Went to #Continuum16#c16Reboot and spent so much time around writers and ideas that I wrote an entire 6,000 word short story over the course of the weekend.
Worth it just for that.
Also, many lovely people and interesting presentations.
(Academic press) book pre-publication reviews are back. Really positive. YES!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉.
So now I'm moving onto final revisions. It feels good to slip back into that headspace again.
My big question for anyone who has sent a book off to the world: What was your strategy for those last steps? There's addressing the feedback, of course. But after that? It will never been perfect. But it has to be great. How do you know when to let it go?
Not having written any book, but having found many typos and wrong formulae in books, I'd say, make sure the draft is seen by many eyes to catch them all. It's not like you can publish an erratum; won't reach someone's bookshelf.
Imagine being left in a planet with no liquid water. You have to find a plant (?) that looks like the child of a cactus and a fever-induced eldritch abomination, which burns your skin if you touch it, open it and eat whatever the thing that's inside it to get water in your body. Then you have to run so the people (?) caring for those plants don't eat you.
Maistro experienced this once, when he tried to escape from the time-ship. He learned the lesson…
—The Latinamerican Tower Earthquake. I was 9. It's called that because the legendary Latinamerican Tower, a building that had resisted many earthquakes fell. It even resisted the return of the lake. Lots of people died and many parts of the city were destroyed. We lost our house and survived by pure luck. Just thinking about this scare me. The tower was rebuilt and made to look exactly as the original…
@golgaloth It's and its. So many times where I really think there should be an apostrophe because it's possessive but in fact there is not. It is extremely confusing!
Writing is a thing I have wanted to do since I was 6, or earlier. It is something I have done for more than half a century at this point even if you consider I did not really start writing extensively until I was in college.
To "be a writer" professionally or as a matter of identity is a separate question. I have never wanted that enough to let it impede the writing, or making a living. (Which may sound nuts.)
The same process as for the other characters. The only difference is they are based on established creepypasta or creatures from Japanese legend. Mikawa is a standard yuri. Mieko-kun has the dominant features of a yuri with elements of the fictional character his living counterpart was based on. (That's an easter egg/homage if anyone ever spots it.)
Yuri is a Japanese-style story about the relationship between women. Some are very pure "S-school" for example. Some are fetish. But most are about romantic or near-romantic relationships between women. The lesbian subtext is very common. Resent Yuri has featured more overtly lesbian themes.
The percentage of yuri that is fetish is about the same as the amount of romance that is fetish.
Ume: "Worst how? The one that sometimes crowds in at me in nightmares, or the most serious one?
I remember my mother yelling at me for something trivial, Making me bow and touch my head to the floor in apology.
There was also the time I was biking off to join my friends and a tree branch fell and hit my bike. I flew off and broke my arm.
The most scary though was the time I told my mother I wanted to be a girl and she looked at me and said that was unacceptable and she never wanted to hear me speak like that again. There was something about her eyes that told me I had ventured too far. It was a look of utter contempt. I hid my feelings till I was able to escape to another country and transition. #Transgender#Transfem
If I ever wonder whether travel writing might be frivolous, I think of the poor souls who write recaps of reality TV episodes. If I found myself doing that, I'd be seriously questioning my life choices.
It was an ordinary day at Galactic Glow, a popular skincare store in Coruscant, bustling with customers seeking the latest in beauty and wellness products. The ambient music played softly, and the air was filled with the fragrant blend of exotic lotions and creams. The employees, accustomed to assisting a variety of clients,...
There should be, since Maistro's story is made of 1000+ years of stories…=)
Some are told by him, some are about him, some are told TO him because he usually don't remember nor care about what he had for breakfast this morning, much less how he did X thing 680 years ago…>=)
#WritersCoffeeClub#Writing 19 Do you agree with Hillary Mantell, who said the best qualities for writing are self-confidence and a little arrogance?
I'd say yes. Self confidence is mandatory. Otherwise, our own self-doubts can and will stop us before writing the first word. A little arrogance helps, so we can say with confidence "I'm a writer", even to ourselves, without feeling like an imposter. Much…=)
My brain writes when it writes.
When it says !TYPE!, my fingers float like butterflies and sting like vivid emotions... because that's where I write from most times.
When it says 'Not now.' I don't force it because like with batteries for electrictonic, you don't over draw the current capacity unless you want shit to break.
I fear it will require a new brain. Amoung my many gifts is ADHD. I made it work for me, but prolonged focus is usually beyond me. A good juicy piece of narrative is good. Until I need to look up something. And then we are in for 5+, usually +, of chasing shiny objects around.
At #Continuum16, #c16Reboot the Australian science fiction writers con, and the main, constant lament seems to be that it's so difficult to get any traction as a new author, either through small press or self publishing. There are so many books!
It's definitely a problem, and not just for new authors. One of my oldest friends has over 30 books out (disclosure: a few of which I've proofed and/or edited) and has gone from niche publishers (TSR/WOTC) to self-pub and now trying small press again. They're currently very much surviving on Patreon support and an occasional RPG book sale.
(Sidenote: Loving 'Cruel Provocations'! Will say more later - only six chapters in but it's got its hooks - or possibly threads - in me. 😉)
@NaraMoore
When words come together as a team,
A hyphen's the seam that holds the theme.
A dash is long, a hyphen's small,
But in a compound word, it stands tall.
In theory... photography while walking and hiking without my camera.
My cellphone is so good, I've stopped taking out my DSLR at all. It's not an excuse. 😋 Forgetting to take the photos because you're caught up in the moment, however, is a good one. 😢
