falxcerebri

falxcerebri, 5 months ago to random

#WordWeavers Dec 14: Do you write characters with different sexual orientations & gender identities from your own? What guides your writing?

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Yes!! And economic backgrounds and social circles and ethnicities and personality types and generations and mental health statuses.

What guides my writing?

They're people.

Not other. Not foreign. Not exotic. Not tokens. Not ideal representations of their groups. Not villains. Not me. Not perfect. Not tropes. Not comic relief. Not objects.

People.

falxcerebri, 7 months ago to random

#writerscoffeeclub Nov 9: Is there any kind of scene you could never write?

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I struggle sometimes with ways of writing about abuse, and people who’ve experienced it, because I don’t find any value for myself or my readers in reenacting the details.

It’s most often re-traumatizing for anyone who’s experienced that directly, not particularly helpful for people who haven’t, and a really bummer to write.

And I’m not even talking particularly dramatic examples. Everyday gaslighting counts.

falxcerebri, 7 months ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 1:
What's the best writing advice you've heard or read?

“‘Writing style’ is basically a description of which ‘rules’ you ignore.”

falxcerebri, 7 months ago to random

Okay writer peeps, my search-foo is failing me.

Is "thrilled" as a synonym for "said, excitedly" a thing?

e.g.,

"Happy Birthday!" [Name] thrilled.

Is that a thing? Is there some similar word I'm thinking of?

Asking for a sentence I shouldn't be spending this much time on. 😜

#WritingCommunity #amwriting

falxcerebri, 7 months ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub

--Oct 19: As a writer, do you always apply the three act structure? Why/why not?

Yes.

First I act like I've got a story idea.

Then I act like I'm writing.

And throughout the project, I make sure to act like a wise-ass.

--Oct 20: If you read over a quarter of a book and decide you don't like it, do you bail, or complete it?

No, I keep it on my current-reads shelf for several years, next to the ones I actually intend to finish.

allisonwyss, 9 months ago to writing

In my subtext class, we talk about inflection--how meaning changes based on how words are said. This seems pretty obvious & I think about how we do it in real life & how actors do it. But then there's a moment of--wait!--how do we make inflection felt in writing?

So: Just describing it, of course. Emphasis through rhythm & punctuation choices. Gesture. What else?

How do you play with inflection in your dialogue?

#WritingCommunity #Writing #WritingConversations #Subtext #Inflection

majorlinux, 10 months ago to Netflix

Oh, hell naw!

Netflix lists $900,000 AI job as actors and writers continue to strike | Engadget https://www.engadget.com/netflix-lists-900000-ai-job-as-actors-and-writers-continue-to-strike-190037630.html?src=rss

#Netflix #Actors #SAGAFTRA #Writers #WGA #AI #TechNews

reneestephen, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Today my brain decided to be randomly mad about the gorgeously imagined and breathtakingly rendered 5,000-years-ahead future in the final 1/3rd of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves ...which got 1/3rd of the way through the story and then ENDED

#scifi