The scheduling gremlins have got us again - we’ve had to delay #Pratchat77, our previously announced short story episode about “Hollywood Chickens" and “From the Horse's Mouth”.
But we are embracing the chaos: our May episode will now be all about this year’s #TerryPratchettDay theme: “Start in the Wrong Place!”
So if your first #Discworld or #TerryPratchett novel wasn’t The Colour of Magic or the usual recommendations, tell us: where did you start?
Announcing the theme for Terry Pratchett Day 2024: START IN THE WRONG PLACE.
"Don't start in the right place!" they often say of #TerryPratchett's work. So, let's truly embrace the joy and chaos to be found in the many routes through #Discworld and beyond.
jk rowling: there are only four types of people in the world - smart, brave, evil and miscellaneous. a magic hat tells you which one you are when you are 11 years old, and it will never change
It's nice to see that the users of my app are noticing that the window title of my fatal error dialog is quoting error messages from Hex, the computer at Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork. 😁
Thankfully, the error is in a pre-release at least. Crashes are not nice.
Today I set out to memorize the titles of all the Discworld books in order. I've made it to twenty (Hogsfather, which was over of the first I read) so far.
All 41 book titles are now more or less memorized. I say "more or less" because there are still a couple (ok, 4-5) that are intermittently hard to recall. A little more practice should do the trick.
“There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that’
‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
25.04.2024 "Nutzt du ungewöhnliche künstlerische Ausdrucksmittel, wie z. B. besondere Anordnung/ Ausrichtung der Wörter auf der Seite, leere Seiten, wechselnde Schriftarten?"
"WER WEIẞ SCHON WAS DIE ZUKUNFT BRINGT"- Gevatter Tod
Nur Tod spricht in Großbuchstaben.
Bisher nutze ich es nur wenn etwas im text grafisch heraus stechen soll.
Etwas was mir auf Mastodon tatsächlich irgendwie fehlt.
Collection thread for my answers to Word Weavers April 2024
As always feel free to like what you like, comment if you want to talk about something and share if you think other should read this (and my own endeavor for April is share more from other writers too, bad AI always acts stupid...😅🤦🏼)
02.04.3024 What books/resources have you used to improve your writing? Which ones do you recommend?
1/2
Basically none. I once read an interview from Terry Pratchett I believe. In which he stated that his characters need a solid motivation.
I try to focus on the feeling of my characters as if they where people I can talk to, about their motivations.
And I learned nobody likes the Master of all traits, "flaws" are important, motivations.
And
Looking for book recommendations, similar to #TerryPratchett or #NeilGaiman. We really like their charm, wit and humour, and enjoy their quirky characters and world building. (Urban) fantasy prefered.
It's the first day of spring which means that the Morris will be danced up in the Ramtops today. Which Discworld book starts with the words “The Morris dance”?
"…only in one place have they got it right. It's a small village high in the Ramtop Mountains…
There, the men dance on the first day of spring, backwards & forwards, bells tied under their knees, white shirts flapping.”