Indie writer.
Generally do mystery and horror. Currently trying my hand at whimsy fantasy.
Main profile: @kevintheradioguy.bsky.social
Valentine Kay
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Day 12:
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Day 11: another complicated one, and I predict a wall of text down there.
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Day 10: about a year ago I started treating my depression. Psychiatrist, pills, evaluations - all that jazz. And it helped! But some time alter I also realsied that writing a rather heavy-themed coming of age detective mystery wasn't helping.
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A villain doesn't know he's on camera and everyone can hear his evil plan; or two girls confessing love without knowing they are near a mic and everyone realities homophobia's bad.
Thing is, Takis lived his life very much secluded and shielded from the real world. He knows it by books (both fictional and not), so his view is a bit rose-tinted and romanticised: imagine learning about the real world through Alexandre Dumas. But he really hates ignorance from the very beginning,
as well as misuse of magic under an umbrella term of goethism (a.k.a., witchcraft) (there's much more to it, but I'm not explaining magics right now).
In the process of his growth, however, he forms certain dislikes of modern education pushing out classical crafts, and industrialisation that
Therefore, I have decided that for these reasons, I have to write something lighter and whimsier. I had an old short story idea from years back, and decided to develop it.
It's turning darker with each week, but I'm doing my best. Fantasy was never my genre, but who knows, maybe this time I'll nail it.
leaves rural areas in poverty. Surprisingly enough, he has no qualms about cutting down forests or draining lakes - his general consern is people, but not ecology.
Dislike towards ignorance does stay throughout, though - Takis is a terrible know-it-all.
Valentine Kay
One of my most disliked tropes in fiction - and I don't know if it has a name - is when the story conclusion is secretly transmitted somehow into the public.
