Starting next week, we'll be hosting a writing club for under 18s doing something a bit different: writing interactive fiction. This is a space for people who want to actually write a piece of interactive fiction, so it does assume you'll be putting in time between sessions so that we can all share our progress each week.

More details at thinkersmeetup.com/service-p...

#writing #fiction #interactivefiction

Starting next week, we'll be hosting a writing club for under 18s doing something a bit different: writing interactive fiction. This is a space for people who want to actually write a piece of interactive fiction, so it does assume you'll be putting in time between sessions so that we can all share our progress each week.

More details at thinkersmeetup.com/service-p...

#writing #fiction #interactivefiction

#ScribesAndMakers ☼ 2026.02.17 — Share a fun memory from a past SAM prompt.

I had the honor of being the first Talk to Me Day participant. It was thrilling crazy day of meeting lots of folks and writing until I couldn't write any more. I love to write, and like attention a lot more than most because IRL I am very shy, but that doesn't mean I don't want to communicate! I'm a bit loquacious, and proud of it! My final drafts are a bit more concise. 😋

If you haven't agreed to participate, I highly recommend it.

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#ScribesAndMakers ☼ 2026.02.16 — Do you have a favorite decade of music? Which one(s)?

Judging by what I still listen to these days, yes. I had favorites.

Long ago, it was Motown and The Supremes. Defo 60s. I was a kid. It was the 60s.

I remember becoming aware of Funky Town and transitioning into the beginnings of Alternative and Industrial, That would have been the 80s, maybe the 90s. My CD collection represents this, a collection I don't listen to much anymore.

I skipped the rap craze, still do, but maybe not completely: I do like Faithless and Luscious Jackson, which demonstrates I like a dose musicality (or would that be a toke) with my beat poetry.

What I like now is called House and Progressive and Trance, but most electronica can float my boat. The heyday of that music feels like it was the 2010s. I love this music and attend DJ sessions at conventions. The whole creative aspect of the music scene inspired a number of novelettes.

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#WordWeavers 2026.02.17 — Would you still write if you had to use a typewriter or pen and paper?

I authored many stories, two of which were full-length novels, typewritten on white, powder blue, and awful yellow, all in 1-inch margin manuscript format—which I still have, in a filing cabinet, a locked one, to prove it.

I'd never author anything with pen and paper. The fates augured (at least to my mom) that I'd become a doctor, but I declined, thus I am saddled with impossible-to-read longhand, even when I use a nibbed calligraphy pen. My fingers would immediately develop arthritis to disabuse me of any artistic notions. I'd be covered in ink blots. The tip of my tongue would guarantee I'd be forever forsaken of love.

I could return to using a typewriter. With all that I've learned about editing, I would eschew the whiteout and any attempt to make the initial drafts look good, or—gasp—final. I would instead keep a trusty sharpened pencil beside the steel monstrosity, and cross out liberally, simply typing the corrections as I sally forth. I think I would keep the bottom third of the page blank, drawing a line on every sheet of each newly torn open ream of 20 lb linen to enforce that, so I could draw arrows and retype, or add as quickly as possible so as not to lose the thread of the story. I think it might be possible to power to the end of a story, despite the mistakes and typos and false starts, without attempting anything close to perfection, completing composition much like I complete it now.

Wait!?

Are we talking a manual typewriter, or an electric?

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WordWeavers 2026.02.16 — If your MC had a statue put up in their honor, what would it be for?

Not likely. As a teenager, she might have gotten it for athletics, if they had something like our Olympics, but they don't. At 30, that's still not happening. She's a criminal, and knows it. While she will be amazing and possibly heroic in the future, it's not the type of thing that will earn statues, but she will know and feel proud of the eventual achievement nonetheless. Not in this story, however.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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@warandpeas that hurt... 😉 On another note, strange how many men are concerned about the people that come after they have died, and how they are viewed by the newcomers. These (mostly) men move heaven and earth to build a #fantasy built on #lies. How inconsiderate of them, as if historians weren't already burdened enough trying to uncover the past, and distinguish reality from fiction to present #history as close as possible to be a #fact and not complete #fiction, as we too often find.

#WorldOfOntyre 17

One of my upcoming projects, probably in early summer, will be to go through Book-7 of the Kovenlore Chronicles, Wrath of Purpose, and make some key changes.

As I’ve performed the targeted edits of each novel, I’ve gained insight into issues with the last book. They won’t take long, but have to happen.

I’m aiming for right after I publish Book-4 this spring, and am excited about doing it.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Fiction

#ScribesAndMakers ☼ 2026.02.16 — Do you have a favorite decade of music? Which one(s)?

Judging by what I still listen to these days, yes. I had favorites.

