NaNoWriMo: I really look forward to November and hope that I can pull it through. I love the intensity of the NaNo experience, the deep-dive into the writing I never find on normal days because there's always some 'normal-life demand' distracting me
So, another close and long-time friend of mine has come over to Mastodon! Please, give them a follow. They're an amazing author and RP writer, and I'm so proud to call them a friend of mine. I want to introduce them to everyone! This is such a wholesome community.
Decided to watch this months #WordWeavers from the sidelines and cheering you all since I won't have much time to actively participate. It reduces pressure and I think it will be more delightful just concentrating on the awesome things YOU write. :11111:
#WordWeavers 15: Anything that makes your writing distinctive/you’re proud of?
One of my goals as a writer is that my books would become "comfort reads". I want to write worlds, stories and characters the reader wants to come back to. It has been lovely to hear from some of my long time readers that this is in fact the case. ❤️ I know a person who has read my first trilogy 11 times so far! I have met sooo many young women who have told me they wanted to play the MC in a movie as kids.😊
I haven't written a thank you note this month to the hard-working and kind people who give us so much fun with the daily hashtags. I follow #WordWeavers. #WritersCoffeeClub, and #PennedPossibilities. @floofpaldi, @BranwenOShea, @AlinaLeonova. @johnhowesauthor --you all are doing such a great job. Thank you for helping us see our stories and characters from all angles.
This month I'll continue with my Sevenfold World WIP and #NaNoWriMo project. I'll play with both, Stevie and Robin again.
I'm home now. I just walked into the door and my cat is already complaining. I'm going to catch up on my writing hashtags later.
I thought you guys deserved an updated photo of my gaming set-up. The pictures I posted last night for my writing hashtag were from a while ago because I wasn't home and stuff.
What I like is the unexpected creativity. Various characters are raised to be fighters. The men in the kingdom are solely applauded for their martial skills, so I like it when Lazarus writes poetry while commanding an army, Dionysus draws funny animals as he is competing in a tournament, and Sabre, who was raised to be an assassin, uses his shadow magic to illustrate bedtime stories for his daughter.
#WordWeavers 3/6: Who is your most creative character?
Define ‘creative’. Conventional associations with art, music, etc, seem too narrow to me. Consider the early pages of ‘Vows and Watersheds’, where Jerya and Hedric bond over the idea of measuring the distance to the moons; is that creative? Why not?
I don’t yet have a character in print who is seriously into art, but if you can hang around for Books 5 and 6… #books#writing#TheShatteredMoon
❄ somehow I seem to have fans. I think accurately that they are the best people/machines/objects on Earth and/or very distant space. as the interactive fiction girl of fedi my relationship to my readers is an interactive one, their choices shape Ætherglow into what it is. but Antifascist Fantasy is my story to tell so there’s been minimal fan involvement. I aspire to have a relationship more like a prophet and her fanatical cult but we’ll get there in time.
#wordweavers Jun 5 Do you have fans/people who enjoy your writing? What’s your relationship to them?
I don't know most in person, but there was this one fan who bought all my English books until last fall. I saw on Twitter when #OfElvesAndWolves came out (she posted the paperback version) and asked her if the quality of the books was fine in the US. We chatted for a bit. She even asked if she could meet me in person.
Unfortunately, she disappeared last fall on Twitter.
Well. So did I.
#WordWeavers 6/3
Who is your most creative character?
Definitely the minstrel, Shawmelle. She sings, plays a lute and writes her own songs. Her father was a minstrel, as well, and was the one who taught her to play.
She's also very lucky, in that one of the kingdom's squires takes a liking to her. 🙂
#wordweavers May 31 — Do your MCs enjoy games that are more physical or intellectual?
Katja would be up for both, if she has the headspace and time to play. She might argue that she's not up to the task, but she would not back down from a challenge.
Max, main SC, would definitely prefer the physical ones if asked.
#wordweavers Jun 3: Who is your most creative character?
Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven feature in #TheMindOnFire, but they aren't truly mine. So, of my original characters of that story, it's probably Nicolette.
My characters don't tend to engage much in creativity. That is something to keep in mind...
"Hey, Tseluna," Rory began. "Usually on Wednesdays, I have game night with my friends."
"And you want to play 'Demon Quest' with your friends tonight?"
Rory looked at her hopefully.
"Can I play too?"
"You want to play?" he said, in shock. "A girl? And aren't you a little too old to play?"
Tseluna transformed, like she had at the festival, into a young, black woman who looked about Rory's age, wearing an unfamiliar school uniform. She twirled around, lifting her skirt.
#WordWeavers Day 3 - Who is your most creative character?
Collectively, the opera crew in Mistella, but they won't show up for a few volumes. In the WIPs, it's arguably Franz-Karl: the factions in the Palace who tried to prevent him from receiving proper training in the use of Elderkin Gifts and Bindings may have made a serious mistake... he tends to improvise based on things mentioned in old stories. Which can be about as safe as improvising high-energy physics or the scary kinds of chemistry.
#WordWeavers 4 Antagonist POV: is it easy for you to apologize?
The ghost of King Armand:
I am the best at apologizing. I am so incredibly humble, more humble than anyone else. But I am never really wrong on anything, so it doesn't come up too often. But when I do, I express sincerity like no other, and everyone accepts it instantly. I am an expert in managing my own ego. It never gets in the way. My ego is the best ego a person could have. It is very well crafted.
#WordWeavers Jun 1. Introduce your cast as if they were a famous music band coming to your town.
Er. sorry, can't do this one. Strange it may sound, but I really have never seen an advertisement of that sort in real life.
I also can't quite picture my cast working as a band. They gotta be the most disorganised and dysfunctional band ever and only make the tunes clash.
#WordWeavers Jun 2. If your MC listened to your favorite music, what would their reaction be?
I struggle to decide what my favourite piece of music is. But J. S. Bach is certainly my all-time favourite composer. If MC listened to it, he’d be very amazed at first, since it’d be something completely new to him. He didn’t know music could be so structured, for lack of better word. I don’t think he’d like every work by Bach. But if he listened to, say, St Matthew’s passion, I’m sure he’d be brought to tears, without knowing he was crying.
Because, imo, this masterpiece is just that powerful. If one is a being capable of feeling at all, one will be deeply touched, whether one knows about the context or even has prior experience with this type of music or not.