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@daeus (Hope recommended you), @ethryndal, @writefury, @kate-flournoy, @emma-flournoy, @dragon-snapper, and anyone else who’s interested

I’m afraid of losing my work. That’s happened before and it’s awful.
I’m also afraid of publishing a book and finding typos in it, or publishing it and later really wanting to rewrite it.
I’m afraid of yielding to pressure to write things because they’re popular, and giving up my own voice and what interests me to please others.
I’m afraid of…[Read more]

No love triangles.

That’s all.

Well, generally, try to avoid cliches of the genre if you can. Or twist them and make them new. I haven’t written dystopian or sci-fi myself. Oh, and if you’re into linguistics at all — a dys-topia is a bad place, just any bad place in general. If there was a Greek word for “post-apocalyptic gray concrete…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper, sorry, I’m getting off really soon here. The internet went out for a bit so when I was going to come here and see if anyone else was writing, I couldn’t. No internet distractions meant I wrote fast, though.

@Daeus, I wrote about 800 words. Good luck with your editing.

@daeus, I’m writing for 40 minutes before class.

@kate-flournoy
Oh my. What an honour and what a responsibility. Easter’s suddenly very close, isn’t it? I’ll try to remember as we get closer to the date, and pray for your practicing as well as the actual day. Sometimes practicing is where you make all the mistakes, at least in my limited experience.

I’m off now, in case anyone sees this — 713 words in about 20 minutes.

I’ll be writing for about half an hour if anyone else wants to join.

I’ll be writing for a bit, if anyone else is interested. No set time today, just as long as my hands/head can keep going.

@Daeus, do you really want my essay contra e-books? It might not be a moral reason; it’s certainly an aesthetic one. In its shortest form (and you’re welcome to ask for clarification), e-books cheapen the value of books (the medium is the message), and when you take away the appeal of books to our other senses, you lose something of the beauty of…[Read more]

@Daeus, do you really want my essay contra e-books? It might not be a moral reason; it’s certainly an aesthetic one. In its shortest form (and you’re welcome to ask for clarification), e-books cheapen the value of books (the medium is the message), and when you take away the appeal of books to our other senses, you lose something of the beauty of…[Read more]

@Anne-of-Lothlorien, I understand, and hope it won’t be too long! Have fun in your absence? Anyway, I hope you do well in everything you undertake!

@dragon-snapper, I’m going to try to get a blog post done in half an hour.

@Daeus, I object on principle to things like Kindles and e-readers, and have argued against them for quite some time, so to make my books available to read in those media strikes me as being hypocritical. Also, since I write historical fiction, a fair amount of my general readership will be, well, older. I’m not going into this in order to get…[Read more]

@Daeus, suppose a self-published authour only had printed books, and didn’t provide online or downloadable options. Would that lose a lot of money?

@Daeus, he’s making fun of Lord Byron’s “The Destruction of Sennacherib” which is Romantic poetry with the usual touch of the melodramatic, though it sounds nice when you say it aloud, and using that to make fun of overuse of metaphor in general. But he’s drawing on allusions to Hamlet to do it.

@Daeus, have a link. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/very-like-a-whale/