#ScribesAndMakers Apr 19. Would you like to hang out with your favourite creator or do you think it's better to appreciate the work but keep a distance?
Oh god. She's so busy. She doesn't have time to "hang out" with me! I'd feel like I was keeping her from her books or her kid.
Nah, I'm good where I am.
#WordWeavers Apr 19 Have you ever learned something about yourself from your characters?
Constantly, especially with this project because it's about a group of teenagers in a horrific situation, and all of them have bits of my personality sprinkled throughout. It's been one revelation after another. I hope that makes it a good book to read, too, but we'll see!
#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 19 How do you feel about using real people as look-alikes for your characters?
In my imagination? It's cool as long as I don't end up so stuck in it that the person I'm thinking of dictates the character. I tend towards characters who contain bits of traits from lots of people, including myself, and only minimal physical description--a silhouette, a hairstyle, etc.--so it's not actually a concern.
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@ltrapp You made your first post and you got a bunch of responses.
Not bad for a start.
Welcome, from the #WritingCommunity and those who are #writing
Vigil
A candle snuffed,
its wick is curled.
A puff of smoke
in air unfurled.
There at the tip,
the faintest spark
in spirit red
to spite the dark.
What is your best technique to manage writer's block? Tips and tricks? What are some good questions to ask yourself to keep the story moving? #writing #queerwriters #lgbtqwriting #writingcommunity
“Time runs out of the door screaming.”#writing #throwawayline
#TimeTravelAuthors #Writing 19 Excerpt/Special
I used to think I was special. I was selected to be an Agent of The Order, wasn't I? What a fool I was. There were more than 5000 kids like me that year, and if something made me special, it was the fact that I was one of the 500 that lived after the first training week. Literally. And I used to thing that they were the lucky ones. Then the real training began, and I tried to think that I'm special again. wouldn't be alive today otherwise…
“He wasn’t a blowhard as much as an empty sack of wind.”
“He would never accept defeat regardless of how many times he gave up.”
“Ramon. That is my name. My parents thought it sounded sexy, but I wanted to be a tax accountant.”
“If you believe fruit bestows knowledge, and your god punishes you for eating it, then your god wanted to create idiots. That explains what is jhappenong today. Lots of people becoming idiots in the name of their god.”
“Sometimes, you have to test the boundaries. If they bend, they aren’t boundaries but speed bumps.”
#PennedPossibilities #Writing 647 How do you focus on the senses in your writing?
Slightly visually impaired dude here. I try to use all senses when writing. I like to say things like "This room smells like suchi*", or "taste like rancid batteries". You get the idea…=)
* Another direct reference to our dear friend La Chingada: suchi is the abbreviated form of "su chingada madre", "their fucked mother", and it means a *BAD/HORRIBLE/AWFUL* smell =)
#WordWeavers 2504.19 — Have you ever learned something about yourself from your characters?
Almost every creative writing course instructor I've met has justified students taking the course on psychological grounds, not as a vehicle to learn the craft. They say something on the order of "write to get it out of you," the "it" being anger, trauma, toxicity, anxiety, unaddressed or unadmitted abuse or guilt.
Me? I scoffed. Of course, I did, because I was young and naïve.
For the vast number of people, creative writing won't become a craft—it'll become an outlet, maybe a confessional booth. It can lead to journaling or short stories nobody ever reads, something hidden in a dusty box or burned ritually in a fireplace. It might remain totally private. Or, these folk might write novels.
People tell stories about "somebody they know" in distress. Don't they?
We write from experience. I do. I admit it. My thinking my SF and fantasy wasn't that, also, was what I meant by my being "naïve" before. Yes, I've realized, and should have from the beginning, that my characters are how I work out my emotions and frustrations, how I learn about myself—and I've learned so much! However, since it's also personal, all I'm going to admit is that beyond my attempts at entertaining you and trying to say something meaningful about our world so I'm not simply contributing to the noise, my writing (the verb) has been therapeutic and my characters have taught me much about myself.
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#WritersCoffeeClub #Writing 19 How do you feel about using real people as look-alikes for your characters?
I'm 100% OK with this. People should serve a purpose…>=)
