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"Les troubles ne sont pas des dons" : dans le milieu litté numérique, les jeunes (récents, pas en âge) auteurices veulent participer à la diversité en proposant de représenter des troubles à travers leurs persos. Mais parfois iels le font en déshumanisant. Je raconte tout ça dans l'article publié hier, si vous aimez les newsletter hésitez pas à vous abonner et à checker les pages du blog pour avoir toutes les infos sur le rythme de publication. Bonne lecture et à très bientôt 
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#PennedPossibilities 652 — Do you ever use cliffhangers at narrative breaks and / or chapter endings?
Most of my chapters end with a cliffhanger or mystery of varying intensity. When I write something that feels like either, it's the truest indicator that the chapter is complete, and it's time to start another. However, I recognize the need for a cooldown period every so often, and throw in a slice-of-life chapter—the calm before the storm—or a handkerchief wringer where I calmly milk the emotional angst the narrative has built up.
A.K.A. and D.B.A. a "page turner."
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Hey writers, here's a project that makes it far easier to self host your books online. https://quire.getty.edu/ #Writing #Writer #Publishing
#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.22 — Earth Day! Who’s your most traveled character? Your least traveled?
The main Reluctance Series antagonist has probably been everywhere in the world and been most every profession, with mother having been her most repeated job. Immortality and always being 24 has its up and down sides.
Wintereyes has traveled all over the Fell Forest with the wolf pack that adopted her, but it's still a just a forest despite the size of the territory. Her parents' farm is just outside its border. Now that she's earned magical fame for befriending a wyvern (and arbitrating a dispute between a farmer, a sneezy so-called red dragon, and an exploded grain silo that had undergone undiscovered fermentation), she now attends a university in a Township—but she's two shy to explore the place because, well, all the people.
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.23 — World Book Day! Share a prompt or the first few lines of a story you wish you could read.
I hate that I can't write this steampunk story of redemption and betrayal myself. It requires expertise in how the military works, and the navy specifically. Have at it. I'd consider a collaboration.
She's horribly scarred and people can't bear to look at her, but she was the 1st in her class at the academy. A midshipman now an ensign is passed over for further promotions is given notice of discharge after her putting in her four years, despite serving as the crown's chief siege strategist. She's been called inhuman within earshot often enough that she doesn't believe she deserves recognition or friends, let alone the love she's read men in her position could find as misunderstood or looking piratical. She's planned to roam the world as an ascetic, planing sieges of cities she'll visit for the fun of it. As a final insult, she's given a last minute first command that delays the start of her new life, given a museum piece airship frigate—with a motley crew of screwups and green cadets along with a drunkard former top gun XO—that would fail to fight any engagement, given a mission that requires only the presence of a warship in the sky and zero prowess. All fine and good until the capital city she's "guarding" really does come under attack and hers is the only ship available.
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#WordWeavers 2504.23 — Do you plan your themes or do they arise from your writing and then get tweaked in edits?
My themes are pretty much the same from story to story: feminist with a dose of gender politics. Regardless, they do arise from my writing because I don't know the plot until I write it, and I definitely tweak the theme during revision. Thus, my answer is Yes.
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#WordWeavers 2504.22 — Would your story work in a vastly different setting?
Hehehe.
I tell stories about characters with rather universal issues. The story is a plot line and transmogrified characters from an earlier work in a vastly different setting. Shhhh!
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WGA says writers not allowed to play with Marty until he finishes his math homework.
#PennedPossibilities 651 — Name one person that would willingly hold your MC back if they were ever in the “raving lunacy” stage of anger.
Mi and Mau, May Ri's twins Miriam and Maurine, do this for their mother in Mars Needed Women. The overwhelming rage they moderate is very reasonable for their mother to feel, but the emotion wrapped up in it could ruin what the woman needs to do about it. It's Mau who succeeds in averting Armageddon.
Streak Carryingaton starts Reluctant Moon by trying to stop Thorn Rose from doing something very much in her character but which common sense says she should not. It's the catalyst for the story. He fails in stopping her since she's the mission commander. At the end of the novel, it's him who tries to stop the main series antagonist who he knew intimately. It's his lot in life to moderate the women in his life.
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For #WorldBookDay, here are some titles I've written: OCD-Free, by Eric Gordon, available here: https://shorturl.at/wiyIw ; Monstermon Cards, an early reading book, available here: https://shorturl.at/im9bA ; and Wellness While Incarcerated, available here: https://shorturl.at/h91G4
I published two books in two and a half months. One is sweet, and one is spicy—a little something for all appetites! And before the third book, she rested!!! Happy World Book Day! #worldbookday #author #fun #indie #WritersCoffeeClub #writer #writing #WritingCommunity #fiction #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon #Books #AmWriting #Words #Authors
丁斯特Dingster 在当下中国公民社会和公共语言空间被压缩到如此极致的情形下，甚至是值得赞扬的。然而我们是否应该因为这样就认为它做得很好了呢？答案是否定的。泰康美术馆的策展团队在整个展览的脉络上，过于蹑手蹑脚，以至于在非线性叙事中过分的强调了情感元素却忽略了这些所谓的情感在特定历史时期中是否成立的先决条件。虽然在言论审查的大环境下，需要顾忌的方面很多，但可以确定的是，即使在言论审查的大前提下，展览的脉络仍然是过于散乱和疏离甚至是不合理的。 … // 未完成 Time Unfinished https://blog.dingster.info/author/leftsidestory/time-unfinished/ #art #culture #exhibition #中文 #ALilleBitArtsy #艺术 #藝術 #writer #AmWriting
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Mon premier podcast enfin disponible !
Épisode 1 - Présentation. Lien juste ici 
Bonne écoute ! 
