mastodon 4.7.3Retired. Fiber arts. Books. Now writing and publishing SF&F.
#ScribesAndMakers 3 Are you more comfortable communicating verbally (or signing/ other non-written) or in writing?
I am very text-oriented (that conversation could have been an email) which is arguably different from being writing-oriented. The only fully connected writing I produce any more is my signature, and I don't produce much other hand writing.
I love the look of good handwriting and calligraphy, but as a hook-handed lefty with slightly hyper-mobile joints, find writing a nuisance.
#ScribesAndMakers It's 2 am here... I''ll be back answering questions after some sleep.
#WritersCoffeeClub Sometimes plot holes are where you plant the cuttings that will grow into the next volume.
#WordWeavers 14: Is selling your work for money important to you when you write?
In the early 90s a big trad publisher offered to take a second look at my novel if I rewrote it to make the story-line more conventional and removed the queer content from the character- and world-building.
I had friends in and around the publishing industry: from writers to retail, and I knew by then that software engineering was (sometimes) creatively satisfying and far more likely to pay a living wage. 1/
#WordWeavers 6. If you have several stories, which one should a new reader start with?
The first book of my series is Heir of the Bindings, Elderkin Chronicles Volume I
https://www.books2read.com/HeirOfTheBindings
Volume II, Broken Oaths & Boundaries,, is also available, but they are tightly linked, so starting with volume I is advisable.
https://books2read.com/BrokenOathsBoundaries
Volume III, working title: Duke of the Elderkin, is in progress and should be out sometime this year.
#ScribesAndMakers 20 Self-promotion day. Shame optional.
Elsewhere in the multiverse is a World with a region and history not entirely unlike our central Europe in 1700, But besides the political and sectarian struggles we might find spookily familiar, that World has been shaped by frequent visits by eldritch creatures from beyond space and time that we have been spared.
2 novels in the Elderkin Chronicles are available in print, ebook, and library loan channels (See alt text for info).
#ScribesAndMakers 27 Splat?
Sorry about that.... Rocs are not really elephant-sized, but you wouldn't know it from that now, would you? Could be worse: you might have been standing in the open instead of under the porch roof.
#WordWeavers 7. Look around and describe an object as if it were a mysterious item (no name, no idea of it's purpose).
A metal pole reaches skyward. Some branches are firmly attached, others, held on by friction, have migrated to the downwind side. Three of the branches support oddly shaped pendants: one tubular, one roofed and floored with a cylindrical cage between, one odd-shaped wooden frame around a flat square metal cage.
(Cue the archeologists: "Probably a ritual object")
#ScribesAndMakers 28: How did your month go?
Wordcount hasn't changed much, but about 10K of the words are different words. I think I figured out how the rest of the restructuring needs to work, but at the moment I am poking at it rather than cranking along...
partly due to a lack of energy on my part: too much dry weather with very strong winds is stressful.
#WordWeavers 27. Which character would be the most fun to be around?
I was going to say Fritzel, but my characters insist it is Count Valens of the North Valley in Traventi. He had a few lines in volume 2 and a few more in what I have written of volume 3. Where he shows up looking like an Asian dragon and wearing a silk scarf and a reasonable approximation of aviator goggles.
I guess if Adrasteia is Everyone's Aunt, Valens is the Fun Uncle Who Parties?
Don't ask me, I just work here...
#WordWeavers 19: If your SC was going on a trip, would they pack light or take too much?
It would depend on the reason for the trip, the route, the planned destination, and whether travel will be by horse/mule-back or by water. It would also depend on whether a return trip was included in the plans.
When Fritzel relocated to Karnburg to be a member of Franz-Karl's household there, packing was thorough because anything left behind in Traventi might not be easilyreplaceable in Karnburg.
#ScribesAndMakers 8 Is there a country other than your own that influences your creativity?
There's a reason I create my own worlds...
The WIPs are more inspired by history than geography. But I did have a Japanese-inspired period in the late 80s/early 90s. I have a trunk novel from then that had gotten the full Tolkien: maps, appendices, etc. At some point I may do a refresh edit and publish it, probably ebook only.