#WordWeavers 4/12: 1hat’s the worst thing about the world of your story?

The 14th century? Plenty to choose from: plague, political and ecclesiastical corruption, lethal antisemitism, wars, the Inquisition. You wouldn't have liked it.

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#WordWeavers 4/12: 1hat’s the worst thing about the world of your story?

The 14th century? Plenty to choose from: plague, political and ecclesiastical corruption, lethal antisemitism, wars, the Inquisition. You wouldn't have liked it.

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My storybook is now available in audiobook format! The sale would apply to this, too, so you can support our survival by getting the mp3 of my storybook! Recorded and produced by @magicalgrrrl 🖤 narrated by yours truly

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My storybook is now available in audiobook format! The sale would apply to this, too, so you can support our survival by getting the mp3 of my storybook! Recorded and produced by @magicalgrrrl 🖤 narrated by yours truly

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I made a seventh book of poetry available on Internet Archive

Elephant Snow

https://archive.org/details/elephant-snow-by-richard-j-tilley

Previous books available on Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/@rtilley4

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I made a seventh book of poetry available on Internet Archive

Elephant Snow

https://archive.org/details/elephant-snow-by-richard-j-tilley

Previous books available on Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/@rtilley4

@poetry
@writingcommunity

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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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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?

#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace

#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...

#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace

#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.)

#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace

@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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