Nyla Woethief @NylaWoethief@writing.exchange

#introduction
Woethief is a #CreativeCommons fantasy novel that I have been working on for some time. An artist friend of mine is working on digital paintings to complement my story.
Please check out my work on Github. https://nylawoethief.github.io/Woethief/
You can also find me on diaspora.
https://diasp.org/people/b7e6f760c80701357519047d7b62795e

@switchingsocial @krita @GIMP Your followers might be interested in Akira.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alecaddd/akira-the-linux-design-tool/description

This app concept looks promising for #UX and #UI #design on GNU/Linux. I hope this campaign succeeds because we need more #FLOSS design software.

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alecaddd/akira-the-linux-design-tool/description

I played around with #PikoPixel by @PikoPixel@twitter.com today.

Here are some sprites I made. Feel free to use them, since they are CC0.

#PixelArt #MastoArt #Fantasy #PublicDomain

@Mastodon @pixeldev I found a paper by the University of Toronto about using #AI to defeat facial recognition. It might be worthwhile to ask the engineers if they have any plans for releasing the project as free software.
If we added the AI to the #fediverse, it could improve user #privacy by automatically changing the faces to be undetectable by facial recognition systems.
https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/privacy-filter-disables-facial-recognition-systems/
https://joeybose.github.io/assets/adversarial-attacks-face.pdf

I found an interesting app that should prove useful for #fiction #writing. It is #FLOSS freemium software for Windows, MacOS, and GNU/Linux. The interface is really nice, and I can see it being very useful for keeping track of characters, story ideas, etc.

http://www.bibisco.com

#GPL #OpenSource

Is there anyone who is good with #GIMP who can help me with a book cover? I am trying to get a fade from the image to the grey background.
Please DM me if you can help, and I can send you the .xcf file.
Thank you.
#Volunteering #CreativeCommons

@inventaire @libreture I found an e-reader running #GPL licensed code. It is sold in Spain.
https://www.bq.com/es/cervantes-3-bq
#FLOSS #OpenSource #ebook

It feels great; I just finished writing the first draft of #Woethief. I've been working on this story for years and it finally paid off.

#AmWriting #Fantasy #Writing

What material do you expect to be in the back matter of a #fantasy novel? So far, I have:

* Discussion guide (for book clubs)
* Pronunciation guide
* Descriptions of each race in the story
* Short description of each character
* Author contact information
* About the author

#AmWriting #Writing

@DiosYubi just finished a painting of my #OC Natia. She is one of the main characters in my #fantasy story #Woethief.
#Art #Mastoart #ArtWithFreeSoftware #ArtWithOpenSource @krita

@inventaire is there a way for people to lend/share #PublicDomain and #CreativeCommons ebooks on the platform? If you didn't want to host them for legal reasons, you could allow users to post links to them on #ArchiveDotOrg or #ProjectGutenberg.
Also, pulling/sharing metadata to/from https://www.bookbrainz.org/ or https://www.librarything.com/ might be nice.

I just created a #BASH #script to convert a #Markdown file into PDF, EPUB, and ODT files using pandoc. It automatically adds metadata like title, author name, and date to the epub files.

https://github.com/NylaWoethief/MarkdownToEbookConverter/tree/master

#Programming #FreeSoftware #GPL #GNULinux #OpenSource #Writing