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Writerly Ways
Dec. 18th, 2022 10:50 pmI am TIRED but the car is packed for tomorrow. Rocket is ready to transition back into full time care by everyone in the complex. I have his winterized outdoor box ready, three bags of food and three neighbors who i know are already feeding him. Wish he'd be an indoor cat but since he won't...I've done my best.
I got some of the living room cleaned up and...honestly it was so easy and took so little time it makes me feel bad that I haven't been keeping up with this stuff.
I also knocked some jewelry behind my jewelry box and went digging for it and found stuff I lost forever ago. Wow.
Day 18 of tea
Adagio - rooibos nutcracker - hey there's my apple pieces, cocoa nibs, caramel, hazelnut, chestnuts, marigold and cornflowers So that seems to be the key to making rooibos suck less, make it taste nutty. This wasn't bad
Yawn Brew - Everyday Breakfast= i.e. Irish/English/Scottish breakfast tea. Like I said before it's hard to beat a really good plain black tea and this was really good.
And there is bad news. I did not have 50 pages of that Buffy story. I had the same 25 pages twice. SIGH. Now I bet I still have more of the hard copy somewhere (please let me have it) but I do not have time to search for it now.
So my writerly ways is just this, since it's been bouncing around the social media a lot. 1. Authors if you do not want to interact with readers find a nice way to say that. telling them they're only looping you into a review to get attention is cruel and that might be the last time they buy something from you.
2. Readers, for the most part authors DO love to hear it when you love their stuff. On the other hand, DO NOT loop them into a bad review. That is cruel. These are real people. Kindness costs nothing. If you had issues with the book by all means leave an amazon/goodreads review outlining your thoughts but do not rub the author's nose in it
3. This goes for fanfic too. Leaving bad reviews on AO3/FFN really isn't necessary. Keep it in your own tumblr or whatever. Think they made an honest mistake, try to say so nicely if you must but keep in mind fanfic is transformative. That mistake might have been purposely rewritten. A good chunk of my fanfic for example is fix-it fic or exploring things if canon had gone another way. Generally I DO label it if I do that and hey we all make mistakes (I have a Prodigal Son story I can't even look at because I totally screwed up something in canon. I could have taken it down but I decided to own my error). So I guess in closing, be nice. This world is hard enough without you darkening someone's day.
Open Calls (not a lot this time as so many of the ones sent were 10$ and under)
Particular Passages: Autumnal Stories
Wyngraf January 2023 Window
Anna Karenina Isn’t Dead I REALLY want to do this one. The trouble is finding characters in public domain that I know. (thinking of the lady of shallot or annabell lee
From around the web
How To Promote A Book On YouTube
Flog a Pro: Would You Turn the First Page of this Bestseller?
Will They or Won’t They? Plotting With Yes or No Questions
Tap into your reader's subconscious
Pivoting Genres And Mindset Tips For Success With Dan Padavona
New Year, New Writing You.
What Is The Best Way To Use Peeked, Peaked, And Piqued? Are You Curious?
5 Writing Tools for Writing a Horror Story
Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores January 2023
Why Should I Copyright My Book (And How Do I Do It)?
Writers and Editors: Finding The Right Fit
From Betty
Writing Out of Sequence I've started doing this with mixed results but I am learning that if I don't get out the scenes screaming in my head I lose interest when I finally get to them
How to Decide What You Really Want from Your Writing Career
The Inner Struggle: How to Show a Character’s Repressed Emotions I need to circle back to this
Facing Down Fear
Dealing with Multiple Drafts During Revisions
Giving Your World Fantastic Skies
Four Problematic Tropes to Drop
Looking Under Your World’s Skin
Five Tropes That Require Low Realism
What Happens If Everyone Can Learn Magic?
“No, Don’t Tell Me”: How & When Should We Use Foreshadowing?
