I am a Christian, a husband, a father, and a writer of science fiction adventure stories.
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Last Notes npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward I will put it straight out there. If it wasn't for the following tags, I'd have stopped checking in on this site a long time ago. I've given myself a year to see what I can get from here, and it turns out these are it. Now to decide if that's enough to keep looking in. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WordWeavers Dec 26 npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #PennedPossibilities 158: How has the loss of fallen comrades and/or loved ones affected your MC or SC? Has it taught them anything or given them any new perspectives? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward This story has reached a fork moment, with each fork promising to take my writing going forward in a diverging direction. Now to decide which fork is more in line with my long term vision as a writer. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward Once again date blindness has caught me by surprise. Tomorrow is Remembrance Day here in Canada, which means I get it off. What am I going to do with myself? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WordWeavers 11/06 What does your MC know that other people don't? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #PennedPossibilities 120 — Tell us what you enjoy most about writing Sci-Fi and Urban Fantasy. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #PennedPossibilities 107- What will your characters stand up for? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward @npub15wt…7rek I'm writing from a close 3rd POV of one character which does limit the number of characters I can draw from from answering this kind of question. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WordWeavers Oct 18: (let's make this slightly spicier) Do you write MCs with different beliefs from you? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WordWeavers Day 5 - How often do you discuss your writing with real-life friends and family? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward @npub10d5…vvxa It's been such an invaluable resource over the years I didn't hesitate to get the larger 2nd edition when it came out. The real trick, of course, is working out which combination of factors best fit the immediate situation and how how weave them into the greater narrative. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WordWeavers 10.3 — How do you convey your characters' emotions? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward @npub16uc…k62q @npub1k74…dmux These prompts are one of the highlights of my Mastodon experience. They will draw me here even if there is nothing else I expect to find on this site. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WordWeavers 18: Do your characters worry about their health? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WordWeavers 14 — Does your antagonist have any likable or redeemable qualities? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward @npub15wt…7rek I have taken to calling my scifi cozy in the same way we expect cozy mysteries to have little in the way of sex, swearing, or gore. As a catchall term it does seem to be better than using clean. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward I notice more people cringing at the description of 'clean' writing because it implies even consensual sex is 'dirty', but I have yet to hear anyone suggest a better term for the overarching theme we all understand as clean. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WordWeavers 2. What could you change about your world to improve it for most people? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #PennedPossibilities 45: MC POV: Describe the most beautiful sound you’ve ever heard. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward On the commute to the bread-and-butter job I hit on the need to choreograph a not-so-friendly bout between to men. I'm already thinking this is going to be a challenge to get right. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward @npub16uc…k62q First, there's been this problem of even approaching a cute want. Then a black-ops hormone pump. Then a complication when a hidden function of said pump gets activated. Lots of spoiler territory there. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WritingWonders Day 9: Do your MCs have children? If not, do they want to? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #Today has turned upside down. First they red flagged the NASCAR race from yesterday to today, making that the centre of my wife's morning. Then our sick bunny has taken a turn for the worst on a stat holiday where the vet is not available. On top of all that many of my walking parks will be overflowing with families and my favourite teashop is closed. This will mess with my writing time. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward Our large black cat Dermot lying on the tiles in the bathroom waiting for me to feed him. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward @npub1cz0…wk5s I have taken my BP at different times over the day but I've never been asked to put on one of those 24hr monitors. It's just frustrating that something this important doesn't have any stress moment protocols. Friends with asthma have puffers, those with diabetes have the option to take sugar or insulin, and cardiac patients use a range of products from chewable aspirin to nitro-glycerin. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward Yet more advice telling me to take my blood pressure only when I've created an artificially serene environment. Back to, but what about the rest of my day? How do I manage my blood pressure when things aren't perfect? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WritingWonders Day 15: are there any kissing/intimacy scenes in your work? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WritingWonders Day 10: In a fight, what is your MC's weapon of choice? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WritingWonders July 7 npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward One of the most fascinating aspects of #WritingWonders is the different angles from which people answer the day's prompts. We writers come at our craft from so many different perspectives and this is one way it shines out for everyone to see. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward I'm now seeing ads for an AI that can write an entire book, create a cover, then upload it to Kindle. It doesn't matter how bad such books are going to be at first. The raw flood of new stories is going to break the already well overstressed book discovery problem. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward #WritingWonders 16: What was your process to create the setting and make it realistic? npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward Yet another note to self. This is a first draft. I don't have to get all the nuances just right. npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward @npub15wt…7rek @npub1crh…34an @npub10d5…vvxa npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward @npub15wt…7rek @npub1crh…34an @npub10d5…vvxa npub1ahwk22df9xa3dmzgfjzsw4a7hevuuhg6new4he0p5jsqgjsy3wvqrcgd0g Edwin Downward My wife is rocking out to tunes from the cult classic movie Heavy Metal. I suddenly want a chance to watch it again after all these years.
