If I consider that, when I speak, I am always the first listener, before my speech reaches the person I am speaking to.

Also, I am reminded that my mother used to speak to me, but I always got the uncanny feeling she was addressing some invisible other, as if displaying some virtue.

Keeping that in mind, how might that impact writing dialogue?

#writing #notwriting

Okay, okay... let me drag myself out of this silly solipsism!

One way I've changed is that I have started to ask the question: who is speaking and who is being spoken to?

When it comes to writing characters who speak... I think this might add another layer of complexity to dialogue writing that I was oblivious to before. #writing #notwriting

I probably need to take a step back from redesigning all our books and actually write something. #notwriting

Today, I was able to recover some documents created on a Mac OS 7 almost 30 years ago. I think it was written in MacWrite.

The format was weird, but LibreOffice opened them with no issues. I have now recovered a story cycle from my college days. Soecifically, these are all the stories from universe 4 Numbers I.

This is archeology, not writing, but it could lead to more writing.

#NotWriting #4NumbersI

@WordyCurator
It was! My husband has been doing most of the cooking recently (I've had a cold) so I got down the Dutch oven, took out my cookbook Isa Does It (Isa Chandra Moskowitz) and made the Dilly Stew with Rosemary Dumplings. So good, white beans and veggies with fresh herbs and fluffy dumplings. It's been hot here, so cooking on top of the stove is better than using the oven. And it turned out to be much more palatable than my writing.

#Vegan #IsaDoesIt #PlantBased #NotWriting

Today I'm going to build some raised beds from pallets that we found by the garbage bins in the street. Pray for me.

#gardening #UrbanGarden #WriterHobbies #hobby #construction #engineer #NotReally #garden #WoodWorking #amateur #dangerous #writer #NotWriting

#writingexchange #amwriting #books #shortstories #novels #fiction #ya #notwriting #reading #nowreading #findingcommunity

That might explain the flooded laundry! 😳 #DiyDad #NotWriting

Writing in this day and age is hard.

Everything pulls you away from it--life, work, school. Wanting to become a writer is no different than hoping diamonds fall from the clouds in your backyard.

#writing #notwriting #WritingCommunity #poetry

Reasons Why I Don't Write

Errands
Cooking
Cleaning up

Nothing
In my
Coffee cup

Snail mail
E-mail
Texting, too

Crosswords
Comics
Sudoku

Phone calls
Lunches
Fear of debt

Daydreams
Nap times
Internet

Laundry
Sunsets
Batting cage

“Research”
iTunes
Empty page

#poetry #writing #writer #notwriting

I’ve been trying so hard to write something today, but I’m a bit sick and my brain refuses to come up with any coherent thought whatsoever. I guess it’s time to call it a day and settle in with a nice cup of tea and a good book.

#BrainFog #SendTea #NotWriting

Collated all my notes from my phone into the relevant scrivener files #organized #notwriting

Eine inspirierende Ausschreibung gesehen, bei der sich die Geschichte gleich von selbst schreiben wollte, aber so ein paar Kleinigkeiten waren seltsam. Den Verlag in der Autor*innengruppe durch die Suche gejagt und ... ich lasse das wohl lieber *seufz* Aber gut, dass es Discord für Autor*innen gibt ❤️ #notwriting

Feels like another one of those days where I'm like "I want to write!" and "I want to read!" and "I want to start outlining my novel!"

And my brain is just like "eh, nah."

The scheduling my day thing isn't breaking through it either.

#ADHD #Neurodivergent #NotWriting

This is why I am not going to resume writing my #WIP right now: sugaring.

For those unfamiliar it is the act of making maple syrup. Which requires paying attention to the weather; at the right time drilling holes in the trees and tapping the, ah, spigots and hanging the buckets and emptying the buckets and boiling down the sap 40 gallons to make one gallon of syrup.

But February thinks it’s March so today I tapped 20 trees the earliest ever.

#writingcommunity #vermont #maplesyrup #notwriting

So... 4 objects have been shot down that were cylinders or hexagons or balloons or maybe airships,
and they're being spotted because now we're looking for them,
and last May Congress held a hearing on UAPs that was eclipsed by COVID and economy and whatnot,
and I have got to learn to write sci-fi, because the world is a writing prompt

#writing #notwriting #thetruthisoutthere

This is what i was doing 10 years ago this year. I was in a completely different headspace back then. Two years working outdoors, in every kind of weather, with sheep and cattle, really helped put me back together again. Hard work, but so satisfying. If the pay was better I'd be back at it in a heartbeat.

#farm #photography #photographer #ireland #sheep #shepherd #NotWriting

Uninstalled one of my many mindless match 3 games so I would make myself write more in the mornings.

Ask me how that's going.... #lolsob #writing #notWriting

It's impressive, the bubbling optimism of someone doing their first ever round of novel queries. If only they knew. After twenty years of querying novels, and failing, I've given up. A novel is a massive time investment for something that goes nowhere. It's poetry, articles and non-fiction for me from this point on. Admission of failure or acceptance of reality, take your pick. #writing #notWriting #fiction

ab februar reduziere ich meine lohnarbeitsstunden, um endlich einen ökolinksantifafeministischen roman zu schreiben (die älteren unter ihnen werden sich erinnern); d.h. vor allem: es gibt keine ausreden mehr und in ein paar monaten kann ich mir dann endlich eingestehen, dass ich einfach nicht das zeug dazu hab. ☑️​

(dachte ich starte diese neue ära hier mal mit positve vibes.✨​)

#nonwriterslife #notwriting #nonwritingcommunity