klepsydra

cstross, 3 days ago to random

Australia’s most painful creatures, ranked: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-26/stings-venoms-bites-ranked/103319874

klepsydra, 11 days ago to random

Local museum has a portrait of a relative of @cstross (per Wikipedia). Charlie has him beat on style.

cstross, 12 days ago to random

#writerscoffeeclub May30. How do you achieve a sense of wonder in your stories?

A sense of wonder is one of two possible responses that emerge from a sense of alienation (distancing from the world-as-understood: the apprehension of something vast or alien that's normally just out of sight when viewed from a mundane perspective).

Of course, the alternative response is a sense of cosmic dread (which is what Lovecraftian horror relies on).

Whether you feel wonder or dread is a matter of tone.

klepsydra, 24 days ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 318
What do you need in your writing space to help you stay focused?

Someone who sounds genuine to pop in every couple of hours and validate me and my writing.

I don't expect to obtain this any time soon.

klepsydra, 1 month ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/4. What's the worst thing about being a writer?

When things are not going well, that insidious little internal voice which pops up and tells you that nobody is making you do this, and that you could have chosen some straightforward job like digging ditches.

vagina_museum, 1 month ago to random

At the end of our Museum of Mankind exhibition, we invite visitors to think about their own grave goods, and how future archaeologists might interpret them. This is the cutest response so far, and we love you, Lyra and Della 💓

klepsydra, 4 months ago to writing

First critique session in a long time tonight and I'm dreading it, not for what others may say about my extract, but because I find it ludicrously difficult to come up with anything constructive to say about other writers'. I try not to see this as a failing, but it's very hard not to. I seem to always end up commenting on punctuation and trivial things such as that.

I'm extremely open to suggestions for how to get over myself regarding this.

#writing #critique