Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
944 followers · 1952 posts · Server writing.exchange#WordWeavers Sep 7: Why did your antagonist become an antagonist?
Because she believes entirely in her mission. She believes she's protecting the world from a violent threat, that that protection requires sacrifice and vigilance. It's not even a hard call, for her.
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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
939 followers · 1881 posts · Server writing.exchangeI read that #Novel lengths in the industry are minimum 50K words, and the sweet spot is 70K to 100K.
I'm so relieved! I thought it was 120K! My book will probably arrive at 70K, maybe a little less. A short novel, not another unsellable novella.
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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
937 followers · 1806 posts · Server writing.exchangeMy writing group is starting up again next week after taking August off. I send my first piece to everyone yesterday at 8pm and woke up to everyone's comments! I think we must be eager!
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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
928 followers · 1694 posts · Server writing.exchange#WritingWonders August 24. Antagonist POV: What do you like most about where you live?
[French-Canadian accent] We're tens of millions of kilometres from anyone we could hurt. It is necessary. It is part of our sacrifice for humanity. Everyone is more safer.
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe · @abracanabra
190 followers · 898 posts · Server wandering.shopRecent note-to-self I've encountered during revisions: [CHAPTER END--FLAWLESS VICTORY!]
...Past Abra was hopped up on her own writing. Sampling the product, you might say. I can only hope future readers agree! 🤣
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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
908 followers · 1565 posts · Server writing.exchangeHey, yo, when an #agent says "I hope you'll keep me in mind should you find yourself with a new manuscript to query," is that just them being polite, like "lets stay friends," or do they really mean it?
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K.G. Jewell · @KG_Jewell
115 followers · 129 posts · Server wandering.shop@seldo @heyjovo I initially read this with SF standing for "Science Fiction" and was nodding along to the challenges of a writer trying to map complex plot arcs in the climax of a complex story.... #sff #amwritingsf
Alex von Thorn🇨🇦🇺🇸🚀🖊🖖 · @canfaniac
92 followers · 395 posts · Server mendeddrum.orgMy chapter 14 has disintegrated twice now. Pantsing is not the right approach; too much going on and I repeated or split story elements. I wrote a mini-outline and that seems to work, because I'm treating the points as sub-chapters, so I proceed from one to the next, not just a big blob. It will likely split into two or three chapers, but I should be able to cover all the points in a coherent way. #amWritingSF
Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
908 followers · 1534 posts · Server writing.exchangeWrote a scene in my #WIP (#YA #portal #SF). I decided to jump to the end and go forward a little, but I have to fill in the middle. It's slowly coming together, like a puzzle: working from the outside in.
How'd your day go? Any progress? Everything counts as "progress"!
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe · @abracanabra
174 followers · 833 posts · Server wandering.shopWriting a cephalopod-based character ranting about the stupidity of the human gestation system is very satisfying. That is all.
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe · @abracanabra
173 followers · 831 posts · Server wandering.shopAnd now I have to do timeline math and ALSO account for the idiotic way that human doctors count "weeks of pregnancy" (hint: from before you even could be pregnant).
Abra Staffin-Wiebe · @abracanabra
173 followers · 831 posts · Server wandering.shopDo you know what's impossible to find? Solid data on the percentage of people who've given birth have long-term physical side effects from it over a year later. Even info on specific conditions is hard to find. Post-partum depression, sure! A simple overall percentage of physical damage? Nope!
I want a meta-study, damn it. This is just for ONE throwaway line in my book, but I want accurate data. Harrumph.
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe · @abracanabra
168 followers · 814 posts · Server wandering.shopAt the same time they obsolesced me (without even a severance ticket to a ground planet), they upgraded the hydroponics biosupport to MagicLungs™. But they never tore down the old station garden. When the latest boiband sensation debarked, tossed a half-eaten #plum at the recycler, and missed, I saw the plum pit ... and the potential. #amwriting #amwritingsf
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe · @abracanabra
168 followers · 812 posts · Server wandering.shopIn revisions today...
Metric or imperial measurements? Yards or metres? And how do you want to spell meter/metre anyway? Who uses which and why?
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe · @abracanabra
159 followers · 754 posts · Server wandering.shopWriter friends, is there a free site you would use to make a simple floor plan map? Say for an ancient alien space station?
I think I need a map for this one.
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe · @abracanabra
158 followers · 743 posts · Server wandering.shopMe, a writing mentor: Always create a document or note to track your character's injuries, belongings, and other things that change over time.
Me, a writer: Oh, hell. Exactly what food did she steal again?
Abra Staffin-Wiebe · @abracanabra
155 followers · 728 posts · Server wandering.shopAh, the feeling when you need to find a particular scene in your writing, so you google the phrase "eye jelly," because, y'know ... it's pretty eye-catching.
::ducks::
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe · @abracanabra
149 followers · 727 posts · Server wandering.shopSolarpunk Magazine wants solarpunk fiction and poetry, 1.5-7.5K long, no reprints, $.08/word ($100 minimum), open to submissions until 7/14/23 (next submission window in Sept). https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/ (3/4)
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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
845 followers · 1366 posts · Server writing.exchangeSomeday, in a story, I want to measure huge objects in units of measurement called “ginorms,” and then see so gets it.
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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
844 followers · 1427 posts · Server writing.exchangeMan, I’d rather be writing my #WIP than anything else right now.
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