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writingtheother · 2 months

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Webinar: Writing Inclusive and Emotional Sex Scenes

Writing emotionally charged, sexually explicit scenes in fiction can be challenging no matter what genre you write. This webinar will provide a deep dive into writing inclusive sex scenes that are true to your characters and are memorable for your readers.

EDSE certified sex educator and author Thien-Kim Lam will walk students through the elements of a sex scene, creating chemistry using sensory details, exploring emotional arcs during love scenes, accessibility considerations when crafting these intimate moments, and much more.

This is a live webinar with a combination of lectures, discussion, and generative writing exercises. There will be discussion about the writing exercise but you will not be sharing your work in class.

When: March 17th, 2024 – 9AM – 4PM Pacific Can’t make the live webinar? Register to get the recording after Where: Online — Zoom Classroom Price: $100 – $150 Scholarships Available | Deadline: February 27

Please visit our website more details on registration options, required texts (if any), technical requirements, our accessibility statement, class audience, and the scholarship application.

👉🏾👉🏾 Details and Registration 👈🏾👈🏾

#writing the other #writing class #wto class announcement #creative writing #writing sex scenes #romance #romance writer

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kiramalibu · 8 months

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my hands have callouses so old

that i fear they will remain permanent

perhaps it’s the only part of

my body that is,

isn’t that ironic?

i didn’t even look twelve when i was

that age, who’s to say that twenty two

is the appropriate time to have this much rage?

how do i still live with the thoughts

that occupy me every day

is something that i’ll never have

enough words to answer

but here i am existing

even though i swear my heart has been missing

kira malibu

#kiramalibu #writerscreed #poet #poetry #illustrans #spilled thoughts #poets #quotes #twcpoetry #spilled words #spilled writing #writing the other #writingthestorm #poem #spilled writer #writing #prose ink #prose thoughts

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fandomshatepeoplewdisabilities · 4 months

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(ambulatory wheelchair user character anon returning)

I didn't think it mattered since the disease didn't exist in canon anyway, I invented it for the purpose of my fic series and I was still working out how it works.

But the fandom it's for is The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (AKA Mo Dao Zu Shi) the disabled character in question is Jin Zixuan. (One of the things the illness causes is Qi Deviation which is known for having a myriad of potential effects up to and including emotional disturbance, bleeding from orifices, fainting, hallucinations and death. Jin Zixuan does have a Qi Deviation but he survives. I was trying to figure out how that might have affected his ability to walk, but obviously some of the more fantastical elements of Qi Deviation don't exist so I was looking for more grounded things so I could make it more realistic)

you're here because of this ask you sent previously:

so I would just wait a few days and let your asks circulate before going ahead?? I'm hoping someone who's a wheelchair user/needs mobility aids could chime in.

mod ali

updated: please check the replies of the first ask there's 2 replies you should read nonny!

#wheelchair user #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #jin zixuan #mo dao zu shi #writing the other

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ktempestbradford · 1 year

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In this two week Writing Fat Characters Master Class from @writingtheother, authors Marianne Kirby and Meg Elison have come together to help you look beyond overused and harmful media tropes of fat people. You'll learn how to avoid these stereotypes, how to write good fat representation, and more, with a lecture, discussions, and exercises that should get you started.

When: April 21 - May 7, 2023 Where: Online — Available everywhere and at your own pace Price: $150 (Scholarships available)

For more info or to register, go to Writing the Other.com

#Instagram Crosspost #Writing the Other #Writing Craft #Writing Class #Representation Matters

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nascentsoulstudios · 9 months

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https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/phoenix-rising-updated-08-12-23-wip/140948 Link to the WIP page on the Choicescript forums for Phoenix Rising!

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the960writers · 11 months

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So I’m writing a supernatural mystery book that has a white girl as the main protagonist and she was adopted by a black family and is super close with her adopted sister. I suppose what I want to ask is: almost at the end of the book the sister gets killed by the supernatural force but she’s not out of the story, she continues as a ghost that only the protagonist can see. Is that bad? Would that be a “black person dies first” trope? She doesn’t die first, a lot of people in the town die throughout the book but do you get my question? I’m just kind of worried she’ll be seen as a token character despite her having a huge part in the story and being the secondary main character.

I'm the wrong person to ask this, I'm european, our racism problems are different than american ones. Maybe @writingwithcolor can give you some hints, but it's also not their job to give you a permit of "no racism detected".

I suggest to ask people who are Black, if they feel like this plays into stereotypes. If you publish, you might want to get a sensitivity reader to check the story. But even with all that, someone might object to this. You can't unproblematic your stuff in every angle ever. Nothing will ever be right for every person out there.

#barbex gives advice #sensitivity readers #diversity #writing the other

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charlesoberonn · 1 year

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#ai art #ai writing #tweet #other way around please #10k #20k #50k #100k #150k

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who-canceled-roger-rabbit · 8 months

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Some spins on the "mostly male team with a token woman" trope:

The woman is trans and stayed in her old circle of bros even after transition

The woman is the only one in her circle of "girls" who didn't turn out to be a trans man

#of course even in that case i'd still make plenty of other characters female OUTSIDE the main team #there's a they wolf in my closet #gender #transgender #trans #lgbtq+#queer #story ideas #writing prompts

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monsoon-of-art · 10 months

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#I'm serious stop doing it #theyre scraping fanfics and other authors writing #'oh but i wanna rp with my favs' then learn to write #studios wanna use ai to put writers AND artists out of business stop feeding the fucking machine!!!!

