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VCWillow

@VCWillow@mastodon.social

Writer. Feminist. LGBTQ. She/her.

Owner and Creater of The Writing Group - a place for writer's who love the art and craft of Writing.

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Fairytales, myths and legends no matter how fantastic feed into our need to answer the questions and examine the fears that loom largest in our culture and psyche.

If we look at the original Grimm fairytales they tell us very different resolutions to the sweetened versions we know today. Cinderella cuts off her toes, little Red Riding Hood beds the wolf. We shouldn't pretend in our tales, that the savage and macabre don't exist. Or that our fears don't need to be confronted.

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I've seen an opportunity to submit my fantasy novel to a programme associated with a publishing house. I'm not saying anything will come of it, but it means I've dropped my current WIP and am back to editing.

My little editing assistant is, as ever, by my side.

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Want to know why I write fantasy ?

Fantasy derives from our need to explore who we are and explain the unexplainable. If you take away the dwarfs, elves and trolls, fantasy is about struggle, burdens, the serious and the important.

can be humourous but still tackle literary themes.

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Sandwich, anyone?

VCWillow, to DoctorWho
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Hey, here's a thing. Once you know how to pronounce an unfamiliar name, it's easy to say it right.

Welcome to our 15th Doctor, we can't wait to see your first lone adventure on Christmas day.

From the Whovian Fan Base account on bacefook

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Writers: Humans with an unquenchable imagination and a plethora of invisible friends who talk to us while we stare into the abyss

What is your favourite writer's quote?

VCWillow, to DoctorWho
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You can always tell when a Whovian's done the Christmas decorations 👼🩺? 🎄

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Hawkeye summing up perfectly that the tragedy of war is that most people caught up in it are innocent bystanders

VCWillow, to books
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Sorry I've been quiet for the last couple of weeks.

Anyhoo, I thought we might like to play:

Best First Lines in Novels 📚📖

I'm sure we can do better than the recent vapid, populist offering.

I'll start, you continue...

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@CindySue Good choice!😍

VCWillow, to books
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Things you can say at a bookstore but not a first date:

  1. I hope it's not too long
  2. I'm judging you by your (dust) jacket
  3. Tonight I'm going to devour what's between your sheets
  4. Promise me this comes with a happy ending
  5. Sorry, but size does matter.
  6. I want at least two murders

VCWillow,
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@Robotron 🤣🤣🤣

georgetakei, to random

The nerve of some people.
https://www.comicsands.com/mom-shamed-breastfeeding-beach-tiktok-2664407497.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

VCWillow,
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@georgetakei

Neither breastfeeding/bottle feeding or whether to breast feed in public is controversial. If you can, breastfeeding is best, but fed is better. Making sure the baby is fed is more important, whether its by bottle or breast.

Breastfeeding is literally what breasts are for - if baby's hungry mum needs to feed them. Puritans and deviants obsessed with controlling other people's bodies can look away. No four year old finds breastfeeding shocking. Only the adult is sexualising it.

VCWillow, to fantasy
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Hey how about you tell me your top ten

Whether they're just out or decades old, what fantasy novels held you captive, drew you into their world and kept you rooting for the protagonist(s)?

VCWillow,
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@Imperor my mum use to read the Hobbit to me and my brother when we were having a bath. Only problem was that my brother then finished the chapter in bed on his own (he's two and a half years older than me). So I spent my childhood with this disjointed telling of the Hobbit. I made up for it as an adult though as I've read it multiple times. It never gets old.

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    Sorry folks but a re-read of Good Omens is calling.

    Have a great Sunday everyone. Me and Terry are reving up our motorbike engines, looking for the misplaced antichrist while staving of the rapture.

    Enjoy!

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    If only.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

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    @lowqualityfacts Sammy pepper and the dungeon of misandry. With a follow up novel of Sammy Pepper and the prisoner of obsessions with other people's genitals.

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    It is insane how much better engagement is on Mastodon than on Twitter. On here, I've gained over 100 followers from a single post a few times already. On Twitter, my most popular tweet ever got 2 million impressions. And the analytics claim that earned me...... a whopping 2 new followers.

    Analytics showing the tweet got 2 million impressions and 2 new followers.

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    @randynose @MrShoggoth @lowqualityfacts we are not the droids you're looking for.

    VCWillow, to books
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    Best. Review. Ever.

    Ducks: How to make them pay.

    Review: "Let me tell you I was bitterly disappointed to learn that this book is, in fact, an instructional guide to the profitable husbandry of ducks as a craft. There is not one sliver of insight about holding ducks accountable for their crimes against humanity, Earth or God."

    I was literally (used properly) crying with laughter reading this. 📚

    Have a happy writing weekend guys.

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