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Oh, English.

One of the most interesting things about writing science fiction, even near-future sci-fi, is deciding when and how to use slang and how to avoid anachronisms.  If you’re coming up with something new, it has to be baked into the world, or it’s going to fly right over the reader’s head.  It’s also worth some head-scratching to decide whether something is really going to stand the test of time.

While writing “Integrate,” Jell-O wrestling, for instance, was right out, even though we will probably still be slapping on a generic “Band-Aid” until technology replaces it entirely, whether the actual company is still in business or not.  (And Starbucks can try to fool us with their “Marshmallow Dream Bars,” but that’s a lie.  We know a Rice Krispy Treat when we see one.)  Animal metaphors, however, my betas and I decided were fine, as being “dumb as a dodo” still has not “gone the way of the dinosaurs”.  “Vanilla” was another keeper, as the word is simply too versatile to ever go completely out of style:  my personal relationship to the word has evolved over the course of my life to mean a flavor, a level of kink, and most currently whether my PC game is running native or modded assets.

So I had to laugh when I was recently advised to “Create a blog! Generate followers!”, as my first thought was, “I can generate followers?  Do I push a button?  And how many can I generate at one time before lagging?”

Oh, English.  Never change.

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I’d say they were guilty pleasures, but I’d be lying

Considering how much I write, it’s almost funny that I’m so horrible at bios.  And considering how much I talk, it’s definitely funny that I never seem to have much to say about myself in them.  So I suppose I’ll start by confirming that Thea Hayworth is in fact a pen name.  Someday you may put two and two together (hint: check out the icon on my Smashwords page), and hopefully you’ll have a good laugh.  A different kind of hint:  I am all about the tentacle-y things and having a good laugh.

Which brings me to why Thea exists.  While I do write mainstream science fiction, fantasy and horror, I also write erotica, and that erotica is likely to be xenokinked.  I also write unapologetic adventure stories which may or may not also include xeno.  I’m firmly of the opinion that you can never have too much of either of these things, and I’m also addicted to worldbuilding and long, plotty sagas, so what you find here can be a little hard to categorize at times.  It’s not always sexy.  It’s not always serious.  The only thing I can guarantee is that it’s rarely short!

For now things are pretty quiet, but that should change by the beginning of the year.  For now you can check out my Smashwords page…and yes, what you see there should absolutely be taken as a sign.  If I have “adventure” and “xeno” checked off the list, the only other thing I need to make my life complete is “genre-bending.”  Being able to hit all three is essentially my definition of happiness.

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