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🪦 Toren! And when. He has to get as much fixed as possible first. 🧠Kaili! I think she'd like to be able to forget some things. ⌛ Elara! The past. She'd go back and have words with someone! 💔Caul! Never show them! ⌛Wildcard: Alan! Both! #LitHodgepodge 8 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 10h

I am likewise most concerned for Melody! Something is going on here Charlie! Something suspicious!

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 10h

Oh I imagine she would. In a "you take the credit card" kinda way 😂

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 19h

I'll see you at the meeting when they buy up Anthro! 😊❤️

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 19h

Good choices! Damn I want some orange juice now. But it's bedtime...so...water! 😁

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 19h

😂 Respect them, or be destroyed by them!

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 19h

I'll never understand Charlie! Even when Harper Collins rocks on by with a million dollar 5 book (yeah, I know!) contract I'll be telling them they are insane while they smile and sign the cheque 😁

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 19h

😂 he agrees - but still drinks the stuff 😂 Tea drinker Alina? Or none of the above?

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 19h

Elara wouldn't know what to do about it! She'd end up going to a fast food place and eating for fuel. Then she'd drag Toren around to every coffee place and try to teach his tastebuds some respect for beans! #AwesomeCharacters

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 19h

Well, I'll happily add it to my list 😊

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 19h

Normal service will now resume! Make Jasana the Sea Mother, you monster!! 😁

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah right 😂 There will be no need for vegetables, Beans. Just lots of fire emojis! You just let me know when it's good to go and we can have a catch up, k? 😊

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you Carly. Very kind about my silly words 😊

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 21h

They are worth £300!! That's a good priority to have 😁

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 21h

As Jasana friendly as my comments are, Mereia is the beating heart of your amazing story Emily. Her voice is excellent and compelling throughout and I love her. (but obviously I love Jasana more etc etc, 🖐️☝️ etc)

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 21h

Can not wait my friend! No need to be nervous, I'll let you know just how amazing it is as quick as my eyes can process the data! 😊

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you Charlie 😊 It's always a lot of fun to play with different setups

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BEANS!!! As ranking officer aboard this comment section, I demand full manuscript access at once! Don't make me bring charges of insubordination against you! I'm not sure which bit I like most - okay it's the organization part! But it's wonderful and the ending is just 🔥🔥🔥

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Have some of these Eliwood: 🔥🔥🔥 That is fantastic, thoughtful and evocative...then so bloody mundane! Love it!

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Absolute gold Sage! Love it. Must save jeans!

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks Pam! She is so easy to write sometimes. When she isn't being a total pain in my butt! Same goes for the rest of them. Hehe, the Alan ones are always fun to play with because it's just silly. But thank you kindly. Magic words to read about my stuff from the Kindler Pambi! 🔥🔥🔥

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You got the spelling of "Jasana" wrong. It doesn't start with an M. Other than that - gorgeous. Your writing for Jas...must fight it...Mereia...always has such an exciting quality to it. You manage to push her as unsure of the ground she is standing on without losing agency or being defeated.

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's funny isn't it that such a small thing can mean so much. I like when you find you a word that completely sells what you are looking at. A place which is just a room. Everything pressed into a small space for "convenience" and handily cost cutting ha.

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ah thank you sir. It's sort of comedy-adjacent telling. The narrator sometimes forgets to get out of the way of the story ha

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That sounds lovely Beans! 🫡 Hopefully surrounded by family and controlled-ish chaos 😊

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Happy birthday Beans! I hope you have a day as fantastic as those flowers look! You are magic my friend! 🧙✨🥳🎉

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love Ray. She has punch! In dialogue, in the way she processes and shares with the reader. Punch, punch and more punch! 🔥

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think that works really nicely. You got a lovely balance of emotions. From those "human" warnings of what a predator looks like, to the escalation that the predator is now your MC. Moves quickly which shows her alertness to the situation...or in this case, opportunity for a snack. 🔥

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This one is much more deliberate, aserbic and a bit bored. A narrator telling a story that they don't wanna tell, so again filtered through mood primarily. And this is background setting for the book of Alan, so different flavour altogether.

There is an assumption that the Universe is infinite. That without constraint it will grow infinitely until all momentum is lost, until exhaust atoms will decay and end. These assumptions are wrong, dangerous and not to be trusted.
The Universe is in fact incredibly finite, as any species unfortunate enough to be on the far edge of it will tell you. And we haven’t even gotten to what happens to those in the middle!
Our story starts at the furthest edge, the precipice of the Universe, the tipping point if you will, the tipping point if you won’t either. It makes no difference, it starts where it starts. Why it starts there is a matter that science can debate, but ultimately it comes down to the author being bored. It’s his book, it will start where he says.
The great civilisation of Narf is imperilled. It would be safer to say that the great civilisation of Narf was living out its last few days. Yes, sadly, or not, the quiet, peace loving Narfians were on the brink of destruction as forces of gravity yanked their solar system into an abyss

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tricky because narrative voice feels ad hoc, but word choice is key, long words suit some but not others, contractions the same, etc. Usually for me voice is filtered through mood first. In this example Elara is hurried and rather...annoyed. 1/2 #LitHodgepodge 7 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

She glanced around the room. Where the Hell was her stuff? The place looked like a bomb site, clothing strewn like rubble amongst the sparse furniture. The bed which dominated the small space despite being tucked into the corner, was a mess. She had to fish her phone out from under a condom wrapper and some empty chip packets. A tap of the screen and she groaned at the low battery warning, before shoving it onto the charging pad.
She padded to the kitchenette. The counter top lined the wall to her right, peppered with coffee dust from Jamie’s old school bean grinder and a basin still filled with dirty mugs

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

YAY! Thanks Pam! He is a decent sort, underneath the grease and terrible coffee 😊

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

😊 Thank you Charlie! I'm so glad he comes over well in the story

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Toren the engineer fits the role of "the helper/surrogate dad" His job is to be stability. A person of earned (ancient) wisdom and support for the others. While the world breaks down, he is the rock. He doesn't understand how to help everyone, but he is reliable and he is there. #LitHodgepodge 6

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bless you Charlie. Maybe infinite knowledge? 😊

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