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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)

@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
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Putting words together in pleasing ways.

Discover my Fantasy, SF and Steampunk books, also erotica, with LGBTQ+ and diverse leads.

Patterner's World best reading order:

* Dragons of Esternes (4 books, complete)
* Patterner's Path (4 books, complete)
* Dragons of a Wounded Land (5 books, complete)

I have no time for bigots (of any sort). Safe for everyone else.

#Writing #WriteOnce #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #SciFi #Steampunk #Erotica #Queer #biFic #3dRender #3d #DazStudio

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Joined November 09, 2022
My books:
https://taupress.com/books
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Stuff:
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 1mo ago
Replying to
#WritersCoffeeClub 8/24. Talk about a time you realised something about a writer through their works. 2/2 I knew Walters started writing SF because he hated the "nonsense" other SF writers were doing - even though he had aliens attacking earth in the first two books. Not a good look for an author TBH. But the girls? I realised his "real science" was simply what was stated as science in the press. And this was the time of J.B.Rhine and the Duke University ESP "revelations", and Walters just took that as established science. But then it was all discredited and the girls simply ceased to exist. And his Pluto book was just shit. There were more but I just gave up. Crap writer. Crap stories. Rather disappointing really. #writing #writingCommunity
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago

#ScribesAndMakers 7/16. Our next featured creator is a baker. Describe a baked good you enjoy.

Eccles cake.

I am not French.

#writing #writingCommunity

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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago

#ScribesAndMakers 7/15. Our next featured creator has made toys. Have you ever?

I've made games but I'm fairly sure I've never made a toy.

Things I've owned have become dog toys.

#writing #writingCommunity

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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago

#WritersCoffeeClub 7/15. Do you read a lot outside of your comfort zone?

I have a few things I won't read (horror, for example) but beyond that I'll read most things, though often as research - like lots of romance before writing romance.

#writing #writingCommunity

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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
#ScribesAndMakers 5/7. When did you think of the idea for your current project? Do you remember how it came about? So we (my wife and I) are booked to trade at a steampunk event on June 6th/7th. My wife said, late March this year, "the theme for the event is pirates and mermaids, we could write books". So I said "That's a good idea." The file was opened March 25th and the writing completed at 30K words on May 4th. And I'm now working on the clean-ups. Coming soon: "The Damsel and the Mermaid" The mermaid image is available as a wallpaper/screensaver for desktop, iPhone and Android https://ko-fi.com/adaddinsane/shop #writing #writingCommunity #sapphic #romantasy #3dRender #noAI #madeWithDaz #3dArt #CGI #art #fantasyRomance #wlw #humanMade #mermay
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
#ScribesAndMakers 5/4. How many songs are there where you know all the lyrics by heart? A lot. Hundreds probably. #writing #writingCommunity
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
#WritersCoffeeClub 5/7. Do readers need to understand a character's motivations to understand the story? I mean, superficially, I suppose they might get away with not for the simplest stories. But generally, yes. Of course! #writing #writingCommunity
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago

@juliebihn@mastodon.social

Awesome.

