#writing
Finished up my last image inspired by the 2023 Folktale Week word prompts for my book: “Found”.
This experience has really helped me shape my adaptation of Little Red. I’m so excited about writing now!
This moment happens when Little Red finds the captured spirit of her dead father, held by the three Fates as leverage against her so she'll follow the path they want.
It’s… complicated. 😜
But SO MUCH FUN to work on!
#2023FolktaleWeek #LittleRedRidingHood #Folktale #art #illustration #writing
Right now I use my SuperNote e-ink writing tablet but I'm not a natural hand writer, so I find it difficult getting into the flow.
As such, I'm now looking into dedicated digital note takers from Japan under the Pomera brand.
Quite keen on the DM100 - https://olivierduong.com/digital-notetaking/pomera-dm100-review.
While there are newer models out, this one runs on standard AA batteries. A more standard clamshell design should be way more durable than the PSION as well.
Well an update on my PSION Series 5; the screen gave up the ghost completely shortly after the above post.
Even if I can get my hands on some spare parts, I'm not entirely confident in my ability to not only get it working, but to not encounter the same issue later on.
So I've been looking at alternatives. Using my phone (with or without an external keyboard) doesn't work cause there's just too many distractions & barriers to journaling quickly.
Every Little Thing
The Never Before Seen Kickstarter is going much better than I ever could have hoped—and that’s because of all of you. Thank you for the support! The Kickstarter features some of my short crime fiction. The stories are original and never before seen....
https://kriswrites.com/2023/12/09/every-little-thing/
So far her tally had been raised to killing a dozen men by slashing their throats. At this rate they’d soon be accusing her of building a guillotine for her private use. #writing
#WritersCoffeeClub #Writing 10: What aspect of your work are you most proud of? Don't be shy.
I think I do a very good job at witty dialog. In fact, I have trouble with characters that are plan speakers.
2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 3 New Scripts, 31 Total | by Scott Myers | Dec, 2023 | Go Into The Story https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2023-award-season-screenplay-downloads-3-new-scripts-31total-ad8f68044b1a
Saturday Thoughts https://lwgrs.bearblog.dev/saturday-thoughts/ #Blog #Writing
Without further adieu, I've now released my latest generative Bitsy art-game. "The Book of Sand" is a retelling of the 1975 short story by Jorge Luis Borges. Read excerpts from the tale as you navigate passages from the mysterious tome it depicts. https://racarter.itch.io/the-book-of-sand
#bitsy #gamedev #generative #pixelart #writing #story #digitalArt #art
Just gonna boost that My book is available on several different platforms. I'll link them all here.
https://tapas.io/series/The-Chosen-of-Eon-Volume-1-The-Sylph-and-the-City-of-Rats/info
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49283662/chapters/124360453
https://www.writersky.com/a_m_w_harris/the-chosen-of-eon-i-the-sylph-and-the-city-of-rats
https://www.wattpad.com/story/245463165-the-chosen-of-eon-i-the-sylph-and-the-city-of-rats
#writing #Writersky #queerfiction #queerauthor #fantasy #tapas #wattpad #archiveofourown
There's a lot of this going on in #witchpunk since it's set approximately modern day. Here's the first example:
Diane Ashton has accepted your invitation.
I meant it when I said we should catch up.
Are you busy tonight? How about dinner?
=> only w/ what ur paying me for lol
=> I can do dinner
=> Do you think you could pick me up?
At 6:52 Alan’s Tesla Roadster rolled up to the front of the condo building. Ash clambered in through the convertible roof...
Not super attached to the formatting, so it'll probably change by the final draft.
Somehow 1 #novel in progress turned into 2 novels in progress.
Far happier with the second one, though. It stems from an idea in the first one, but they’re not really related. Current focus is on the second as it’s going far smoother.
Unfortunately, doesn’t look like I’ll hit my goal of finishing #writing it by the end of the year… but that’s ok.
What is more sexy than the great emotions of some unfinished business?
#writing #blogging #witch #history
https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2023/08/21/view-through-a-haunted-window-history-glimpse/
It's not about riding the stick at all!
#writing #blogging #witch #history
https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2023/06/07/why-witches-ride-on-broomsticks/
#WritersCoffeeClub #Writing 09: How would you write an online chat or text message conversation in your novel?
