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masukomi

There are two things I truly believe about #writing

1. representation matters
2. complications make things interesting.

With that in mind, I think about interesting complications, or differences a character might have that would help both of these things.

Sometimes it's big things, like being mute, or trans. Sometimes it's little things that aren't "normal" - whatever the eff "normal" is…

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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)

#WritersCoffeeClub 3/16. What word or phrase do you tend to overuse?

After all these years I have managed to train myself not to overuse anything - except maybe "just".

EDIT: I knew it had to exist and eventually found this site, which detects word echoes and phrase repeats (you can add to their ignore list).

I found it very useful when prepping text for audiobook narrators.

wordsup.co.uk/repetition-analy

wordsup.co.ukRepetition Analyzer - Word Proximity ToolDetect and analyze repeated words and phrases in your text to improve your writing. Useful for blog posts, creative writing, and more.
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wynlim

completed my chiang mai sketchbook and wrote about it:
"I am bad at it, that is why I keep doing it. As I keep doing it, I realise I like doing something I am bad at. I know I am bad at it, I don’t expect much out of it, so therein lies the freedom to do whatever I want, and that is such a freeing experience when doing almost everything else in life comes with constraints, rules and expectations."

winnielim.org/journal/chiang-m

20250312-Scan 10
Winnie Lim · chiang mai’s sketchbookI had only managed to complete roughly one-third of the sketchbook during the trip, and didn't work on it when we first got back. This happened to both my sketchbooks last year for hong kong and korea, so it didn't bode well. Could my japan sketchbook would be my only completed sketchbook in this lifetime?...
#blogging#writing#sketch
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

#PennedPossibilities 615 — What is the best time of day for you to write? (Early or late morning, midday, afternoon, or nighttime?)

Any time I'm well rested, but that almost never happens. I've in my mind that early morning I'd get in the four hours a day, the four days a week, I did when I was young, but I've tried for almost a year now to wake reasonably early and the closest I've gotten is when I wake at 3 am with a story rattling around in my obviously empty skull preventing me from sleeping unless I write it RIGHT NOW.

Thus the not "well rested" bit.

C'est la vie.

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

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Kagan MacTane (he/him)

This dude's getting kissed by 3 women in a row. I thought, "Wait a sec, how much is he enjoying this? I know he's got his t4t dude lover at home, but this guy's homoflexible, right?"

Checked my notes and, no, he's full-on bisexual. Oh, good! He's having *loads* of fun, not just "yeah, kissing is nice, but I'd prefer guys." Yay! I do like it when my characters get to have lots of fun.

(I know, I'll need to get better at putting them in agony. That's gonna suck.)

#writing#AmWriting#queer
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

#PennedPossibilities 614 — SC POV: What is one phrase that you would really like to hear right now?

[SC:] It's wonderful and horribly embarrassing but I've got a crush on my new friend. She saved my life, but then I saved hers in a return, so maybe it's the intensity of that fateful 24 hours. I've only been with men before, even went to the trouble of flying tandem with the bad boy in high school to get him. Somehow she's different, so entirely smarter than me that it isn't funny, but oh so sexy and patient when she teaches a nobody like me things. Hormones don't lie, they just torment you! I know what I feel, and I don't flapping care that I've never felt this way before.

Unfortunately, she's got boyfriends. Two! They're rather important personages, despite being men—and for political reasons she's stated she's pregnant by one of them, but not by which. I think she's making it up, but I wasn't there. Worse, she's gushed about reconciling with her childhood sweetheart (okay, that had been a flapping mess) in that special way that says she's got further plans for the man, and I know for a fact that she's been eyeing her former teammate from the mob, the one I watched her give a kiss that could melt a mountain of ice. It helped melt my heart! I so want to be him, any of them, but I'm missing sir parts.

I'm going from being circumspect to stumbling over my words in an instant. I keep pretending the accidental contract is accidental, or misconstrued. Worse, as her bodyguard in training, I'm around her all the time and am sometime hands-on. I feel like I am going to explode!

[Author writes:] If I ever write this sequel to the story the SC was developed in, it may be from her POV. I don't think it will ruin much to say that if the SC were simply to ask, the words she'd hear might really surprise her.

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

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