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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Book Promotion: Get original and unique Mermaid wallpapers for desktop, tablet and phone. More being added... #oc #mermaid #magic #reading #readers #mermaids #boost #noai #mermay #fedibookfair #art #goodbooks #merfolk #amreading #cryptids #humanmade (094f) https://ko-fi.com/adaddinsane/shop/mermaid?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
WritersCoffeClub Female nudity, punishment
#WritersCoffeeClub 5/6. Talk about something you've written which you expected would (_or expect will_) divide readers. Better than that, I'll give you something that absolutely does divide readers. "Wind in the East", the fourth book of the Maliha Anderson series, has a scene where she has herself strung up naked and insists her boyfriend whip her. Writing the scene wiped me out emotionally for two weeks, but it wasn't some random perversion. She had a very specific reason (well, two reasons) even if they don't necessarily bear detailed examination. Let's just say that readers either do, or do not, get past this scene. #writing #writingCommunity #3dRender #noAI #madeWithDaz #3dArt #CGI #art #humanMade
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
#eroticMusings Week 49 (May 3-9) Characters: Do you come up with your characters before their relationships, or do you design characters to fit desired relationships or interpersonal dynamics? Any interesting examples? I never know what's going to happen because I barely even know the main character before I start writing. (I certainly don't know who they're going to meet.) When I started the first Maliha Anderson book I didn't know she'd meet her LI within the first 1000 words. Or that their relationship would be finalised (for want of a better word, and I don't mean sex, that already happened) in the last 1000 words of the final (sixth) book. #writing #writingCommunity
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 3mo ago
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@loucyx@mastodon.social @QuestionGirl@mastodon.social Pretty sure that's a bot.
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Added a smidge under 4000 words to the WIP today and we're into the end game. Should finish "The Damsel and the Mermaid" tomorrow. Exciting. Kind of Disney Sirens meets Splash! but sapphic. #amWriting #sapphic #romantasy #mermay #mermaid #wlw
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@jess@blop.social My way is simpler and gets to the root of the problem. I simply report (if it's something obnoxious) or (as irrelevant) hide every single ad, and with hide you also tell it you never want to see ads from that page again. For every ad. As I say, it takes a while but eventually it can't find anything to show you. No ads. Every now and again it makes a half-hearted effort to show something and you just refuse them too and it gives up again. I haven't seen an FB ad in the main feed in months. (And I don't even see the ones on the side.)
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@saposcat@indieauthors.social @willelm@indieauthors.social It's very nice.
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Book Promotion: Get original and unique Mermaid wallpapers for desktop, tablet and phone. More being added... #boost #cryptids #mermaids #merfolk #humanmade #fedibookfair #readers #amreading #mermaid #art #oc #mermay #goodbooks #reading #magic #noai (8d3f) https://ko-fi.com/adaddinsane/shop/mermaid?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago
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@paranoiapen@mas.to You thought I was French?
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
In today's writing: --- They used a boathook under her arm to draw her closer then two men grabbed her to pull her aboard. They managed to get her halfway. “She’s a heavy thing, slippery too,” said one. “On three. One… two… heave!” Moments later the dead dark-skinned woman was dragged aboard, along with her fins and fish tail. None of them spoke for a very long time. --- ~ "The Damsel and the Mermaid" #amWriting #sapphic #romantasy #wip #writing #mermay #mermaid
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago
#ScribesAndMakers 7/13. Has a bear ever featured in your work? If so, what sort of bear? I can be fairly confident in saying I have never written a bear into a story. Odd in some ways because I like bears. They've just never come up. #writing #writingCommunity
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@Klepsis@indieauthors.social @saposcat@indieauthors.social @willelm@indieauthors.social Is the leviathan in the room with us now?
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@AbramKedge@beige.party Cool. I didn't meet her either 🙃 I was the editor of various Acorn magazines in the 80s/90s.
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
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@AbramKedge@beige.party We did buy Acorn User eventually, might have been Mark Moxon editing it at that time, but he eventually left and I took over.
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
OK, I have completed the "echo words" pass on the WIP. Cancelled my subscription to NaturalVoices - because they've gone 100% AI and were expensive (just in time, renewal was on the 10th) Now have a local text-to-speech solution on my Linux machine with a sexy male Scottish voice 😄 Excellent. My new computer arrives tomorrow and I should have it up and running by the time I need to create the cover elements for my designer. It's all go. #amEditing
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago

