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#WritersCoffeeClub How violent is your work?

Most of my stories have little or no violence. *Revin's Heart* has a handful of scenes of violence, but they're not pervasive and I don't linger over them.

In *Better Angels: Tour de Force*, by contrast, I was striving for a gap-moe effect where the Angels sometimes act like cute little girls and other times like ruthless cold-blooded killers. Scenes of violence were essential for conveying that "gap".

I've been seeing these odd little moths around the tent. iNaturalist would have me believe it's in the genus Fissicrambus.

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I had missed this review of *Revin's Heart*: https://buttondown.com/JenniferRP/archive/lets-go-fantasy/

"It’s ridiculous, but it’s fun. And it has airship pirates. Always points for airship pirates."

❤️

This is, perhaps, the only time-travel story I will ever write. I hate time-travel stories.

I went into the kitchen and made a pot of coffee. When I returned, he'd fallen asleep on the sofa. I sat down and sighed.
It was bad enough remembering all the stupid shit I'd done with the time machine when I was younger. But having to confront it face-to-face was mortifying. (2/2) #wss366

"We're chums, ain't we?" he said.
"I'm not your #chum."
"Oh, come on. Don't be like that!"
"You're drunk," I said.
"Don't you mean 'I'm drunk?'" He laughed hysterically at his own joke.
"Let me make you some coffee."
"Oh, poo. You're no fun." (1/2) #wss366