Are you one of those people who say "I'd rather read your crappy original writing than something generated by AI?" Now's the time to put your money where your mouth is!

I, without any previous experience, wrote 100 different short stories, around 1,000 words each, for a total of over 105,000 words! Find them on my #blog, or don't; it's a free country!

http://maxalmonte.com/blog/i-wrote-fiction-for-100-days-straight-and-heres-what-happened/

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Are you one of those people who say "I'd rather read your crappy original writing than something generated by AI?" Now's the time to put your money where your mouth is!

I, without any previous experience, wrote 100 different short stories, around 1,000 words each, for a total of over 105,000 words! Find them on my #blog, or don't; it's a free country!

http://maxalmonte.com/blog/i-wrote-fiction-for-100-days-straight-and-heres-what-happened/

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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 12: How can writers ensure the focus is on the work & not the writer? Or should they?

I have no idea how to ensure anything when it comes to writing, and writers have to build themselves into "brands" in order to survive, so unless they're already financially supported, they probably shouldn't. I suppose you could tamp it down if you never write a series, only standalones?

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#PennedPossibilities 842: Which POV(s) do you prefer to write?

I used to think close-third was such a clever way to narrate, where the narrator is inside the protagonist's head, but now I'm so utterly bored with it because it's so ubiquitous that we seem to have forgotten how to write any other way. I need to construct a story that uses omniscient narration...

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov 12 If your creativity had a mascot or symbol?

A tiny little pile of fluffy kittens inside my head, plaintively mewling to escape and gouging my skull with their needle-sharp claws. (The kittens are the stories.)

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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 12: How can writers ensure the focus is on the work & not the writer? Or should they?

I have no idea how to ensure anything when it comes to writing, and writers have to build themselves into "brands" in order to survive, so unless they're already financially supported, they probably shouldn't. I suppose you could tamp it down if you never write a series, only standalones?

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#PennedPossibilities 842: Which POV(s) do you prefer to write?

I used to think close-third was such a clever way to narrate, where the narrator is inside the protagonist's head, but now I'm so utterly bored with it because it's so ubiquitous that we seem to have forgotten how to write any other way. I need to construct a story that uses omniscient narration...

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov 12 If your creativity had a mascot or symbol?

A tiny little pile of fluffy kittens inside my head, plaintively mewling to escape and gouging my skull with their needle-sharp claws. (The kittens are the stories.)

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@monotonehell

…amateur writing communities[' output is] just as valid as commercially published works. But in that enclosed environment young writers emulate what they see.

Which is learning a ruinous style?

I learned to write by reading SF&F novels all through my teens, mostly 3rd person, mostly from what were the big authors of the time: Anne McCaffery, Andre Norton, Frank Herbert, Poul Anderson, Fredrick Pohl, etc., and emulating their style. (I was a C- English student; I didn't know grammar from a hole in the wall.) I had been writing since the mid 1970s until I burnt out in 2001 (which I think is from trying to emulate C.J. Cherryh's style, which I adore but is terrifically hard to do).

Yet...

In 2015, I turned to writing fan fiction to practice writing in 1st person (and jettison my issues that caused my burnout), learning I could do all that I noted in the original post. I agree online is a valid community for writing, but also acknowledge that I had a goal of refining my writing toward commercial publication, not to fit in. That meant that my prose style had to have rhythm and make use of rhetoric and elocution.

Which is why I read everything outloud. If I couldn't "orate" to a room of listeners and keep their attention, then it can't work on the page.

And there, those last three sentences is also a tip of how to avoid I I I I repetitiveness.

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@monotonehell

…amateur writing communities[' output is] just as valid as commercially published works. But in that enclosed environment young writers emulate what they see.

Which is learning a ruinous style?

I learned to write by reading SF&F novels all through my teens, mostly 3rd person, mostly from what were the big authors of the time: Anne McCaffery, Andre Norton, Frank Herbert, Poul Anderson, Fredrick Pohl, etc., and emulating their style. (I was a C- English student; I didn't know grammar from a hole in the wall.) I had been writing since the mid 1970s until I burnt out in 2001 (which I think is from trying to emulate C.J. Cherryh's style, which I adore but is terrifically hard to do).

Yet...

In 2015, I turned to writing fan fiction to practice writing in 1st person (and jettison my issues that caused my burnout), learning I could do all that I noted in the original post. I agree online is a valid community for writing, but also acknowledge that I had a goal of refining my writing toward commercial publication, not to fit in. That meant that my prose style had to have rhythm and make use of rhetoric and elocution.

Which is why I read everything outloud. If I couldn't "orate" to a room of listeners and keep their attention, then it can't work on the page.

And there, those last three sentences is also a tip of how to avoid I I I I repetitiveness.

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@monotonehell

how do you avoid the I I I I I I problem?

If you tell a story about something that happened to you, how do you avoid saying I did, I heard, I said? Don't use the constructions until you need them, as in The bell ran loudly, versus "I heard a loud bell.*. Attribution is necessary, but the narrator can simply declare events or talk about what others do without specificity relating it back to themselves. Take a look at the sample stories pinned to my profile.

Btw: I've written this as first person narrative. Where's the I? Is it repetitive?

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#PennedPossibilities 841: Reveal a source of joy for your SC.

Pulling weeds. They're just plants that need to be moved somewhere else.

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#PennedPossibilities 840: Tell us about a source of misery for your protagonist.

She spends half the booked trapped in the antagonist's paramilitary murder cult.

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#PennedPossibilities 839: What type of antagonist are you writing?

An authoritarian cult leader who uses violence to create more violence to justify her use of violence.

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov 10: Has your art/craft/writing changed over the years?

Of course. I'd be sad if it hadn't.

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov 9: Which sound in your environment sparks the most creativity?

A little bit of white noise is good. I used to write to music, but I cannot do it any more. Too many inputs.

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov 8. Tell us about the book you no longer enjoy, and why you no longer enjoy it.

Sandman.

That piece of shit.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 11: How accessible is your work?

I would have said that you have to be a sci-fi person, but a colleague/friend read bits of it, and she's a serious poet who writes about very grounded events, but she was *in* from the start, so maybe it's really accessible?

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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 8: How do you keep yourself motivated?

I'm not done until it's done. I don't how else to say it.

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#PennedPossibilities 838 — MC POV: You’re on your death bed. Who do you want by your side?

"I think I might have loved Brant." [croaks]

[gets up again]

"But Sim was pretty great, too." [croaks]

[for real]

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