Cont.
Use the formatting style used in JNovel Club books as closely as possible.
With my #witch, I have chosen a difficult time to write in. Trying to summarize our starting point in this post!
https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2023/03/25/the-next-writing-challenge-growing-up-in-1618/
Visiting my favourite medieval town with my #witch!
„Look at these cozy houses even surviving your hell!“, I tell my witch searching through photographs over candle light that pictured a very resilient small town, hidden in the hills.
https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/monschau-a-small-town-of-resilience/
and being the last one alive standing by the window, whispering:
“I love you.”
“Oh please be back in time!”
“Save me, Daddy!”
“Really?”, my witch interrupts coughing into her bottle of wine. “Does it have to be Daddy again?”
#writing #Blogging #witch #essay #historicalfiction
https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/closer-to-the-past/
Been a long day of modelling, and a longer week, and so my patrons just got an early access to an article about the short film I'm working on, #TheMetalPerson You too can support me on there, or perhaps on https://ko-fi.com/dilmandila
I think a lot about my favorite parts of writing (Finishing Draft 1! Revising!), and it occurred to me I need to put household chores in the same positive light. My Favorite Chore? Dishwashing! (warms up my hands)
What chore's at the top of your list?
spheres of cold blue ice
disapproving eyes as I build
castles in sand...
#DailyHaikuPrompt - ice
#MastoPrompt - overcome
#polar #ice #antarctica #winter #frozen #icy #snow #water #nature #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #earth #heaven #fire #art #artwork #painting #paintings #smallpoems #haiku #writing #poetry #writers #writer #writingcommunity #poet #poets #poem #poems #blue #colorful #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #castle #castles
Polar ice caps are melting
We sit by our propane fires
Overcome by indifference...
***Went with a contemporary style.***
#DailyHaikuPrompt - ice
#MastoPrompt - overcome
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/heaven-and-earth-sharon-cummings.html
#polar #ice #antarctica #winter #frozen #icy #snow #water #nature #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #earth #heaven #fire #art #artwork #painting #paintings #smallpoems #haiku #writing #poetry #writers #writer #writingcommunity #poet #poets #poem #poems #blue #colorful #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt
What if journalism gave us less of…
Clickbait headline
Hyperbolic lede
Problem statement
Evidence of problem
Evidence of problem
Evidence of problem
Evidence of problem
Possible solution statement
Token explanation
Bye
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And instead, a lot more of…
Slightly less clickbaity headline
Inviting lede
Problem statement with link to detail
Possible solution statement
Reasonably in depth exploration of solution
Links to getting involved in making that solution a workable reality
Writing with the Swan Lake finale blaring in my headphones is a singular experience.
I think this is how it must have felt to write the really exciting parts of the Bible 😂
#WritersCoffeeClub #Writing 09: How would you write an online chat or text message conversation in your novel?
#TheWomanWhoFoundHerself is the first in a dual timeline series. In each book, the historical period is different. The modern timeline is the present and moves forward with each book. To avoid straying into the future, book 1 starts in 2003. Online chat has yet to appear, but I'll keep you posted.
if you grow up around people with unprocessed trauma, your learning and development involves empathizing with the Impenetrable Sadness caused by grief.
#trauma #learning #development #empathy #ImpenetrableSadness #grief #writing
Better starts with curious, and curious starts with dangerous...
https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/better-start
#art #artwork #collage #collageart #collageartwork #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #writing #reading #amWriting #writingcommunity #blog #blogging @bookstodon #creative #creativity
Yet another blog post on my Linefeed blog about WordPress. I'm switching over to Linefeed and Neocities for blogging. 😀
#blogging #neocities #blog #writing
https://noelleblogging.linefeed.app/the-analytics-on-wordpress-stress-me-out-6032c6
Where I want to be
Is out and about with friends,
Enjoying the day.
How pleasant, how necessary is an outing, getting away someplace far from obligations and texts from the office ("Oh, I must have left my phone in the car.") Perhaps we call it free time because we're free from onerous expectations and constraints.
