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Titania Tempest
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Wielder of pens, sometimes as tiny swords.

Author of PAPER DAFFODILS

New #agegap #lesfic - A THOUSAND REASONS - coming soon!
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Titania Tempest @titaniatempest.bsky.social · Aug 22
First look at concept #RowanAndViv ...

#AgeGap
#actresses
#lesfic
#sapphic

#WIP #Book
#AThousandReasons

#COMINGSOON!

📷 Nightcafe
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Dawn & Rosie have surprised even me with the direction their second book has gone 🤔

The full outline is complete (yay!) - but it's not quite what I expected, and I hope to God readers like it too 😂💜🌼

#DawnAndRosie
#HereWeGoAgain
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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#vss365 prompt #reflection

excerpt from #AThousandReasons
#RowanAndViv
Viv turned on her heel, retreating fast, her composure fraying with every step. By the time she reached her trailer, her hands were shaking. She slammed the door, leaned against it, and counted her breaths – one, two, three – but the tremor in her hands wouldn’t stop. She tried again, but her pulse refused to settle, and after a few seconds, she stalked to her mirror, lifted a sharp finger at her reflection and snarled, “Stop it. Damn you – STOP IT.” The sound split the small space, brittle and intimate. She stood there trembling, chest heaving, the echo still hanging in the air – and then a voice, smooth and quiet, cut through the static. “Viv.” She spun. She hadn’t even heard the latch click. Framed by the light, Rowan leaned against the doorframe in full regalia – calm, breathtaking, entirely unreal. The world tilted under Viv’s feet. “You can’t be here,” she managed – too sharp, too fast, as if venom might substitute for control. She recoiled until the makeup station caught her spine. “It’s— not a good time.” Rowan stepped inside. Her voice came steady, low. “It’s never a good time with you, is it?” Gently, she closed the door.
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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#WIPSnips prompt 22/11 - #crystal
The hotel’s warm, cosy function room glittered like something out of a period drama as Rowan swept in for the press dinner the following evening. Ahead, crystal glasses caught the glow of chandeliers, candlelight glinted off polished silver, and the soft clink of cutlery mingled with low laughter. No one had noted Rowan’s arrival yet, and she paused just inside the doors to adjust the fall of her long black dress – and to take stock of the room. Across the way, she spied Viv already holding court with a bevy of journalists and photographers, and her mouth tightened. Draped in sapphire silk, the older actress commanded half the room, her light laughter measured to the decibel, her smile polished to perfection. Flawless. Unbothered. Ice. Like nothing in the world was amiss; like there wasn’t a glacier spreading through their suite, slowly crushing Rowan’s sanity. Deliberately, Rowan told herself it was professional indignation – simple resentment at how neatly Viv had bested her in their little rivalry – but beneath the veneer of logic, the ache felt older. Familiar. The kind that came from misplaced trust. And she couldn’t quite contain the sensation that something inside her was cracking.
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Excited for tomorrow's Brainstoryum #podcast to drop,featuring:

NEW brainstorming method I learned at FantasyCon (I try it on the show!)

Stories from @quantumfairy.bsky.social @madp03t.bsky.social & others

Crazy #writingprompt game mixing listeners' words incl. @titaniatempest.bsky.social 😘✍️ #vss
annatizard.bsky.social Anna Tizard @annatizard.bsky.social · Jun 21
Writers: "What can you do with too many choices? Sometimes the blank page can be daunting because you can literally take any path.
The surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse is a great way to narrow down those overwhelming choices w/ a unique challenge."
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Brainstoryum
Podcast exploring inspiration with a little help from the surrealists. Anna Tizard plays Exquisite Corpse by picking random words from your entries at www.annatizard.com/play, and brainstorming story ...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#Excerpt from #AThousandReasons

for #lesficfri prompt #chill
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#WIPSnips prompt #direction
The tension between her and Viv in character was addictive, and she pursed her lips as she thought about it. She knew she had to keep it strictly on set, because to let it distract her external routine would certainly play to Viv’s advantage. Viv was dangerous in that way; she had the intoxicating ability to live in people’s thoughts for weeks after they’d encountered her, and Rowan was adamant she wouldn’t fall into that trap. She was halfway through convincing herself that she could rise above that kind of manipulation when the bell above a café door jingled ahead, and Viv herself stepped out. Rowan stopped dead, feeling a blush creep up her cheeks at the unexpectedness of her appearance, and briefly considered whether she should make a break for it. But Viv had already looked in her direction, and it was too late to escape. “So much for keeping it strictly on set,” Rowan muttered with a sigh. Swinging a quick glance around the vicinity to check who might be watching, she thrust her hands into her pockets, willed herself to keep her wits about her, and made a beeline for Viv.
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Just saw a book marketed as "Historical Fiction circa 1989" and excuse me while I go and lie down
an elderly man in a red sweater is holding his fist in the air and saying get off my lawn .
ALT: an elderly man in a red sweater is holding his fist in the air and saying get off my lawn .
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November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I never promised
not to #involve you in
my seasons
spring's sweet pass
to #summer
and autumn's fall
to winter's glass