Book Promotion: Claim the magic! Check out this wide selection of free-to-download fantasy tales. #knaves #knights #witches #rogue #monsters #heroes #goodbooks #elves #sorcery #amreading #boost #dragons #wizards #fae #magic #legendary #dwarfs #ladies #reading #fedibookfair #dwarves #writing #readers (4276) https://books.bookfunnel.com/claimthemagic/dikefkw5o7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
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@Klepsis@indieauthors.social That's an interesting juxtaposition of ideas. So, yes.
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
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@Firlefanz@writing.exchange I like that.
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
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@AlexCorby@indieauthors.social Uh-oh. That sounds bad.
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@aronsilver@indieauthors.social My WIP "CAT PEOPLE" starts at the Manchester rock venue "The Star & Garter" (next to Piccadilly Station). I've often wondered about talking to them about it...
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@kammerotica@mastodon.world I use an online tool that highlights closeness of same words, and luckily I'm not searching for perfect. Sometimes you have to let it go. (Also only 30K words.)
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Book Promotion: Ready to be surprised? Checkout this selection of unpredictable reads and discover your new favourite author. Downloadable free. #vigilante #private #fedibookfair #amateur #legendary #guns #whodunnit #writing #amreading #readers #sleuth #monster #thriller #goodbooks #classic #suspense #steampunk #travel #action #future #thrills #boost #murder #mystery #contemporary #excitement #reading #detective #adventure (b190) https://books.bookfunnel.com/unpredictablereads/hz1gi89353?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago
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@jess@blop.social You know you can stop it from showing ads? Takes a bit of time but i can be done. (But also, it is indeed down.)
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@Carryl@babka.social There's no problem using British English with US audiences. I write *intensely* British English (often quite heightened when I'm writing Victorian/Edwardian periods). They love it. But if it's set in the US with US characters then absolutely US spellings. (I did that once with a story for an anthology, the editor insisted on putting in a "gonna" just to spite me 😆 )
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Book Promotion: Selected free mystery and suspense stories for you to download - discover your next favourite author. #contemporary #private #steampunk #whodunnit #fedibookfair #amreading #sleuth #thriller #amateur #vigilante #future #readers #detective #writing #adventure #goodbooks #suspense #classic #action #reading #boost #murder #guns #mystery (0a22) https://books.bookfunnel.com/bfhostmysthrnl/6sq1i2eosv?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr FFS.
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago
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@ahasty@techhub.social @deviantollam@defcon.social That's an insult to dragons. They're slime.
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
#ScribesAndMakers 5/6. Ghoti (fish) is a word created to demonstrate the odd pronunciation variations in the English language. Create a word of your own or share one you've created. So many. In the Patterners' World there are entire classes of creatures with "ancient names": kichek (ridable lizard thing), sikechak (bat like, comes in sizes up to f-ing enormous), nachak (like T-Rex), tekrak (rocket-propelled flying cabbage - no, really), xililik (nobody knows, used as an insult). There are rules for how the words are constructed. Most races have a name ending in "-lin" like Shocalin (otter-like), Ustecalin (ambulant fish people), Miralin (mer-folk). #writing #writingCommunity
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
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@sundog@sunny.garden All I have in my head now is "KANEDA!!!"
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago

Book Promotion: A massive collection of murder, mystery, thrillers and suspense stories that you can download at no cost. Amazing! #vigilante #future #suspense #sleuth #contemporary #guns #whodunnit #steampunk #reading #private #boost #amateur #amreading #adventure #murder #readers #goodbooks #classic #fedibookfair #writing #action #mystery #detective #thriller (f7ca) https://books.bookfunnel.com/murdermadnessmayhem/r0x4hm7mml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 3mo ago
#ScribesAndMakers 6/27. What's your favorite woodwind? It's a toss up between the oboe and clarinet (which I learned to play once upon a time). It is said of the oboe "it's an ill wind that nobody blows good", which can be true but when it's right it is perfect. #writing #writingCommunity
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago
#WritersCoffeeClub 7/13. In what ways do you play with the limits of the genre in which you work? Genres are for marketing and selling. I write what I write. #writing #writingCommunity
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@AbramKedge@beige.party The 6502 had a great instruction set (not like the Intel insanity) and, of course, the ARM instruction set was based off it. (All because of Sophie Wilson at Acorn.)
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 2mo ago
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@jess@blop.social Curious.
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
#WritersCoffeeClub 5/5. Have you ever taken inspiration from something which could have but didn't happen? Yes? Kinda? The Great War could have started April 1911, due to the Agadir Crisis where Germany tried to provoke France. In my steampunk world, it happens. Except I've never written about it. #writing #writingCommunity
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
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@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world Oi! Don't do that when I have a mouthful of breakfast!
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull) @adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
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@EveHasWords@toot.cat @pentup@mastodon.art A fitting end to an ugly person.
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