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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon, 6 hours ago to random

GeriAQuin, 7 hours ago to Cat

#cat #cats #CatsOfMastodon

KitMuse, 10 hours ago to writing

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/
#AuthorLife #SerialFiction #StoryIdeas #writing

UncannyMagazine, 11 hours ago to random

Reading for the Hugo Awards? Uncanny Magazine is a Best Semiprozine finalist and Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas are a Best Editor Short Form finalist! You can read Uncanny 2023 online, or read ALL of the 2023 Uncanny eBooks in the Hugo Award Packet! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/

Uncanny Thomases

writerobscura, 11 hours ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub Day 29: What's the average time to complete a writing project between the idea and publishing/making it available?

Michael Bolton not having it. (Office Space)

glassdelusion, 12 hours ago to portland

High Holy Days for #book lovers as Powells City of Books sells off its Covid backlog June 1-2, #portland #reading freaks
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/05/powells-books-will-sell-off-book-backlog-during-2-day-warehouse-sale-next-month.html

CA_Hawthorne, 18 hours ago to writing

#WordWeavers 29
spider in home

For 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.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Writing

oldbookillustrations, 1 day ago to illustration

Jouster.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, from "Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance," vol. 2 Paris: 1874 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/jouster/

JoanGrey, 1 day ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub

Advice I don't see often? Hmm.

Don't get attached to your writing. It's just words.

They might be words that are scraped from your soul, but ultimately, they're NOT YOU.

This means you should be able to separate critique of your words/writing/art from CRITICISM of your SELF.

Your writing will be stronger for the distance, and so will your psyche.

Also, stop sitting like a shrimp (stand up, twist around), have some water, and go pee.

sfwrtr, 1 day ago to escribiendo

Question for the #WritingCommunity and #WritersofMastodon, and the rest of us who fancy themselves a #fiction #Writer or #Author. Do you think this is possible? If so, are you going to try?

#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool.

https://www.tumblr.com/novlr/751365388319801344

sjvn, 1 day ago to random

Probably not the result of a Google AI search. Maybe.

BranwenOShea, 1 day ago to writing

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!
#amwriting #writing #authors

bisonrimant, 1 day ago to random French

Woodcarved elephant eared shrew
Woodcarved elephant eared shrew

NathanBurgoine, 1 day ago to random

Since we so often talk about the limits of automated technology/scripts/robots/AI, I present to you, this, what happened on Facebook when I mentioned I might need to "kill a darling" in my manuscript.

I cannot tell you how many actual homophobic, violent, racist, awful things pass my timeline. But this? This they flag.

SergKoren, 1 day ago to marketing

I get a lot of corporate email stating, “We value your opinion…”. too bad they don’t consider facts.

#marketing #corporate #failure #service

ixtlidekami, 1 day ago to writing

#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

BobNicholls, 1 day ago to art

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's an acrylic painting (2008) of the fertile crescent, 9,000 years ago (I think it's 9,000, I've lost the relevant project info).

Can you find the cat?

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

innerworlds, 1 day ago to fantasy

I'm thrilled to share this gorgeous artwork by Carly AF which is gracing the cover of our third issue, which should be out at the end of the week!

Find more of Carly's stunning work here: https://carlydraws.com

#SFF #Fantasy #FantasyArt #SpeculativeFiction

NathanBurgoine, 1 day ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub Do you have advice for other authors that you haven't heard from different sources?

Every time you get edited, take a second to add things to a general list that have come up in the editing process. I call mine my "Foible List" to feel a bit better about it.

That way, post-draft, you can pull out that list and check all the things on it before you hand it to your editor. Saves time—and lets them find new mistakes you make instead of old ones! ;)

ashtardeza, 1 day ago to random

#pennedpossibilities 328 — If you could meet your characters, what would you say to them?

Hey man, want a hug?

Now, I know you don't want to hear this, but please... for all our sakes: stop drinking and get your ass to therapy.

TamsinSays, 2 days ago to random

I have to remind myself of this every day.

Every day it's hard.

Still do it, though.

RubyJones, 2 days ago to random

#WordWeavers 27 May: What would your ideal writing group be like?

I'll be honest, because my subject matter is steamy, I wouldn't be comfortable sharing it with a writing group.

I've been in a lot of writing groups over the years and they all worked differently. To be honest, as I and my friends have got older, we rarely have the time to do each other's work justice and enjoy the experience.

The ME/CFS unsurprisingly, also interferes. I can't go out and Zoom calls are overstimulating>

orionkidder, 27 days ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 301: What are some of your MC's other (lesser) fears?

Getting lost in the bus system. Her brother getting mad at her. Her dad making a kind of chilli she doesn't like.

Am I doing this right?

#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #AmWritingSF #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSFF #Scriberspace

nautilebleu, 29 days ago to random

#wordweavers 01/05/2024 Introduce your setting as if it's a character in your story.

The McAlistair mansion POV: “I’m currently the host of Esther and her strange little maid. Before I belonged to Esther’s husband, but he wasn’t with them when they came back from the colonies. Something has happened there, I don’t know what, but it makes Esther ill. The little strange maid tries her best to help.”

[Illustration: The mansion]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots