adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)

Putting words together in pleasing ways.

Discover my Fantasy, SF and Steampunk books, also erotica, with LGBTQ+ and diverse leads.

Patterner's World best reading order:

* Dragons of Esternes (4 books, complete)
* Patterner's Path (4 books, complete)
* Dragons of a Wounded Land (5 books, not complete)

I have no time for bigots (of any stripe). Safe for everyone else.

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2024-05-14 08:03:24

#WordWeavers 5/14. What role do other writers have in your writing life?
I talk to them a lot on social media [waves] - and I'm also married to one (our 40th wedding anniversary this Saturday).
#writing

2024-04-04 08:02:35

#WordWeavers 4/4. Is there writing advice you used to follow but changed your mind?
Well I dumped the Hero's Journey after my first book because it was far too limiting.
And have since learned that it is, in fact, complete BS (that's apart from it being euro-centric, racist and sexist).
As someone else said, it's more an evolution.
#writing

2023-12-20 20:11:03

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@npub1dzj…4cun
Depends on the imprint.
There are certainly trad imprints that allow open door bonking. You just have to do your research (sorry).
But the truth is that romance is now dominated by self-pub (the RWA was forced to open membership to self-pub years ago) but to make any impression you have to be a machine.

2023-12-17 13:51:51

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@npub1k24…26zw @npub1qwf…tac7
Whoa there, peeps. I can assure you that coffee shops have been a thing in the UK, France, Prussia since the 1640s/1650s.
Naturally they did not use Italian terminology or combinations. And there wasn't the same coffee shop culture, of course.
But they existed.
Personally, I remember, back in the 60s, smelling roast coffee in the Underground coming from one of the shops in the St James's Park arcade.
Check yourself before making absolute declarations 😎

2023-12-14 17:02:47

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@npub1ek8…t2en
Are we not defined by our pinned posts?
😎

2023-11-05 08:14:01

#WritersCoffeeClub 11/5: How are you affected by reviews of your work?
I read them. I used to subscribe to a service that reported them all but it got too expensive as I have so many books.
I love positive reviews, negative ones don't bother me generally (I get almost none anyway).
One of the nicest is pinned to my profile. Go read it.
The only one that's stuck in my craw was a 3* that said the story was "stupid" (but well written).
You can love it or hate it, but "stupid"? What?

2023-10-18 15:21:36

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@npub1psd…9sr7
The Met Office is worth following on YT - their weekly Deep Dive is very good.
And they have lots of pretty graphs and maps.

2023-10-09 15:15:54

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@npub10n9…tjug
As someone once pointed out to me, when I wrote about some people playing in the sea on a sandy beach:
The sensation of the sand pulling from under your feet as a wave rolls back.
They liked that. I just threw it in because that's what happens...

2023-09-23 11:54:47

Controversial Opinion: I don't use Hero's Journey.
I did in my first book but quickly decided it was far too restrictive and not actually that useful.
The fact it has infected almost all storytelling is quite troubling, IMO.
Turns out Campbell's monomyth idea is not even close to be being correct.
From the linked article:
"academic folklorists and scholars of ancient literature almost universally reject Campbell’s theories as nonsense"
https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/12/31/the-heros-journey-is-nonsense/
#writing #writingCommunity

2023-09-21 14:47:35

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@npub1yse…jaay @npub1gd6…5a4f
Must admit I absolutely won't read anything with "alphas".
But I need a book to read because I finished one last night so...
(I don't have a TBR pile.)

2023-09-01 09:48:10

#wordWeavers Day 9/1. Introduce your antagonist with as much sympathy as possible.
This month I'll be using my steampunk, slice-of-life, erotica novel "The Shape of Veronica".
"Slice-of-life" means there's no antagonist, just problems to be overcome. But most of those problems are caused by her parents. Who we never meet.
Having a disabled daughter, they hid her in a gilded cage.
Sympathy? At least they didn't put her in an asylum.
#writingCommunity #erotica #steampunk #3dRender
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2023-08-30 13:59:52

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@npub1yse…jaay @npub16uc…k62q
It does work 👍

2023-08-30 12:25:45

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@npub1yse…jaay
No CW...
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2023-08-30 11:16:57

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@npub1yse…jaay
We await the answer with bated breath.
(Please hurry, can't bate much longer...)

2023-08-16 10:04:38

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@npub1u2h…z4d7 @npub1yf8…5j7z @npub1wap…e8e8
Oh right, so where is the definitive list of what questions are allowed? (Sarcasm)
The point is it gets it wrong because the "two" doesn't match the pattern it expects, so it just throws away the most critical part of the question.
They're crap. They won't get better.
The more restrictions they put in place manually the worse the side effects.
Ask any programmer.

2023-08-15 23:03:49

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@npub1u2h…z4d7 @npub1yf8…5j7z @npub1wap…e8e8
Try asking it what weighs more: a ton of iron, or two tons of feathers.

2023-08-13 22:30:51

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@npub1gvl…8ag7
Sounds like someone who "needs a mother very very badly".

2023-08-10 20:45:25

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@npub1q82…9hf5
Well, Amazon says I have 55.
Some of those are unpublished.

2023-08-08 14:00:34

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2023-08-04 11:44:55

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Writing Wonders Day 8/4. Share art, pics (face claims), and/or mood boards of one (or more) of your side characters.
MONSTERS takes place in a mid-apocalyptic Manchester (UK) and it just so happens the artist James Chadderton (a good Mancunian name) has created images (for sale on his website - he does other cities).
The city in the book is not as bad as shown but it's heading that way...
The other image is something I threw together because I had nothing.
#writingWonders #writingCommunity
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2023-08-03 07:37:36

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Writing Wonders Day 8/3. If your favorite side character(s) had a theme song, what would it be?
Well, there's a character called Dog, he's very insouciant.
He'd probably like "Who Let The Dog's Out" by the Baha Men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkuu0Lwb5EM
#writingWonders #writingCommunity

2023-08-02 07:46:47

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Writing Wonders Day 8/2. How much do you know about your side characters prior to the 1st draft?
I'm a pantser - I've written a 100K crime thriller with a twist ending I didn't see coming.
I don't even know who the SCs are when I start.
But MONSTERS was planned to within an inch of its life, originally it was a TV series and scripts must be planned.
Which is to say I knew what every character *did*, but that didn't mean I knew who every character *was*.
#writingWonders #writingCommunity

2023-07-27 15:11:33

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@npub1l7u…4up2
I guess my only question would be whether you aim to finish something in that time?
Obviously each one will be slowed by doing something else.
Ideas are easy, execution is the killer. (Ahem)

2023-07-27 12:59:22

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@npub1l7u…4up2
I've done three at a time in the past but I don't now.
I mean if you want to/can, then why not?
No rules.