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@youseeatortoise This one works for me too. Having a specific time where I write every day. It’s like trained my brain to know it’s writing time.

It feels like like weightlifting to me. Motivation might get someone to workout for a while, but discipline is what gets results. Likewise, inspiration can get someone writing, but discipline gets work done.

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@youseeatortoise This one works for me too. Having a specific time where I write every day. It’s like trained my brain to know it’s writing time.

It feels like like weightlifting to me. Motivation might get someone to workout for a while, but discipline is what gets results. Likewise, inspiration can get someone writing, but discipline gets work done.

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#WordWeavers 8/15 What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

There is absolutely no need to show everything that happens in a scene. Sometimes it's best to let the readers piece a bit of the story together for themselves.

#WordWeavers 8/15 What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

There is absolutely no need to show everything that happens in a scene. Sometimes it's best to let the readers piece a bit of the story together for themselves.

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writing habit that helps

It’s really quite simple…

Kicking excuses to the curb and planting my butt in the chair (or whatever bodily orientation is conducive to writing). There is no muse, only me with the right/write mindset.

Proactive, I learned how to shutout distractions.

When I realized no one was coming to save me, pamper me, or feel sorry for me, that left accountability. I had to decide. Did I want to write? I did.

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writing habit that helps

It’s really quite simple…

Kicking excuses to the curb and planting my butt in the chair (or whatever bodily orientation is conducive to writing). There is no muse, only me with the right/write mindset.

Proactive, I learned how to shutout distractions.

When I realized no one was coming to save me, pamper me, or feel sorry for me, that left accountability. I had to decide. Did I want to write? I did.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity

#WordWeavers 15 Aug
What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Be there in the character's head. Play out the scene. Say the lines. Run from the monster. Feel the feelings.

That's what separates you from a most-probable-next-word generator: *meaning* something, and choosing not the easy phrase, but the meaningful one. It's ok if there's some filler in the first draft, but you can dig it out and inlay the space with hard, bright crystal.

#WordWeavers 15 Aug
What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Be there in the character's head. Play out the scene. Say the lines. Run from the monster. Feel the feelings.

That's what separates you from a most-probable-next-word generator: *meaning* something, and choosing not the easy phrase, but the meaningful one. It's ok if there's some filler in the first draft, but you can dig it out and inlay the space with hard, bright crystal.

15. What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Pantsing with only a few rough 'stepping stones' to showme the way. But that's not a habit, is it?

I don't really know, keeping at it and not feeling guilty for not writing every day, or not wanting to publish, or whatever else 'one' has to do.

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15. What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Pantsing with only a few rough 'stepping stones' to showme the way. But that's not a habit, is it?

I don't really know, keeping at it and not feeling guilty for not writing every day, or not wanting to publish, or whatever else 'one' has to do.

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#WordWeavers August 15: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Keeping a "scratch document" alongside the manuscript to keep track of character and world data, and avoid errors.

My current novel was originally written in 2017 before I began this practice, and I keep finding inconsistencies and errors that make me fret about how many more there may be that I'm not finding.

#WordWeavers August 15: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Keeping a handwritten list of notes on a legal pad next to my computer. It's easier to jot something down there without losing my flow than to switch files and back again.

#WordWeavers August 15: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Keeping a handwritten list of notes on a legal pad next to my computer. It's easier to jot something down there without losing my flow than to switch files and back again.

#WordWeavers 15/8: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Realising that researching and thinking about how to develop my story is just as import as writing it down.

I reckon the writing side of things is more about choosing the right words to express one's ideas.

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#WordWeavers 15/8: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Realising that researching and thinking about how to develop my story is just as import as writing it down.

I reckon the writing side of things is more about choosing the right words to express one's ideas.

#WritersOfMastodon #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel

#WordWeavers August 15: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Start from the premise.
Go from there to short synopsis, then to long synopsis.
Be sure to separate fabula and syuzhet, and block your scenes based on the long synopsis.

Only way to keep a complex story manageable.

#WordWeavers August 15: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

I have a file with grammar notes that help me when I need to remember things like breath vs breathe. If I have to search the internet to check on some spelling or grammar rule, then I write a note about it in my file. Cuts down on distractions caused by accidentally researching during writing time.

#WordWeavers August 15: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

I have a file with grammar notes that help me when I need to remember things like breath vs breathe. If I have to search the internet to check on some spelling or grammar rule, then I write a note about it in my file. Cuts down on distractions caused by accidentally researching during writing time.

#WordWeavers 15/8: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

A cyclic approach... write a chapter, perform a dedicated proofread, write the next, then go back and proofread both chapters, rinse and repeat...

Learned when developing a studying technique late in life.

#WordWeavers 15/8: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Using word count. I've previously thought about writing in meaningful chunks - so I'd complete a scene/chapter rather than thinking about its length. Currently writing in chunks of around 250 words which is working really well for this project. Stopping because a word count goal has been reached means the next session is easy to get started because the scene/chapter is in mid-flow. But I definitely think different approaches work for different circumstances and different projects.

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15th Aug 2026. What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Don't push on from writing a book's opening scene until I've found its tone.

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August 15th

What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

When I see that something isn't working out, I scrap it without hesitation. No workaround, no maybe.
I'm looking for the part where the mess started, make a hard cut, and start new from there.
Trying to make it fit somehow because "I have invested so much time" can only go wrong, and then I've wasted even more time and energy. Isn't worth the effort.

#WordWeavers 15/8: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?
Get the ergonomics right. For instance, I don’t use my laptop on trains because the tables are too high relative to the seat. That’s when the notebook comes out, or I sit and look at the landscape rolling past and let the mind do its thing.
Also, staying hydrated. The brain needs it.
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#WordWeavers 15/8: What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?
Get the ergonomics right. For instance, I don’t use my laptop on trains because the tables are too high relative to the seat. That’s when the notebook comes out, or I sit and look at the landscape rolling past and let the mind do its thing.
Also, staying hydrated. The brain needs it.
#books #writing #writersofmastodon

#WordWeavers: The fictional setting I most want to visit.

For my WIP, WCAP, I’d most like to visit the woods around Bat Harbor. It’s filled with hidden magic and creatures, and I’d want to go with one of the werewolves from Dante’s pack as a guide.
Overall, from all my books, I’d like to visit Rana’s village, Peleguin-Rookery-By-The Lake, and hang out with all the star beings and lions (The Calling). Second choice would be to climb a song tree (with Cerulean’s permission, of course).

#WordWeavers: The fictional setting I most want to visit.

For my WIP, WCAP, I’d most like to visit the woods around Bat Harbor. It’s filled with hidden magic and creatures, and I’d want to go with one of the werewolves from Dante’s pack as a guide.
Overall, from all my books, I’d like to visit Rana’s village, Peleguin-Rookery-By-The Lake, and hang out with all the star beings and lions (The Calling). Second choice would be to climb a song tree (with Cerulean’s permission, of course).

#WordWeavers 2026.08.14 — Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

I would like to visit the "villa" described in Reluctant Accomplice. It was extravagantly constructed 20 to 30 years ago in the shape of an amanita mushroom using the same miraculous reluctant technology used to build structures in space, dipolar gravity. The amanita is a famous hallucinogenic poisonous mushroom that has a red top dotted with white warts, with white gills, stem, and skirt. The building is whimsical. Like from a fairy tale. Immense. At least a dozen stories high, reflective like a soap bubble, with moving prismatic soap swirls on its surface. Inside, down gravity conforms to the surfaces regardless of planetary down. The great room room at the top of the structure has the sky for the floor. When the abducted MC arrives, it late in the day. The gathering storm clouds are colored underneath by sunset and shadow; quiet, intriguing, otherworldly. Ought be spectacular in person. The ruler of ten worlds built it so she could disappear there occasionally with her exiled dragon lover. The chapter is titled Love Nest. Another of the villa's features is a hot spring in a gravity bubble, which is described in a short sample of my writing titled Ms George and the Dragon (https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/110603595653290409)

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#BoostingIsSharing

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#mystery #thriller #sf #sff #sciencefiction
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#WordWeavers 2026.08.14 — Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

I would like to visit the "villa" described in Reluctant Accomplice. It was extravagantly constructed 20 to 30 years ago in the shape of an amanita mushroom using the same miraculous reluctant technology used to build structures in space, dipolar gravity. The amanita is a famous hallucinogenic poisonous mushroom that has a red top dotted with white warts, with white gills, stem, and skirt. The building is whimsical. Like from a fairy tale. Immense. At least a dozen stories high, reflective like a soap bubble, with moving prismatic soap swirls on its surface. Inside, down gravity conforms to the surfaces regardless of planetary down. The great room room at the top of the structure has the sky for the floor. When the abducted MC arrives, it late in the day. The gathering storm clouds are colored underneath by sunset and shadow; quiet, intriguing, otherworldly. Ought be spectacular in person. The ruler of ten worlds built it so she could disappear there occasionally with her exiled dragon lover. The chapter is titled Love Nest. Another of the villa's features is a hot spring in a gravity bubble, which is described in a short sample of my writing titled Ms George and the Dragon (https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/110603595653290409)

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#WordWeavers 14

I would not want to visit any of my fictional settings.

