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The banning of books in Texas and 10 commandments in schools will likely soon end. Not only has Gov. Greg Abbot lost and soon-to-be Senator-elect Talarico won, but… The Texas Tribune is reporting that Democrats have solid leads in all the statewide elected executive races: Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, Ag Commissioner, General Land Commissioner, Railroad Commissioner, and 7 of 9 State Board of Education seats. The governor appoints our Secretary of State, so that will change, too. Texas is finally turning blue. #boostingIsSharing#Bookstodon #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity #author #writer #uspol #bluewave #bluetsunami #democrats #elections #election

#Introduction I'm Vicki "Dammit Victor" Flinder; I write fantasy fiction and I design tabletop RPGs and digital games under the name Octal Heart Games. I specialize in "interstitial" fantasy, blending standard Tolkien/Howard/Gygax tropes with other genres. I am a devout Ásatrúar, oathed to Wolf Tree Kindred for over a decade. We don't hold with völkisch beliefs; modern notions of race are incompatible with an ancestral worldview. #Writersofmastodon #fantasy #asatru #ttrpg #gamedev

#introduction I'm Jason, in Kansas City. Literature grad. I wrote a monograph on John Hawkes and a novel called Masters X. Here for the postmodernists, the Gothic, Eco, and anything with an archive in it. Strangest book on my shelf: The Red Lion, by Mária Szepes. A 1946 alchemical novel the Hungarian regime ordered destroyed. Four copies survived; it circulated in samizdat. Tell me yours. #bookstodon #books #literature #WritersOfMastodon

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1. Wings by Little Mix randomly started playing on my iHeartRadio a few minutes ago. I loved that song but haven't heard it in years.
2. I had a huge idea and a new plot come to me last night after a #WordWeavers prompt. It'll literally be the main plot for the second story in my #FatedByFire Series. Thank you!
3. I'm also wearing soft, cozy clothes today to deal with the New England weather. Brrrrr.

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#Writephant Q4. Have you ever gone on a writing retreat? Was it a specifically organized one or an impromptu one? #Writephant #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #WritersofMastodon

This year's FediBookFair will be 7th/8th November. FediBookFair is a chance for #authors and #publishers to post about their books using the #FediBookFair hashtag. #Readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. It's an excellent chance to find #Christmas gifts. Full details at https://AuthorHelp.uk/FediBookFair/ Boosts appreciated. #author #WritersOfMastodon #writing #WritingCommunity #bookstodon

Would your main character be the type to tell themselves affirmations? That depends on what qualifies as an affirmation. Does clutching the clipboard and mumbling, ‘We can think our way out of this,’ count? #writersofmastodon #writing #author

What is your cure for getting out of a creative slump? That's usually my brain's way of asking for a pause. I look around me: what's going on in my life? Stress? Worries? Grief? Anger? Unresolved problems soaking up the energy? Show the ol' noggin some compassion and let it have the break it's asking for. Just don't overdo it. #writersofmastodon #author #writers

Your editor wants you to cut a favourite chapter. How do you react? I cut it out and save it in a folder among all the other favourite chapters. Rereads the book once my hurt pride has calmed down a bit. If I still agree with the editor, it stays out. The chapter might find its way into something else, in one way or the other. Maybe it will be the start of a new, short story? But I'm not sacrificing the overall story for one beautiful chapter. #writersofmastodon #author #writing

Having to trust the editor, and let the book go? It's a bit like watching the kids move out. You know it's time, but you'd still want just a little more time because even though you can always see them again, once you've let them go, they've entered a new phase in their life. One where you don't get to be a part of every single little detail any more. #author #writersofmastodon #writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 24/9: Do you write primarily for yourself or for a reader? It’s a false dichotomy. As Toni Morrison understands: "If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it." #books #writing #writersofmastodon

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#ScribesAndMakers – 22nd Sept. Promotion day. Self or someone else. Or both. Damn! It’s a day too early, the next chapter of my online serialisation of my short story collection, Tales From the Demi-monde, goes live tomorrow and I don’t have a direct link to it until then. #WritersOfMastodon #TalesFrom… #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel

@AverageS My Word of the Day today is QUARRY-FACED. Share YOUR words to describe this picture in the comments! Quarry-faced, from Middle English quarere, Medieval Latin quarreria, literally a “place where stones are squared,” from Old French quarrière , in turn derived from Vulgar Latin quadraria, from Latin quadrō, to square + -faced, from face, Middle English face, from Old French face, in turn derived from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs, form, appearance + -ed, used to form past tenses of regular verbs. Meaning, having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point (stonemasonry, of stones). The picture shows a weathered stone gothic folly tower built from rough, uncoursed grey fieldstones. This definition pretty much does what it says on the tin. #WritersOfMastodon #TalesFrom… #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel

#onthisday "Avast, Ye Mateys! Hoist Yer Colours for Talk Like a Pirate Day!" Arrrrr! All you landlubbers, prepare to be boarded. It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, so be quick about it or you’ll be walking the plank. Here are a few handy phrases you scurvy dogs can use to help you fit in as though you be one of the crew, to prevent you from being keelhauled. How to Talk Like a Pirate Arrrrr!!: Various meanings from "yes" to "I agree," to "I'm happy" or "I'm enjoying this beer." Ahoy!: Hello. Avast!: Stop and give attention. Aye!: "Yes, I agree most heartily with everything you just said." Aye, aye!: "I'll get right on it, sir, as soon as my break is over." Beauty: The best possible pirate address for a woman. Always preceded by "me," as in "C'mere, me beauty." Bilge rat: The bilge is the ship's lowest level. It's loaded with ballast and slimy, reeking water. This is where bilge rats live. Grog: An alcoholic drink, usually rum diluted with water. Or beer. Or whatever yer tippin,' if calling it that makes you happy. Landlubber: The seaman's version of "land lover," mangled by typical pirate disregard for elocution. A "lubber" is someone who does not go to sea. In a room where everyone is talking like pirates, lubber is always an insult. #WritersOfMastodon #TalesFrom… #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel

#AmReading Or, in the case The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, #AmNotReading. Whilst it sounded like an intriguing team up between the writer and the actor it prove to be an extremely difficult read and ultimately I couldn’t force myself to finish it. A tedious narrative filled with characters devoid of anything in the way of a personality. It was impossible to identify with any of the characters. Hence I abandoned it, something I rarely do, even after forcing myself to try to read it small chunks as a way of minimising the tedium. #WritersOfMastodon #TalesFrom… #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel

"I hate writing, I love having written." — Dorothy Parker Staring at LibreOffice today and feeling this in my bones. Having a finished manuscript in hand is the best feeling in the world, but the actual process to get there? That is something else entirely. One word, one page, one chapter at a time. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon

#WritersOfMastodon/ #WritingCommunity, most of you probably know the "Somehow, Palpatine returned" meme. How would you, when editing, call a piece of information which is repeated in such a way, so that it doesn't feel quite smoothly conveyed? I'm looking for a concise term ("oh, that's an xyz error!"). #amWriting #amEditing #FollowerPower