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2023-10-25 16:47:32

#WritersCoffeeClub
Oxford comma, no Oxford comma.
Oxford, when appropriate as an aid towards clarity of expression.

2023-10-17 09:39:56

#WordWeavers
Greatest writing-related fear?
That procrastination wins!
or
That I'm too old to finish what I started.
or
That I'll end up like Grr! Martin and take decades to write overstuffed books, filled with dull asides and plot-pointless diversions, and not care enough about the readers to finish the damned series of books I'm best known for - secretly because I'm way past bored with them myself.
#WritingCommunity
#fantasy
#sff

2023-10-15 11:24:47

#WritersCoffeeClub
Writers' politics.
Every interaction is political, an act of individuals' governance of themselves in the presence of others.
It's just a matter of scale, and how much attention you want to bring down upon yourself.
Chatting amongst friends about the ails of the world is one thing, standing naked under the spotlight of a publicity machine having your opinions dissected by clickbait mob mentality is an entirely different beast.
Each to their own.
#FuckTheNazis

2023-10-13 18:18:23

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@npub16uc…k62q
Full of itself, init?

2023-10-12 18:58:08

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@npub1gvl…8ag7
I have no doubt that however long you've spent on your story it will come a distant second to the decades I've waiting to write my second novel - not that it's been writing itself in my head for that long, but it has thrown itself to the front of my brain with great indecency more than once over the years, all but pleading with me to release it into the world. Covid broke my will to resist, and the only thing stopping it is my overriding desire to stay fed and sheltered.

2023-10-11 11:04:37

#WordWeavers Swapping places with MC, who gets it easy?
Things are coming together for the final act.
[E] - part of a refugee migration under attack from soldiers
[T] - being coerced into spying on an antagonist's target while her sons are in danger
[B] - desperately trying to hitch a lift with rebels after surviving an attack
[H] - leaving everything and everyone she ever loved behind
[C] - About to escape a near death event
[Me] - Having a cuppa, watching rain
#WritingCommunity

2023-10-11 10:33:28

#WritersCoffeeClub 11: Sounds when you're writing?
The sound of my wife trying not to make a sound by interacting with anything that makes a sound and finding new ways for it to sound louder.
My son standing behind me, breathing, waiting impatiently for the right moment to ask another variation on the 'have you seen my...?'
The head cat, Raven, oblivious to everything. Snoring!
Rain. It's Ireland. We have 40 different kinds of rain.
Movie soundtracks via not so NC buds.
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2023-10-04 18:06:20

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@npub16uc…k62q
It works for me, Alina. I like to have something to write towards even if I don't know how exactly I'm getting there.

2023-10-04 10:59:52

#wordweavers
On Developing Character, World, Plot.
I don't develop much before writing the first draft. I begin with an idea for the final act which, to me, is the most important. 1st draft is about exploring who's there and why.
2nd draft is about creating depth: fleshing out characters; building detail into the world; making sure the plot-points align. All while making sure the original story still zips along.
3rd draft is for polishing grammar turds and getting feedback
#WritingCommunity

2023-10-02 10:09:34

#WritersCoffeeClub
How often do you write?
At the moment, not very much at all. It's the busy season in my world. Come November and I should be able to devote more time to writing. On a good week maybe get through 7-10k words.
How do you find the time?
No one finds time, it's not lying around undiscovered like small change that slipped down the back of a sofa. It's just there, every day when you wake up, staring you in the face and asking you what you want to do with it.
#WritingCommunity

2023-10-01 14:24:35

For anyone in the #WritingCommunity - #AmWriting or #Writing #WritersOfMastodon - there are three tags worth following which will nudge you along with daily prompts to exercise your #WIP: #WritersCoffeeClub, #WordWeavers and #PennedPossibilities
New monthly sets of questions posted in advance for WW and WCC, so you've no excuse 😜
Thanks to @npub1k74…dmux & @npub16uc…k62q for Word Weavers, and @npub1tfp…0mnp for the Writers Coffee Club
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2023-09-28 08:46:21

#writerscoffeeclub
Kill Your Darlings?
There's a corollary to this that should be as well-know: letting your bastard demons live.
You know they should die. They deserve to die. But they just won't die. And, generally speaking, they keep coming back in inferior iterations.
#Writing
#WritingCommunity
#AmWriting

2023-09-28 08:42:33

#WritersCoffeeClub
Kill your darlings?
Aye. I surprised myself when I found I had inadvertently killed a secondary character I really liked — you know that feeling when you're writing something at the same time as you're thinking this can't be happening? That. And it was exactly what the story needed in that moment.
I also have a final cliffhanger scene I'm dreading in which 2 of 3 main characters die. I just haven't decided which 2 yet.
#WritingCommunity
#AmWriting

2023-09-27 11:30:15

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@npub1cz0…wk5s
yeah, done the travel distance thing in pre-industrial times: on foot, mule, horse, wagon, boat, steamboat, ship.
Folk tales are a favourite too, The Watkins Book of English Folktales is invaluable.

