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Since lots of "experts" make free with their writing advice (and usually charge for it) I thought I'd offer mine:
1) Write what you want. There's no point writing stories you wouldn't want to read.
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Since lots of "experts" make free with their writing advice (and usually charge for it) I thought I'd offer mine:
1) Write what you want. There's no point writing stories you wouldn't want to read.
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So until recently I might have said no to this. And perhaps regret is a strong way of putting it. But now that I am more experienced as a writer, I look back on some of my floundering with my first novel project and I feel a pinch of, yes, perhaps, regret.
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January 23rd: Was there ever something you changed about your process, or even in a single draft, that you later came to regret?
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So until recently I might have said no to this. And perhaps regret is a strong way of putting it. But now that I am more experienced as a writer, I look back on some of my floundering with my first novel project and I feel a pinch of, yes, perhaps, regret.
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January 23rd: Was there ever something you changed about your process, or even in a single draft, that you later came to regret?
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I started writing the novel I'm about to query as a dual POV, and ended up eliminating the one POV entirely. If' I'd left it in the manuscript would have been about 180K words, which I think is absurd, so I don't regret taking it out
January 23rd: Was there ever something you changed about your process, or even in a single draft, that you later came to regret?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
I started writing the novel I'm about to query as a dual POV, and ended up eliminating the one POV entirely. If' I'd left it in the manuscript would have been about 180K words, which I think is absurd, so I don't regret taking it out
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The High King decides that Feilim, the commander of his guard, is a threat, and turns Murad Feilim’s lieutenant against him using the young man’s jealousy for his wife Oínin as a tool.
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The High King decides that Feilim, the commander of his guard, is a threat, and turns Murad Feilim’s lieutenant against him using the young man’s jealousy for his wife Oínin as a tool.
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The first part of my historical fantasy novella is now up on Substack. If you would like a high romans set in the Celtic Dark Ages you might enjoy this.
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The first part of my historical fantasy novella is now up on Substack. If you would like a high romans set in the Celtic Dark Ages you might enjoy this.
eolaspellor.substack.com/p/the-high-k...
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
My first 'novel', Corangelus, has been through 4 major edition revisions, and within each edition is 1-3 drafts at the very least. I've lost track over the (18!!) years that I've been working on this idea.
Contrast that with the one which replaced it...
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January 17th: How many drafts, then vs. now? (see image and/or alt text for further prompting if needed)
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My first 'novel', Corangelus, has been through 4 major edition revisions, and within each edition is 1-3 drafts at the very least. I've lost track over the (18!!) years that I've been working on this idea.
Contrast that with the one which replaced it...
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Original stuff, I'm intending to do two or three drafts. Our feedback process for the Auckland Queer Writers Anthology (out February!) had three draft rounds, then an editing round!
January 17th: How many drafts, then vs. now? (see image and/or alt text for further prompting if needed)
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
Original stuff, I'm intending to do two or three drafts. Our feedback process for the Auckland Queer Writers Anthology (out February!) had three draft rounds, then an editing round!
Before, my longest stories got 2-3 drafts #PretendPanel
January 17th: How many drafts, then vs. now? (see image and/or alt text for further prompting if needed)
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Before, my longest stories got 2-3 drafts #PretendPanel
For me writing is the crazy river flowing. Redrafting is the hard shovelling in of banks, to keep it on track. Adding shrubs and trees. I redraft a lot. After every chapter or replotting.
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January 17th: How many drafts, then vs. now? (see image and/or alt text for further prompting if needed)
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
For me writing is the crazy river flowing. Redrafting is the hard shovelling in of banks, to keep it on track. Adding shrubs and trees. I redraft a lot. After every chapter or replotting.
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
It's pretty much the same as it ever was. In my first draft I'm just playing with ideas, plot elements, characters...until I settle on the final balance of elements. Usually about 5 - 7 drafts in total, and lots of tinkering.... 2
January 17th: How many drafts, then vs. now? (see image and/or alt text for further prompting if needed)
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
It's pretty much the same as it ever was. In my first draft I'm just playing with ideas, plot elements, characters...until I settle on the final balance of elements. Usually about 5 - 7 drafts in total, and lots of tinkering.... 2
Desperately trying to keep it fun.
