mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06SFF writer. Recovering human. Disabled dork. She/her. Pronounced NESH-uh.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 23/9: What little thing helps me write?
A blanket. I'm usually cold so a blanket helps me not shiver into a hunched up crab shaped object.
I'm also experimenting with a cushion on my lap (bonus extra warmth) to put my keyboard on to help with ergonomic issues.
I've just hit 40k on a second-ish draft of a novel I'm referring to as "vampire witch shit." Yay!
I just finished reading "How to live safely in a science fictional universe," by Charles Yu, and I have to tell you about it.
We follow a time machine repair guy kind of through time, but also not through time, with his dog and pilot, who also don't actually exist. It's so ridiculously fantastic, but also heartfelt.
It's a science fiction story of family written in physics and maths, and it was so fucking delightful to find such a thing!
#WritersCoffeeClub July 31: End of month roundup: what will you do differently next month?
I submitted three (3) things this month, which is far more than I've managed in a long time.
What changed? I found some extra confidence lying around, and some magazines/markets opened that I thought would be a good fit, so used those as a deadline.
The perils of searching Glasgow Libraries: Sometimes your search yields manuscripts in Latin from 1618, and next minute you find you've spent an hour down an unexpected research hole.
The British public seem averse to the reality that covid is still a thing to be wary of, let alone the potential life altering consequences of it.
This quote here is bang on.
How do you lot record/note your ideas? More specifically, how do you corral your ideas together?
I've been using:
1)a notes app on my phone that isn't backed up or synced anywhere -Joplin
2)a notes app on my phone/computer that is synced (but sometimes unreliable) -Standard Notes
3)notes to myself in Signal
4)hand written notes in no less than 3 physical note books
5)a selection of documents (.odt or .txt)
It isn't a system; it's chaos. I know this. Halp.
#writerscoffeeclub Jan 25. What comes first: setting, character, plot? What comes next?
Sometimes a title arrives in my mind and it demands I write a story that goes with it.
But usually I have a couple of each category (plot, setting, characters) floating around in my imagination and I play about with seeing how they fit together... until the Idea strikes and I have something.
I just had to say I just installed Scrivener on my (Ubuntu) laptop and it was a delightful experience.
(The version native to linux comes as an AppImage, so the hardest part is installing the FUSE library, which is stupidly easy.)
Hey! The UK govt consultation on kids vs the internet closes tomorrow night. Which means you still have time to do their survey/tell them their ideas are stupid and age restrictions won't keep anyone safe.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation
I was writing a wee serial on substack before I abandoned the platform, but I also abandoned the story.
Here, rising from the ashes... A pair of witches!
“Succumb to my devil vagina magic!” Shouted the naked woman as she ran down the street, the wind and rain not bothering her at all.
The suited guy she was chasing ran like his life depended on it. It didn’t, but he didn’t know that."
I wrote a wee poem over on https://buymeacoffee.com/mnescedrake/cfs-diaries
It's not behind a paywall or anything, and you should read it, not least because it includes the line:
"You are filled with high quality snot and letting it out is not a shame."
I've started playing around with Inky with the notion of turning a short story of mine (already published) into a text adventure.