What Working on Films Taught Me About Writing Fiction
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#PennedPossibilities 650 — What profession would you have if you lived within the world of your WIP?
Were I female, I'd probably still end up a programmer. Thaumaturgy is actually a science of semantics and coded imagination, and relies on arranging ideas grammatically. Not everyone with horns is good at logic as well as mathematics, so there's room for collaboration. I could definitely do the logic programming, though it's nothing like JavaScript. I could be college educated and I could find white collar jobs. I wouldn't look forward to having children since I've no brothers to raise them while I work. Fortunately, it's possible to find men who go into childcare whether they have sisters or not, but it's expensive. I doubt I'd be willing to abstain to prevent children, not in their society.
Were I male, I'd have much more limited prospects, programmer not being one of them. The era is a lot like the 1960s with defined gender roles. While there are plenty of things I could do in our world, they are not considered men's work in theirs. I'd face prejudice and likely be barred. Since I'm not good with math, even work as a computer (look up the origins of the word) would be unlikely. That means either manual labor—factories, construction, or waiting tables—or attending to women's "needs." Since I have no sisters, I wouldn't be able to look forward to raising her children, either. Writing is an option, but I'd likely need a patron for that as it wouldn't support me, and favors would be implied. No, RS is not suited for that world.
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Well that's that - NANOWRIMO is no mo' - an elegy for writing challenges everywhere. You never needed NANOWRIMO - the art was always within you.
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#WordWeavers 2504.21 — Is there anything that bores you about any of your characters?
Wait? Isn't that the stuff you're supposed to leave out?
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.21 — In honor of @johnhowesauthor who doesn’t really like coffee: what “established” writerly traits don’t really apply to you?
Forgive me for inverting this question. I like positivity.
- Drinks whiskey and whisky and bourbon. Check. See photo.
- Has a pet cat. Not currently. Historically, tho.
- Drinks gallons of coffee. Decaf cappuccino please, and only a cup or two. Extra credit: I've only written in a coffee shop a few times; I prefer the tables outside because drinking with a N95 mask is difficult.
- Depressed and melancholy. I was depressed, then I realized I held the illusion that I was in control of events in my life. (Thank you Wayne Dyer.) When I gave up on the illusion, literally became disillusioned, I kicked the depression. Let's give that trait a half-point for historical reasons.
- Is eccentric. I feel rather symmetrical, even if I was always a square and never a rounder. If this means hyperbolic, count me in! Maybe I should ask my spouse? Um, maybe not.
- Has a god complex. That's kind of a sexist question. What about goddesses? Not answering.
- Is reclusive. Does shy count?
- Unkempt. Not describing my current state of clothing, current lack thereof, grooming, or smell status. Nope.
- Broke. I had a day job. Not stupid.
- Chain smokes. The only time you smell smoke around me is when I tend a barbecue. My mum was the chain smoker, which I think accounts for my asthma.
- Writes longhand. Are you flapping nuts? I was obviously destined to be a doctor if you believe that about bad pen craft. I learned on a mechanical typewriter, progressed to a Smith-Corona, then an Apple ][ and haven't looked back since. (11½. Writes with a fountain pen. My writing greatly improves with a nibbed pen; I studied calligraphy. Still, I think faster than I can talk, let alone type on a keyboard, so why would I do something so cripplingly ridiculous to my productivity?)
- Procrastinates. Um. Here I am replying to an Internet prompt. Again.
- In a state of continual angst. Maybe. Depends on the day, or whether what I am writing might contradict the conservative social climate fomenting in my country of origin. Okay, likely. Very likely. Oh noes!
- Eschews adverbs. I definitely use adverbs. Whether they survive revision is another matter.
- Is a literary snob. Whiskey snob, maybe. Okay. I confess it! I love Charles Dickens. The rest of them, never read 'em. I'm not well-read literally. [Is that the right word?] Even in my genre(s), I like what I like not what other readers hold up as the best. Another good reason to be shy. I can't even carry on small talk about literature!
- Writes under various noms de plume. Yes.
- Cuts a dashing figure. That kind of implies a gender, doesn't it? Nobody can accuse me of being pretty or rugged. Average. Which may explain why I write about average looking people. In any case, I do know a few things about clothing and fabrics; I can put together a nice ensemble, with accessories and shoes. I even own a turtleneck. Hats are good. I can package well. Maybe true.
- Swears and curses a lot. Ask my computer. The people in my life would say, "Incapable." I'm reputed to be "delicate." I use my computer when nobody is around, and self-censor when they are.
- Has a giant vocabulary. Word choice counts and I will use the exact word. See item 14.
- Is a grammarian par excellence. Me! Ha! I often write in grammar B and perpetrate grammaricide with glorious glee, enough so that any self-respecting high school English teacher would not only fail my purple prose ass, but send my sorry hind-part to the principal's office on principle for a paddling!
Enough fun. Forgive me. Please!
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Today in Labor History April, 21, 1913: Andre Soudy and Raymond Callemin, members of the anarchist Bonnot Gang, were executed. Callemin had started the individualist paper "L'anarchie" with author and revolutionary Victor Serge. The Bonnot Gang was a band of French anarchists who tried to fund their movement through robberies in 1911-1912. The Bonnot Gang was unique, not only for their politics, but for their innovative use of technology, too. They were among the first to use cars and automatic rifles to help them steal, technology that even the French police were not using. While many of the gang members were sentenced to death, Serge got five years and eventually went on to participate in (and survive) the Barcelona and Soviet uprisings. Later, while living in exile, Serge wrote The Birth of Our Power, Men in Prison, Conquered City, and Memoirs of a Revolutionary.
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