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youseeatortoise, 4 hours ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 323 - What's a piece of advice for writers that you listened to and are glad for?

A first draft just needs to exist.

youseeatortoise, 4 hours ago to random

#writersCoffeeClub 23 May: What gets in the way of your writing?

Chronic illness and pain. Work. My own brain, often. The duty to constantly be marketing.

youseeatortoise, 9 days ago to random

#WordWeavers 14May- What role do other writers have in your writing life?

A huge one. Brainstorming and crowdsourcing, beta reading, commiseration, cross-marketing, advice, etc. With more established writers, they've blurbed me and given me a leg up, which was invaluable.

youseeatortoise, 9 days ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 314 — Has your MC ever felt as though they were reborn in the mental / emotional sense?

Maya has, twice, and not in a good way. Once when she came into her magical powers at 17, and once when she buried her real name and became Maya.

youseeatortoise, 13 days ago to random

#pennedpossibilities 310 — MC or SC POV: What was your favourite day or holiday when you were a child?

Jonah absolutely loved Christmas. Not the ones celebrated by his foster family—those were inevitably a disappointment. But the ones on TV, full of rich crimson and gold, thick blankets of snow, sparkling white lights, and the smell of pine. He dreamed of giving is daughter that experience, but it never quite shook out that way.

seachanger, 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to random

love to bring salmonberries in this time of year. spring’s first showy bloom in the alaska rainforest 🌸 #bloomscrolling

youseeatortoise, 22 days ago to random

#WordWeavers May 1 - Introduce your setting as if it's a character in your story.

Her slate-grey expanse has been transformed; through the pavement, shoots of unruly, screaming hair burst from her skin. She adorns herself in dead animals; dead men, too. She's restless, churning. She is dying, and she knows it, but she still cups her hands to create shelter where she can. She sucks the last gasps of oxygen through the broken teeth of her skyline.

youseeatortoise, 25 days ago to random

#pennedPossibilities 298: Do any of your characters have a disability?

Ian, most visibly—his hands were broken in prison and never healed properly. Losing magic for him counts as an even greater disability.

Blythe almost certainly has PTSD (well, so does everyone, but most obviously Blythe) but psychiatrists are in short supply.