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In a bad writing mire just now. Everything feels like garbage and I want to just delete everything I've ever written and go find another job.

Encouragement appreciated. :(

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For the past year-ish, I've been working on a book series about a utopian society of Fae that suddenly has to deal with a mental health epidemic sweeping through it. My writing style is a combination of planning and pantsing: planning for big landmark plot developments, pantsing for the smaller details. I did a first draft of book 1 and just finished the rough draft of book 2, and I'm feeling _really_ good about the direction and how well it's coming together :blobCatBounce:

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Writing/ reading question for y'all: the book I'm reading, uses "male" instead of "man". As in, "the male I'd seen earlier walked past me." In this instance the reference is to a god or god-adjacent being. Similarly, "female" instead of "woman".

I've seen this style a couple other times lately, feels like, and I don't like it. It feels othering and jarring. Has anyone else seen this, and what are your opinions on this style? Is this a new trend or something, and *why* is it being used?

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I tend to write sprawling stories with lots of character POVs. Since that doesn't make for a short book, to say nothing of the focus, I prune the character POV to a reasonable number and put the other scenes in a side novella. I'm about to do that for the fourth time; this will be the FIRST time I have a novella size stack of side scenes that are critical to understanding the events in the main novel, but won't fit within the novel itself. (Trust me. I've been trying. They don't work.)

It's both wonderful and daunting to have so many side character scenes that HAVE to be included somehow. I love writing a complicated story with lots of intersecting parts. But it's, well, complicated, and I keep running into: I have to write this scene, it's important, but I don't WANNA, it feels BORING. Which, of course, just means I need to figure out how to make it un-boring.

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My goal today is to finish at least one scene. Although, if I manage to write two, that would be great.

Have a nice productive/relaxing day! :blobfoxcofe: :blobfoxcomfycofe:

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What are your writing goals this week?

Mine is to finish Act II of Amniland - Book 3. I think I just need two more chapters to get there.

I wish you all a nice productive/relaxing day. ☕🍵

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So last week, I reached my daily word count goal three times in a row and half of my weekly chapter goal. Let's see if I can do better this time.

What's your goal this week?

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I reached my daily word count goal yesterday, which has been difficult for me to do lately.

I'm also close to finishing a chapter now, so it should be done by the end of the day.

I wish you all a good productive/relaxing day! :blobfoxcofe: :blobfoxcomfycofe:

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What are your goals this week?

Since I couldn't make much progress on my short story, I started writing a chapter of Amniland instead. My goal this week is to complete at least four chapters.

I wish you a nice productive/relaxing day! :blobfoxcofe: :blobfoxcomfycofe:

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If my writer's block persists today while trying to write Mihayu, I'll just resume Book 2 and 3 of Amniland instead. I'll get back to it later.

I wish you all a good productive/relaxing day! :blobfoxcofe: :blobfoxcomfycofe:

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Hopefully you managed to achieve your last week's goals, and that you will achieve more this week too. It's fine if you haven't, however, as long as you don't give up and do your best. Don't push yourself too hard, though!

Have a good productive/relaxing day! :blobfoxcofe::blobfoxcomfycofe:

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Welp, this book is 37,300 words long so far and I'm about three scenes from the midpoint, so it's going to be longer than I thought but not as catastrophically long as it once appeared it might be.

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Wrote one of the most romantic lines I've ever written today.

'It doesn't have to be a lie.'

I mean it probably means more in context, but ...

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Wrote one of the most romantic lines I've ever written today.

'It doesn't have to be a lie.'

I mean it probably means more in context, but ...

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Wrote one of the most romantic lines I've ever written today.

'It doesn't have to be a lie.'

I mean it probably means more in context, but ...

#writestodon #NaNoWrMo

Wrote one of the most romantic lines I've ever written today.

'It doesn't have to be a lie.'

I mean it probably means more in context, but ...

#writestodon #NaNoWrMo

Wrote one of the most romantic lines I've ever written today.

'It doesn't have to be a lie.'

I mean it probably means more in context, but ...

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Hey #WritingCommunity, I want to find all of my fellow #mystery #writers on Mastodon to follow. I love all the #ssf people here, and #scifi is my secondary genre, but I really want to find people writing in my primary genre of mystery. I know you're out there! If you are a mystery writer or happen to know someone writing mystery, let me know!

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Let's talk #beta reading!

... I have a few people reading beta for me, but I know I need a more varied audience. But how do I go about it? I'm already struggling with the idea that I have nothing but my eternal gratitude on offer as payment for the intense labour that is beta reading, and can't get myself to ask people to set aside their own free time for me.

So, help and tips are appreciated! How do you #writestodon do beta reading?

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I asked this question on the bird app and got zero responses (but one person did re-youknowwhat it because I assume they didn't know either). I'm seeing #writerq and I don't know that one. It's new to me. What does it mean? Thanks!
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Struggling with that myself this minute. Rejections feed the #impostersyndromemonster and it is hard to stop the roaring.
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Hey writers, today is a good day to BACK UP YOUR WORK, and not just on cloud services. Save it to your computer. Put a copy on your thumb drive. Put another copy on a diskette. Place the diskette in an envelope with a Faraday cage. Mail it to the bunker. Pray it's never found.

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@amybones literally talking about this with my bandmate and writing and art friends right now

Very very relevant to the future stability and maintenance of #Mastodon

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This reminded me to register since I haven't sent out the e-mail to perform for it yet

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