Love Austen or the Brontes and need something to watch? I've got you covered! Over 100 Austen and Bronte movies is ready for your consumption! https://www.excessivelydiverting.net/ #AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

#3GoodThings Apr 5

1. it's cold, but it's sunny

2. I'm sitting outside on a bench in the Britzer Garden and can hardly believe I'm in the middle of Berlin

3. Scrolling through my #writingcommunity hashtags and enjoying reading all those responses.

Sometimes, I forget how kind and thoughtful most people are.

#ThreeGoodThings
#DreiGuteDinge

#WritersCoffeeClub 4/5: Sum up your current WIP in five words.

Wooing a Hacker in Denial.

A Wolf's Mate, Wolves of the South 9

#WritingCommunity
#WolfShifter

night frost
the plum blossom
caught off-guard

#dailyhaikuprompt - plum
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#flowers
#sakura
#blossom

@dailyhaikuprompt

@poetry

@haiku

So who's working on the creative project where I can download a car, I'm still waiting...

@writers @writingcommunity @writing @humour

#WritingMemes #Memes
#Author #Authors #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #AmWriting #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing

How does your character's behaviour change over the course of the story? What's something they would never do at the beginning of the tale that they will definitely do at the end?

#ScribesAndMakers 2504.04 — Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down? CW: self-analysis

Oddly enough, this devolves to gender roles and the confusion an autistic can discover in any social illogic. As a child, I quickly evolved into a listener, observer, and a pleaser with my shyness providing me an escape route from any confrontative situation—things I worked on (had to!) as I became an adult. Wanting to be an author is not entirely compatible with these personality traits regardless of gender—there is a definite forwardness and egoist nuance to insisting on communicating one's ideas—and I couldn't rely on others to meditate for me.

I got praise growing up, especially when doing well in school. Then again, my mother had me convinced I'd die if I didn't bring home top marks. I mostly got to hide from praise. It's not that I don't, didn't, like it, but I could better process it unobserved and generally make it appropriately and comfortably undeserved. A pleaser can't accept being pleased well!

Yeah, I got help. If you've heard of EST, I did that.

Now my reaction to praise is a Venn diagram of who, what, and where. If it is online, where nobody has to see me physically react, I'm a lot more copacetic with it. In person, it can be uncomfortable. I can still find ways to minimize the input but as I get older I'm better at fairly assessing my abilities. I do remember having this one fan at conventions that would greet me. She really wanted a sequel. Maybe she sensed I was shy, I don't know. But I grew to like her reminder.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool

#gender #fiction #writer #author #photographer #chef #cooking
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

Blowin' in the wind
Leaves mimic a kite in flight
Without strings attached

#dailyhaikuprompt - kite - leaves
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity

Are you in Chicago or Cincinnati? Tomorrow (April 5th) at 11am, the Under Cover Book Club will be hiding copies of my novel THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS around the city! Check Instagram for clues to the secret location: undercover513 for Cincinnati or undercoverbookclub312 for Chicago. Happy hunting!

https://www.undercover513.com/home

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Poll time!

I'm publishing my first middle grade (MG) story, and need to set a price for the PRINT format. It will be 5x8 inches trim size, with 104 story pages.

I don't have kids, so I'm not sure how to price it. If you have middle schoolers, enjoy reading MG stories, or publish your own MG fiction, what's an acceptable price?

Again, this is for the PRINT format. Thanks!

#Today 04

Good day!

*An ice flow hidden in Hellgate Canyon.

Editing is truly like freeing a sculpture from within the stone. To think, I used to despise revising.

It’s about discovery, about going deeper into emotions—or deeper into the forest. It’s about possibilities.

Be everwell.

#WordWeavers 4, Whose advice about your writing would you follow?

I've learned to only listen to solicited advice.

In my view, not everyone is good at giving advice. My stars, does the interwebs ooze with folks spouting advice all over the place, stating all sorts of opinions and preferences as if they're newly discovered, intrinsic truths about the world.

#ScribesAndMakers 4, Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down?

As a woman, it seems like you're supposed to play it down. My mother and her sisters are three remarkable spirits who have covertly done so much for so many, but will never, ever acknowledge anything. Which frustrates me.

So, I get irked by my own awkwardness and try to shake it off to embrace some praise. While unabashedly complementing and praising those around me.

#ScribesAndMakers 4/3. Would you like to form a writers/creative group?

I have what I call my "Mastermind". Originally three writers, now we're down to my friend and me.

It's been immensely helpful.

We meet weekly online, share experiences, knowledge and most of all, we plot together, we talk about characters and what readers like.

I can very much recommend doing something like this.

#WritingCommunity who use #IngramSpark or people general #POD experience — advice needed re colour range for printing.

The ebook cover for my next release is mildly yellow; the print version comes out pretty much white. This has happened with a couple of previous books (apparently I like a pale cream colour in my covers), and I’ve let it roll, but I’d prefer this one to maintain a stronger yellow.

In the interests of not spending $30 a go (postage is a killler here) in adjusting the colour and ordering the proof, is there some way of knowing at what point the colour will be dark enough to be obvious?

(I was going to include a photo, but ironically enough, a cover that looks white to the naked eye comes out cream in the photo )

Quick and dirty writing advice from Trey Parker and Matt Stone. https://youtu.be/vGUNqq3jVLg?si=i-SYrLQiTNgoeUgy #WritingCommunity #Writing #Storytelling

Managed to do a little more work on building up my book today! Figured I'd work a little on my characters, so I wrote out what I have for my main guy and fleshed a couple things out. Need to get religion and local place names settled at some point.

Introducing the Tinker WriterDeck OS!

Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck: A device designed solely for writing.

No distractions.
No internet.
No apps. No games. No social media.

Just writing.

The Tinker WriterDeck is very light weight and specifically seeks to lower the barrier of entry to creating writer decks. It converts older, reused, refurbished, or inexpensive laptops into a dedicated writing machine.

A digital typewriter.

The Tinker WriterDeck sits on top of a "headless" Debian Linux image and boots directly into a console based text editor.

We're using the Tilde Text Editor because it is a simple text editor, has an intuitive User Interface, and allows for customized color schemes for light and dark modes.

Operating System download and instructions on how to convert your laptop into a dedicated writer deck for free are found here: https://tinker.sh

See below for an example of the writer deck in light mode and dark mode.

If anyone has any questions or needs any help setting your laptop up, let me know here!