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Emmacox

@Emmacox@writing.exchange

I am a creative living in Cornwall, UK. Making my mark in words, art and photography. #Writing #Writers #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #Art #MastoArt #Photography #Archaeology #History #Mythology #Folklore #Nature #NatureWriting #Landscape #Conservation #Gardening #Worldbuilding #StandingStoneSunday #Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #Reading

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Emmacox, to random
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#WritersCoffeeClub Do you agree with Hillary Mantell, who said the best qualities for writing are self-confidence and arrogance?

No. I get the impression from traditional publishers that the best qualities for writing are:

  • already be extremely famous
  • find a good ghost writer.

Mantell’s words fit any profession. You need a thick skin and self belief in order to keep putting yourself out there until you make it.

Personally, I’d say the best qualities for writing are dedication and practice.

Emmacox, to writing
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No writing today. But I did have a good think as to what some of my characters are getting up to off page.

The scenes might not be critical enough to make the book, but they’re still important and I need to know what’s going on.

#WritingCommunity #Writing

Emmacox, to random
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I do like my character, Lavinia.

‘Is that a Caravaggio?’ I asked. (I mean, it was a better conversation opener between captive and captor compared to such classics as “Where am I?” and, “Who are you?” or everyones top favourite, “You’ll never get away with this!”).

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I just long-term-muted someone for being too overtly Middle Class, so clearly I'm having a mood. 😲 How's YOUR day?

Emmacox,
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@SJohnRoss stuck renewing my mobile contract. Plus getting flack from someone who thinks they are the centre of the universe. Sadly, I can’t just mute them.

Emmacox,
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@SJohnRoss tomorrow is another day. Hopefully one which involves me cracking on with the second draft of my WIP.

Emmacox, to random
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You just know the people who believe in the current crop of conspiracy theories are the descendants of those people who labelled a woman as a witch and blamed her for cursing their crop/livestock/causing bad weather etc.

Emmacox,
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@glitzersachen @simon_brooke
It is really incredible (as in impossible to believe) what they think is true.

Emmacox, to folklore
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Chûn Quoit, Cornwall

The best preserved dolmen in west Cornwall. Dates from the early. Neolithic period.

Probably used as a repository for the bones of the dead and as a place where the living could honour and/or seek guidance from the dead. Considering it’s mushroom-like appearance, maybe there was some psychedelic trance work happening? 😄

The term quoit comes the folklore that these ancient monuments were made by giants playing quoits.

Emmacox, to random
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I need to work on my worldbuilding. I feel my fantasy settings are less like Rivendell and more like Ankh Morpork. But I need to put more meat on the bones.

TarkabarkaHolgy, to random
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Time for the last read-through of this manuscript, or as I like to call it, De-Semicolonization

😄

Emmacox,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy why is there so much hate for the semi colon?

Firlefanz, to random
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306 — Are there any characters that you WISH you killed off in a series or standalone story?

No.

I try to make even my bad characters personal, with understandable motivations and decisions. Even if they go insane, basically.

That in turn means I don't hate them. I often feel pity or compassion for them. I give them chances to change. But often enough, they dig their own grave - and that matters for their story. I don't waste those moments.

Emmacox,
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@Firlefanz @juergen_hubert

When I write a villain, I look at it from their perspective, and they tend to see themselves as a victim or the hero.

Emmacox, to random
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I’ve heard of but anyone else brought a dinosaur to theirs?

Emmacox, to folklore
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“Oh God! Oh Jesus Christ!”

Tonight’s film choice.

Emmacox, to random
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An author I enjoy and miss terribly. He had a better understanding of the world than most.

#GNUTerryPratchett #SpeakHisName

Emmacox, to nature
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Trees outnumber us nearly 400 to 1.

Imagine if they were all Ents!

#Nature #Tolkien #Writing #Trees

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#WritersCoffeeClub Change one word in the first sentence of a famous novel to change its meaning.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a penis-shaped rocketship.

Emmacox, to books
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I enjoy it when someone recommends to me a book which heavily influenced them at certain impressionable points in their lives. I like the raw, vulnerable closeness you can feel towards the person through the words of the author.

#AmReading #Reading #Writing #WritingCommunity

Emmacox, to history
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Lanyon Quoit - a poorly restored Neolithic tomb

Folklore suggests it acted as King Arthur’s dining table before his final battle. He must have needed some bloody high barstools if that was the case. Because up until the early 19th century, you could ride through it on horseback without ducking. Its current inauthentic and shorter stature is due to its botched restoration by the Navy after a lightning strike.

#StandingStoneSunday #History #Folklore #Nature #Writing #Neolithic #Cornwall

DarkGalloway, to random
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The Anvil, on Baslow Edge, Derbyshire.

#StandingStoneSunday #blackandwhitephotography

Emmacox,
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@DarkGalloway oooh that’s a nice moody shot.

Emmacox, to random
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This is wrong on so many levels. Reviving a zombie law so the patriarchy can control women’s bodies.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68774959

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#WritersCoffeeClub A poem describing you as a writer.

WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE!
TEA!
WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE!

(My great-grandmother was the poet. My standard is akin to Baldric’s).

SJHoodlet, to random
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#WritersCoffeeClub 30Mar- How do you keep track of your work? Do you have a system?

Each series has a folder in OneDrive, which is broken down further by book, draft, and part.

Once D1 is complete, everything's compiled into one document, and the same process applies, sans part.

For more detail, each book has its own Excel outline, tracking word count and other details.

For new story ideas, I save in a separate document until I'm read to outline.

People might cringe, but this works for me.

Emmacox,
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@SJHoodlet @fahrni looking at the screenshot I would say Scrivener might be worth a try. It has similar mechanics. I make a folder in scrivener for each chapter and a document for each scene. Those you can easily chop and change and move around. But when you compile, it’ll spit out the whole manuscript. There’s no need to copy and paste everything into one doc.

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#WritersCoffeeClub In your opinion, name a book, movie or #TV show where the ending spoils the story.

Lost.

Completely failed to tie up the majority of the big questions and gave us that weak stream of piss of an ending instead.

It put me off investing my time in future multi series tv shows. The first series is usually good, then they get progressively weaker until it becomes a cash cow serving only the diehard fans.

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A swim day. March is usually the coldest month for sea temps.

Emmacox,
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@Wen @thesweetcheat I was less ‘eek’ and more sweary getting in the water today. 🥶

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