2023-09-27 10:57:22

#WordWeavers Old and Young characters.
None under 2, but there are 3 or 4 kids — one of whom is an MC.
Plenty of older characters in MC and SC roles.
I've a good mix of ages, hopefully showing different experiences of the world they inhabit.
#Writing
#WritingCommunity
#AmWriting

2023-09-25 11:35:49

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@npub1cz0…wk5s
I like my characters a lot, just not such i'd want to hang out with them given the state of their world. Quiet happy living with central heating in the countryside without swarms of delusion bad guys making things more difficult than they need to be ;)

2023-09-25 08:36:01

#WritersCoffeeClub Day 25: What keeps you striving concerning your writing goals?
Nothing except my own desire to see what happens next.
The best advice I've ever heard about writing when I was younger is to write the book/article you'd like to read, and that still stands true today.
I have no need to write. I don't crave the approval of others for what I write. I have no desire for any unwanted attention.
I just like my characters and their adventures. That's enough.
#WritingCommunity

2023-09-22 11:23:43

#WordWeavers Do you purposely use symbolism?
Of course, who doesn't?
I like stories that have a bit more depth than surface appeal. If everything is laid out perfectly, exposed in whole and tagged as this that or the other, with no room for the reader's imagination to interpret anything other than what is stated, then how can they make the story relevant to them?
Symbolism, consciously or otherwise, is the door you create which allows a reader to find their way into your world
#AmWriting

2023-09-20 11:17:30

#WordWeavers How charismatic are your characters?
Charming AF, all of them — when they want to be.
Otherwise, grumpy, funny, tetchy, mean, talkative, snide, caring, brave, foolish, deluded, egotistical, as each situation requires.
I dunno, they're people, and people is complicated.
#AmWriting
#WritingCommunity

2023-09-20 11:09:46

#WritersCoffeeClub
Fonts for drafting?
Courier 12pt is the industry standard for scripts. It's a standard, apparently used because it averages out to one page equaling 1 minute of screen time. I write the first draft as a screenplay as it helps me with pacing, and it's quick to write that way.
From the 2nd draft on I'll use Times 12pt double-spaced.
Garamond is one of the most popular for published books, although I prefer Sabon - to me it's easier on the eye.
#AmWriting
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2023-09-19 12:07:24

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@npub1cz0…wk5s
That fear of failure/rejection/fucking up is pretty common across the board. I hate being under the microscope and having unwanted attention on me.
The only way you can fail is to not try. If you try you will either fail or succeed, and if you fail you will learn something about yourself - even if it's only that you're more resilient than you thought - which is a step forward.
Not trying is the only outcome where you don't gain knowledge about yourself.

2023-09-19 11:49:00

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@npub1cz0…wk5s
No.
I may have other issues, but imposter syndrome isn't one of them ;)

2023-09-19 11:24:56

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2023-09-17 22:30:24

#WritersCoffeeClub How do you promote your writing?
I don't.
I left all that to the book publisher way back when. Not sure whether to try the publishing route again, or go self-publishing.
Quite a few authors on her seem to have their own website and newsletter, so i might go that route.
It's either that or kidnap a famous person and hold them ransom until I get my book about kidnapping famous people to No. 1 on Amazon.
Six of one, half dozen t'other. Init.
#WritingCommunity

2023-09-14 09:54:49

#WritersCoffeeClub Have you ever written about an ex-partner and changed their name in your story?
No.
There may be minor traits and partial physical descriptions that reference some real people, but that only happens at the outset when I'm outlining a character. Once they're off and running they become themselves, live their experiences through me and show me their lived lives, if that makes sense.
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity

