mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+pr-41085-a68fedbI'm Northern English, please don't insult me by calling me British. Open source and privacy advocate. Autistic. Working on debut novel.
The profile pic is the Northern English flag envisioned by Patrick Smith in 2003.
#WritersCoffeeClub 27 Feb: Do you edit while you write? What are the pros and cons?
Always. The pros: clean first draft. No war with the internal editor (to bust a myth, what gurus call an internal editor and demand you shut it down is actually your **instinct**). What remains when the draft is completed is a simply a matter of tinkering and fine tuning not re-writes of dozens or hundreds of pages.
The cons: 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔
#ScribesAndMakers 2/26. Do you abandon creative projects? If so, how do you determine when to abandon them?
Not so much abandon, but rip down the scaffold and start again because something is calling the work to stall (perhaps due to over-complication which I'm renown for).
#WritersCoffeeClub 26 Feb: Does your current WIP have an antagonist? Why or why not?
At the moment, yes, as in the "popular" antagonist (Vader, Belloq, etc). But I'm looking to erase them. She's in a war zone, which is antagonistic enough. There's Saudi, Houthi, terrorist cells hiding in the east of Yemen. As my lass points out, there's enough conflict **without** a regular antagonist.
#WordWeavers 26/2: Who in your book is most like a real person you’ve loved IRL?
Mason Quinn. He's based on a Mormon missionary I knew, also called Mason. I need a model to draw from, and the RL Mason was so confused over his faith it kind of made sense to draw from him.
#PennedPossibilities 941 — MC POV: Name one thing you lied to yourself about. Why did you do this?
Kali: Had nough lies in me life. Why do it to meself? Mebbe tad over-harsh on meself to be honest. That ain't lyin, it's knowin who this lass is, what she's capable of. If y' have to lie to y'self, high time y' stopped bein a coward and faced the cack in y' life.