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@simonshugar.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 4:05 PM

Why I write the Stories I do

#booksky #FantasyBooks #IndieFantasy #CharacterDrivenFantasy #FoundFamily

Text: Why I Write the Stories I Do I think, underneath the fantasy, my books are about people becoming who they are. I write about ordinary people carrying more than they expected, trying to find their place in the world without losing themselves to it. I'm drawn to the way other people shape us, how love, friendship, family, loss and responsibility leave pieces behind, and how sometimes the things that hurt us become part of what makes us who we are. I like power to have a cost, monsters to have once been human, and the truth to be more complicated than people were taught. My characters often want freedom, the open road and the chance to choose their own lives, but they usually discover that meaning comes from the people they choose to care about and the responsibilities they're willing to carry. I suppose, more than anything, I write about connection, identity and impermanence: the fact that nothing lasts forever, but that doesn't make it meaningless. It might be exactly what makes it matter.
@sere-nor.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 6:33 AM

Jane is learning how to choose for herself.

Duran is afraid to discover what he truly is.

Perhaps that is why they understand each other in some ways—neither of them knows what they will become, but neither wants to face it alone.

#BookSky #CharacterDrivenFantasy

@sere-nor.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 6:17 AM

Jane spent much of her life following choices others made for her.

Still, little by little, she begins making choices of her own.

She has contradictions she has yet to resolve. Even so, I find something beautiful in the way she keeps moving forward.

#BookSky #CharacterDrivenFantasy

@sere-nor.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 6:10 AM

Jane is used to being told what to do.

Even when she was alive, others often chose her path for her.

Now she has been given another life—and must learn that making her own choices can be more frightening than obeying someone else.

#BookSky #CharacterDrivenFantasy