HeliaXyana, #wordweavers 30 Writing from the POV of a child?
It took a little getting used to and some in-depth interviews with my three-year-old nephew (Did you know happiness is made of grandma and pancakes?), but I finally managed to write Freya as a two-year-old, including a train of thought that matches her age.
I'm comfortable with it, but it certainly is not easy. I like child characters to have personalities, but I also dislike it when they're portrayed as adults.
HeliaXyana, #WritersCoffeeClub 30 How do you achieve a sense of wonder in your stories?
Beautifully detailed descriptions of bat-shit crazy creepy absurdities.
JonSparks, #wordweavers 30/5: Are you comfortable writing from the POV of a child? Written any?
I haven’t published anything with POV younger than about 19, but I have unpublished work that takes in considerably younger characters. One who is about ten, for example. It doesn’t feel too hard. I used to be ten, after all.
The risk, I think, is making the character too ‘childish’, not too grown up.
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JonSparks, #WritersCoffeeClub 30/5: How do you achieve a sense of wonder in your stories?
Like everything else, it happens (if it does!) because I feel it myself first. There is no recipe or formula.
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NaraMoore, #PennedPossibilities #writing 330 — How does your MC go about expressing or not expressing their sexuality?
Shiro is an exhibitionist and Kao a sub. Sorry no detail will be given here.
Ume and Shiomi are Disaster Lesbians, which means they are terrible at communicating. They are convinced at first they don't like each other and then they believe the other is acting out of duty.
muiren, How Capitalism Murdered Journalism
Margot Susca
@suscaAdam Conover
@adamconover
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janhoglund, …I am a very slow writer. When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I am a rewriter. I doubt that I have ever published a page that has not been refried eight or ten or twelve times. As is true of many writers, I do not begin with a clear idea and then commit it to paper. The very act of writing helps me discover what I feel or know about something, and since each succeeding draft drives that discovery a little deeper, it is hard to know when to stop.
—Parker J. Palmer
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KitMuse, The Joy of Writing When A Story Builds Upon Itself
One of the things I love about writing in my fantasy world is that the story ideas just seem to flow. I can be working on a story--for example the new serial I'm starting--and all of a sudden pieces begin falling into place. The short story that I've released for free (pick it up multiple places here), A Pony In Time,
https://kitauthor.com/the-joy-of-writing-when-a-story-builds-upon-itself/
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ixtlidekami, #PennedPossibilities #Writing 329 How is your SC typically seen by others? Does it ring true to who they really are?
—Don Pepe is a strange man. At first you might think he's a drunk and horny kind of guy, one who thinks with his…you know. One who avoid serious relationships and don't care about his family. But you's have to know his personal story to understand him. Or, really, to understand why he IS exactly what you think of him at first…
The Still Unnamed Daughter
ixtlidekami, #WordWeavers #Writing 29 How would your MC handle finding a spider in their home?
Our Hero don't like spiders and will kill them on sight. Quickly. He doesn't fear them, either, so he'll do it with his bare hands, no matter the species, using a finger if it's a small one, or his fist, if it's something like a tarantula. Scorpions are the exception. With those he'll use either the energy sword, or throwing any heavy object at hand at the "bug". Like Laura. And yes, he did that once…>=)
CA_Hawthorne, #WordWeavers 29
spider in homeFor Riparia Dellbane, more than any other protagonist I’ve ever written, this is quite simple.
Step 1: Frantic, she runs in blind panic for an unknown distance while beating at real & imaginary spiders she’s certain are on her until dropping from exhaustion.
Step 2: Her sympathetic horse brings her arachnophobic self home.
Step 3: Doppla then restrains her to keep her from burning the house to the ground.
HeliaXyana, #pennedpossibilities 329 How is your SC typically seen by others?
Pelliniana is small for her age and a kind-looking, adorable teenage girl. She wears dresses and giggles a lot. She's fully aware of the innocence she portrays, and if anyone messes with her family in any way, she literally starts collecting eyeballs. Beneath the surface, she is feral, angry, and unforgiving.
She has a profound capacity for love which is precisely why she is volatile and deadly at times.
JonSparks, #WordWeavers 29/5: How would your MC handle finding a spider in their home?
