@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.
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.
#PennedPossibilities 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.
One of the weird things I find with writing Fantasy is that it takes sooooooo long to get anywhere. This is a series of maps showing the time it used to take to travel across America from New York. Days to get anywhere, even with installed roads, in 1800, then down to weeks to reach Chicago.
@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.
#WordWeavers Mar 1 - Introduce yourself as if you were a character in your story. What would your role be?
Oi! You! What the fuck do you think you're doing? Get the fuck down from there you stupid twat! Observing? The fuck are you "observing" ya useless cunt! Get the fuck down now!
I'm curious about your planning process. Do you think of your books as having a particular length? Do you have a sense of how much plot you need for how long a manuscript? Do you revise and add more plot if you come up short?
I personally don't outline, but I usually seem to come up around 75k for a first draft and 80k for a final, so I guess I know about how much plot I need for that.
Scrivener lets you have a 30 day free trial. During CampNaNo (next one is in April) they usually have a voucher code to get it cheaper, and an even better voucher code if you succeed in your writing goal. Their tutorial is pretty good.
A quick note of thanks to all who responded to me today regarding conversing on this platform.
Several of you expressed reservations about joining in on a conversation already underway; I am always happy to have you join in.
I'm glad that there are so many of you out there who want to converse about writing & the obstacles we face in our craft and the successes we have. We can learn much from each other. This platform - and you - have already helped me enormously. Thanks. #writingcommunity
@stevendbrewer@orionkidder@gg Yes, there is that aspect. I think for me the outline helps my productivity. I find it really hard to get into a groove and when I don’t have an outline I am pausing to consider what comes next. The stop/start approach meant I never got a lot of good words down.
@orionkidder@LJ@gg my basic outlining is similar. I have a vague sense of the direction I want to take and the destination (story ending) I’m aiming for. I also have a few interesting spots (key scenes) I want to visit en route. How I reach them depends on the character’s spontaneous decisions along the way. We may even miss points along the way, or stop at new ones. The destination may even change.