My hand written not taking device arrived 5 days early. It's a #Supernote Nomad #S6X2. Time for unboxing. Here's to hoping once it's configured that I can simple turn it on, immediately write as if it were a notepad, then later send OCR'd notes to my #Mac.
#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 5 Nbr 25 — How do you feel about writers who write outside of their gender/sexuality/race etc?
There are many low-information readers out there, so writing anything definite about gender, sexuality, or race (and I would add ethnicity) is fraught. Some people will become angry, even intolerantly shame or dox you, if they decide—judge and jury—you've trespassed. I witnessed this happen this week. It's taken me years to get to the point that I feel I can write my soul travel novel with an out-of-culture POV. Caught up in a "situation," I would state I did my best and that my intention was good, and march onward. (I'd feel terrible and might question even writing anymore, but then that's neurotic me. It takes courage to be an author.)
I do my best to understand the person I'm writing about or narrating as, and their cultural baggage. I know, for example, that I can't write a military adventure without help because, whilst I can get the particulars correct by research, I don't know the culture intimately. I have trouble with male characters, so I'm especially wary writing them. Who I'd use as a POV or a spotlight character depends on the context of a story. This is one of the reasons I don't write contemporary or historical fiction. You really have to get the details correct, and plenty of people know what's correct and what isn't. The trick of delegating the stuff I don't know to auxiliary characters doesn't cut it.
However...
I am also of the opinion that a writer should not state anything unless it is in service of the message or plot. Since I write in 1st person, this means I never have to describe the POV character. Their actions can reveal their gender, sexuality, race, or ethnicity—if I want them to.
I like this mode of exposition. Handled properly, any reader can see themself in the main character.
As a kid, what inspired you to play? If YOU designed a media, toy, and game property for kids and the young at heart to play with, what would it look like?
Someone is either selling pirated copies of my book, or they're trying to scam people using my name and book. They even uploaded it under the name "River Hopkins" instead of "River J. Hopkins."
Can y'all please report the seller? This is the link. They're selling it for $14.99, and there's absolutely no way they have new copies for that price.
I'm Chrissey, I'm new here. I'm kind of a Twitter refugee but I've wanted to join for a while and finally took the plunge today.
I'm an author, bookbinder and book cover designer, so a lot of my toots will have a bookish theme, but I also promise pics of my beautiful tortie cats once I figure out the mobile app!
I want to start writing regularly as I no longer have my column in my local magazine* and I LOVE writing…what do people think of Medium? Mostly to write about living in my queer Jewish identity as I try to grapple with antisemitism.
*I dropped it after I asked for a small fee for my columns and they refused. It’s work…therefore I should be paid.
Help ! J’ai un temps de latence quand je frappe au clavier sur #LibreOffice 7 sous #Linux, bug exclusivement sous #Writer. J’ai cherché sur le net et je ne suis visiblement pas le seul mais pas trouvé de solution... Quelqu’un a une idée ?
I think some famous writer just called me entitled on #Substack Notes 😅
I was trying to tell her that Substack makes it hard for new writers to be seen, and she says that I am being entitled and that you need to do the work before your work is worth reading. I mean, why does this rub me the wrong way, this elitist attitude among the "published"? 1/2
Part of the #furry as well as the wider science fiction fandom, I am currently working on a series of anthropomorphic books in collaboration with an artist from Russia.
I despise racism and am an atheist.
I love to write, I love to read an actual #book. Tools for writing are a passion of mine, I appreciate a good #mechanicalkeyboard as well as a good #fountainpen.
Hey everyone! 😊 I finally took the plunge and moved to an instance that’s a little more geared to what I’m interested in, so here is my #introduction / #reintroduction.
I’m Amadeus a #designer and #developer from Germany. I dabble in art and game design from time to time and I also used to be quite the avid creative #writer although that aspect of my life has taken a bit of a backseat lately. 😅
Recent projects include a decentralised #CMS and various smaller #apps.
I'm a new-ish #writer from Australia. I'm currently working on my first novel, on it’s fifth draft. It'll be the first in a series. I love this story and my characters and hope to publish it once it’s finished.
Today in Labor History August 28, 1921: The Soviet Red Army dissolved the stateless Anarchist Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine. The anarchist rebel leader, Nester Makhno, barely escaped, and with serious injuries.
The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno), lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.
Michael Moorcock’s “A Nomad of the Time Streams” is a steampunk/alternative history novel where Makhno survives into the 1940s.
Well, you'd think #AI and #generativeAI like #DALL·E wouldn't be a problem for #fanfiction and #fanart, where you can't own the IP or sell it, but you'd be wrong. People posing as fan artists and LoRa's and artist style stealing are all in the article. The fandom is #MLP. There are links to other related issues.