Outing canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/outing-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#weekend #sailing #freedom #friendship #art #artwork #stevehenderson #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #writing #haiku
115 day writing streak. 💪
i haven't finished my #nanowrimo novel, but it's there waiting whenever i'm ready to come back to it (maybe #campnano goals).
I am the man now, dog. :cat_typing:
Copyright question: I'm in some programs for nervous system healing (a paradigm currently being developed for helping/healing chronic conditions). These can be very expensive, and I think there needs to be more public discussion of what they're like so that more people can decide if they'd be helpful for them.
How do I write notes on these programs without overstepping copyright bounds? Is sharing notes (in your own words) always okay?
@kagan
Super big thank you for posting this. I know that a number of people have #fibromyalgia in my followers and amongst the #writing hashtags in the #writingcommunity. The article has a lot that has changed since I last looked.
the findings also contradicted long-held perceptions that chronic fatigue syndrome is a rich white woman’s disease.
Yep. Doctors used it to once again discriminate against women! To disempower them. But now:
[The study shows] There was less of a gap between women and men than some previous studies suggested, and there was hardly any difference between white and Black people. The study also found that a higher percentage of poor people said they had it than affluent people.
So, there's the reason medicine ignored an important disease, and even in that group, I fell through the gaps. It's about time this gets taken seriously. #Brainfog and #chronicfatiguesyndrome are real and can affect anyone.
Writers' questions:
Do you use the passive adjective or the subjunctive predicative in your #writing?
Me:
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Dear Swedish journalists and writers of any kind. Please stop using the words "huruvida", "huruledes" and "om ifall".
It's passive aggressive lawyer language, it sounds like you are writing a letter to Gustav Vasa, which doesn't sound good anywhere, confuses everyone, and lawyers shouldn't use those words either.
Write literally anything else. Like for example the words you use when you actually talk to people FROM THIS CENTURY!
Best regards, the annoyed paralegal
This whole writing thing? Time gives us new perspectives. Revealed truths. #writing #FlashMemoir #poetry #florida #truth #christmas
The recording of the Writing with Executive Dysfunction workshop is available with corrected captions. The document that we drafted in it will be completed available next week on my substack.
If you enjoy this video, please consider donating to my friend's housing fund.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/jonmeshia-find-a-stable-future
#Neurodivergent #Autistic #ADHD #ExecutiveDysfunction #Academic #writing #HousingFund #housing #fundraiser
Sometimes, this space is a way to subtweet the world and convos happening without my involvement, or on completely different platforms, without feeling like I’m spamming or interrupting the participants.
Repression is a rite of passage, they tell us. It’s called being an adult, they say. It’s all part of becoming a semi-well-adjusted member of a society. Smile. Nod. Stay in your lane. Dress for the job you want. Do as you're told. Pay your taxes and your rent. And, most importantly, stuff all your otherness way the fuck down so no one knows, and no one sees...
https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/bowerbirds
#reading #writing #art #poetry #amwriting #writingcommunity #blog #blogging #book @bookstodon #creative
Sometimes an idea turns into a diaster, and sometimes you’re glad it did.
A piece of art I made to accompany one of Carolyn Jones' poems
https://wordblooms.substack.com/p/discarded-dreams
#reading #writing #art #poetry #amwriting #writingcommunity #blog #blogging #creative #creativity #artwork #collage #collageart #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #type #typography #graphicdesign
On the @fictionable #podcast we go looking for mushrooms with Catriona Bolt.
Catch it at https://fictionable.world or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…
#books #reading #writing #translation #comics #ShortStories #fiction @bookstodon
🔖 The `hanging-punctuation` property in CSS – Chris Coyier
https://chriscoyier.net/2023/11/27/the-hanging-punctuation-property-in-css/
6 hours to go on this poll and, as ever with my polls, small numbers 🤷♂️
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111540474687751836
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Whichever use of text case you choose, pick ONE and *stick to it*, people.
And that’s one reason why it’s my firm view that ‘Sentence case with Proper Nouns’ is the right choice – because it is the easiest to be consistent with
Young Palestinian poet & scholar, Refaat Alareer, killed today by a targeted Israeli airstrike along with his brother, sister & 4 of her children.
