#introduction
Hello Fediverse (and writing.exchange)! I'm Tynan, and I'm a speculative fiction writer and software engineer. I'm here to write about writing, chat with other writers, and toot other random stuff that comes up. (Bird site account is too professional and I want a place to more freely speak my mind.)
Currently reading The Stand, and The End Of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking).
If you want to check out my blog or some stories, they're all linked at http://www.tynanburke.com/writing/
@tynanpants turns out this paragraph is now the first paragraph and I have two chapters to mulch
Kicking the tires on a new opinion:
World-class YA/PG stories shine a little brighter than other genres because you don’t have access to many of the bells and whistles that a mediocre writer can distract adults with. You have to be really good at the fundamentals because they have to carry more weight. Sort of like how chefs judge each other based on fried eggs.
As a corollary, bad PG is even worse.
I’m not a particularly big fan, fwiw
This spring, I helped out a y combinator company that was trying to build a writing community. They decided to go with an expensive subscription plan so I told them it wouldn’t work and stopped.
Got curious this morning and looked them up. The website just directs you to a discord server for some scammy “web 3.0” NFT nonsense.
The best minds of my generation…
@tynanpants it’s this one, this is the winner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gfbL3gG0MU
@tynanpants the title is from the Kybalion but I just realized it sounds like Whitman. Probably drawing from shared source material. Occultism was popular back then
Finally been firing up Scrivener again to do the second draft of my novel. It really came together in my head while I was letting it lie fallow and working on other projects. Wrote up the new take on the main characters, and a bullet-pointed outline, in two days! Happy with myself. Breaking this down into chapters is going well too, for now at least. I always forget how much easier a second draft is :D
i code, write sf/fantasy, and blog about books, the Internet, and my enormous cat Samwise. i use too many comma splices.
"i've never seen somebody earn this many exclamation points before" -- story feedback, long ago
www.tynanburke.com/writing for more including some stories you can read now!