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Lila's avatar

57 is a good number.

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Connecting Communities 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

I’m totally late for work and yet I needed to read NN words today. Playtime and wordsmithing is fun but reading the actual fiction … holy fuck. The electric toothbrush is stuck on hum in my mouth as goo drips in the sink and I try to scream (in the Void… Jeffrey … get me a Handiwipe .. Aisle 13 in the aforementioned Walmart).

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Connecting Communities 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

Also, Your fiction kind of scared me —- me an erotic writer with a BDSM slant — but I’m a literally bubblegum and sunshine with a newfound appreciation for thangs that skitter in the night. Apparently.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

I haven't ventured too heavy into horror quite yet but I'll give you a warning beforehand. 🖤 I'm glad that you found something new that you like!

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Connecting Communities 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

I don’t know. I kind of consider sit-coms horror. So, it’s all in the taste, bud. 😘

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

This is so real, actually.

I have said, many times, that the show "Friends"—without the audience tracks— is fucking terrifying

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Connecting Communities 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

You are SOO my people.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

...I didn't even know we had a Walmart in the Void. I could've been dissociating and pacing the snack aisles!

But, on a more serious and grateful note, thank you 🥹 I sometimes worry that my fiction itself may not be enough to keep my favorite people around; I have, however, been informed that the thought that you guys would be bored of my writing, is actually insane. Thank you to the handful of people that will never let me be too humble, you included!

I'm glad you're enjoying it so far!! Arc 2, Chapter 2 comes out tonight and I think it may be one of my favorites that I've written. Besides the finale of this one 👀

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Connecting Communities 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

You mentioned it twice in the story. I was like so identifiable, especially for small town folks who become citified.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

AH I forgot this is the part with the walmart liquor aisle cry-baby! 😂

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

This is GRIPPING. I loved this even more than the first part. I’ve been missing out. The narrator is distinct and pretty hilarious. You instantly feel the pull of the relationship between the Alex and Adam. 🙌

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

Thank you so much! Honestly, maybe I'm bias, but I think it gets better every time. I like to let my stories build my characters so, as I write, I learn them right alongside you guys!

The more I learn, the better I write them—or that's my standing theory, at least.

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

Felt. I never outline. 😭 I let the words and characters take me along.

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Nocturnal Narrator's avatar

I’ve had people ask me ‘how do you know how your characters are going to act in a planned scenario?’

Simple answer: I’ve not got the darndest clue, my friends. I am just as shocked as you are that they did that thing.

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