mastodon 4.7.3G'day!
I'm a YA Fantasy Writer of epic adventures & conflicts with diverse casts. Also a lover of travel, history and teaching who pens occasional poems.
I'm an AroAce ADHDer & a nonbinary person🏳️🌈. Also an Aussie🇦🇺 on Wurundjeri country.
My YA Fantasy Books: https://elisecarlson.com/books/
On Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/elise-carlson
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#WritersCoffeeClub 3: Is there one piece of well-known writing advice you ignore?
Any and all absolute advice.
My #writing rules:
1. Every rule has its exceptions.
2. Sure, try to understand rules before you break them but more importantly do what works for you!
3. Neurotypical people made the rules. Yes many readers are neurotypical & we need to cater for them, but I am neurodiverse (ADHD) & I will not force my brain to write to meet all neurotypical expectations and I will die on this hill.
@orionkidder@writing.exchange totally with you on this one. I've dropped writing for months at a time because life is busy and burn out or overworking till you get sick sucks.
As a teacher I don't have the headspace to juggle how my 20 something students are performing in 16 different subjects and my cast and plot in my head Monday - Friday. Writing for me is weekends only, and in busy terms, just school holidays.
@joyce@hcommons.social you can do a lot of pantsing with a mystery element, but there's a lot of going back to earlier sections to foreshadow things you didn't know were the end point until you wrote the ending, and its a lot of work (and how I write mystery threads into my fantasy books 😉 😆 ).