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I would not want to visit any of my fictional settings.

#WordWeavers 14 Aug: Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

I would love to visit them all, so I'll just pick one: the floating community of Mermaid's Hands.

#WordWeavers 14 Aug: Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

I would love to visit them all, so I'll just pick one: the floating community of Mermaid's Hands.

#WordWeavers 2026.08.14 Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

It'd be easier to list the ones I would not want to visit, but I wouldn't mind visiting any of my story-worlds with sufficiently advanced medical technology.

#WordWeavers 2026.08.14 Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

It'd be easier to list the ones I would not want to visit, but I wouldn't mind visiting any of my story-worlds with sufficiently advanced medical technology.

#WordWeavers Day 14 Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

Port Allard in Tink's story. It's a bustling trade city and the birthplace of Tink's friend, Captain Trace.

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#WordWeavers Day 14 Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

Port Allard in Tink's story. It's a bustling trade city and the birthplace of Tink's friend, Captain Trace.

#writing #writingcommunity

#WordWeavers 14. Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

The Holy City of Summaris. Where the Great Living Relic Jeshimaru crouches frozen, hissing as it opened all 7 Strand Domain Gates at once to attack Hegaia...The whole city is build around this iconic, frozen moment in time. Its a beautiful hub city, build in a series of perfectly square blocks. That artistically incorporate the Strand Domain Gates still open in the modern Entishay era.

Built with excellent execution of vertical elements, that account for visitors who can't levitate like Entishay. Using Strand Teleportation gates to seamlessly travel through the vibrant markets, somber graveyards, morbid execution ground, imposing Repentance Complex, and bizzare residences of all those that call Summaris home.

#WordWeavers 14. Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

The Holy City of Summaris. Where the Great Living Relic Jeshimaru crouches frozen, hissing as it opened all 7 Strand Domain Gates at once to attack Hegaia...The whole city is build around this iconic, frozen moment in time. Its a beautiful hub city, build in a series of perfectly square blocks. That artistically incorporate the Strand Domain Gates still open in the modern Entishay era.

Built with excellent execution of vertical elements, that account for visitors that can't levitate like Entishay. Using Strand Teleportation gates to seamlessly travel through the vibrant markets, somber graveyards, morbid execution ground, imposing Repentance Complex, and bizzare residences of all those that call Summaris home.

#WordWeavers 14th Aug ~ Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

Willy's Emporium of Antiquities, Collectibles and Desert Delights... pre Percival's visit, of course.

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#WordWeavers 14th Aug ~ Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

Willy's Emporium of Antiquities, Collectibles and Desert Delights... pre Percival's visit, of course.

#Writer #Writing
#WritingCommunity

#WordWeavers Aug 14: Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

That of Hilda the Wicked Witch. I want to see magic, dragons, and find out how it feels to fly on a broom.

#WordWeavers Aug 14: Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

That of Hilda the Wicked Witch. I want to see magic, dragons, and find out how it feels to fly on a broom.

#WordWeavers Aug 14: Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

I only have one setting, and it's... not exactly fictional, now, is it? It's San Francisco in 2024.

#WordWeavers Aug 14: Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

I only have one setting, and it's... not exactly fictional, now, is it? It's San Francisco in 2024.

#WordWeavers 14 Aug: Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

Selene City, on the Moon.

#WordWeavers 14 Aug: Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

Selene City, on the Moon.

#WordWeavers 14. Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

First WIP has no fictional places. Second one spends time in the afterlife.

Happy to wait a while for that one.

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#WordWeavers 8/14: Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

I write in our world, so not fictional. I'd like to vacation at Pickwick Lake in Counce, TN again at some point. Maybe if I sell the book that's set there, that's how I'll celebrate? We'll see!

#WordWeavers 8/14: Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

I would absolutely love to visit Saya's village in the jungle or the one where West and Jeko live Or maybe Iceburg and see the famous tower.

Really, the world of the Winds & Pillars is great for anyone not magical (like me).

Oxbridge would be fun, too, I'd love to stay in Orren's Inn and meet the gang, including the spider.

Most of my worlds are good to visit.

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