How to Use Real Life to Inspire Your Fiction
Fear Thesaurus Entry: Being Physically Touched
A Gift for You: Secrets to Engaging Readers (Webinar Recording)
How to write a character who’s adrift another one I need to reread
I got some of the living room cleaned up and...honestly it was so easy and took so little time it makes me feel bad that I haven't been keeping up with this stuff.
I also knocked some jewelry behind my jewelry box and went digging for it and found stuff I lost forever ago. Wow.
Day 18 of tea
Adagio - rooibos nutcracker - hey there's my apple pieces, cocoa nibs, caramel, hazelnut, chestnuts, marigold and cornflowers So that seems to be the key to making rooibos suck less, make it taste nutty. This wasn't bad
Yawn Brew - Everyday Breakfast= i.e. Irish/English/Scottish breakfast tea. Like I said before it's hard to beat a really good plain black tea and this was really good.
And there is bad news. I did not have 50 pages of that Buffy story. I had the same 25 pages twice. SIGH. Now I bet I still have more of the hard copy somewhere (please let me have it) but I do not have time to search for it now.
So my writerly ways is just this, since it's been bouncing around the social media a lot. 1. Authors if you do not want to interact with readers find a nice way to say that. telling them they're only looping you into a review to get attention is cruel and that might be the last time they buy something from you.
2. Readers, for the most part authors DO love to hear it when you love their stuff. On the other hand, DO NOT loop them into a bad review. That is cruel. These are real people. Kindness costs nothing. If you had issues with the book by all means leave an amazon/goodreads review outlining your thoughts but do not rub the author's nose in it
3. This goes for fanfic too. Leaving bad reviews on AO3/FFN really isn't necessary. Keep it in your own tumblr or whatever. Think they made an honest mistake, try to say so nicely if you must but keep in mind fanfic is transformative. That mistake might have been purposely rewritten. A good chunk of my fanfic for example is fix-it fic or exploring things if canon had gone another way. Generally I DO label it if I do that and hey we all make mistakes (I have a Prodigal Son story I can't even look at because I totally screwed up something in canon. I could have taken it down but I decided to own my error). So I guess in closing, be nice. This world is hard enough without you darkening someone's day.
Open Calls (not a lot this time as so many of the ones sent were 10$ and under)
Particular Passages: Autumnal Stories
Wyngraf January 2023 Window
Anna Karenina Isn’t Dead I REALLY want to do this one. The trouble is finding characters in public domain that I know. (thinking of the lady of shallot or annabell lee
From around the web
How To Promote A Book On YouTube
Flog a Pro: Would You Turn the First Page of this Bestseller?
Will They or Won’t They? Plotting With Yes or No Questions
Tap into your reader's subconscious
Pivoting Genres And Mindset Tips For Success With Dan Padavona
New Year, New Writing You.
What Is The Best Way To Use Peeked, Peaked, And Piqued? Are You Curious?
5 Writing Tools for Writing a Horror Story
Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores January 2023
Why Should I Copyright My Book (And How Do I Do It)?
Writers and Editors: Finding The Right Fit
From Betty
Writing Out of Sequence I've started doing this with mixed results but I am learning that if I don't get out the scenes screaming in my head I lose interest when I finally get to them
How to Decide What You Really Want from Your Writing Career
The Inner Struggle: How to Show a Character’s Repressed Emotions I need to circle back to this
Facing Down Fear
Dealing with Multiple Drafts During Revisions
Giving Your World Fantastic Skies
Four Problematic Tropes to Drop
Looking Under Your World’s Skin
Five Tropes That Require Low Realism
What Happens If Everyone Can Learn Magic?
“No, Don’t Tell Me”: How & When Should We Use Foreshadowing?
How to Use Real Life to Inspire Your Fiction
Fear Thesaurus Entry: Being Physically Touched
A Gift for You: Secrets to Engaging Readers (Webinar Recording)
How to write a character who’s adrift another one I need to reread
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