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#amwriting

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Excessively Diverting<p>This is a fresh analysis of what Austen novels are appropriate for what circumstance you find yourself in. Honestly? The article is not wrong. (It also includes Austen's unfinished works in the list!)</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/20/where-to-start-with-jane-austen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2025/feb</span><span class="invisible">/20/where-to-start-with-jane-austen</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ReadingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Regency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Regency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Georgian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JaneAusten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JaneAusten</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span></p>
Matthew Merkovich!<p>Rewriting the outline for my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> novel, and the story is so much clearer. All the characters are now alive, and fighting for themselves. What's best is that the whole tale could be serialized as connected short short stories.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a></p>
Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧<p>"You could be a blazing angel, but you just won't stop eating dirt"</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/amwritingfantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwritingfantasy</span></a></p>
trpeal<p>Another good thing is that this is the first week in a LONG time that I've kept to my M-W-F schedule. Which, I know, isn't "Write Every Day," but it's what I can do without burning out.</p><p>I may write some tomorrow, depending, but three days a week is what I aim for.</p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a></p>
trpeal<p>Today was not the most productive writing day in terms of adding to the total word count, but I did delete a whole big section and start over, so I had to make up for that and so any advance beyond it is success.</p><p>I also rearranged a bunch of stuff, chapter-wise to reflect my new approach. Chapter 1 needs to be significantly beefed up compared to Chapter 2, but I can do that.</p><p>I'm growing in to the idea I can write this novel.</p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a></p>
Kagan MacTane (he/him)<p>Not as much writing as I might have liked tonight, but I'm feeling pretty crummy. (I think I may need to resume using a humidifier at night; dehydration while sleeping is not good for me.)</p><p>But I'm getting stuff done, albeit slowly. Revised the opening of a prior vignette that had problems, and now the intro is better.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a></p>
Excessively Diverting<p>Off the top of my head, not all first impressions are correct; patience can be worth it, and there is always hope, to name a few ideas. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ReadingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Regency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Regency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Georgian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EmilyBronte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmilyBronte</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CharlotteBronte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharlotteBronte</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AnneBronte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnneBronte</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Victorian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Victorian</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JaneAusten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JaneAusten</span></a></p>
Morgan Hazelwood<p>OMG. Pantsing is the worst! I've never jumped around so much in a book before. Especially not on a 0 draft! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>I guess we have words like sincerity, integrity... I'll go barking up those trees.</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/AbuseCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseCulture</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a></p>
Katherine Villyard<p>What a great review! <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7310397376" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">goodreads.com/review/show/7310</span><span class="invisible">397376</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fantasy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fantasy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@fedigroups.social</span></a></span></p>
CriticalAI<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalAI</span></a> Guest Forum welcomes op-ed from Ricky D. Crano, a Film and Media Studies Lecturer at UC Irving, on disturbing “AI”-related institutional changes in higher ed </p><p><a href="https://criticalai.org/2025/03/12/guest-forum-ricky-d-cranos-uc-irvines-school-of-humanities-is-shutting-down-critical-ai-research/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">criticalai.org/2025/03/12/gues</span><span class="invisible">t-forum-ricky-d-cranos-uc-irvines-school-of-humanities-is-shutting-down-critical-ai-research/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/criticalAIstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criticalAIstudies</span></a></p>
Excessively Diverting<p>This is a video essay by Michael Brabant from PBS. If you’re not a fan of the video or can’t watch the video, a transcript has been provided.</p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/jane-austen-fans-honor-british-novelists-legacy-250-years-after-her-birth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/newshour/show/jane-aus</span><span class="invisible">ten-fans-honor-british-novelists-legacy-250-years-after-her-birth</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ReadingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Regency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Regency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Georgian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JaneAusten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JaneAusten</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span></p>
Christina Anne Hawthorne<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 13<br>Self-Promotion</p><p>Kovenlore Chronicles is a 7-novel <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventure</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/romantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>romantasy</span></a> series, Riparia Dellbane the unlikely heroine pulled into helping save dystopian Carrdia. There’s elaborate worldbuilding &amp; a diverse cast.</p><p>All 7 novels (plus 2 novellas) are already written.</p><p>The 1st book in the series, Trust in the Forgotten, is published, the sequel coming in late spring. Currently on Amazon, it’ll eventually go wide.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fiction</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/FantasyFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FantasyFiction</span></a></p>
Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁<p>When your most favouritist food editor EVER asks you to present at her food writing workshop OF COURSE YOU SAY YES.</p><p>Colleen was so instrumental in what I’ve been able to do (and continue to do, tbh), I’m more than thrilled to be at her workshop and pass morsels of info and encouragement!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Workshops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Workshops</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.elorawritingworkshops.com/register/p/saturday-april-26-2025-food-writing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">elorawritingworkshops.com/regi</span><span class="invisible">ster/p/saturday-april-26-2025-food-writing</span></a></p>
Kagan MacTane (he/him)<p>Honestly, finding different ways of saying "they clinked their glasses together" is going to be the harder part. That's getting a little repetitive.</p><p>Again, I'll fix it later. (And learning to say, "I'll fix it later" rather than trying to fix everything on the fly is an important learning experience.) I'm not sure *how* I'll fix it (possibly just eliding it sometimes?), but again, that can wait.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a></p>
Kagan MacTane (he/him)<p>My characters are out on the town, and there are a lot of toasts (including the general-purpose ones that are just, "Cheers!"). As a result, I need *a bunch* of synonyms for "drank". (Swigged, sipped, knocked back, threw back, etc...)</p><p>(This is not a request for synonyms; I know where to find thesauruses. Also, I'll just deal with it in the editing round; I can afford to be a little repetitive in the first draft. I'm just noticing, that's all.)</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a></p>
Steph (they/them)<p>The second draft of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AHouseOfFreeWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AHouseOfFreeWomen</span></a> is on Chapter Eighteen and sits at about 66k words so far. My sadsack investigator thinks he knows who committed the murders. The only problem is that he can't prove it. </p><p>Four more chapters to go. Hurtling towards the finish line of this draft. Once it's done I'll be sending it out to literally anyone who expresses an interest in an industrial fantasy police procedural which is also about oppression and marginalisation and the disconnect between state-sanctioned punishment and true justice. </p><p>Also it's a fair-play whodunnit so people can try to work it out themselves as they read. The clues are all there...</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/amWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amWriting</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Katherine Villyard<p>On drinking, etc. <a href="https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2025/03/12/on-drinking-etc/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">katherinevillyard.com/2025/03/</span><span class="invisible">12/on-drinking-etc/</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/amwritingfantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwritingfantasy</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@fedigroups.social</span></a></span></p>
Sylvia<p>This doesn’t mean that this idea will work. That this idea will grow into at least a novella. </p><p>I go where the ideas go. Sometimes that’s to the quiet graveyard of uneditable stories, sometimes to final draft. </p><p>I guess me being a pantser and not a plotter means that I do way more work than them to find out a story doesn’t work. </p><p>But nothing beats the feeling of writing something and suddenly feeling elated at what your fingers magicked onto the screen. </p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a></p>
Mark A. Rayner<p>Ernest Hemingway’s 5 Surprisingly Easy Rules for Writing</p><p>1. Kill adjectives<br>2. Murder your darlings<br>3. Slaughter long sentences<br>4. Exterminate repetition<br>5. Whiskey, but only after s̶l̶a̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶b̶l̶o̶o̶d̶l̶u̶s̶t̶ writing</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humour</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satire</span></a></p>
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