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#ScribesAndMakers 28 May: Our next featured creator is a serial writer. Have you ever written serials?
Whilst engaging in the Novel November Challenge last year I posted my daily progress on Scribble Hub as a way of keeping track of the story.
When I decided to self-publish the resultant novel, How to Succeed as a Supervillain by Following the Evil Overlord List, I deleted all traces of it.
#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #onthisday #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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#ScribesAndMakers 28 May: Our next featured creator is a serial writer. Have you ever written serials?
Whilst engaging in the Novel November Challenge last year I posted my daily progress on Scribble Hub as a way of keeping track of the story.
When I decided to self-publish the resultant novel, How to Succeed as a Supervillain by Following the Evil Overlord List, I deleted all traces of it.
#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #onthisday #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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#ScribesAndMakers 28 May: Our next featured creator is a serial writer. Have you ever written serials?
Whilst engaging in the Novel November Challenge last year I posted my daily progress on Scribble Hub as a way of keeping track of the story.
When I decided to self-publish the resultant novel, How to Succeed as a Supervillain by Following the Evil Overlord List, I deleted all traces of it.
#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #onthisday #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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#ScribesAndMakers 28 May: Our next featured creator is a serial writer. Have you ever written serials?
Whilst engaging in the Novel November Challenge last year I posted my daily progress on Scribble Hub as a way of keeping track of the story.
When I decided to self-publish the resultant novel, How to Succeed as a Supervillain by Following the Evil Overlord List, I deleted all traces of it.
#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #onthisday #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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#ScribesAndMakers 28 May: Our next featured creator is a serial writer. Have you ever written serials?
Whilst engaging in the Novel November Challenge last year I posted my daily progress on Scribble Hub as a way of keeping track of the story.
When I decided to self-publish the resultant novel, How to Succeed as a Supervillain by Following the Evil Overlord List, I deleted all traces of it.
#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #onthisday #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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#ScribesAndMakers 28/5: Our next featured creator is a serial writer. Have you ever written serials?
Oh sure. I used to write fan fiction and post it on the old fan fiction website. I loved writing that stuff and the serial thing made it extra edgy cos you couldn't go back and change things. You just have to go with whatever thoughtless decisions you made earlier and make them work. Fairy Tail anime. What a time to be alive!
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#ScribesAndMakers № 26 ('26 May) Who's your favo(u)rite vampire?
My favorite vampire is named Myra (short for Myranda), and she's a POV in a so-far unpublished side story and a secondary character in the last two books of an epic fantasy trilogy. She isn't undead, and nothing about her is supernatural per se, but she can turn others into vampires. The profession forced upon her has plenty to do with blood. She's in love with Prista (short for Pristina), who is the daughter of a servant who is killed in Myra's mother's house and become's her mother's ward and servant. It's plays out as a gothic romance fantasy; it's my take on vampires and my first take of a woman-centric society. Calling Myra and Prista lesbians misses the point of their world entirely.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#BoostingIsSharing
#gender #fiction #writer #author
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#ScribesAndMakers 26: Who's your favorite vampire?
I was going to say no one, since I don't honestly think most of the vampire characters I know are all that interesting, but then I remembered Bodhi from Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn. As the sister and partner-in-crime of the greatest villain of all times (in my expert opinion), she could've easily been overshadowed but managed to hold her own, enhancing the mood of the game and creating a memorable challenge for the player.
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#ScribesAndMakers 26: Who's your favorite vampire?
I was going to say no one, since I don't honestly think most of the vampire characters I know are all that interesting, but then I remembered Bodhi from Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn. As the sister and partner-in-crime of the greatest villain of all times (in my expert opinion), she could've easily been overshadowed but managed to hold her own, enhancing the mood of the game and creating a memorable challenge for the player.
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#ScribesAndMakers 26: Who's your favorite vampire?
I was going to say no one, since I don't honestly think most of the vampire characters I know are all that interesting, but then I remembered Bodhi from Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn. As the sister and partner-in-crime of the greatest villain of all times (in my expert opinion), she could've easily been overshadowed but managed to hold her own, enhancing the mood of the game and creating a memorable challenge for the player.
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#ScribesAndMakers 26: Who's your favorite vampire?
