#WeeknightWriters Q6: Book! The Infinite Library on Amazon (a.co/d/0clRniWt) & Kobo (bit.ly/4vLvEDD) Also my blog www.insertscenehere.com with the running series of the Great Discworld Re-Read!

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 18h ago

Q6: Do you have any recent or upcoming publications? Share them here, and be sure to include links if you have them! (No AI, and please add alt text to all images) #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q5: I'm doing this on the short story, not #FirstDraftFall The MC is a woman born in Mexico & raised in the US, recently deported by her ICE-husband, now spending her days working at her tía's store & nights walking the river bank venting her rage & searching for peace.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 18h ago

Q5: Tell us about your main character. Who are they? What do they want? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q4: Names! Either the name comes to me right away when I'm writing, or I end up with some kind of placeholder (see: Dr. [SCIENTIST]) that I'll agonize over later on. Until they have a name, it's hard for me to picture them, which means they don't have much of a face, either.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 18h ago

Q4: What aspects of character development do you find most frustrating? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q3: Hrm. I enjoy/get frustrated by characters doing things I don't expect & I like digging around to figure out why they did the thing. Basically it makes my little autistic brain happy to find a cause for each effect, even if the character didn't know it at the time.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 19h ago

Q3: What aspects of character development do you enjoy most? What goes into making a character? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q2: I like knowing why people do stuff. What is leading them to live the lives they're living & making the decisions they're making? Even if that answer is "because they're a dumbass," I still need to know in order to keep things going.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 19h ago

Q2: What aspects of character development do you consider most important to your story planning process? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q1: Sometimes the characters come before the story, but mostly the characters start with the story as their voices come onto the page.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 19h ago

Q1: Do you typically create characters to match the story you want to tell or build your stories based on character(s) already living in your head? #WeeknightWriters

Hello, #WeeknightWriters! I'm Stephanie, I've currently been sidetracked from my novel WIP by La Llorona, & I'm in the midst of travel plans for a trip with my mom to see family we haven't seen in many years. Cue the drama! #FirstDraftFall is mostly happening only in my head at this point.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 20h ago

Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your #FirstDraftFall planning is going!

#FirstDraftFall Check-In: Sooo, my brain may have been hijacked by La Llorona for a short story & she might not let me go until I get that draft done, so my specific goal is to appease her. Like you do.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 4d ago

Monday #FirstDraftFall Check-In: What aspects of story planning are you going to work on this week? Do you have a specific goal?

Morning #ScribesUnited! It's a bit after 8am my time & I've got the day off for long-awaited dr's appointments. In the meantime, I'm still noodling on the story that grabbed me by the throat yesterday & hope to finish a draft today.

Silver Falcon@zadafalcon.bsky.social · 4d ago

Good morning #ScribesUnited! It's a new day. What you up to today? Check in as you see this.

Can't say it enough: it's NOT MY JOB to prove to bigots I don't deserve their bigotry. Fuck those guys. Fuck those impotent idiots and their desperate, babybrain need to feel superior. They're fools and weaklings, and idiot tools for the worst people on Earth, PERPETUALLY. Fuck 'em.

Mis amigos hispanohablantes! Particularly those fluent in Spanish from northern Mexico - I need help! I'm 3rd-gen Mexican American & all my Spanish was learned in school, so I know it's not the most realistic. I'm also a writer & I could use help making this line sound natural:

#WeeknightWriters Q6: I have a book! The Infinite Library (found family of literary characters has to figure out what's destroying the library of all narrative), available on Amazon (a.co/d/0clRniWt) and Kobo (bit.ly/4vLvEDD) Also my blog insertscenehere.com for Discworld rereads & chaotic whimsy

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · last wk.

Q6: Do you have any recent or upcoming publications? Share them here, and be sure to include links if you have them! (No AI, and please add alt text to all images) #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q5: I've got a lot of academia to work with in this WIP, as the main characters are all part of the University (after WW3 & everything basically all higher ed in the West came together under one umbrella), so I've been learning a lot about the Ivory Tower & oooofta, no thank you.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · last wk.

Q5: Share a one-sentence pitch, a collection of tropes you want to work with, or something fun about your main character. #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q4: I'm looking forward to getting the habit of working on a specific project every day up & running again. I really enjoyed that kind of hyperfocus that I used to get with Nano & I've missed it. #FirstDraftFall

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · last wk.

Q4: What part of #FirstDraftFall are you most excited for? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q3: I'm going with "get words on the page every day" for progress, trying to be gentle with myself in the aftermath of burnout & in the midst of All The Things happening work/family/otherwise. I don't want to give myself a goal I'll feel guilty about not meeting. #FirstDraftFall

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · last wk.

