No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.
I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.
okay SO. Just FYI i have an insider contact and i asked him about this new google drive nsfw scare.
backing up is never a bad idea.
99% of people will be unaffected, and this is NOT a crackdown on having nsfw content on gdrive
"What I think has happened is that drive has made several updates to its spam/abuse filtering and one of the focuses is trying to catch spammers who share explicit things in docs with random emails. Which is good in theory, but has the potential to hit false positives."
his recommendation is to keep NSFW words out of your doc titles and instead of sharing the "open link", share directly with you beta's email addresses.
It is also more likely to flag up explicit images, though that is less likely to be a fic problem.
If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking...
Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?
Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?
Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?
Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?
Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist's choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren't immediately obvious?
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quite a random thought but a little poll for my writers specifically
1. writer is subjective if you write stuff you’re a writer period idc what it is
2. talking about the aphantasia test specifically, here:
please pick the one you experience most often. i Personally kind of shift between 3-5 so i picked the one i experienced more commonly which is 4.
i’m just curious to see how this affects writers bc i personally believe it has some bearing on how i write and use description and i’m curious to see the spread on others.
If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
Here is a list of (some) ways to fix a draft or story in progress. I started it in the observation journal when I was struggling with some story changes.
In summary, these can be reduced to intensify; focus/tighten; swap/invert. But in a tight spot, specifics are often more useful. And making the list was also important, because it reassured me I knew all these techniques, and had used them before, and should calm down.
List 10 terrible endings (adapted from a Helen Marshall exercise), or just 20 endings. Or 100…
Re-outline it
Map it onto another story (I like to quick-outline fairy tales until one resonates, and then identify the parts to strengthen)
Fill it out as a synopsis questionnaire (I used to use Sue Dennard’s 1-page synopsis to trap story ideas)
Ask — what is the story behind the story?
Change the place
Change the era
Genderflip main character
Genderflip everyone
Change the genre
Change the adjectives
Describe the story in one emotion, & align/adjust
Do the same for each scene/section (see also three moods)
Flip (main) character’s personality (quiet to loud, etc)
What happens after
What happens before
What’s happening at the same time
It’s a metaphor for: ___
Pick/change emotional note for end
Scene-map
Match to 3-act structure
Match to 5-act structure
Give characters a preoccupation or secret
Start it later
Start it earlier
End it earlier
End it later
Map it onto a song
Blow something up
Make everything worse
Change [define & intensify] the aesthetic
Explain the reasons
Invert
Make it/ the weak bits A Whole Thing
Make it/ the weak bits a Good/Bad Thing
Make it/ the weak bits The Shape of the World
Tell from a non-obvious point of view (see also: by whom and to whom, and some less common points of view)
Change the type of character in the role (think archetypes and stereotypes)
I might add more as I go. But in the meantime: hey, my debut collection of short stories, KINDLING, is now out from Small Beer Press (in the USA, and coming soon to Australia). It includes the new story “Annie Coal”. And if you look closely at the journal page above, you’ll see that was the story I was editing when I made this list.
In the Renegade Bindery Discord Server, we are once again running Binderary during the month of February. Attendance is free, and a link to the 18+ Discord Server can be found on our carrd.
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Here's the list of who's running the week 1 workshops:
Renegade Wrap-up 2023!: @robins-egg-bindery, @fanboundbooks, @celestial-sphere-press
Split Board Bindings!: @misanthropiczombie
Decorative techniques: from paint pen to gold leaf.: @blackoakbindery
Affinity publisher tutorial (Beginner Workshop): @kate2kat
Typesetting & Book Design for Beginners: @bearclubbooks
Typesetting Digital Formats: @sayornispress
Typesetting in Word 365 for PC: @no-name-publishing