I never promised to go softly

crowns are not twined from roses
they're carved from thorns
and
I never promised
to stay the same

because life is built on change

#2WordPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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My #goal is not to have
goals anymore
but simply to live each moment
in the pursuit of joy
doing the little things I love
and wandering life's road
whichever way it goes
and I freely confess
I no longer strive for success

I'm just here
to admire the view

#vss365
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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and yet again
I find myself perturbed
face to face
with my old nemesis

the...

😱bLuRb😱

who knew
so few

w
o
r
d
s

would make me
question all my sanity
and nearly be
the end of me
a woman is screaming with the words `` screams internally '' written on the screen .
ALT: a woman is screaming with the words `` screams internally '' written on the screen .
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November 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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#WIPSnips prompt 16/11 #run
The Highland night air bit at Rowan’s skin, the chill cutting through the last of the bitter fury that had driven her from the bar. As she walked laps around the hotel, skirting the edge of the lamplight where the gardens gave way to the dark, her pulse slowed and anger ebbed toward misery, until she had her arms wrapped around herself against more than the cold. Stifling a shiver, she wished she wasn’t in heels and an evening dress. Because then she could run. And keep running, until the hurt fell away behind her. She knew she’d struck a nerve with her dig at the dinner, but she’d never expected Viv to come sweeping into the bar like a hurricane afterwards. She’d never seen her like that – wild, electric, spoiling for a fight – and she hadn’t been ready for that kind of confrontation. Three whiskies deep, hiding in the corner and brooding over her behaviour, she’d been wide open. And Viv’s opening statement had cut so close to the bone that Rowan could still feel the splinters.
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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#WIPSnips

prompt 15/11 #progress

Excerpt from #AThousandReasons
#RowanAndViv
Her pulse skipped brittle beneath the aftermath of their exchange. She found her mark, lifted her chin, and waited for her cue. But her focus wasn’t on the director; it was riveted on the woman in front of her, close enough to touch and yet impossible to reach. Viv looked so fragile, suddenly. As if she were the furthest thing from ready for this scene. “Action!” Charlie called. Rowan reacted instinctively, drawing from Lyric’s anger to give Viv something to push against. “I told you this would happen,” she snarled. “I told you your pride would spawn your fall. You burned the last trace of grace between us and now there’s nothing left but ashes.” Viv responded, “You think you understand the stakes, Lyric – but you don’t. And I will never forgive you for choosing your temper over me.” Her voice came softer than it should have, not with the Queen’s fury, but with a quiet tremor that didn’t belong to Selandra at all. As the take progressed, the undercurrent of strain in her every move began to match the shadow behind her eyes.
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Formatting is EXHAUSTING 😭
(probably because I'm not very good at it lol)

BUT
I'm pleased to announce ...

📢 IT'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A BOOK 📢

🫶
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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#lesficfri prompt #leg

Excerpt from #AThousandReasons
#RowanAndViv
Viv gestured lamely toward the armchairs. “Shall we just… sit?” Rowan nodded and crossed to the one by the window. The rain tapped against the panes, steady as a heartbeat, and she sank down with a small sigh – the first real breath she’d managed all day. Viv settled opposite, tucking one leg beneath her and fussing with the cushions; a small, ordinary motion that hit Rowan with an ache of affection. She watched, absorbed by the way Viv’s hair escaped from behind her ear, by the faint furrow of concentration on her brow as she attempted to get comfortable. When Viv finally stopped fidgeting, she glanced up and caught Rowan staring. “What?” “You’re… beautiful,” Rowan said. Viv blushed, ducking her head.
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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#WIPSnips

#week
Exhaling, she leaned her elbows on the counter and pressed her face into her palms. This week had been one of the hardest she could remember, and she knew it was spiralling. The worst part was, she didn’t know if she could bring herself to pull it back. The rift with Rowan had started to show in their performances, in the way the crew whispered when they thought neither of them was listening. Even Charlie had noticed. In the twenty years since her wayward days, Viv had never once been told she wasn’t present. The truth of it stung.
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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#WIPSnips prompt 13/11 #build