I was going to say no one, since I don't honestly think most of the vampire characters I know are all that interesting, but then I remembered Bodhi from Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn. As the sister and partner-in-crime of the greatest villain of all times (in my expert opinion), she could've easily been overshadowed but managed to hold her own, enhancing the mood of the game and creating a memorable challenge for the player.
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#lovemakeshare Towel #towelday
#ScribesAndMakers № 24 ('26 May) Warp?
#ScribesAndMakers № 25 Stella had been dreading this moment...Livestreaming, she looks between the scorched omelette, the warped turner, and finally the smoldering towel used as a hotpad.
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#lovemakeshare Towel #towelday
#ScribesAndMakers № 24 ('26 May) Warp?
#ScribesAndMakers № 25 Stella had been dreading this moment...Livestreaming, she looks between the scorched omelette, the warped turner, and finally the smoldering towel used as a hotpad.
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#lovemakeshare Towel #towelday
#ScribesAndMakers № 24 ('26 May) Warp?
#ScribesAndMakers № 25 Stella had been dreading this moment...Livestreaming, she looks between the scorched omelette, the warped turner, and finally the smoldering towel used as a hotpad.
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#ScribesAndMakers № 24 ('26 May) Warp?
What's Let's Do the Time ______ for $100.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#BoostingIsSharing
#gender #fiction #writer #author
photographer chef cooking
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#amWriting Word count on WIP volume 3 is at 140K. I suspect the count is now going to bounce a bit (as it did at 130k and 135k) while I remove some passages that turned out not to be useful in this book and restructure things a bit. The last 1/4 of the book has about 3.5 plots threads happening in different places at the same time.
The story and I are outgrowing the chapter structure that worked in 1&2: good thing I was hoping for a change in the next vol(4).
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#wordWeavers
StrAngled at birthPersistent #mirloMondays glitch won't let me upload from Firefox Mobile, may have to switch to #subvertMondays but for now a #makingOf #video on #peerTube of #artiphon #orba #weeklyBeats #music:
LiveMe Streaming Live Space Consciousness off the top of the dome - 5/25/2026, 6:07:25 PM - Spectra Video
https://spectra.video/w/tLt2gt2Jnk47ZTsSwzQuH5#scribesAndMakers
...Joey ArTois returned to boxing: ( -
#wordWeavers
StrAngled at birthPersistent #mirloMondays glitch won't let me upload from Firefox Mobile, may have to switch to #subvertMondays but for now a #makingOf #video on #peerTube of #artiphon #orba #weeklyBeats #music:
LiveMe Streaming Live Space Consciousness off the top of the dome - 5/25/2026, 6:07:25 PM - Spectra Video
https://spectra.video/w/tLt2gt2Jnk47ZTsSwzQuH5#scribesAndMakers
...Joey ArTois returned to boxing: ( -
#wordWeavers
StrAngled at birthPersistent #mirloMondays glitch won't let me upload from Firefox Mobile, may have to switch to #subvertMondays but for now a #makingOf #video on #peerTube of #artiphon #orba #weeklyBeats #music:
LiveMe Streaming Live Space Consciousness off the top of the dome - 5/25/2026, 6:07:25 PM - Spectra Video
https://spectra.video/w/tLt2gt2Jnk47ZTsSwzQuH5#scribesAndMakers
...Joey ArTois returned to boxing: ( -
#wordWeavers
StrAngled at birthPersistent #mirloMondays glitch won't let me upload from Firefox Mobile, may have to switch to #subvertMondays but for now a #makingOf #video on #peerTube of #artiphon #orba #weeklyBeats #music:
LiveMe Streaming Live Space Consciousness off the top of the dome - 5/25/2026, 6:07:25 PM - Spectra Video
https://spectra.video/w/tLt2gt2Jnk47ZTsSwzQuH5#scribesAndMakers
...Joey ArTois returned to boxing: ( -
#wordWeavers
StrAngled at birthPersistent #mirloMondays glitch won't let me upload from Firefox Mobile, may have to switch to #subvertMondays but for now a #makingOf #video on #peerTube of #artiphon #orba #weeklyBeats #music:
LiveMe Streaming Live Space Consciousness off the top of the dome - 5/25/2026, 6:07:25 PM - Spectra Video
https://spectra.video/w/tLt2gt2Jnk47ZTsSwzQuH5#scribesAndMakers
...Joey ArTois returned to boxing: ( -
#ScribesAndMakers 25 May: Stella had been dreading this moment...
Mark had always been hers, and she hated sharing with her parents. But she knew she couldn’t separate them forever…
#WritingCommunity feel free to continue the story 😉
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#ScribesAndMakers 5/24 Warp
Ancient wood
Softly warping
ForgottenSun and rain
Remember still••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••
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#ScribesAndMakers 5/24 Warp
Ancient wood
Softly warping
ForgottenSun and rain
Remember still••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••
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#ScribesAndMakers May 23: If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?
I am actually working on a story about a cryptid. But to avoid spoilers, I won’t be revealing any details just yet.
Ever since I was a child, however, I’ve found the legends surrounding the Mothman fascinating. So I could well imagine writing a story inspired by this creature.
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#ScribesAndMakers May 23: If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?
I shall never be fed an easier prompt to answer than this, for I *have* told a story about a cryptid - the Beast of Belsnade, a ravening hound-like specimen strongly tied to a local standing stone named (like the novel) The Devil’s Finger.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-Finger-Sandra-Bond/dp/B0BZ2R2T4K
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#ScribesAndMakers 23
choosing cryptidsI already have. At least, to a degree.
There are “sea monsters” in the Ontyre oceans, a problem for the people on the archipelago of Pannulus. The issue I ran into was that what we think of as sea monsters often have conflicting names in lore.
Given I write in a different world, I distributed names, and will live with my decisions. The one that was simple and consistent, and the least a cryptid, was the giant squid.
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#ScribesAndMakers May 23: If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?
There is only the Chupacabra…
**Chupacabra**
they whisper
to the children
shushing them
down in stocking feet
past the squeaky stair
and crack the door
so it doesn't creak
then hide
in the pantry
huddled by
the sal & pimentónR L Raymond, From “Half Myths & Quarter Legends”
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#ScribesAndMakers May 23. If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?
I'd probably choose the jersey devil because I live close to it's home and it's a story that interests me. But there's so many good ones to choose from. Maybe some combination of a lot of them where they all meet each other.
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#ScribesAndMakers May 23 - If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?
There is a cryptid in TBOTB2.
For as long as I csn remember there have been news stories of sightings of an unusually "large cat" in the UK.
In TBOTB2 I tell its origin story and why you should be afraid if you ever encounter it (very afraid). 🙂
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#ScribesAndMakers - 23rd May. If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?
I'm an Aussie so it definitely should be about the Yō-wī ... typically described as a bipedal, hairy, and ape-like creature, standing upright at between 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) and 3.6 m (12 ft).
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#ScribesAndMakers 23 If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?
The "Stratford Lyon":
According to Wikipedia, John de Stratford is said to have pulled a giant, red, antlered lion from the ground at South Baddesley in the New Forest in the year 1400.
There's a good story in there somewhere.
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23 If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?
The Mongolian Death Worm sounds like fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_death_worm
There are large deserts in my current WIP world... maybe it'll show up there in part 3. 🪱And thank you, @kagan for posting that wikipedia cryptid link last week.
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#ScribesAndMakers 23 May
If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?I'd make a new one, to capture the kinds of mythic things about cryptids that spark a story idea, but not retread the path. The reader should know the Red Dog, the Mist Bear, the Horror of the Marshes emotionally, in their gut. But not dilute that feeling by knowing the lore intellectually.
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23rd May 2026. If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?
I have written them, especially in my novels Wild Times and Storywalker. Some are only reports of sightings, or folklore tales, but a few are proper characters. My favourites are Jhed the Bigfoot in Wild Times, and the Merrow - mermaids - in Storywalker.
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#ScribesAndMakers May 23: If you were going to tell a story about a #cryptid, which would you choose?
The line between a cryptid and an urban legend is fine. Depending on how you choose to define the word, I have written many stories involving cryptids. Youkai and urban myths play a key role in my fiction.