Jerya grew up living in caves. She wouldn’t have a problem in the slightest. (Fortunately the biology of the Known Lands is more like Britain than Australia, so there aren’t any venomous spiders to worry about.)
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BranwenOShea, It’s time for the June #WordWeavers questions!
Written by @AlinaLeonova & I, you’ll find the questions pinned to our profiles. All writers are welcome to join in.
Participate with a WIP or an already published book.
As always, play the days you want, skip the others. Please use CW as necessary. Looking forward to seeing your answers, finding great books, & meeting new friends.
Here we go!
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HeliaXyana, #wordweavers 28 Did your MCs have comfort objects they carried as a child?
For Freya's sixth birthday, her brother Lazarus wrote her a story about climbing the highest tree in the world and plucking a few stars from the sky while he was up there. He told her he stuck some of those stars in a peach pit so they could have a nap and gave it to her.
"If you're really quiet, you can hear the little star snore."
She believed him, and on a bad day, she can still hear it snore.
Firlefanz, That's beautiful.
ixtlidekami, #PennedPossibilities #Writing 328 If you could meet your characters, what would you say to them?
Hey! What's that!
Then I'd try to escape because I know they all would kill me for all the things I've made them endure. The only possible exception could be the Old Hag, but I'm not sure she would say something in my defense. I took her beautiful and beloved lake and put "a damn city over it" =-|
—I WOULD NOT DEFEND YOU, EITHER. YOU TURNED ME INTO A SIMPLE AVATAR, YOU DAMN BASTARD…
He Who Writes
NaraMoore, #writerscoffeeclub #writing 28. Do you have advice for other writers you have yet to hear from different sources?
Decide if you're in it for the money, recognition, or yourself. Then set your goals accordingly.
NaraMoore, Excellent plan.
I would share the one-person fandoms I have written for, but then they might become two-person fandoms.
(This has happened to me, joined by a lewd self-insert RP writer.]
NaraMoore, A worthy if unrealistic goal.
May I suggest that AI fiction is the shortest and most worthy route for this goal? You at least might end up with money for nothing.
NicoleCRust, On fact checking: ugh. Tips?
I wrote a book and now I have to wrap it up. In that effort, I have many! facts to check. I think I can plow through the bulk of it at ~60 facts per/day for ~30 days (spread across ~10 sources). My new hobby, I guess?
This type of tedious, detailed work is not my favorite thing. I have the source material, but I need to go back and scrutinize what I wrote in detail to make sure it's correct.
On one hand, it may have been easier if past Nicole did a better job at documenting details along the way. On the other hand, it was really unclear what would make it through the final filter and documenting every little thing would have been even more tedious (and would have disrupted the process of connecting it all together).
Any tips for how to make this new hobby of mine easier or more pleasant?
benjamingeer, @NicoleCRust @masonporter Computer scientist Donald Knuth does something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
NicoleCRust, @benjamingeer @masonporter
What a great story! And great motivation (aspiration: upon publication, write few checks).
NaraMoore, #PennedPossibilities #writing 328 — If you could meet your characters, what would you say to them?
頑張る / Ganbaru
(Stick to it, you can do it.)
HeliaXyana, #WordWeavers 27 What would your ideal writing group be like?
A group of anonymous, kind, open-minded, encouraging and philosophically inclined mega dorks with obscure passions.
BranwenOShea, I know it hurts, but it’s too funny to not post it.😂😂😂
Teryl_Pacieco, "Hard day in the data-mines?" asked the elf, a slight frown on her face.
The dwarf scratched at her neatly trimmed beard, "Aye, is it really that obvious?"
"You went straight to the fridge and crushed a whole beer in one gulp - a good day you normally go for three with a bowl of peanuts."
"Oh, ah, aye... Hard to drink on a full brain."
"Then let's get pizza and watch a brain emptying movie."
"I love you so much."
"I love you too."
JonSparks, #WritersCoffeeClub 27/5: What's the ideal story length?
Isn’t this the ultimate beginner question? To which the only answer is:
Not too long, not too short. Probably somewhere between five words and half a million.
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JonSparks, #WordWeavers 27/5: What would your ideal writing group be like?
I am a Life Member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild and have benefitted greatly from that, but I have never come across anything even remotely equivalent in the world of fiction.
https://www.owpg.org.uk
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