kyle
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🇨🇦<they/them> writer, reader, lover of happy endings. Jack-of-all-trades, tragically a master of none. Please, I’d just like to be good at one thing. “If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.” R.A. Salvatore 🚫No AI
#AugCharWork 2 Harmony Dominant: Walking the Earth Secondary: The Cynic
DD Ward ..."Sapphic Dr. DOOM"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 4d agoAugust Character Workshop Day 2. #AugCharWork Archetypes I would suggest to you that a good character needs to align, at least somewhat to an archetype. Archetypes tell readers how to relate to the character.
#AugCharWork 1 I need Harmony to do 3 things. Pursue the woman whose mind she can't read. Change her selfish yet self-destructive and isolationist ways. I need Harmony to open herself up to her own powers and learn to control them instead of suppressing them. Then she can make a difference. 1/2
DD Ward ..."Sapphic Dr. DOOM"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 5d agoAugust Character Workshop Day 1. #AugCharWork What Do They Need to Do? What do you, the author, need the character to do to make the story work? If this is your romantic lead, they need to fall in love. If this is your mystery detective, they need to detect.
The credits just rolled on the last episode of Andor. This show was everything I love about Star Wars. I am 100% going to watch it again. First I’m going to watch Rogue One for the first time in years. I wish they would make more like this instead of running back to the space wizards again.
I kind of want my second book to have mixed POVs. I’m talking two 1st person and one 3rd person with another occasional 3rd person who only pops up when necessary. Am I out of line? Any chance that could work? Do I pick one person to be 1st and accept the rest as 3rd? #writeSky #writingCommunity
#QueerWriters Saturday: Well I didn’t get to the inciting incident this week. I did manage to write 3 scenes and plot out another 5 in detail. Which includes the inciting incident so that’s a win at least. This is the first time I’ve attempted multi POV and it’s a lot of work.
AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 5d ago#queerwriters Saturday: Check in Day! How was your week? Did you accomplish what you set out to do? Share your progress, encourage, cheer, and support others! #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
So do other people just stop reading wherever they want or am I weird? Apparently you are supposed to read until the end of a chapter? #bookSky
#SummerOfStories 28 I am currently reading The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. TBR includes A Pirate’s Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne and Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I am also eagerly awaiting Alecto The Ninth sometime in the next decade 😜
Kayleigh Diaz @kayleighdiaz.com · last wk.28 | What are your most recent reading recs, what are you currently reading, and/or what's on your TBR? #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt
#queerwriters Monday: I’m still letting Magic and Ash rest but I’ve started work on the second book in the trilogy. I’ve got a pretty good idea of the plot and new characters. My goal is to get to the inciting incident this week. Hopefully I’ll have a good handle on the antagonist by then…
AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · last wk.#queerwriters Monday: Goals Day! What do you hope to accomplish this week? Can be anything, big or small! Let us know so we can cheer you on! #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
A couple years ago my mom gave me a box filled with all her favourite recipes handwritten on cards. I have made the banana bread recipe half a dozen times and it has collapsed in on itself every time. I’ve been trying to figure out why. The recipe she gave me before didn’t have that problem. #baking
#SummerOfStories 24 Little Kyle: Your writing stinks. But don’t worry, you can learn. I know the idea of structure goes against everything you are but take a minute and learn. It’ll save us a lot of energy and hard feelings. Most importantly, write for yourself. Write for fun. Just keep writing.
Kayleigh Diaz @kayleighdiaz.com · 2w ago24 | If you could go back in time to when you first began writing, how would you counsel your younger self? What advice or tips would you offer that you think would have made a difference? #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt
#SummerOfStories 10 I’m able to listen to music or podcasts at work so I listened to a few writing podcasts. Half the time I’d be too busy day dreaming about my story to hear what they were saying. The other big one has been the monthly prompt games. I don’t think I would have finished otherwise.
Kayleigh Diaz @kayleighdiaz.com · 4w ago10 | Do you have a resource that has helped you *most* with your writing? We've all prob heard of Save the Cat, On Writing, maybe Story Genius. Can you credit another resource? How about beta reading? Simple practice/trial and error? #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt
Cats have excellent night vision. So, if they step on your face in the middle of the night, it's not an accident. It’s deliberate.
Just biked for the first time this summer and went 7 km. I think I’m going to regret this tomorrow. 🚲 I’m not young anymore.
Trying to come up with a lie for my character to believe. AKA which one of my personality defects shall I imbue on my imagined children. People pleasing? Conflict avoidance? 🤔 #writesky #amwriting
I used to answer "plotter" before I saw what other people meant by "outline" 🤣 I have to know the destination I'm writing towards (beats, setpieces, "mie" for lack of a better term), but I leave myself a lot of flexibility when spinning out the connective tissue. #SummerOfStories
Kayleigh Diaz @kayleighdiaz.com · 4w ago7 | Describe your writing process. Plotter, pantser, plantser? Thrower-of-ink-blots onto a blank canvas hoping to Rorschach something into existence? 😅 #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt
Fellow authors: without any context, what’s the first line of your current WIP? From Magic and Ash: As I dangled in the air on the precipice of life and death I thought of the woman I loved, the magic I didn't want, and the man who had almost killed me once before.
Jax Devora (is writing)@jaxdevora.bsky.social · last mo.Fellow authors: Without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? From Beeslingers: Countless stars spread over San Valentino Valley, like a silver swarm watching over the city with its brick palaces and its sleeping citizens.
I used to be a pantser but not anymore. I am a planner and I LOOOOOOOVE planning now. World building, Magic Systems, Characters, Families Backstories It's so much fun to build and plan - In turn, making writing the story so much easier. #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt
Kayleigh Diaz @kayleighdiaz.com · 4w ago7 | Describe your writing process. Plotter, pantser, plantser? Thrower-of-ink-blots onto a blank canvas hoping to Rorschach something into existence? 😅 #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt
#SummerOfStories 7 I am a plantster ish. Magic and Ash started with the scene of her falling down a cliff. Then I put a very rough one page outline together of each plot point I wanted to hit. Save the cat style. Then I just kinda started writing and plotting as I went. Like this gif:
Gromit Laying Train Tracks
Alt: Gromit Laying Train Tracks Gromit Laying Train Tracks as the train goes. Gromit is a dog from the claymation series Wallace and Gromit
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Kayleigh Diaz @kayleighdiaz.com · 4w ago7 | Describe your writing process. Plotter, pantser, plantser? Thrower-of-ink-blots onto a blank canvas hoping to Rorschach something into existence? 😅 #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt
Drop a GIF that might represent you: Unfortunately true
The Good Place: Chidi's Indecision
Alt: The Good Place: Chidi's Indecision He says “Making decisions isn’t necessarily my strong suit.” He is wearing an off white (kind of?) short sleeve button up shirt and black framed glasses.
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N.G.Chloe(Glassflowers: Pixiv Printify)@ngchloe.bsky.social · last mo.Drop a GIF that might represent you
The Bridgerton soundtrack is amazing for writing Gaslamp Fantasy! Why didn’t I think of this sooner. I love the covers! #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky
#SummerOfStories 6 Oh writing… the worst part of writing for me is finding the words to convey what I’m imagining and then trying to convince myself that whatever I just wrote down isn’t embarrassingly bad. Mostly I get in my own way overthinking and questioning my ideas.
Kayleigh Diaz @kayleighdiaz.com · last mo.6 | What's the most difficult part of writing for you? Finding motivation? Generating ideas? The technical aspects of writing? Editing? Reception? Rummaging the food cabinet for a satisfying caloric muse? 😅 #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt
