Writer of SFF. Currently working on a novel about magic teenage assassins in space. Shopping a novella about a drunken mess of a witch in Ancient Greece who's cursed to fight monsters to the death. You're welcome.
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Last Notes npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…qjvn This is it *exactly*. I don't invent backstory before the fact because then I can't "encounter" it in the moment. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) I'm going back to the thing where I open my computer and write fiction. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…xujg I mean, this is the correct answer, yes. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…lggw This is the plan that's forming, yes: now that I've splatted out a draft, I need to map it. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) Okay, I'm coming to you all for help. I've been reading the first draft of my novel, and it's filling me with dread. I know that's part of the process, but the specific problem I'm having is bc of how I wrote it--in short stints over the course of two+ years. It has not ~flow~. Each scene feels disconnected from the last. It's choppy as hell. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) Does anyone know a way, probably an #extension, in #Gnome to get the dash items to be *numbered*? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…qk0a @nprofile…fynq "All roads lead to Rome" because that's where all the grain is being taken to. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…6fay People seem to really like him! I created him to be a rival to my protagonist in what amounts to a fencing tournament, and I hate it when those kinds of characters are also awful people, so it seemed like it would be fun if he was just the most positive guy in the universe, which also makes it that much more of a gut-punch when he's killed publicly for a very very bad reason. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…6fay Damn! Thank you. That's great to hear. I was afraid I was being too melodramatic. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…6fay I was just telling someone else, on the subject of deaths, that I was quite proud of a line I wrote many months ago: "He fell to the floor with a hole in his chest where his heart used to be." npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) Today's #ScribesAndMakers is making me think about how I realized that when you construct a magic "system" (not necessarily "hard" magic, that's a whole other discussion), you're inevitably creating something with symbolic impact. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…93zc If we, writers, don't think about the implications of our work, then the work will say something whether we intend it or not. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) A technique I've been using a lately for non-fiction, including work stuff, is write a really rough first draft and put it on the left side of my screen--window managers will do that--and then have a fresh document on the right side and essentially summarize my own draft. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…6fay MS is rough. I'm glad you had a good day and that you're able to rest. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…93zc I see nothing in the example that says they're the home *owner*. Ownership isn't the issue. I also see nothing that says they've "agreed" to the law that says a cop with a warrant can enter your home without your permission. The idea that a vampire can't enter your home without permission is unrelated to ownership or the law. They're immaterial. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…93zc No. They don't have the residents' permission. The judge who granted the warrant doesn't live in your house. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…5n8f When I show stuff like this to "AI" boosters, their response is, "Sure, right, that's terrible, but you're asking it to do something it's not good at! Let's focus on what it *is* good at!" npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…au8t That guy was trans! Fan-fucking-tastic. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…93zc I pick the word that comes closest to carrying the meaning I want. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…0qap That's very cool! Thanks for explaining. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…0qap Would you be willing to describe your experience there? I'm super curious. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…8ewh Absolutely! And the whole premise of hopepunk and solarpunk is (was?) that we need positive models of what could be, not just negative models of the worst-case. Both serve a function, IMO, so if we have nothing but dystopias, then we need to balance that off: present problems as well as *solutions*. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…8ewh I hear ya. Living in a dystopia makes you yearn to dream of utopia, or at least something less vicious than where we are. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…6fay That's good to know! Thank you. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…6fay I should give CBD another try. I didn't feel anything, but I should really be asking other people if I seem different. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…6fay I was just talking to some people about this but for cannabis. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…gpz0 @nprofile…jw23 I've been donating $10/year since the first Twitter migration. I'm not trying to boast, just saying that a pretty small amount of money, if you have it to spare, creates a reliable stream of money to support this little instance we all get so much from. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @nprofile…hsx2 @nprofile…9vtz Libby remains awesome. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) We used to talk *about* writing more, so let's try something. What are you struggling with right now in your Work In Progress? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1k74…dmux I hate it. I really hate it. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub10d5…vvxa You mean you visualize them, well, visually? Fascinating. I'm all about the voice. If I can hear them, then I know them. If I lose a sense of their voice, then I've lost them entirely. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1k74…dmux Here we go: npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) #WritersCoffeeClub Aug 1: Can you foresee any circumstance where you might use AI to compose part of a story? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1k4q…4nh2 This is a non sequitur. Nobody is talking about that in this thread. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1ek8…t2en thank you for your service npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1aum…5jx0 Why are you assuming it's unoriginal to begin with? What prompted this post? Is this a trope? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1d62…tshf The theme of these author quotes is: context. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1dzj…4cun It is very nearly the least disruptive thing, and yet they HATE it because they're image-obsessed. It's like a pie in the face. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1gvl…8ag7 I feel the same way about my WIP. There's some action movie violence--I'm riffing on Star Wars--but the way these kids are treated is that really disturbing part. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1gvl…8ag7 Great way of describing it. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub18es…mjyx Sounds like my kids. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub19fc…ay3c The fact that "expert witnesses" are an industry is best fot me. They constructed these areas of expeditors so they could sell them. It doesn't inspire confidence. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1aum…5jx0 What the fuck. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) Hey, I need a strong word for "nonsense" that's also not ableist (ie, synonym for learning disability or neuroatypical). "Bullshit" is good, but I want something with real *gusto*. Any suggestions? Asking for a me. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1d62…tshf I'm very late to this but: frame it? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) Today's #WordWeavers has me thinking about what it would be like to write a POV character like Donald Trump. Not the wealth and power, but the incoherent rage and grievance and cowardice and bigotry. Like, how chaotic and self-contradictory must his thought processes be? How short must his attention span be? I don't think I could maintain it for more than a few pages. It would be really hard to fight the urge to make sense of his senselessness. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1yse…jaay This is a good point. Mastodon is pretty central to my workflow now. :) npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1gvl…8ag7 @npub1d62…tshf I sense two things going on, there. One is the idealized story that they imagine could be woven from something you've said—no doubt helped by your skill in telling it in person—but also the gap between what they (imagine they) would enjoy hearing and what you would enjoy telling. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1gvl…8ag7 I have one like that right now. We're all very supportive, just helping each other make our work better. No competition. No egos. I'm so grateful for them. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1d62…tshf @npub166l…e2wz I would go further and argue that we're teaching people that the function of corporations is to make as much money as possible, and anything that impedes that goal is to be defeated, captured, routed around, etc. Profit = virtue. Thus, it's unvirtuous to lower profits. They've been taught this in econ classes, business school, and by word of mouth, like any other ideological system. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub166l…e2wz @npub1d62…tshf Capitalists are too stupefied by their ideology to be able to perceive that problem. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub15wt…7rek Pretends you're writing it as a story and make it fun. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1d62…tshf Cool! I will try this. Good workaround. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1d62…tshf They (hashtags) don't show up on your "following" list, so there's way to add them to a custom list. Very frustrating. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) Does anyone know if there's a way to make a list on mastodon that follows hashtags? I want to keep up with all these writing tags but not on my main feed. Suggestions welcome. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1mmf…eknq @npub1f9x…h75q @npub1ena…yyv4 Yes, absolutely. Every victory is a morale booster and keeps people in the fight. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1lyr…k7hs That's the *only* reason I'm here! Long ago, we'd exchange actual text, but now we talk craft, and I'm delighted. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1psd…9sr7 This makes me wonder if it's just the first of many to back away. Either they have to admit it's not going to work—going from 4 to 2+tech is admitting defeat—or they already made their real money through investors and tax breaks, so they're getting out while they can, or both, in which case MANY people who believed the hype will be left holding the bag: investors and taxpayers. Not to mention, the murder machines on our streets. The people died for NOTHING. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1lyr…k7hs @npub1cz0…wk5s Yes! My god. When you *find* the story, as if it has been there the whole time. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1lyr…k7hs @npub1cz0…wk5s I agree with all that. At base, my method is create a situation and see how my characters react. I'm doing that at the outline stage, but the outline for 20,000 words is like a page, and then I do it at the writing stage. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1lyr…k7hs @npub1cz0…wk5s I don't know what position you're in, but until someone does pay me to write, I'm going to write whatever I goodman we'll want to write. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1lyr…k7hs @npub1cz0…wk5s I can do that for short pieces, but for anything longer than 1000 words, I write a quick outline and then ignore it. I guess that's a hybrid approach. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1cz0…wk5s @npub1lyr…k7hs So does (sigh) "pantser" usually mean no outlining at all? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1k74…dmux "Oh, not everyone was wearing patchy old crap from the Sally-Anne and tie-dye? Huh. Yeah, I can't help you. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1k74…dmux I feel you. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1k74…dmux I couldn't figure out what they meant. It was pretty confusing. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub14fs…qegk @npub1gfd…7gg6 Open protocol, for-profit. Not my preference, but for-profit social media can, to use Doctorow's terms, be disciplined by interoperability. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1ggh…ykhp This is why I don't go to my local pen shop. I know I can't trust myself. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1ggh…ykhp What kind of pen? I'm basic. I use a Lamy with a little cartridge that sucks up the ink. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1fgl…4jl4 Nobody's saying you can't say "anything," just that you should take a moment and reassess the review. Focus, my man. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1fgl…4jl4 Dude. We can see you. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1dzj…4cun Con. Text? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1fgl…4jl4 They fade in any skin that rubs against other stuff a lot, so I think the sides of your fingers would fade. Depends on what part of the tattoo you want to be visible. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub15wt…7rek That's a good plan. I'm going to start doing that! npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1zvp…zx0e Conservatism seems to be rooted in claiming that all the stuff we learned as kids--sharing, politeness, fairness, kindness, waiting your turn--was a lie, and you're the stupid one for continuing to practice it. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) #WritersCoffeeClub Feb 1: Tell us about yourself, published work, WIP or anything else people should know npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1ecd…pq6n People are taking the question of the day as an implication that nobody should ever write outside their demographic. I would caution everyone that if your gut reaction to that question is to think somebody is telling you that you "can't" write anybody outside your demographic, that is a response programmed into all of us by literal decades of right-wing propaganda. It starts with "the coddling of the American mind," and it's continued through anti-PC and anti-narratives. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1ecd…pq6n I adore your work. You're still deflecting. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1ecd…pq6n I love your work, and you know more about writing than I likely ever will, so please know I say this with deep respect: npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1ecd…pq6n @npub1psd…9sr7 I mean, yeah. No one. Ever. Do why assume that's what the question was asking? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1ggh…ykhp That's really methodical! I just heard an interview with a stand up comedian who said he watched a specific comedy show for several months, and took note of everything he saw so that he'd never repeat a common bit that other comedians do. Your description sounds similar, finding holes but also using that process to identify ideas that appeal to you, right? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) I'll start. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) Okay, here goes: npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1gvl…8ag7 Jackson et al's cuts make more and more sense when you read the text. My god. Get to the point, Ronald. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1gvl…8ag7 Yikes. Sounds awful. I don't know why they'd want to know all that in the abstract when they could just read the first five pages. I could describe the cast of Lord of the Rings, but that doesn't tell you how those books feel to read. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1gvl…8ag7 Sure. The first time I had to put together a query took me a week. They didn't even email me back, but now I know the process. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) Okay, January 1st, and I just sent out samples of my novella to two agents and a query letter to an indie publisher describing that same novella. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub15wt…7rek Sure. Writers dream of getting published. I do too. There are similar scams in acting and music, I think. It's taking advantage of people are their most sincere (with many exceptions of course). npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) I'm seeing a lot of people *selling* advice for writers--plot structure, how to get published, how to self publish, etc--and it mostly looks like a huge scam, a way to get you to give them money that will not put you one inch closer to your goal. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub15wa…ezxc Thanks for letting us know. I think that's a decent enough plan. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 27: If you write in more than one genre, which is your go-to? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1d62…tshf @npub1p39…0ysz I like "theydies and gentlethems." npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1d62…tshf Y'all is wonderful, and I love it. It's still somewhat regional and gets weird in my white, west-coast Canadian mouth. I'm getting there, but it's not universal yet. Fingers crossed. Also, "you" doesn't become singular just because we adopt "y'all." npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 19: If you could remove one rule of grammar, which would you choose? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) Hey, @npub15wa…ezxc, do you have any thoughts about Threads federating? Any plans to defederate them under X or Y circumstances? This is my primary home in mastodon, and I really like it here, so I'd love to know if you have plans. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) #WordWeavers Dec 14. Do you write characters with different sexual orientations and gender identities from your own? What guides your writing? npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub15wt…7rek I think it took me a while to realize that certain decisions I made a long time ago no longer fit the book I'm now writing. I thought it was going to be a book about this one main character, but then she made a bunch of friends, and i have to give them arcs, too. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) I have recently realized my work in progress will need a fairly major rewrite once it’s done. Because of how I’m writing it, it won’t be locked down as I produce text. My last project was done when it was done because it was episodic. This new project is a traditionally structured novel. I can see what I'm doing “wrong” as i go, but i need to produce a draft before i can go back, i think. Sigh. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1ek8…t2en No stress! Enjoy the post-wedding high. Weddings are amazing. You party like you're 20 well into your 90s. npub15n24hah9vw8lnjhn0n0e5amn976fdpmsrjt996xfw43eue23a5vs5ehlsh Orion (he/him) @npub1aum…5jx0 Depending on where and when she dies, either her family will bury her ethically, so that her body returns to the soil and feeds the plants, or her body will be left where it is, to rot all on its own. Either way, dead's dead.