Long ago, it was Motown and The Supremes. Defo 60s. I was a kid. It was the 60s.

I remember becoming aware of Funky Town and transitioning into the beginnings of Alternative and Industrial, That would have been the 80s, maybe the 90s. My CD collection represents this, a collection I don't listen to much anymore.

I skipped the rap craze, still do, but maybe not completely: I do like Faithless and Luscious Jackson, which demonstrates I like a dose musicality (or would that be a toke) with my beat poetry.

What I like now is called House and Progressive and Trance, but most electronica can float my boat. The heyday of that music feels like it was the 2010s. I love this music and attend DJ sessions at conventions. The whole creative aspect of the music scene inspired a number of novelettes.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
photographer chef cooking
#fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion #music

#ScribesAndMakers ☼ 2026.02.17 — Share a fun memory from a past SAM prompt.

I had the honor of being the first Talk to Me Day participant. It was thrilling crazy day of meeting lots of folks and writing until I couldn't write any more. I love to write, and like attention a lot more than most because IRL I am very shy, but that doesn't mean I don't want to communicate! I'm a bit loquacious, and proud of it! My final drafts are a bit more concise. 😋

If you haven't agreed to participate, I highly recommend it.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
photographer chef cooking
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

#Writing #WritingCommunity #imagination #storytelling #fiction inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Be aware of which dramatic mod...

#WordWeavers 2026.02.17 — Would you still write if you had to use a typewriter or pen and paper?

I authored many stories, two of which were full-length novels, typewritten on white, powder blue, and awful yellow, all in 1-inch margin manuscript format—which I still have, in a filing cabinet, a locked one, to prove it.

I'd never author anything with pen and paper. The fates augured (at least to my mom) that I'd become a doctor, but I declined, thus I am saddled with impossible-to-read longhand, even when I use a nibbed calligraphy pen. My fingers would immediately develop arthritis to disabuse me of any artistic notions. I'd be covered in ink blots. The tip of my tongue would guarantee I'd be forever forsaken of love.

I could return to using a typewriter. With all that I've learned about editing, I would eschew the whiteout and any attempt to make the initial drafts look good, or—gasp—final. I would instead keep a trusty sharpened pencil beside the steel monstrosity, and cross out liberally, simply typing the corrections as I sally forth. I think I would keep the bottom third of the page blank, drawing a line on every sheet of each newly torn open ream of 20 lb linen to enforce that, so I could draw arrows and retype, or add as quickly as possible so as not to lose the thread of the story. I think it might be possible to power to the end of a story, despite the mistakes and typos and false starts, without attempting anything close to perfection, completing composition much like I complete it now.

Wait!?

Are we talking a manual typewriter, or an electric?

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

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#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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#WordWeavers 2026.02.16 — If your MC had a statue put up in their honor, what would it be for?

Not likely. As a teenager, she might have gotten it for athletics, if they had something like our Olympics, but they don't. At 30, that's still not happening. She's a criminal, and knows it. While she will be amazing and possibly heroic in the future, it's not the type of thing that will earn statues, but she will know and feel proud of the eventual achievement nonetheless. Not in this story, however.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

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#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
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#WorldOfOntyre 17

One of my upcoming projects, probably in early summer, will be to go through Book-7 of the Kovenlore Chronicles, Wrath of Purpose, and make some key changes.

As I’ve performed the targeted edits of each novel, I’ve gained insight into issues with the last book. They won’t take long, but have to happen.

I’m aiming for right after I publish Book-4 this spring, and am excited about doing it.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Fiction

#WordWeavers 2026.02.15 — Describe your MC’s eyes.

She's noticeably nearsighted, and it will affect her work when following people. Her eyesight is about 20/25. Most day angels have around 20/6, similar to an eagle's. Figuring out what people are carrying from rooftop height, or even whom they are from a block away can be challenging for her.

Since I write 1st person narrative, it will take another character to describe her eyes to me and so far I don't know even their color, let alone their shape or size.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WordWeavers 2026.02.15 — Describe your MC’s eyes.

She's noticeably nearsighted, and it will affect her work when following people. Her eyesight is about 20/25. Most day angels have around 20/6, similar to an eagle's. Figuring out what people are carrying from rooftop height, or even whom they are from a block away can be challenging for her.

Since I write 1st person narrative, it will take another character to describe her eyes to me and so far I don't know even their color, let alone their shape or size.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

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#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#WorldOfOntyre 15

Halfway!

On the targeted edit of Book-5, that is.

This means I’m exactly on schedule, which has never happened during a targeted edit (I started on January 1st). Typically, I’m 1-2 weeks behind.

There’s a catch, though. After I finish Book-5 I also have to go through the novella, Trellis House. Even so, this is a big deal. It’s proof that I’m getting better at this. At last!

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