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innerenigma · 2 months

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•Normalize Fanart for Fanfics Again You Fools•

It's not cringe anymore (it SHOULDN'T be cringe anymore), just do it. You're doing something you enjoy, who cares what anybody else says! So spread the words my fellow internet brethren.

Spread the Word :)

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excavatinglizard · 6 months

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Shoutout to my dad for being the funniest person I know

#mitski #dumb shit i do #lesbian #I'm turning reblogs back on but you all have to be nice to each other or you're losing Lesbian Dad privileges #would like to add that mitski is an incredible writer and lyricist and so much more than sad lesbian music.#I am. however. a sad lesbian who is haunted by said lyrics and writing

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writingtheother · 3 months

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Open For Registration: What To Do If You F%#! Up webinar

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer of fiction will, in the course of their career, f%#! screw up. Authors worry that screwing up could negatively impact their career for years, or even forever. For some, that fear is paralyzing, keeping them from engaging in community or with their readers or with learning opportunities.

A truth not universally acknowledged is that authors can recover from a screw up, even a highly public one*. In this webinar, authors Nisi Shawl and @ktempestbradford will break down what authors should not do and advise on what they should do, instead.

When: March 3, 2024, 11AM – 2PM Pacific Join us live or get the recording after! Price: $40 - $50 or Whatever You Can Afford

Click here for Details and Registration

*Assuming your screw up wasn't malicious. Like, say, making fake Goodreads accounts to 1 star authors you're pre-emptively jealous of and then pretending it was a "friend" who did it and then making a eyeroll-worthy nonpology....

#writing the other #yes we are throwing shade #that was all so unnecessary #don't be like that #be better #wto class announcement

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fandomshatepeoplewdisabilities · 9 months

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Responding to this ask: 724247727036366848/hi-i-saw-your-post-about-how-people-wont-see. I have a lot of chronic pain and fatigue issues, especially in my joints (my doctors believe it's either hEDS or HSD) and I play roller derby which is a high contact sport. There are definitely days when I can't play or I need to be on a lower rotation, but I actually love it. And sometimes, personally (and I want to be VERY CLEAR that this is not necessarily a widespread experience, idk, it's just my own personal experience), I find it a lot easier to deal with muscle pain or bruises or fatigue from derby than the chronic pain and fatigue I experience anyway. Especially since I get SUCH a dopamine hit from it all!

I have to be mindful and deliberate about managing my energy etc, but I know I'm far from the only one with chronic joint pain in my sport!

One advantage of it over running (just since it was mentioned in the response) is that despite there being a lot of hitting/contact (all of which is trained extensively and gradually), roller skating is far LOWER impact on the joints than running generally speaking. Running is quite high impact, I struggle to run still because it causes far more pain to my already hurting joints (and because COVID has fucked up my cardiovascular health...). But hitting someone else, when done right, doesn't cause impact (and thus pain) to my joints in the same way! In my experience, I tend to use my muscles more to both hit and withstand hitting.

So my answer to the original anon would be: it totally depends on the sport. But not all high contact sports would hurt in that way and may even be a form of release!

Hey thanks for weighing in!!! I really appreciate different view points because hey maybe I should try roller skating so thank you for reaching out!

For reference here's the ask you're replying to

mod ali

#ableism #accessibility #chronic pain #writing the other

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ktempestbradford · 11 months

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Representation Matters by K. Tempest Bradford

Just republished and updated this essay exploring the effects of bad representation, how representation needs change over time, and some broad advice on what writers and creators can do to avoid mistakes.

One piece of media I highlight in this piece is @neil-gaiman's Sandman: A Game of You, which is an even more complex example than when I first published this essay in 2017.

You have a writer who tried to do what our classes suggest when creating characters different from you; who still got in wrong in the eyes of some people who belong to the identity represented; who admits that time has changed both how that representation was perceived and how he would approach the characterization; and then, when given the chance to revise that narrative for a different medium, listened to the criticism and committed to the best practices for representation currently suggested by experts.

Read it here.

#Neil Gaiman #Sandman #A Game of You #Wanda #trans representation #representation matters #Writing the Other

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nascentsoulstudios · 9 months

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For anyone who wants to write inclusive historical fiction, this website (Writing The Other) is great for any kind of writer. As a white, female Asexual author, it is important for me to maintain an idea of what is appropriate for writing POC and Allosexual people. And this course is from the amazing people who wrote the book Writing the Other. I've attended one of their seminars before a long, long, time ago. This one, I can't afford, but I hope you all take it and enjoy it!

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the960writers · 1 year

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Writing Excuses Dan Wells: We have been talking about Writing the Other a couple of times so far this year. There's one question that we get a lot. I would go so far as to say the single most common question we get on this podcast whenever we talk about diversity or decolonized writing or any kind of writing the other at all, which is, "But I'm not from that thing. What about #ownvoices? I'm not allowed to do this." Tempest, what do we do?

Transcript of the podcast at https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/157885.html

#writing excuses #podcast #writing podcast #writing the other #diversity #representation #disability in fiction

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