The one creature that is standardly considered a crypid I have written about is the Chīsai-ojisan 小さいおじさん (Little Uncle)
Which one would I choose in the future? Whichever one fits my current plot line.
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#ScribesAndMakers May 23: If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?
Well, Bigfoot is the low-hanging fruit, isn't it? You could very easily tell very human stories with Bigfoot.
But actually, does a kelpie count? I know that's probably more fey, but I have a game idea about an ex-soldier traveling with a kelpie and their rather dubious adventures together, given how dubious it is for your steed/apparent human only friend to be a man-eater. Not that anyone is likely going to miss any of those highwaymen and such.
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Which book world would you like to live in for a week, and why?The delightful solarpunk world of Tea Monk and Robot from the series by Becky Chambers. Hard work, but so so nice.
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#ScribesAndMakers 22 Which book world would you like to live in for a week, and why?
Assuming I will be in my same body? None.
Most of the places that might be interesting would not be survivable. I could probably survive in some place like the Culture, but I would not want to come home. -
#ScribesAndMakers May 22: Which book world would you like to live in for a week, and why?
John Varley’s Eight Worlds series. My views on gender and society were largely formed by them.
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#ScribesAndMakers May 22: Which book world would you like to live in for a week, and why?
Can I be in Valdemar tending to the companions, please? Pretty please?
I don't suppose I have the bardic gift (I don't think I sing well, though I'm told I sing passably okay). Considering all the animals I've tended, I probably have an animal healing gift and animal mindspeech so maybe I'd be chosen?
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#ScribesAndMakers (cont'd) Maybe not the question (or maybe a broader question for later!), but if we expanded it to other media, that answer would absolutely change. I know exactly which one of my own worlds I would most prefer to live in and for other works, Digimon has various flavors of the Digital World and I could stand to be sucked into either Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth or, assuming I got the sweet dual Partner gig, preferably Digimon World: Next 0rder, which just feels more colorful, alive, and personal. The Digital World also sometimes puts human biology on pause (while the human world does for Digimon), depending on the universe.
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#ScribesAndMakers May 22: Which book world would you like to live in for a week, and why?
A: Oh, maybe “The Phantom Tollbooth.” Very synaesthesic and there’s a great dog. Plus a castle in the clouds. Lots of learning. Who doesn’t want to live in an allegory?
Maybe “Wonderland” or what’s beyond the looking glass.
Definitely somewhere strange and just a touch scary.
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#ScribesAndMakers May 22: Which book world would you like to live in for a week, and why?
Bordertown, from the Borderlands/Bordertown/Life on the Border series created by Terri Windling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderland_(novel_series)
Why? Okay, have you not _read_ any of these things? If you had, you wouldn't even need to ask; that world slaps!
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Shameless promotion for my book BEER POUR on National Maritime Day. Does anyone follow the National Day Calendar? It is amazing that there's a day for everything and apparently every name, like "It's National Pauline Day." Who dreams up this stuff, and then how does it get onto the National Day Calendar? How do I get to do that? "It's National Buy a Book Written by Sophia Jane Hayden Day!" "It's National Flicka's LOVERS Day!" "It's National BEER POUR NOVEL Day." If I'm missing out on a tool to sell more books, will someone let me know? #promotion #beer #followFriday #Friday #FridayReads #maritime #books #booksky #bookstodon #bookLovers #book #novel #novels #social #mastoArt #mastodon #readers #reading #writing #writers #writer #scribesAndMakers #humor #socialmedia
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Shameless promotion for my book BEER POUR on National Maritime Day. Does anyone follow the National Day Calendar? It is amazing that there's a day for everything and apparently every name, like "It's National Pauline Day." Who dreams up this stuff, and then how does it get onto the National Day Calendar? How do I get to do that? "It's National Buy a Book Written by Sophia Jane Hayden Day!" "It's National Flicka's LOVERS Day!" "It's National BEER POUR NOVEL Day." If I'm missing out on a tool to sell more books, will someone let me know? #promotion #beer #followFriday #Friday #FridayReads #maritime #books #booksky #bookstodon #bookLovers #book #novel #novels #social #mastoArt #mastodon #readers #reading #writing #writers #writer #scribesAndMakers #humor #socialmedia
