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    Promote your story here!

    Hi! Moonwalker, Earthbound, AKA "lesbian Pacific Rim," is a love letter to mech fiction, Byronic sapphic tomboys, and deep sea creature features. It also includes: - Sopping wet girlfailures - Dysfunctional found family dynamics - Quiet, understated, slow-burn sapphic romance - Steamy...
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    How many people here actually enjoy this kind of story?

    I'm pretty sure a lot of us like stories with serious themes, genuine emotion, intellectual integrity, and tragedy! That's common. I say go for it and write this, since clearly it has inspired you, and what better reason to write a story than for inspiration's sake?
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    How do you do scene breaks?

    Just "-" with the usual empty space between paragraphs above and below that. I'm lazy!
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    What are your honest thoughts on GL stories?

    Could you elaborate on this? As an RR transplant trying different platforms in hopes of finding one where a character-driven lesbian sci-fi drama will be accepted, I'm struggling to pick my way between the Scylla of objectified lesbians/yuri and the Charybdis of readership that simply isn't...
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    SH and censorship

    As an SH newcomer transplanted from RR, I'm interested to see how this plays out. My issue on RR was that the readership was not really my target demographic - 2:1 MMC:FMC indicates that it's not the most fertile ground for a second person POV sad lesbian mech fic, which I'm writing mainly for...
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    Writing How do I write a pre planned novel?

    This is exactly how I do it too! I love this approach because it gives you this wonderful balance between flexibility and guidance. It's like pinning your sewing or having a sketch before you paint - all the fun for me is figuring out the details, which motivates me to keep writing, but I have...
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    Writers: How do you push past a chapter?

    Honestly, I just kind of vomit out words, delete, and rewrite until I have something I like! I think the act of typing forces me to figure out what I don't want to do in the chapter, which in turn gets me closer to what I do want to do. It reminds me of the sketch stage in drawing, where I erase...
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    Recommendations Looking for girl's love webnovels

    What a coincidence, I just joined SH to start crossposting my girls' love sci-fi mech fic and this is the first forum thread I see at the top of the page! For your consideration, Moonwalker, Earthbound, AKA "lesbian Pacific Rim" - featuring doomed yuri, sassy giant mecha, and deep-sea kaiju as...
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