#WritersCoffeeClub May 26 In your work, how much of an active character is your setting?
In an "MC vs world" story, the world *has* to be an active antagonist. It needs to get some hits in early, and continue to harass the protagonist, and frustrate their plans.
I think my world is a reasonably impressive antagonist, all things considered.
#TimeTravelAuthors whatever day:
There's something *deeply* satisfying about holding in your hands a book that you wrote.
SECONDARY's also available on Kindle. But physical books are best. ๐
https://www.amazon.com/SECONDARY-Ray-Ingles-ebook/dp/B0DJZ91N3V
First five chapters for free here:
https://secondary.blog
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The fourth sample chapter of SECONDARY is up on my blog.
"It was an excellent lie. I bought it completely."
https://secondary.blog/tag/secondary-sample
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The third sample chapter of SECONDARY is up on my blog. The Time Eye comes online.
"People who think university types are boring should have seen the party ๐กโ๐๐ก night."
#TimeTravelAuthors 17: Crowds
The MC is not dressed properly for the alternate timeline he's exploring:
"The crowd mostly took less notice of me. No, thatโs not quite rightโthere were a lot more people giving me dubious looks. Everyone took lessโฆ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ about me, though. In the throng of pedestrians, I was โsomebody elseโs problem.โ"
#TimeTravelAuthors 15: How complicated is your time travel?
It takes a nuclear plant and billions in special technology to generate enough power to move individual photons around. (The designer eventually figures out how to move roughly a grain of sand... so long as you're cool with a nuclear meltdown and maybe an explosion or two.)
Jim doesn't understand how it actually works... at all. Which becomes a major problem once the machine gets hijacked.
Finished a vague first chapter of this anthro/kinda furry story. Can I send it to anyone for a second opinion? Just as a proof of concept
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Making a kinda post apocalyptic fantasy setting where all the people are descended from animal-human hybrids made by a now extinct mankind.
Do I stick to just mammals? or have lizards, birds and whatnot?
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Planning Chapter Dan 9 in Cold Morning ๐
It's 2026 and I'm finally entering the mid point of Dan's arc after 9 years
Heck yeah. finished the 14th Chapter of Cold Morning! It's a fair bit over 50k words now ๐ #writing #amwriting #writingSFF #Qwriters #writelgbtq
@cavyherd Oh, absolutely. That's perfectly standard. Everyone has something they don't get without a lot of effort and revision, but knowing where it should go is very helpful, and putting down what you know, which is often wildly different from just knowing it, can cast shadows that the shape of what you're missing.
Okay, actually got some movement on this particular conundrum this morning. (i.e., content to plug into the empty socket).
I guess the (well, one) answer to this is to write the scene, leave a [placeholder] for the part you haven't fleshed out yet, and then have faith that all will become clear in time?
(The part that's tricky is when the particulars of the [content] affect the tone of the character relationship.)
Oh, no, I got the characters. Very vividly! And the rough sketch of the setting. It's just the actual *content* I'm missing. Mostly because I don't care ๐
Likeโhow does that even *work*??
(How it works is #adhd)
@cavyherd Oh, interesting, that beat doesn't come with characters per se? I usually, not always, start with characters, and they have lives and relationships and contexts attached, though sometimes parts of that are hard to get at.
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Look more practice!
Oh yes! Thank you! Have now subscribed to those as well.
Yeah, I'm kind of sitting here thinking about the fact that my favorite failure mode is: I come up with character/relationship beat I want to hit, and I have the structure in mind so clearly I can taste it. But I don't have any actual /content/ for it, so I just sit spinning my wheels in frustration.
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See? Me! Practicing! Aren't ya proud of me? ๐
@cavyherd It's definitely more fun to ask a friend. There's also #writingsf and #writingsff, but those don't get a lot of use. Should I have a writing thought other than ARGH, I could try using them.
Peerless (2): The second of a very few.
Calling all Scottish* writers of speculative fiction!
Don't forget to enter Cymera Festival and Shoreline of Infinity's short fiction competition:
https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2023-short-fiction-competition
This one is open to published and unpublished writers.
*born here or moved here and are now addicted to haggis and Irn Bru. Check the details.
Dang I wish life would cut me enough of a break so I could get some flipping writing done! #ishouldbewriting #writingsff #writer #carer #stuckinhospital
I have helped out friends with writing their back-of-the-book blurb, and I really enjoyed the challenge. Trying to write mine is not nearly as much fun.
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