Fantasy novelist, visual artist & copyeditor in training with over half a million words of fiction written. Expect writing advice & encouragement!
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Rebekah Yoder retweeted
All writers are mad scientists. You hide away from civilization, staring at screens in the darkness as you concoct strange tales. Still, if it works, if the story is good, then it's all worthwhile. Sometimes being a mad scientists pays off.
Fanfic characters never JUST catch the flu. There's a special sickfic strain for max drama: isolated characters become helpless within hours and need rescuing, characters keeping secrets blurt things out while feverish, and sometimes it's literally bioengineered by your enemies.
Rebekah Yoder retweeted
This is your periodic reminder that betaing is about offering suggestions, not solutions.
Allow me to repeat...
Betaing = offering suggestions, not solutions.
You wanna be helpful, certainly, but pls trust me that a massage tool is better than a worksite tool in this case.
Rebekah Yoder retweeted
I keep making the same notes reading self published work:
- show me character via action, body language, speech
- dont build up tension then stop to explain it
- chapters need structure just like stories
- every scene needs a reason: plot, character or action
#WritingCommunity
My blog name & Twitter handle are readystetgo to remind myself of the incredible skill of knowing when to leave the text the f*ck alone.
(And yes, I've thrown out feedback that didn't work for my story.)
Rebekah Yoder retweeted
When you write from your gut, it can be really hard to build awareness around your own process.
One way to do this, if you wish, is to train/trick your brain into paying attention to your own language and that of your characters.
🧵 TIPS FOR GUT-WRITERS/PANTSERS 🧵
Characters are kids raiding the mansion of the (late) local evil wizard to get rid of the dangerous stuff he left behind.
Melody is the town witch, protector of the valley against evil magic. Her best friend Tea spends most of his time in his parents' bakery, making magic sweets.
Obsessed with the way shadows from one angle are purple and shadows facing the other angle are orange. It's SO GOOD and it gives so much depth, esp with something like skin tones where it's easy for artists (cough... me) to get spooked and make the colors too flat.
Quick eye study using fluor pink! #oilpainting AlaiGanuza.com
ALT Eye study made in oils using fluor pink as underpainting
Oil painting, collecting houseplants, and cooking Japanese food. Here's one of the ahi tuna steak bowls I made last night:
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Rebekah Yoder retweeted
I have taken
the plum
that was in
your toddler’s hand
and which
he was probably
eating
for lunch
Forgive me
I’m a squirrel
in Philadelphia
and an asshole
Chapters are a pacing tool! Use whatever length makes your story flow smoothly and keeps your readers turning pages.
Genre expectations for pacing do factor in, though. Thriller and YA, for example, are paced much faster (shorter chapters) than historical or literary fiction.
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I *super* love Jenny Lawson. She has an incredible perspective on life, and also incredible perspectives on what to do if you get your arm stuck up a cow's lady garden or discover your pharmacist is eating dog treats at work. (Spoiler: write INCREDIBLY FUNNY #books about it.)
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