2023-09-13 10:26:59

#PennedPossibilities – Is your MC making the world a better place?
All 5 of them are trying to make their lives, and the lives of their loved ones, better
None of them have direct dealings with the antagonist, but what the antagonist does has directly affected each of them — they just don't know it. How they interact will affect the antagonists plans, perhaps not always for the best
I like the saying: "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end"
#AmWriting

2023-09-13 10:16:00

#WritersCoffeeClub
Joy in Writing?
Yes.
No.
Sometimes.
Maybe.
All of the above, all of the time.
The hardest part is getting started, avoiding the million daily distractions — honestly, sometimes it's harder to start writing than it is to do my business accounts!
Once I get started it's generally fine, the dread dissipates.
I write in scenes, hopping between two or three, and can get such a buzz when I figure something out on the fly.
Love my characters, they've grown so much.
#AmWriting

2023-09-11 10:28:16

#WritersCoffeeClub
Top advice to an aspiring writer?
Read as much as you can fit into a day. Artists and musicians learn by copying the masters, writers learn by reading. If you get to the point where you have an idea for a story, well, start writing.
"The first draft of anything is shit" – Hemingway.
“I would write a book,at least three times – once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.” – Parker
#WritingCommunity

2023-09-06 10:48:52

#WordWeavers
Detailed descriptions.
Don't tend to do detailed descriptions much at all, just enough to set the scene up or vaguely describe an object of relevance.
If there's an item or place that has some meaningful attachment to a character I might give a detailed description, but I'm wary of describing everything in depth as I think readers own imaginations don't need much information in order to interpret how my story sits comfortably within their headspace.
#AmWriting
#WritingCommunity

2023-09-06 10:33:16

#WritersCoffeeClub
Easter eggs.
Aye, and probably too many. Most of them are references to characters in movies or books.
I have two secondary characters who end up going on a fraught river journey, while one of them becomes slightly deranged, called Willard and Hopper - reference: Apocalypse Now.
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#writersOfMastodon
#AmWriting

2023-09-04 17:51:54

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Sometimes it feels like people want to be right more than they want to do good. It just seems to be very hard for certain types of people to admit to be wrong, to the point of doubling down time and again rather than let their pride take a hit for the greater good.

2023-09-03 12:36:44

#WritersCoffeeClub Writing advice to ignore?
Aside from the slack-minded instruction to slavishly hold to the advice about writing only what you know, as if everyone should only write autobiographies or instruction manuals and not about emotions and imagination, the idea of avoiding adverbs, because they're lazy, is both distressingly repugnant and witlessly ironic.
Like all generalisations, advice is best considered as a challenge and not a limitation.
#AmWriting
#WritingCommunity
#Writing

2023-09-02 15:05:41

#WordWeavers What would make #wip world better for most people?
No idea.
The problem with people is that even though they might sometimes agree on what constitutes 'better' in general terms, they invariably disagree about how best to achieve it.
People are a nuisance, but endlessly fascinating at the same time.
#AmWriting
#WritingCommunity
#Writing

2023-09-02 14:50:08

#WritersCoffeeClub Plotter/Pantser
I begin with 'who', 'where', 'when' and 'what's happening', developing a third act scene that is the central hook on which I hang everything else. Quite a bit of work goes into this as some of the characters will be protagonists or antagonists, and some will be secondary. I think about what the relationships may be between them, but nothing is set in stone.
That's as far as planning and plotting goes.
Everything else:
discovery pants mode.
#WritingCommunity

2023-09-01 10:48:47

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@npub16uc…k62q
Exactly. The ends, however well intentioned or noble, don't always justify the means - usually when a cascading set of unforeseen consequences, invariably deemed too trivial to draw attention to, gradually coalesce into a situation that requires a measured response which leads to an incident that promptly gets out of hand due to incompetence and ev ... oh fuck it, kill everyone! NO WITNESSES!!!!

2023-09-01 09:49:13

#WritersCoffeeClub : Intro
Photographer based in Ireland. Had a novel published in my 30s, which was nicely reviewed but didn't pay the bills so I switched to shooting people for a living.
Now I'm older, obviously not much wiser, I've decided to get back into writing with a #WIP that has been scratching around in my skull for half a lifetime.
I don't get to write much between April & October.
That said, I have 160k done on the 1st draft. I under write. So, there's that.
#WritingCommunity

