fairytale. And so, writing the royal aspects and researching about it was so enjoyable. I believe I share the same love for royalty as the main character!
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The overall response is quite ambiguous, some love it, some don't feel engaged to the story nor connected to the main characters. But I may say that overall, my readers love the story.
For now is a stand alone novel, if after the re-editing I keep receiving the good feedback, I already have a part 2 in vision. It will clear a lot of the insecurities some of the readers share with this book.
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That love look beyond class, sexual orientation and ethnicity. In the end, love does win. And that LGBTQ+ people can have long-lasting relationships like the norm of the heterosexual ones.
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Listen to your readers, read every comment, every criticism (positive of course) and apply to your story but don't lose your essence as a writer and the essence of your work. Write even if you doubt the quality, if you were drawn to write it in the first place it signifies it bears a great meaning to you!
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Yes, some similarities, I didn't want to be shallow and write as myself. But yes, Richard is the English equivalent to my real name Ricardo, and we are goal-oriented, ambitious and always down to learn more.
Without trying to be redundant, I believe originality and representation. As I previously mentioned, there isn't a good or faithful representation of gay romance, in this case, in books in general. On Wattpad I find stories, without trying to tear anyone down, about gay romance that are so full of despair, promiscuous even borderline pornographic, nothing wrong about that. Though those aspects are the stereotypes that feed ignorant people's beliefs towards homosexuality. And I believe that my story, for the most part fiction as it is, it represents gay romance in a true, happy light.
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I do, I have two new stories that came to me in my dreams and I have almost the first chapter of each fully written. I just need to sketch the plot and where it's going to lead. Though I can say without spoiling that if you love LGBTQ+ stories, then you will love these ones!
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- In Serial7 Chapters
A Slip Of The Force
During the New Sith Wars, The Black Sun, worried about their business goes about investing large resources into a project they dubbed Harbinger; to act as the safe guard against the Jedi, Sith and other syndicates that would be intent on removing them from power, if the opportunity shows itself. As such they created a one of kind killing machine, made up of some of the most dangerous races in the known galaxy. But due to unknown sabotage their plans are ruined and their organisation set back centuries in the many plans. Follow this entity on it's journey through the galaxy, as it stumbles upon one mess after another and tries to find its purpose in this vast galaxy. This is my own little star wars fantasy and wish fulfilment so don't come expecting overly complex plots and fully fleshed out galaxy. Hopefully I will be able to make this fun. Also I won't be decribing the species often, so you're going to have to look them up yourself. There are just too many to constantly be describing them beyond their garb.
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Flame of the Immortals
The Dark Elves have lived in the caves since before humanity walked the lands. The fire that kindles their long lives has been cursed, and soon they will know death. A human child apprenticed to these Fae has the ability and opportunity to stop this calamity. To purge the flame of immortals of its curse if he can survive long enough not to get eaten by the creature who cursed it. However, the struggle to live like the quest for immortality demands cruel payments. An original dark fantasy short story. Character centred and introspective.
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The Ties That Bind
Suddenly awakened In the hot sticky wastes of the Arizona desert walks a being born of impossiblity given form. Beyond explanation or reason, A grandeoise being of primordial and everlasting existance, the vessel of the original state of balance that serparated into Light and Darkness. meet Tikan. A fun loving and sarcastic creature of unimaginable origin, trying to find two halves of themself that are hidden in everything. it's like finding a godly needle in an infantismal haystack. But there's a universal countdown. And lingering in the backround the fabric of reality is begining to fade at the hands of a self proclaimed "Neo Godhead", and the creeping hands of the end poison the air. all things seem to be leading to a peak, and all that ever was in this world is soon to rend itself apart. Something is coming. And the one and only person that can fix a collapse bigger than the beginning itself, can't even seem to decide what they want for breakfast off a fileberto's menu. "Here I stand,that which bound and existed.the background of the way before All, and Nothing.im am that which traverses things unexplained before words were born" These are the Ties That Bind.
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Godslayer
The year is 2032. 10 Years ago the Yokai have appeared from the shadows, destroying several countries. The remaining countries bind together and created academies to train those that could oppose the yokai, the """"Niflheims"""". Now follow Jung Woo as he fights against the monsters who had taken away his family, present, and future!
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Same Crap, Different World
A young man from early 21st century wakes up in a different world. This world is like a typical setting of an fantasy isekai novel. But it is also not. There is magic, alchemy, magical creatures, different non-human races, peasants and nobles, demons and dragons. But there is also politics, persecution, supremacism of every kind, entitlement, slavery and other unpleasant human tendencies. In short, this new world does not differ much from his old one. However, besides him, there may be others who have made such a strange trip, and awakened into this new world. There certainly have been others, in the past. But more than people and other living things, there have been items. All sorts of items, which are regarded as otherworldly artifacts with unknown danger and power. And he himself is an artifact as well, albeit a living one. Therefore he has use for the powers that be. He is also given a role and expectations to fulfill, to hide his real value. And in all that he still has to make sense of what has happened, what is happening, and find a way back, if possible. Author's note: I write this project mostly in (except chapter 1) in 60-100 page (40,000-70,000 word) chapters, edit them as such and later cut them down for publishing into 7-11 page segments (depending on natural breaks in the flow). Therefore, each chapter may be divided into 10-15 subchapters.
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Summer of 62
Nancy Sawyer is best friends with all the boys from the sandlot. Ya, read if you want. She likes Benny and stuff so. Just read I guess.Also (obviously) I didn't come up with most of this. Most of the characters are from the movie The Sandlot and only a couple are mine.
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