#WritersCoffeeClub 24/5: What in your writing 'dates' you?
Since WIP is set in the near future, after the next US civil war, so there's no references to current timeliness, apart from things like 'influencers' being shunned etc.
Maybe because my characters are mature and caring dates me?
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#WordWeavers 24/5: Would your antagonist participate in spring cleaning?
Perriad is accustomed—we might say institutionalised—to the Dawnsingers’ College, where cleaning and other domestic tasks are taken care of by support staff. It’s just not something she ever thinks about. Perhaps this is why, on the rare occasions she ventures beyond the Precincts, she’s so bad at looking after herself. Or part of the reason, anyway.
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I desperately need some help
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#WritersCoffeeClub 24/5: What in your writing 'dates' you?
Since my series is set in another time, I avoid references to popular culture. So, at least according to current received wisdom, what dates me may be a fondness for semi-colons and em-dashes. Also, perhaps, things like knowing the difference between envy and jealousy.
#sigh
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Hey now! Crowdfunding for a feature film. My message: Just because you are chronically or mentally ill doesn’t mean you don’t deserve to live. You deserve to exist and be happy.
I need to tell myself this everyday so I’m telling everyone this:
Live the life you have.
#PennedPossibilities 679 — What was your SC’s childhood like? How has their upbringing affected them as they’ve aged?
She wasn't the type to listen and didn't agree with her parents that she should study and aim for college. Her parents were kind and strict, but when she told them essentially that she wanted to become what they saw as a menial laborer, they grounded her, got her tutors, and left her no choice but to rebel.
Later in life, blackmailed and working for the mob, she understood she'd been stupid and could recognize it in others, or simply empathize. Be there. Listen. Say the right thing that might make a difference. It's what led her to think she could be friends with the devil girl, who was far smarter than the rest, and in her quietness more dangerous. But her reflection on her childhood made the difference; when it counted, the devil girl took her along when she broke free from the mob.
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Whats it say? : )
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#ScribesAndMakers 5/24. Do you have a favourite pair of socks? Are they lucky?
I buy all the same socks so it doesn't matter if they get mixed up, or damaged.
I'm not superstitious, not even a little bit.
#WritersCoffeeClub 5/24. What in your writing 'dates' you?
"Nothing dates faster than contemporary references".
Unfortunately when writing contemporary or near future it's very hard to avoid.
I mostly don't (historical and second world fantasy) but my next project is a prequel to MONSTERS which is set now.
Currently irrationally annoyed at the way the invention of cellphones has limited language to describe phone calls with any kind of texture. There are no handsets, no coils, no wires. No physical buttons to accidentally press! You can't slam them down! At best there is 1) a lost signal or 2) a fumble (sometimes into the toilet).
We need to go back.
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Pitches and Queries: What personal info should you put in a query letter?
"I went through EMT training but decided I prefer my blood and guts on the page" would work great for someone writing thrillers or horror.
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I pray to make this feature film and tell people it’s okay to be physically or mentally ill and miss the life you lived.
But it’s important to remember to live your life because you deserve to be alive. Life is still worth living.
Crowdfunding!
I’ve been thinking why do I want to tell the story of The Woman Who Knows.
Yes, it’s about a physically and mentally ill woman, and yes, I want to educate people on fibromyalgia, and but I also want to tell people:
It’s okay to miss the life you had before you were physically or mentally ill, but it’s important to remember that you are alive, and you must find a way to live your life because you deserve to be alive.
Crowdfunding!
New story! 🧸🧸
Alysia Goldenseal, Teddybear Princess Ch.5
https://shaker-e.dreamwidth.org/8132.html
In which a forgotten friend returns!
Possibly forgotten even by the author! 😅
One of my former 100-word microfiction stories is now live on my site.
"Maybe being a Southern writer has always been more than stereotypes of ceiling fans and panting dogs in dirt yards. Maybe being a Southern writer is only a matter of loving a damaged and damaging place, of loving its flawed and beautiful people, so much that you have to stay there, observing and recording and believing, against all odds, that one day it will finally live up to the promise of its own good heart." – Margaret Renkl ("NYT: What Is a Southern Writer, Anyway?", 7/9/18) #writing #quotes
I thought my novel was done with 30 chapters. Going back to better flesh out the plot, now there's 36. Reads much better, though.
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