Q3: Will you be measuring your progress in word count, page count, or hours spent working on your #FirstDraftFall project? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q2: I kinda touched on this before, but it's...well, it's set in an alternate history where a Series of Stupid Decisions led to worldwide air pollution & WW3 & an anthropologist decides to invoke a goddess to incite hope/gain power & fame, except the goddess wakes up and is PISSED.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · last wk.

Q2: What genre(s) will you be writing in for #FirstDraftFall? Feel free to include subgenres if applicable. #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q1: Voltaire is probably at least a novella if not a full novel & speculative fiction, though I don't think I could pin down if it's fantasy or sci fi (or both?). My POV characters is the grad student of my MC (at least, I think he's the MC?) which has been interesting.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · last wk.

Q1: What kind of project are you working on for #FirstDraftFall? #WeeknightWriters

Ha, I actually caught this week's intro post! I'm Stephanie, currently working on a project codenamed Voltaire, pithily described as "working through religious trauma with archeology and magic." I've been drafting it for a few weeks & want to figure out the second half this month. #WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · last wk.

Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your #FirstDraftFall planning is going!

My breakfast safe food has become illegal. The next 2-100 days of finding a new safe food are going to SUCK.

One of the unexpectedly bad parts about being out and about alone? Not having someone else who can confirm if you locked the car. #anxiety

Have you talked about your book yet today?! Drop and give us: Title: The Infinite Library Genre: Literary Fantasy Mystery Word Count: 71,000 Funniest moment: Does shepherd's pie have shepherds in it?? 🔗: a.co/d/0clRniWt (Amazon) bit.ly/4vLvEDD (Kobo)

The Infinite Library

Amazon.com: The Infinite Library eBook : Wood Franklin, Stephanie: Kindle Store

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Tru Skies@trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 2w ago

Have you talked about your book yet today?! Drop and give us: Title: The Chosen One Con Genre: Gaslamp Fantasy of Bad Manners Word count: 219,000 🙈 Funniest moment: Ah, you really have to be there! 🔗: books2read.com/thechosenone...

So. Somehow between looking for an ATM & getting a flu shot, I think I sold a copy of my book & got a pharmacist willing to give free flu shots to the unhoused communities served by the churches in my conference. On accident. This is what happens when I leave the house, I guess.

#WeeknightWriters Q6: Nothing new, though I have a blog at www.insertscenehere.com I'm currently re-reading all* of the Discworld books in publication order & posting about them, among other random posts. *Not including the ancillary books - just the core books by Terry Pratchett (GNU)

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2w ago

Q6: Do you have any recent or upcoming publications? Share them here, and be sure to include links if you have them! (No AI, and please add alt text to all images) #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q5: Maybe remind me that things don't have to be perfect & I might not suck as a writer? (I mean, I still may very well suck, that's always a possibility, but the fact that I might not suck would be good to remember, too.)

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2w ago

Q5: What can we, the Weeknight Writers community, do in the next week to make your life a little more pleasant? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q4: Once again, sleep would be fabulous. A friend's wedding is on Saturday, which should be fun & will mean that I have to be finished with her wedding present by then & can move on to a different craft project (finally!).

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2w ago

Q4: What can you do in the next week to make your life a little more pleasant? #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q3: That's a really good question & I don't know that I have an answer this week. "Joy" is an awfully strong word. A nice cup of tea or two have brought comfort - that's gotta count for something.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2w ago

Q3: Let's cheer things up a bit! What has brought you joy in the past week? Remember, no joy is too small! #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q2: Some feedback from a friend about my WIP has me questioning if I should continue writing it, as everything I'd been excited about is apparently not interesting or it doesn't make sense. I'm not sure if it's worth continuing.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2w ago

Q2: Is there anything specific you're struggling with this week? Let us know about it and we'll see what we can do to help! #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Q1: Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha. Family health stuff leading to planning travel (apparently I'm the family travel agent) & realizing my pick for book club this week was maybe not the best & spikes in pain & feedback on the WIP making me want to trunk it & & & yeah. This week's been hard.

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2w ago

Q1: How are you holding up this week? (Or not holding, as the case may be) #WeeknightWriters

Running late due to book club this week, but hi! I'm Stephanie Wood Franklin (she/her), the current WIP is codenamed Voltaire & is "working through religious trauma with archeology & magic" (though that's...in flux). This week's been hard. #WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hello #WeeknightWriters ! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your writing week is going! Or not going, that's valid too

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