2023-09-01 09:37:15

#WordWeavers : Sympathy for the Antagonist
[KZ] is not your typical antagonist, so I really don't want to say too much about who or what they are - people can be so very judgemental.
Setting aside judgey physiological attributes, [KZ] has watched over the evolution of #WIP world for thousands of years. Worshipped by some, they are dying as their influence wanes. Disillusioned, [KZ] attempts to make the world better and create a lasting legacy.
Things do not go smoothly.
#WritingCommunity

2023-09-01 09:18:26

For anyone #AmWriting or #Writing #WritersOfMastodon there are two tags worth following which will nudge you along with daily prompts to exercise you #WIP: #WritersCoffeeClub and #WordWeavers
New monthly sets of questions posted in advance, so you've no excuse 😜
Thanks to @BranwenOShea & @AlinaLeonova for Word Weavers, and @johnhowesauthor for the Writers Coffee Club
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2023-08-30 09:38:56

#WritingWonders
Ever planned to kill a character & then not?
I start off with a rough idea of who is going to be at the final set-piece, but I'm still arguing with myself over who will come out of it alive - this will be book 1 of x.
That's all I know going in. Everything else that happens to get to that point is me flying by the seat of my pants.
Have I killed off characters I really liked? Of course, and it was as much a shock to me as I hope it will be to anyone else.
#WritingCommunity

2023-08-26 00:01:55

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@npub1k74…dmux @npub16uc…k62q
Lots of interesting prompts there. can't wait to see what everyone's responses are.
And thanks for doing these btw, they really are a help in getting me to think differently about characters and what i write.
Now I just have to get back on that horse and start writing again. Roll on October!!!
#WritingCommunity
#WordWeavers

2023-08-23 12:35:41

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@npub16uc…k62q
Wait till you get older, recovery sucks even more.
Nowadays even if i stop exercising for a week or two due to work, it gets harder and harder to switch back into it.
If there's one bit of advise I'd want my kid to follow it would be to stay fit and exercise regularly - especially if he ends up in an office job.
Best of luck with the recovery.

2023-08-22 12:12:26

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@npub1dzj…4cun
Evan sounds like a fantastic character to write about. Fab idea!

2023-08-22 00:32:59

#WritingWonders
MC POV: Reaction to a crude comment about your SO.
[H] - I'd ask them to repeat it. And again, but louder. And yet louder again, feigning deafness. And again, each time stepping closer to them. I've found that cowards don't like to draw attention to themselves because they're afraid the world will see how small they really are. I will smile, be polite, and not turn my eyes from them while they wither beneath the gaze of an old woman who has slayed giants.
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2023-08-13 03:10:55

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@npub1fgl…4jl4
Nice solid review, Ben. Enjoyed that you describe both the positives and negatives - what's to like and what's not to like, wish more review(er)s did that.
That said, given your negatives, I don't understand why you give it 5 stars when it doesn't engage with you emotionally, amongst other things. Maybe just leave out the rating, your review doesn't need it.
I enjoyed it far more than the previous two, and more than any Marvel movie since Endgame.
3.5/5 pentagrams.

2023-08-11 11:18:50

#WritingWonders 11/8. MC POV: Advice for closest friend.
[B] - Stay when you are. I will find you.
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2023-08-11 11:16:29

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@npub18jm…my9f
Hey, it's been a great morning exercise and all of you have pushed my thoughts and ideas about characters. Especially helpful in helping me keep in touch with my creations during this busy season with actual work work, which will hopefully make me stick the landing when i get back to fictional work in a couple of months.
Best wishes for the future, Amelia.
#WritingWonders #WritingCommunity

2023-08-10 14:53:31

#WritingWonders
MC's annoying trait?
[B] - His ability to just roll with anything that happens. Can't decide whether he's too fucking stupid to be phased by events, or he's reached some higher level of zen like acceptance of shit happening. I understand his brain may have been more than a bit baked under the desert sun, but his body's reaction to stress is to induce temporal displacement which bothers him not a jot. He could be an unreliable narrator, just plain nuts, or more grounded than I.

2023-08-09 17:13:26

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@npub1fgl…4jl4
Seen plenty of links to film reviews, Ben - I follow film and movie tags. It's perfectly acceptable to post links to movie reviews - baffled as to why it wouldn't be.
Then again, I realise it's the internet and some people seem to wake up every day looking for something to take offense to.
Not necessarily connected, but some people need to fuck right off until they dial down their OTT snowflake Karen level intolerances.
Send me the link ;)

2023-08-08 16:12:42

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@npub1fgl…4jl4
You're not here for other people, so only engage with those you don't find toxic - everyone has different tolerances. Frequent blocking is necessary and highly recommended, just to keep your head straight.
Belief comes and goes, every creative person I've ever met suffers from the lack of it at some stage. Sometimes I write a scene unconnected to where i am in the story, sometimes it helps. Sometimes taking a break for a few days works better. You'll find your way, with time.