Excerpt from #AThousandReasons
#RowanAndViv
Rowan tipped him a jaunty smile, strode across, and found her spot. She settled her feet, limbered her shoulders, and let the tension inside her build. She was in better spirits, and more than ready to work. Viv stepped to her mark opposite, her expression carefully neutral, and they began. Rehearsal ran. Lines they’d fumbled yesterday suddenly found purchase, an undercurrent threading between them that neither of them acknowledged, nor denied. Rowan met Viv’s gaze on a cue and felt it land, clean and true; Viv held it, effortlessly, and the moment between their characters practically caught fire. When Charlie finally called, “That’s it – we’ve got it! Thank God.” relief rippled through the attending crew like a change in the weather. And throughout the rest of the morning, the work held. Nothing overt, nothing reckless; only the sense that the wire between them was live again. Rowan did her job. So did Viv. But the space they’d been living in wasn’t empty anymore; it had a shape. A hum. A promise.
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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#WIPSnips prompt 12/11 #shirt

Excerpt from #AThousandReasons
#RowanAndViv
Rowan’s pulse fluttered. She tilted her head free to brush her lips along Viv’s throat, tasting the faint sweetness of her skin. Viv gasped, the sound fragile and human, and Rowan felt it echo somewhere deep inside her. The rush of heat it brought with it made Rowan pause, and she bit at her lip to steady herself. “Something wrong?” Viv whispered, a faint hitch of fear beneath her words. “God, no,” Rowan murmured, smiling. “I’m just… trying not to lose it.” Viv smiled back. “Maybe… we can? Just for tonight…” Her fingers skimmed higher, tracing fire beneath Rowan’s shirt. Gentle. Sure. Rowan closed her eyes, leaning into the scorching certainty of it. She wanted to let go – to stop thinking about cameras, endings, the ticking clock on their impossible little world – and beneath Viv’s touch, she almost could.
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Can we have a moment of silence
for all the books
that will never be written
all the stories
half-started
half-hearted
defeated
by the #measure
of courage
we didn't have

for sometimes
the road is too long
the mountain too high
and words are extinguished
by wistful sighs

#vss365
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Nothing like having to retake the Highway Code test (in another language 😭) after already being a fully licensed driver for over twenty years...

Expat problems, I guess - but gosh, some rules really baffle me 🤷‍♀️

Anyway, wish me luck?
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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The question is...

Fade to Black...
Or one properly intimate moment that closes 28 chapters of slowburn?

Help me decide? 😭🙏

*For context, it's an adult sapphic romance*
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#WIPSnips
prompt 09/11 #picture

Excerpt from #AThousandReasons
#RowanAndViv
Viv looked up over the rim of the reading glasses and accepted the sticky chocolate treat Elaine held out. Elaine licked her fingers after its release and bustled back into the seat beside her to see the screen again. “That’s a powerful picture of Rowan,” she said. “Queen in the making, that.” “Mmm.” Viv handed the tablet back and turned her attention to the cake. “Rattled you already, has she?” Elaine continued, in her gruff, entirely too candid way. “You got that from ‘Mmm’?” Viv said, raising an eyebrow as she handed back the reading glasses. “It’s obvious to anyone with eyes she’s caught your attention,” Elaine replied. “And we both know how that kind of scenario ends. But the series is nearly over, and – well, just… keep it together, all right?” Viv sat back in her chair and fixed Elaine with a bland expression. “You do know you’re the only person in the world who can get away with saying things like that to me.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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#WIPSnips
prompt 08/11 - #little

Excerpt from #AThousandReasons
#RowanAndViv
“Heavens,” she said, reaching tentatively for her sense of humour as Rowan took another huge mouthful, “acting opposite me all day really took it out of you.” Rowan snorted – and choked – and the last slip of wary ice melted as Viv rose to thump her on the back. When she’d recovered enough breath to respond, Rowan gasped, “It’s having to carry your performance that knocks me.” And Viv laughed, finally. “Cheeky bugger.” Rowan schooled herself to seriousness. “You know, Viv… If you want any pointers…” Viv threw a cushion at her. Grinning, Rowan ducked and then got up to rinse their bowls. When she’d finished, she topped off their wine glasses and dropped back into her chair, and then her face settled to something a little less sassy. At length, she gently said, “I’m glad you came back tonight… Part of me feared you might sleep in your trailer.” Viv almost blushed. “I’ll admit I considered it.”
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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#lesficfri prompt #smooth

Excerpt from #AThousandReasons
#RowanAndViv
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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First draft's the mess.

Second draft's the mitigation.

Third draft's the magic.
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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#WIPSnips
prompt 07/11 - #movement

Excerpt from #AThousandReasons
#RowanAndViv
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM