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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)One example: today I learned that many names I had never thought much about ("Toby, Oliver, Ben, Henry, Rupert", the article said) are apparently middle- to upper-middle-class names in the UK.If I had written anything set in the UK and given those names to poor or working class characters: bam, immersion broken.<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AmNotWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmNotWriting</a>

Mx Amber Alex (she/it)Another problem with writing is that I would love to write stuff set in a modern world, but I don't want to write about Germany (boring, shitty country, too close to home, German names are ugly) but don't have enough knowledge to write about America or the UK.Writing anything set there would put off my readers within ten pages by being grossly inaccurate.Writing anything set here would put off my readers within ten pages by being grossly German.Damned if I do, damned if I don't...<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AmNotWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmNotWriting</a>

Mx Amber Alex (she/it)One of the worst curses a writer can be struck with is a cinematic imagination.Seeing the stories you want to write play out in your mind like a film is horrible, because it does not translate to writing well at all.Film is very often a third-person limited narrator, which is something that's rarely done, and rarely done well, in fiction books. The camera shows what's happening from a third person perspective, but there is (voice over notwithstanding) zero insight into the characters' thoughts and feelings, beyond what we can see with the naked eye.Trying to turn that into writing, where a first-person perspective or third-person narrator from one character's perspective are much more common but where visual storytelling is nearly nonexistent (no camera angle, no aperture or focal length, no clever camera movements) is hell.I have a ton of stories that are virtually complete in my head, but that I've struggled to put onto paper because of that. It's awful, I hate it.<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AmNotWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmNotWriting</a>

Shantell PowellI wrote a bunch yesterday, but I need to undo it all and write something better. The end of this story is not coming easily. I have writer’s constipation. My story elements are not playing nicely. This reminds me of the time I sewed a pair of pants and when I picked them up, I’d stitched it all wrong. The pants had itty bitty stumpy legs and the hugest ass, ever. Time to rip it all apart and redo it. <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmNotWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmNotWriting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a>

Elektra<a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Priyajsridhar</a> What helps cheer you up after a particularly bad day? A nice hot cup of tea, preferably chai tea with cashew milk (in the pink flamingo mug), and a cuddle with the World's Cutest Kitten.<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writephant</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TeaDrinkersUnite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeaDrinkersUnite</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Catsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Catsofmastodon</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/kittensofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kittensofmastodon</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/amnotwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amnotwriting</a>

Madeline Konrad 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚢⚧🌹The burnout is real, friends. I'm not sure I'm making any progress on *any* of my non gaming writing projects. And I think that's okay. <a href="https://toot.lgbt/tags/creative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#creative</a> <a href="https://toot.lgbt/tags/AmNotWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmNotWriting</a>

Grace FrenchIt's dark already, and I have done nothing but doom scroll on the book face, and I don't know how that happened.I suck! I did so well yesterday and the day before! I am unemployable! I'm not very interesting! I'm quite fat, actually! Fuck knows why my cats love me! I'm the worst sort of person! I'll never get published! I'm hungry! My cats are hungry!Okay, so I'll eat, feed the cats, then find some writing to do.<a href="https://pkm.social/tags/gmfjournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gmfjournal</a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/distractions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#distractions</a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/amnotwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amnotwriting</a>

joehumphreyI just sat down at my computer, opened my novel WIP in Scrivener, looked at it for thirty seconds, then said NOPE and got up and now I’m in bed <a href="https://writeout.ink/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://writeout.ink/tags/AmNotWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmNotWriting</a>

joehumphreyI'm writing a scene where a character is about to be shot in the head execution style and I kind of want to do that to this book. <a href="https://writeout.ink/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://writeout.ink/tags/AmNOTWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmNOTWriting</a>

Strange Seawolf 🕒 CETI was wondering why I had a rather (for me) unusual fit of cleanliness and tidied the kitchen drawers until I realized:<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritersBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersBlock</a> 😂 😂 😂 <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AmNotWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmNotWriting</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a>

nebulosshould be reviewing reader notes but gonna rewatch Lindsay Ellis cats video instead<a href="https://comicscamp.club/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://comicscamp.club/tags/AmNotWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AmNotWriting</a>

Peculiar SusanWelp it’s official. I’m no longer able to write. Anything. At all. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writingcommunicty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunicty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/amnotwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amnotwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writersblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersblock</a>

Peculiar SusanWIP came to a screeching halt a couple of days ago and I can’t start it back up again. Ugh. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writingcommunicty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunicty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/amnotwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amnotwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writersblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersblock</a>

Strange Seawolf 🕒 CETMe: Yay! Friday off to get rid of overtime. I will do so many chores and then get some writing done!Also me: Takes an early walk to the bakery to get the most suggery breakfast ever, then huddles on the sofa with it and sinks into "Aestus" by <a href="https://writing.exchange/@szattwellauthor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@szattwellauthor</a> with no plans to get up for the next... possibly 8 hours?<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AmNotWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmNotWriting</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmReading</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WhyIsMyTeaAlreadyEmpty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyIsMyTeaAlreadyEmpty</a>

Roman ALAN<a href="https://mastodon.nz/@jacquiG" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jacquiG</a> ( 1/2) Was talking about Richard K Morgan, and went back to re-read a 2008 interview.Then I read your toot, and recalled this from the interview:"I tend to write whenever I feel the urge, whatever time of day or night that happens to be, or when a deadline is approaching and I really have to get the work done."Write when you feel like it, go through a creative slump and gather resources for the next creative burst.Your audience can wait; we don't own you.<a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/AmNotWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmNotWriting</a>

Miriam GershowI wonder if I can get <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/amnotwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amnotwriting</a> or <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/amresting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amresting</a> trending. I’m between drafts & leaning hard into not writing - even as I feel the first tentacles of restlessness trying to pull me back. Not yet!

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