2023-08-06 23:06:56

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@npub1gvl…8ag7
I'm dreading the 2nd draft. Huge underwriting habit, and I'm on 160k with the last act to go.
1st draft: this is the field we're gonna be working in.
2nd draft: this is us working the land, deciding what we're gonna plant.
Draft 3: Fuuuuuck! Did we really plant that much of that? Who buys this shit? Anyone. I don't think so.
Draft 4: I'm gonna harvest just this much, for now.
Draft 5: Shoulda planted something else.
Draft 6: A haiku on writing
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2023-08-04 11:14:06

#writingwonders
SC Side Character Imagery.
This is a main character T, with her idiot sons H and W. They really should know better at this stage, but they're relentlessly incapable of learning from their fuck-ups. I like them because any time I want to do something stupid to a character these are my go to guys, and for some reason I seem to be capable of imagining a lot of stupid. If it's bad to laugh when some of your characters suffer then i am a very bad person.
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2023-07-29 11:45:36

#WritingWonders: "A-POV: How do you feel about what you do?"
- Feelings are an unwelcome distraction, best to put them to one side and focus on what needs to be done. Feelings get in the way when there is clarity of purpose; they can confuse matters, create doubt, instability, disorder, even chaos. In order to manifest great things one must be decisive, resolute, unwavering in the necessary commitment to overcome fools, those weak-minded ditherers and obsequious appeasers.
#WritingCommunity

2023-07-07 17:06:02

#WritingWonders: Favourite stage of writing a story?
Definitely the bits where instinct takes over the flow of words and characters surprise me with what they might say or do at any given moment, or my own head comes up with something laughably outrageous and cool as fuck that I never saw coming.
That's when the magic happens.
As much as I love everything else about writing, it's that fleeting instant when something unexpected sparks into creation that is a proper thrill
#WritingCommunity

2023-07-01 11:27:38

#writingwonders
Your MC arrives at your door. What do you do?
"[B]! WTF. How?"
- "Long story."
"Come in. Come in."
Hugs.
"You look like shit! What happened?"
- "You don't know?"
"Know what?"
- "I thought you knew!"
"Knew what? How?"
- "You're the writer. Right? Been looking for you for years."
"You know you're not real, right?"
- "Yet here I am."
"Yeah. But. No. But..."
- "Just fucking roll with it, it's a whole bit. Okay?"
"Okay. What next?"
- "I need you to kill [spoiler]."
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2023-06-28 13:18:17

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@npub1cz0…wk5s
As a regular visitor and holidayer to the UK (from Ireland) my experience is a bit different. The UK has so much going for it - landscape, history, architecture, art, and the people (mostly, like anywhere).
That said, it was vastly more expensive to stay there last year, not just rental, but also for days out, fuel, and food - Dublin is expensive so we're used to high prices, but that was a surprise to us.
Hold your nerve!
#fuckthetories

2023-06-28 13:01:20

#WritingWonders Where would MC live in our world?
[B] & [C] : I could see them living on the west coast of Ireland, Wales, or Scotland. Those tragic and moody Celtic hinterlands with a wistful romantic vibe.
[T] : Woodlands definitely: Glendalough in Ireland or Forest of Dean in Wales and England.
[H] : Port cities where there's trouble and strife and opportunities on both sides of the law. Marseilles, Naples, Valetta, Venice, Dubrovnik, Istanbul, etc
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2023-06-22 15:45:10

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@npub10d5…vvxa
It involves quite a bit of screaming and a brush with death, so it never really took off as a form of mass transit, but it's there when needs must - obviously, you can't have a proper adventure story without some needs-must being involved.

2023-06-22 15:31:52

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@npub10d5…vvxa
Love that. Whoever owns it isn't exactly a shy wallflower.