At the same time, I’m working to improve. That means learning about good practices. I’m not slavishly following genre conventions, formulas or beat sheets, but I’m trying to be mindful of them while at the same time experimenting.
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January 16th: Where are you now with the writing process? How has that changed?
e.g. keeping it fun / currently learning processes / adherence to learned processes / breaking out of outgrown processes / something else?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
Desperately trying to keep it fun.
At the same time, I’m working to improve. That means learning about good practices. I’m not slavishly following genre conventions, formulas or beat sheets, but I’m trying to be mindful of them while at the same time experimenting.
#WritingCommunity
I used to be in the mind set of 'first draft needs to be perfect' now I try to think of it more as fun writing. The pernickety stuff is a Future Tara issue.
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January 16th: Where are you now with the writing process? How has that changed?
e.g. keeping it fun / currently learning processes / adherence to learned processes / breaking out of outgrown processes / something else?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
I used to be in the mind set of 'first draft needs to be perfect' now I try to think of it more as fun writing. The pernickety stuff is a Future Tara issue.
#WritingCommunity #Writers
January 16th: Where are you now with the writing process? How has that changed?
e.g. keeping it fun / currently learning processes / adherence to learned processes / breaking out of outgrown processes / something else?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
Always experimenting and growing. I hope to never settle into a groove... at least not to the point I can't break out. Give me the slick, muddy tracks. Let me slide all over the road.
(And yet, maybe stay sort of in the direction of the road?)
Currently? Editing. Researching pubbing.
January 16th: Where are you now with the writing process? How has that changed?
e.g. keeping it fun / currently learning processes / adherence to learned processes / breaking out of outgrown processes / something else?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
Always experimenting and growing. I hope to never settle into a groove... at least not to the point I can't break out. Give me the slick, muddy tracks. Let me slide all over the road.
(And yet, maybe stay sort of in the direction of the road?)
Currently? Editing. Researching pubbing.
Currently I'm reassessing. I spent August 2024 -- August 2025 trying very hard to sell my stories and query my novels. I also tried to adjust how and what I write to suit what seemed like it would sell. Now I'm reflecting on it all
January 16th: Where are you now with the writing process? How has that changed?
e.g. keeping it fun / currently learning processes / adherence to learned processes / breaking out of outgrown processes / something else?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
Currently I'm reassessing. I spent August 2024 -- August 2025 trying very hard to sell my stories and query my novels. I also tried to adjust how and what I write to suit what seemed like it would sell. Now I'm reflecting on it all
No one seems to see my hand-drawn tarot cards. Day 4
The Emperor: stability, structure, protection, authority, control, practicality, focus, discipline
Also: domineering, rigidity, stubbornness, authoritarian, reckless
No one seems to see my hand-drawn tarot cards. Day 4
The Emperor: stability, structure, protection, authority, control, practicality, focus, discipline
Also: domineering, rigidity, stubbornness, authoritarian, reckless
"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."
"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."
"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
No one seems to see my hand-drawn tarot cards. Day 3
The Abbess: inner wisdom, mystery, secret knowledge, intuition.
Also: hidden secrets, superficiality or glib ness, performative spirituality.
Question: Do you trust your instinct or your intellect which may be mislead?
Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.
Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.
The Magician: resourcesfulness, inner or hidden powers, manifesting new realities, changing employment or occupation.
Also: frustrated potential, manipulation, wasted talents.
Question: If we seek too hard for what is hidden, does the search hold us back from progress?
The Magician: resourcesfulness, inner or hidden powers, manifesting new realities, changing employment or occupation.
Also: frustrated potential, manipulation, wasted talents.
Question: If we seek too hard for what is hidden, does the search hold us back from progress?