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I made a Classical Chinese Poetry Bingo to help people recognize the common tropes and motifs.🤣 These show up frequently in the modern poetry I translate as well. Do you recognize anything from your readings or from pop culture? Tag yourself. I'm "feeling sad on a boat" lol

#poetry #amreading # #翻译 #writingcommunity #cdrama #sinophone


Remember to include little human touches in your work so that it breathes. Random bits of humour. Rude or angry graffiti. Kids playing with a rock.

(The trapped mason from Abbey de Sainte Foy, France, c.1050.)

#WorldBuilding #writing #ttrpg #dnd #AmWriting #WritingCommunity


I just joined, so time for an #Introduction post.

I'm a new-ish #writer from Australia. I'm currently working on my first novel, on it’s fifth draft. It'll be the first in a series. I love this story and my characters and hope to publish it once it’s finished.

I also love #knitting, #art, and #reading.

I would love to meet other #writers, #readers and creative people.

#WritingCommunity #Writing #WritersofMastodon #AmWriting


Got down to #author stuff, now that I'm retired and can devote time to the #business of #writing #fiction. First order of business: catalog the unsold novels from after the burn out that need revision and rewrites.

Turns out that disconnecting my Mac from my work VPN messed up my folders. I had somehow mapped (don't know the Mac term) my work Windows computer folders to the Mac, and when I look in documents it tries to find it on the network and fails. If I reboot, so long as I go directly from my user's directory to documents directory, I'm good. If I click on Documents in Finder, it redirects and I'm screwed.

First thing I did was copy all my writing folders to the desktop. At least I've lost none of my old novels and short work.

I thought there were 7 completed books, and I said so online. There are actually 9, three that form a trilogy and one novel with a sequel in the mix. There are two incomplete novels.

Some works are older than others. Pages refuses to open one novel from 1996, a fun space opera that possibly has the highest chance of early sales. I haven't tried the others. Now I gotta install Word, of which I am not a fan, and investigate programs that'll open the really old files. If anyone wants to chime in with suggestions, please do! (I can always find someone with a Windows machine if need be.) Putting Google on TODO. I actually have original copies of chapters from my Apple ][ days, but thankfully I updated those to the Mac and to a new millennium version of Word in what were my PowerPC days.

Incidentally, there really are three novellas in good shape.What surprises me though? There looks like about 15 short stories, many complete because I see multiple submissions in the various folders. I completely forgot about these, and was sure I never wrote short-form.

Baby steps, I guess.

#writingLife #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon


"You might find that Libreoffice is actually better at reading old Word files than Word."


Yep. Word can't read files prior to 1994.I finally got my links to my writing ironed out and content backed up into the cloud (what a pain), though it is in Time Machine, so I installed the newest Mac version of #LibreOffice.

I opened a 1992 file. Check.
I opened a 1989 file. Well, all the lowercase "a"s are converted to circumflex characters, but I can work with that.

I figured out (finally) how to search for dates on my Mac and found a story treatment named "The Revenger" (no extension, Mac naturally!). The date is Mar 25, 1986.

It opened with a few box characters, but otherwise readable. It looks like my attempt at an Andre Norton type SF space opera. It even opened "Tree Castle", which is or probably was a Mac Draw document. It was dated Jan 1, 1986. It's my oldest document. I've a screen cap below of the mentioned documents open in LibreOffice.

Yeah, for document conversion, LibreOffice rocks. The content of some of these old documents is amateurish; weird since I was already published.

Still... No lost IP. This is a good thing.

cc: @taur10 @alan

#writing #writer #author #writersofmastodon #writingcommunity #fiction #writinglife #fiction #sf #ScienceFiction #spaceopera


Hey #WritingCommunity, here is a working masterlist of lit mags and presses that are on Mastodon and will be posting submission calls. This resource will be updated periodically, so make sure you bookmark it for future reference. :)

All handles have been added with consent from the representatives. If you are an EIC or staff member, please get in touch and I'll add you to the list.

[updated 02 Jan '24]

#LitMags #SmallPress #Publishing

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VYnPZifyXwRVrzzTKU6qK6VXWUabcFJSwIlWna-e3ok/edit?usp=drivesdk


Issue two submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! Please send us your stories ✨❤🧠✨

http://www.inner-worlds.org

#SpeculativeFiction #SFF #SFFH #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #LitMag #SubmissionCall


Hey, remember that you can join #WritingTreat during #NaNoWriMo this year again. That's when we really kicked it off last year. Oh and, ofc the rest of the month for NaNo-prep. No one is required to follow NanoWrimo "rules or goals"

We're a twice-weekly writing group, with few option for video or voice chat. We're ND friendly, and try to focus once or twice during a two hours slot. 😅
We are actively working to be an anti-racist space, and filled with queer and trans people.

There will be space for additional sessions during the month, but that requires more people to host. And even if you only want to offer to host once session during the whole month, that could really help the community!

Feel free to ask me or @ljwrites for an invite to the matrix chat room as well!

And wiki info is here (we try to keep this updated)
https://wiki.writeout.ink/writingtreat/start
You can Check out our other hosts from under the hashtag too.

#WritingCommunity


Taken from #Google's updated "privacy" policy.
I mean, I find it ironic because there doesn't seem to be any #privacy to speak of here 😆

I know this is no laughing matter, but I am at the "oh what the hell can I do so might as well laugh about it" stage 🤣

#WritingCommunity #Data #AI


Here’s my suggestion: get your AI to write books, then get your AI to read them.

Repeat this infinitely in a closed loop of techbro busywork until you get bored or die.

Leave the rest of us to create and appreciate the art form in a modest human way.

#chatgpt #ai #techbros #publishing #ebook #writing #writingCommunity #amWriting #reading #amReading


@libreoffice

Hey, folks.

I love using Libre Office and have been for years. I write all my books with it. I believe you're leagues better than the MS version.

So why, oh why has Writer lost the ability to remember the last cursor position?

It's beyond annoying, especially when editing a 250 page document. This is one of the most important functions, to be able to continue where you stopped - why is it even broken?

Why has it been broken for so long?

#WritingCommunity


Copyrighted works from 1927 entered the public domain on Jan 1, 2023. Here's a selection #WritingCommunity #AmWriting https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/


I was gifted a copy of this book by Tor Teen Publishing. I have not read it yet. But I’m excited to read it. It follows a pair of Black, magical twins who have to solve the thirty year old murder of their mother in order to save the New Orleans magical community from utter destruction. #bookstodon #blackbookstodon #writingcommunity #amwriting #bipocauthors #writewithmichael #dybpublishing


If you are interested in diverse reading, I have a monthly subscription box that ships out a Black or Brown indie book each month, along with exclusive content from myself and the author! #bookstodon #blackbookstodon #indieauthors #diversereading #amwriting #writingcommunity
Sign up: https://www.patreon.com/michaellaborn/membership


Publishers Weekly's annual survey of publishing industry jobs and salaries shows only incremental change since the last one, in 2019, with diversity actually slightly down #WritingCommunity #AmWriting https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/91157-the-pw-publishing-industry-salary-survey-2022.html


Everyone has a book signing horror story, and lots of writers shared theirs in response to a debut author's tweet about her disappointing experience #WritingCommunity #AmWriting https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140833403/a-new-writer-tweeted-about-a-low-book-signing-turnout-and-famous-authors-commise


In this Substack post, I interviewed my agent about how he chose which editors to send my novel manuscript to (and his sub lists are #diverse in a way the #publishing industry often isn't, and the novel eventually drew three publishers to an auction). I also share thoughts on revising to prepare for this process. Hope it's helpful!

https://sarahcypher.substack.com/p/what-happens-between-getting-an-agent?sd=pf

#AmRevising #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #AmEditing #submission #query #agent


In an open letter to HarperCollins, more than 150 literary agents say they will not submit clients' mss. to the company until an agreement is reached with striking employees #WritingCommunity https://fortune.com/2022/11/29/harpercollins-staff-strike-literary-agents-support-open-letter/


Interesting article from Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today on copyright issues to consider if you're considering establishing your own Mastodon instance--probably the last thing most people would think about (but it shouldn't be) #WriterBeware #WritingCommunity #Mastodon https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/11/22/the-copyright-challenge-with-mastodon/


New #WriterBeware blog post: Long-Standing Payment Problems At Cricket Media. This well-known publisher of respected magazines for children is a paying market--but writers and illustrators say they are paid late or not at all. Complaints go back at least to 2018 #WritingCommunity https://writerbeware.blog/2022/11/18/long-standing-payment-problems-at-cricket-media/


I started writing on Substack to talk about the process a manuscript takes in traditional publishing, and how to navigate the process without losing the book's soul.

It's a happy story that starts at the end of many rejections, and I'll post some threads in case the takeaways are faster/easier to get here vs. Substack. The site is The Bird's Eye, and it's completely free and goes to folks' inboxes every other week.

https://sarahcypher.substack.com/

#writing #publishing #WritingCommunity #author #novel


Lesson 5. The agent has to say yes, but SO DO YOU. Find *your* agent, not just any agent. Preserving your power to say no is important at many stages of the publishing journey (multiple offers, bad deal terms, etc.), and you want an agent who respects you and gives good advice. I can't stress this enough. 6/8

#WritingCommunity #agents #LiteraryAgent #publishing #editing #querying

Full post: https://sarahcypher.substack.com/p/find-the-best-agent-for-you


New post at the Writer Beware blog: Whatever Happened To Catstone Books? A deep dive into the sudden demise of a BIPOC/LGBTQ+ -focused publisher, and what it may say about a worrying trend that writers should be aware of #WriterBeware #WritingCommunity https://writerbeware.blog/2022/11/11/whatever-happened-to-catstone-books/


Welcoming the #WritingCommunity to Mastodon!

Perhaps, I should do the second #writerslift here.

So you know how it goes, like, follow for follow, and post your #links to your #books #wip #blogs etc. on this post below

#amreading #amwriting #writers #writersblog #writerchat #writerdons #writerlife #writingtips

I'll go first, I'm working on my first #novel The Ravenport Club, you can follow for updates on its Facebook page www.facebook.com/TheRavenportClub and very near to publishing it.


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