2023-06-22 15:30:30

#WritingWonders
MC’s transportation!
1650s/1750s vibe with mainly legs, horsey power, and ships as the main MoT.
Their are others, accessible by few, which are very cool and different. Those can involve trees, lighthouses, aurora, wolves, serpents, astral projection, fire, and wind. A couple of those are quite surreal, which really gave me the vibes when I thunked them up so i'm curious as to how they'll be received.
That's not to mention the big one, which is [spoilers]
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2023-06-16 02:40:31

#WritingWonders : What's your setting: urban, rural, natural?
I pretty much wanted this #wip to be set in a colony, a clash of cultures between Newlanders and Oldlanders.
The Newlanders are more 1750s/1850s in terms of their set up, mainly in coastal cities, and frontier towns and hamlets close to forts.
The Oldlanders are 1650s/1750s, in touch with the natural world, woods and rivers, and also have a touch of the arcane and supernatural about them. Farmers and woodsmen.
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2023-06-12 13:21:56

#WritingWonders MCPOV: Marriage thoughts.
[B]: [C]'s father is an absolute arse of a man, a self-made bullshitter. Fools no one, not even his own daughter. He wants to marry her off to [K], no doubt to profit from the privilege and standing that arrangement would bring. Me and [C] eloped. A hilltop ceremony, simple as. [C]'s father put a bounty on my head. We been on the run ever since. Got separated. I need to find her before he does, and I will. I swear it!
[C]: Who's [B]?
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2023-06-10 10:55:00

#WritingWonders Day - How would you describe your story: fun, epic, dark, sad, etc.?
Yes.
#WritingCommunity
Apologies for the brevity.
Running out the door to shoot a bride.
Again.

2023-05-26 12:25:52

#writingWonders does the media or public opinion play a role in your story?
Judging by others' answers i read this question wrong: meant as an internal aspect of the story rather than a current external influence on me as a writer.
So, no :(
But, yes ;)
Today's news and opinions shape the antagonist's populist-baiting climb to power, and the disregard for the consequences of their own, and their enablers', callous ambition on the lives of ordinary people.
All of it background, hinted at.

2023-05-15 12:27:23

#writingWonders Is your MC good at romantic relationships?
MC(B): (C) is the love of his life. Due to drama they become separated, and his arc is the journey to get back to her.
MC(C): (B) who? Due to drama her memory doesn't work as it should and she doesn't remember her relationship with (B).
MC(H): Gave up her relationship her girlfriend for a career that didn't pan out as expected. Bigly regrets.
MC(T): Bit the nose off her SO. Years later: ate his soul.
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2023-05-12 09:23:59

#WritingWonders Will your story will make your readers cry at some point?
I don't think any book has ever made me cry - gave me the feels, yes, but actual weeping, no. Maybe I just haven't read that kind of book, or been that kind of person. Few have made me laugh out loud, though plenty have made me smile.
Beginning to think whether I'm an emotional desert. Then I remember, films/TV shows have made me weep and laugh.
Ergo ipsum factum: books are shit.
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2023-05-10 10:44:08

#writingWonders how much humor is there in your story?
1.618%
Anything more would make the whole undertaking a rampaging animal house of debauched frivolity bordering on the indecent and profane, readers lost forever to the suffocating weightlessness of cheap laughter.
Anything less and the work becomes a moribund snore of soullessness from which a guileless reader might not fully recover, their very souls enraptured by a mindfuck of a bleak and humourless seriosity.
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2023-05-09 10:44:29

#WritingWonders MCPOV: When was the last time you laughed? Why?
MC(B): Yesterday, when I traveled by sand yacht for the first time. It was exhilarating, and dangerous. The speed. Wonderful. The sand, not so much.
MC(T): Don't remember. Before my sons were taken, as likely. Stupid as they are, their childish ways, hm, men ought to know better, yes, they're my boys.
MC(C): Most mornings, when the dawn chorus of farts that smell like yesterday's supper herald a new day.
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2023-05-01 13:04:48

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Love that you've built such a strong image of him so easily.
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2023-04-20 20:56:07

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Aye. The worst part is when you're half way through the first draft and you know you're characters names will be different, but you keep them just so you can hold everything together in your head about who's who and what they did, but a dark nagging part of your brain is going 'no that was, C, not G' and the other part of your brain is going SHUT UP THEY'RE THE SAME PERSON.

2023-04-20 15:09:49

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I tend to keep descriptive stuff to a minimum, just a few key features and leave the rest up to the readers' imagination
That said, I also faff about in #[1] using prompts to create character posters
The big thing for me is character names. I start with something basic just to get things rolling, but by the time I'm finished I can say 'no, she's more a Cora than a Katherine'. Names is by far the most important descriptor
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