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youseeatortoise, 12 hours ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub May 28: Do you have advice for other authors that you haven't heard from different sources?

Don't take other people's writing advice too seriously. At best, you're getting a process that worked for someone else.

youseeatortoise, 12 hours ago to random

#pennedpossibilities 328 — If you could meet your characters, what would you say to them?

No, my characters would murder me, and are entirely capable of doing so. I would run far and fast the other way.

youseeatortoise, 1 day ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 327 — How much does your MC value other people? Do they wish to have many friends, lovers, and / or associates? Are they an easy person to love?

Ian has assets rather than friends. Despite this, he falls into close relationships with multiple people over the course of the story's timeline, and even rearranges the future to try to save their lives, even if that pushes them farther away. He's an easy person for the reader to love; the characters, not so much.

youseeatortoise, 5 days 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, 5 days 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, 14 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, 14 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, 18 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, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to random

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

youseeatortoise, 27 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, 1 month 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.

youseeatortoise, 1 month ago to writing

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A very important Sad Bastard update. @martennorr @zillanovikov #writing #cookbook #books

youseeatortoise, 1 month ago to random

#WordWeavers Apr 20
Do you plan out your themes or allow them to develop as you write?

Bold of you to suggest I plan anything.

youseeatortoise, 1 month ago to random

#wordweavers Apr 11: How much power does your antagonist have?

For the Reids, about as much power as someone can. There are rebels still fruitlessly attempting to change the situation, but the Reids are in control of the government and Alycia has powerful magic at her disposal.

Colette, as she discovers, substantially less than she thought.

youseeatortoise, 1 month ago to photography

This was pretty incredible. #eclipse #photography

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#WordWeavers Apr 1. MC POV: Write a Mastodon introduction post.

Jesus fuck on a pogo stick, not another one of them social media sites. I gots a real job, ya know? The world is ending and no one else is doin' anything about it, and you expect me to waste some time on a Twitter, tweeting.

Oh, it's run by anarchists you say. Well, that'll work out even better.

youseeatortoise, 1 month ago to random

#Writerscoffeeclub Apr 1: What's your favourite easter egg in your own work and/or another work of fiction?

One of my favourite scenes in Cascade is Ian, Jonah, Sujay, and Eric debating the plot of the latest Night Beats episode—which included some very crude stereotypes and cliché plots. There's a reference in there to the awesome podcast Métis In Space that I hope, if they ever read it, they enjoy.

youseeatortoise, 1 month ago to random

#wordweavers Mar 31: For a giveaway, what swag would you love to offer with your book?

I've made a bunch of swag as promo. There are resin fish with hearts in them, postcards from various locations in the book, stickers, and a bunch of election pins. I have some pickle charms and postcards for the cookbook as well. By the way if anyone wants any Cascade swag, I'll mail them to you in exchange for reviews or other hype.

youseeatortoise, 2 months ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub 3/8: Do you prefer to write protagonist-driven stories or ensembles? Why?

Ensembles (at least in novels), because I'm constantly pushing back against the Great Man Theory of history and the Hero's Journey model of literature. Nothing significant is ever accomplished by individuals alone; I am more interested in the women who keep the supply lines moving than the generals who command the armies.

youseeatortoise, 2 months ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 266 — What are your favorite blogs or websites for writers? Share them for others to see.

I'll focus on one: Slacktivist's Left Behind analysis. I have learned more about literary analysis and craft from reading these than from any number of classes: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/11/05/left-behind-index-the-whole-thing/

youseeatortoise, 2 months ago to writing

Y'ALL!

We're back in print, baby!

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#writing #books #cookbooks

youseeatortoise, 2 months ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 3
Are there any books which should be banned, or is book banning always wrong?

No book written by a human should be banned. (Which doesn't mean a right to be published, sold, or stocked in libraries.) Responsible publishers should add historical context or commentary to evil but significant works.

Something like the AI-written foraging for mushrooms or diabetes cookbook should be purged off platforms though.

youseeatortoise, 2 months ago to random

#WordWeavers Mar 18 - Does your MC have a food they associate with home? What?

Fish. He hates it, and home.