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anderlandbooks, 16 minutes ago to random German

#writerscoffeeclub May 23. What gets in the way of your writing?

The need to pay bills and thus earning money aka doing my day job.

And sometimes people who need attention for whatever reason.

Oh. And social media. Yup, logging off now.

anderlandbooks, 19 minutes ago to random German

#wordweavers May 23. Are your MCs picky about where they sleep?

As long as it's safe, no. If they were, they wouldn't sleep.
(And if it's not safe, they don't sleep (much) either).

#OdysseyToThePromisedLand

anderlandbooks, 21 minutes ago to random German

#phantastikprompts 23.5.:
Was würdest du im Zweifel eher ändern, das Ende, auf das deine Geschichte hinläuft, oder den Weg, den die Figuren nehmen? Warum?

Pantser hier. Also definitiv das Ende. Für #Alsterdiamanten hatte ich was anderes im Kopf, aber Leander und Sophie haben sich durchgesetzt.
Tja.

anderlandbooks, 24 minutes ago to random German

#pennedpossibilities 323 — What's a piece of advice for writers that you listened to and are glad for?

I believe it was Marion Zimmer Bradley who said something like writing is 10% talent and 90% practice (or 20% and 80%?).

Anyway, I remembered that. And though I felt I sucked when I started, I kept on writing for fun, and now people who have never met me give my stories 4-5 stars.

anderlandbooks, 23 hours ago to random German

#TimeTravelAuthors May 21: Do you expect the reader to understand the mechanics of your story's time travel?

The... mechanics? Uhm, no. The logic, yes, but not the rest. I would have a hard time explaining it too.

#JulesNVera
#TimeCurves

anderlandbooks, 23 hours ago to random German

#writerscoffeeclub May 22. (amended) If someone were to write your biography, who would you want to write it?

I don't want anyone to do that. Besides, my life is rather boring (which is a good thing if you compare it to the lives of my characters 🤣)

anderlandbooks, 23 hours ago to random German

#phantastikprompts 22.5.
Was ist das ungewöhnlichste oder auch lustigste Schimpfwort, das in deiner Geschichte vorkommt? Wie bist du darauf gekommen?

Huh. Ich fürchte, diesbezüglich war ich in dieser Geschichte super unkreativ.

Sollte ich mal für die nächste im Hinterkopf behalten!

anderlandbooks, 23 hours ago to random German

#pennedpossibilities 322 — What piece of advice, as an author, did you once receive but hadn’t followed? Looking back on it now, you might wish that you had.

Don't switch POV in a scene.
Cocky young me thought, pffff, I can do that, who cares!
It took me weeks later on to fix the issue after I realized what that does to the reader.

anderlandbooks, 1 day ago to random German

#pennedpossibilities 321 — Did your SC once admire their parents? Who else did they admire growing up? What about today?

Max?

Cue Max laughing his head off

I guess that's a sound no. What about today?

Max stopping to laugh, tilting his head, pursing his lips

"Maybe."

#OdysseyToThePromisedLand

anderlandbooks, 1 day ago to random German

#wordweavers May 21. Do you consider how your MC’s appearance may contribute to stereotypes?

Never paid much attention to that, tbh. But I never describe in much detail in the first place, leaving a lot to the readers' imagination.
That's simply because I don't enjoy reading lengthy descriptions myself.

anderlandbooks, 1 day ago to random German

#writerscoffeeclub May 21. Do you format as you write or do that at the end?

The minute I know that something will be longer than just a scene, I do basic formatting. I'm writing in word, and it simply makes it easier to navigate the document if I've got headers, parts, and so on.
However, I do the final formatting for ebook, PB and HC only once I'm done. They differ too much, so it's 3 different docs in the end.

I final formatted #OdysseyToThePromisedLand yesterday!

anderlandbooks, 1 day ago to random German

#phantastikprompts 21.05.:
Hast du eine von dir geträumte Szene eingebaut oder hat dich eine Szene schon mal in den Traum verfolgt? Wenn ja, was passiert darin?

Eine Menge meiner Geschichten beruhen auf Träumen. Sie sind allerdings der erste Anstoß, auf dem dann das Ganze aufgebaut wird. So entstand #IrrfahrtInsGelobteLand auch durch einen Traum, der die Grundlage für die Flucht bei Laodikea war.
Dass ich Träume in bereits existierende Storys einbaue, ist bislang noch nie passiert.

amrunverlag, 2 days ago to random German

Hat jemand einen Hinweis darauf, dass amrun-verlag.de gehackt sei und auf Werbung weiterleitet? Ich habe einen Leserinnenhinweis darauf, finde aber selber nichts, dass etwas kaputt sei 🤔
Womöglich ist das Problem auf der Melderinnenseite?

anderlandbooks, 2 days ago to random German

#writerscoffeeclub May 20: When did you first know you wanted to be a writer?

Had to think about this. My first reaction was - did I ever decide I wanted to be a writer?

But I do remember the day I first wanted to write a story for real, and even where I was - roughly ten meters from where I'm sitting right now, at my parents' house. I was 12. I hated the story I had just read. Mom said - well, do better.
I said, ok.
Then I went upstairs and started to write. Haven't truly stopped ever since.

anderlandbooks, 2 days ago to random German

#wordweavers May 20: How did you settle on your antagonist's appearance?

Roles of antagonists are fluent in this story. But if I'd take Rainald - I wanted him to be beautiful yet somehow distant. It fits with his storyline.

Peeps - I AM DONE!!!

#OdysseyToThePromisedLand

anderlandbooks, 2 days ago to random German

#pennedpossibilities 320 — What was the worst event of your MC's childhood?

Taking into consideration that in 12th century, a childhood ended way earlier than today - the loss of her parents. First, Katja's mother died in childbed, then her father due to sickness.

#OdysseyToThePromisedLand

anderlandbooks, 2 days ago to random German

#phantastikprompts 20.05.

Magst und verwendest du Plot-Twists? Wenn ja, planst du sie bewusst ein? Wenn nicht, was stört dich daran?

Ich mag sie, vor allem, wenn sie wirklich unvorhersehbar waren und gängige Klischees über den Haufen werfen.

Manche plane ich bewusst ein, und manche passieren mir ehrlich gesagt einfach auch.

anderlandbooks, 4 days ago to random German

#pennedpossibilities 319 — MC POV: Where did you grow up? What was your childhood like there?

Katja: I grew up in Mainz! A lovely town at the Rhine - it's so beautiful there! My father taught me how to swim and told me stories from his travels, and the house was always filled with sweet smells of spices and foreign goods. But then he died, and my uncle had to take me in, and that was less nice...
But I still love Mainz!

#OdysseyToThePromisedLand

caointeoireacht, 4 days ago to random

#writerscoffeeclub 24-05-19. Do you agree with Hillary Mantell, who said the best qualities for writing are self-confidence and a little arrogance?

"The most helpful quality a writer can cultivate is self-confidence - arrogance, if you can manage it. You write to impose yourself on the world, and you have to believe in your own ability when the world shows no sign of agreeing with you."

A little arrogance is ok, be mindful to not become a petunia of pretensionous

She also said something I think is even more fundamental.
"Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready."