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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
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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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Ray N. Franklin 🇺🇸 · @rnf
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Hey SF writers! Have you signed up for the ProWritingAid SF Week Sep 11-14? This will be the 2nd I've attended. I can always find at least a few sessions I want to attend. Sessions range from educational webinars to author interviews. I'm a big fan of continuous learning, and SF Week counts!

prowritingaid.com/sci-fi-week/

🚀 📚

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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
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I read that 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
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My 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
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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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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
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Hey, yo, when an 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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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
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Wrote a scene in my ( ). 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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JacquiG · @jacquiG
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So...I've done all the cosmetic edits my developmental editor suggested.
That leaves me with the big meaty edits: the ones to set up later action; the ones to bolster the main character's mindset; the ones to fill in missing or unexplained background information.
This will require serious brain power and tea...lots of tea.


maybe?

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Ray N. Franklin 🇺🇸 · @rnf
89 followers · 381 posts · Server mindly.social

A few weeks ago, I finished my first draft of "A Star Apart." Some issues are obvious; others are hiding. Rereading and converting it to a terse outline has spawned useful insights. The last few weeks of uncertainty are gelling. Feels like progress now.

🚀 👾 👽

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JacquiG · @jacquiG
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I only managed to write about 300 words today. BUT...
I've identified the traitor, even though her motives remain murky.
I've planned out what needs to happen in the next chapter.
I'm setting up two characters to be undermined and become unreliable.
Fun, fun, fun.


probably?

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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
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Someday, 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
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JacquiG · @jacquiG
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After a slow start to my day, I met my quota with a burst in the last 15 minutes. Sentence of the day...

'No assassin wishes to spend too many of her final days sitting on a beach-front veranda, with nothing better to do than watching the tide rise and fall.'


maybe?

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JacquiG · @jacquiG
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I'm so excited to have finished Vol. 1 of the Ghost Assassin novella series, I've started Vol. 2. This time, the MC is Adeline, a short, fat, grey-haired old lady. Her living spacecraft is Meera, a cantankerous older vessel with no fucks left to give.
Killed a man in the first sentence 🤣🤣🤣


Or perhaps

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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
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Day 22 Do you prefer writing the first or last chapter?

The last. The first chapter is discovery, and that’s a blast—meeting characters, figuring out how they relate to each other—but the last chapter is bringing it all together, connecting all those threads. That’s deeply satisfying.

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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
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Day 21: MC POV: If you had to give your younger self advice, what would it be?

Jab that chef knife in Louis’ eye and then run like hell.

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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
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19: If they knew who you were, would your MC save your life?

Hell yes. Without even thinking about it. She’d just do it because she saw someone in trouble. It would never occur to her not to.

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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
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“Write every day. Treat it like a job.”

There’s advice about how to write, and there’s advice about how to make a living as a writer. They’re both useful, but it’s important not to mistake one for other, I think.

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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
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April 13. How physically fit is your MC?

Wall covered in trophies. Gymnastics, volleyball, three different kinds of dance, rock climbing, soccer, basketball, swimming, diving. She’s as strong and fit as a 12-year-old can possibly be.

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Orion (he/him) · @orionkidder
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April 12. Does your MC have a healthy lifestyle?

She’s constantly in physical training, so that’s good, but it is all leading towards travelling around the solar system to challenge psychotic telepathic killers with energy swords coming out of their fists, and that’s not generally good for one’s health.

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