Anticipating his own death, Refaat shared this moving poem, 1 month ago:
https://youtube.com/shorts/cRqq4H7XNCA?si=Ieb72FEnTS_X-RkS
#israel #palestine #Gaza #war #genocide #news #BreakingNews #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #youtube #video #rip 🕊️
My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing tips and #bookmarketing links is up on Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/maureencrisp/p/little-gifts-of-change?r=8opd8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Why does your character not follow the local religion?
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel, and then the dragons arrived."
cc: @GreatDismal
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, and then the dragons arrived."
Ok, this is pretty funny.
From Josh Gauthier (@JG_Writer on twits)
Let's try this. Give me the opening line of a book, but add "and then the dragons arrived."
In the beginning, the universe was created, and then the dragons arrived. This has made a lot of people very angry, and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Working on our "Best of" package is a labor of love. Sifting through our 2023 editors' picks is a lot like listening to your favorite songs on repeat. Here are reported essays that we will reread over and over again by Summer Praetorius, Jennifer Senior, Nick Bowlin, Guy D. Middleton, and Tom Vanderbilt.
https://longreads.com/2023/12/07/best-of-2023-reported-essays/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
I love it when a story turns a character's biggest flaw into a positive trait.
My MC's inability to focus, for example, helps her to think outside the box.
#WordWeavers 7 Dec: Do you use foreshadowing? If so, how?
I'll usually realise I need to set stuff up when I start writing about a random thing and realise it doesn't fit. How much work it would involve to edit it into earlier in the story? If it's too much I'll just remove it and think of something else. I've had some of my best plot ideas this way. At the end of the writing I'll go, hey! That's a great solution to... Damn, so much work to seed it through, now.
#WritingCommunity #writing
1. Writers write.
2. Writing is a process.
3. You don't know what your writing will be until the end of the process.
4. If writing is your process, the only way to fail is to not write.
-Gail Sher "One Continuous Mistake"
#writing
#writingcommunity
#writingpractice
I just received an email stating that the Japan Society UK has chosen my haiku as their 'haiku of the week'. 👇🏽
https://www.japansociety.org.uk/haiku-corner
#haiku #poetry #poem #writing #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
i was told by the wise to make an #introduction post, so:
hi all i'm kat or katie!! i'm #autistic and #queer and i like #literature and #words and #language and #books and #writing and #podcast.
i competently speak #português #english #français #español #deutsch and incompetently a few others.
i also do computer stuff? i like being a tech nerd among the humanists and a book nerd among the techies.
i'm animalcule on bluesky but that was taken here.
posted some words and photos on the nostalgia I experienced at akihabara
https://winnielim.org/journal/nostalgia-in-akihabara/
The best memoir work will always involve just a smidge of terror. #writing #FlashMemoir #poetry #florida #terror
When I first started writing professionally, I was hesitant about giving away my sources of inspiration, afraid people would say I ripped someone else off, which is sadly a common accusation if a work resembles a popular one (not that anything of mine is even close to the popular Greek myth bestsellers LOL). But today, I like to think that I am very straight-forward with my inspiration if I know I took it from a particular work.
Something happens when you're unhurried, when you escape from acceleration and speed. When you give way to haste-less activity.
Something happens when you tarry, when you linger, when you pause.
You were never trying to escape your life, only what you thought it was supposed to be. Your real life has always been in the attention you give to slow things.
#reading #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #creative #creativity #blog #blogging #art #poetry #books @bookstodon
1/2 Poll Intro There are "Edit" notification settings in the Notification column of your instance web app for Mastodon. This notifies you if a post you starred or boosted was modified by the poster.
Question Is Edit notification on or off? Please take a moment to say whether you turned it on or off in a reply. Feel free to comment about what you think of this setting.
Please boost for the widest possible sample size.
#hashtags: #fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
#RSdiscussion #poll #fedi #fediTips #fediVerse #mastodon
2/2 Poll Intro There are "Edit" notification settings in the Notification column of your instance web app for Mastodon. This notifies you if a post you starred or boosted was modified by the poster.
Question Do you get upset when someone modifies their post? Please take a moment to explain what you think in a reply.
Please boost for the widest possible sample size.
#hashtags: #fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
#RSdiscussion #poll #fedi #fediTips #fediVerse #mastodon