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@cstross@wandering.shop · 2d ago
#WordWeavers 17 March: Did you ever receive formal education in creative writing? Not beyond English 'O' levels in school back in the very early 80s. I'm an autodidact (and probably AuDHD on top). So it took me a lot longer to get moving than somebody neurotypical who came up through an MFA course.
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@willelm@indieauthors.social · 2d ago
#WordWeavers March 17. Did you ever receive formal education in creative writing? Some, not much. I took a course in college and it didn't go well. My instructor was very particular and kind of elitist about proper writing. It did not align with my interests.
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@AlexCorby@indieauthors.social · 2d ago
#WordWeavers 3/17 Did you ever receive formal education in creative writing? I had decent English courses in high school, but the best education I had in writing probably came from clown school. Actually, "clown school" is what my patronizing friends and relatives called it. It was a year-long intensive training at the Dell' Arte International School of Physical Theater in Blue Lake, CA. Clown was just one part of the curriculum. Our plays and projects were 'written' by the actors as we developed the scene, not before. In addition we had weekly writing labs where we were encouraged to spend 10-15 minutes writing nonstop on a given prompt. When I say nonstop I mean it! We were forbidden to stop moving our pens even if we ran out of ideas. "Write the alphabet if you have to, write garbly-guk, just keep writing and don't worry about what comes out" Obviously this isn't how you get a final draft, nor is it the best strategy for everyone, but I for one found it very liberating and was frequently surprised by what my brain churned out when given the space to do it.
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@saxbrightwell@indieauthors.social · Mar 09, 2026
#WordWeavers 9/3: If you need to share an important piece of history/lore, what’s your approach that avoids infodumping? A few things: -epistolary or flashback prologue -dialogue -POV character explains BRIEFLY in their head like they would out loud IMO the key is always to keep it short.
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@willelm@indieauthors.social · Mar 08, 2026
#WordWeavers March 8. How do you approach stereotypes while creating characters? I don't think much about stereotypes while creating characters. Since it's a secondary world, the stereotypes of our world don't really play into it. I do have in-world stereotypes that the characters talk about, but that's only really for some specific purpose.
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@saxbrightwell@indieauthors.social · Mar 07, 2026
#WordWeavers 7/3: How do you define a “strong” character? How do you create one? "Strong Female Character" is a bitterly sarcastic meme for a reason. I think everyone agrees by now that strongly-WRITTEN characters, regardless of gender, are vivid, flawed, and when they change you know why.
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@fairhavenguy@universeodon.com · Mar 06, 2026
#WordWeavers Mar. 6: If you have several stories, which one should a new reader start with? My published fiction appeared in long-running serial form, so the best place to start is with #1 and work your way through them. The weekly "Report From Potters Point" was published in three local Massachusetts newspapers between 1984 and 1987. Circulation was a few thousand copies a week by Hathaway Publishing Co. of Somerset Massachusetts. Those have never been digitized or made available online. They were ink on newsprint only. I have the originals typewritten on copy paper. The monthly Report From Potter's Point was published in a magazine distributed in my hometown by my wife and I between late 2001 and early 2011. Some of those were enlarged and updated stories from the '80s run, but most were new, following the same characters. I have those in digital form and have been republishing them on Substack. To read them in order, you need to start with "December 2001" and work your way through. https://thereportfrompotterspoint.substack.com/
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@willelm@indieauthors.social · Mar 06, 2026
#WordWeavers Mar 6. If you have several stories, which one should a new reader start with? If not yet published, what other works might your readers enjoy? Nope, only the one book published so far. Still working on the sequels.
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@saxbrightwell@indieauthors.social · Mar 05, 2026
#WordWeavers 5/3: What's the most supportive/uplifting thing you’ve heard related to writing? I've lost the source but it went something like: "'Write from experience' is bad advice. If we strictly did that most of us would have 2 or 3 poems, MAYBE a short story. We write from empathy."
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@willelm@indieauthors.social · Mar 05, 2026
#WordWeavers Mar 5. What’s the most supportive/uplifting thing you heard related to writing? For me? That other people have liked the story and want to continue reading it. In general? That other people find this whole thing a bit overwhelming. It can be a lot to take on and I certainly feel it at times, so it's nice to know that I am not alone.
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@brightontaylor@indieauthors.social · Mar 05, 2026
#WordWeavers 3.5 — What’s the most supportive / uplifting thing you heard related to writing? No one can tell the story like you can - your unique experiences are important.
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@saxbrightwell@indieauthors.social · Mar 04, 2026
#WordWeavers 4/3: When was the last time your MC lied? Why? In my current WIP chapter, letting people believe his mentee didn't meet a certain dangerous individual, to spare his mentee some family drama.
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@willelm@indieauthors.social · Mar 04, 2026
#WordWeavers Mar 4. When was the last time your MC lied? Why? She lied in the scene I'm currently writing because she can't let her neighbor know where she was the night prior because of (spoilers).
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@willelm@indieauthors.social · Mar 02, 2026
#WordWeavers Mar 2. Do you write scenes out of order? If so, how do you decide their arrangement? Not intentionally. I have had scenes I've moved around while editing, but I usually write scenes in the order they appear in the book, not always in timeline order though. For the scenes I've moved around, I just found they fit better in another place. The characters revealed something better left for later. Plus, I changed some of the lead up to the scene.
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@saxbrightwell@indieauthors.social · Mar 02, 2026
#WordWeavers 2/3: Do you write scenes out of order? If so, how do you decide their arrangement? The nitty-gritty construction has to happen linearly, but there are usually a handful of scenes that are very vivid in my mind before I begin, and I'm often writing toward those.
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@therivercrow@bardicperspiration.club · Mar 01, 2026
#WordWeavers 1 Mar: What is your greatest fear about your characters? That I'll forget them. That my autistic hyperfixation will fade and I'll stop writing, stop sharing, stop playing, stop thinking about them. And they'll fade into the forgotten. Will they still exist out there somewhere in the multiverse?
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@fairhavenguy@universeodon.com · Feb 28, 2026
This month's republished installment of a serialized column I wrote for ten years between 2001 and 2011. The Report From Potter's Point, originally published in March 2003. (Feel free to jump back to the beginning and read them in order.) #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCoffeeClub #WordWeavers #Fiction https://thereportfrompotterspoint.substack.com/p/the-report-from-potters-point-march-8d8
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@fairhavenguy@universeodon.com · Feb 28, 2026
#WordWeavers Extra. Do you write scenes out of order? Not usually, but somewhere around chapter 6, I decided I needed to have another chapter earlier. I ended up adding two chapters before chapter five. For the most part, though, I write in order from beginning to end.
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@saxbrightwell@indieauthors.social · Feb 28, 2026
#WordWeavers 28/2: Would you like to meet any of your characters? Would you tell them who you are? Yes, except for the villains, and no, absolutely not. I made enough bad things happen they'd be well within their rights to make "God is dead" happen with their own hands.
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@theteapixie@mstdn.ca · Feb 28, 2026
#WordWeavers 2026.02.30 — Do you write scenes out of order? It’s a technique I adopted in Uni. Write the end first. It means I know exactly where I am headed. It can be altered, if/when/where necessary. Then I write the beginning, dropping hints throughout. I drop little items throughout the story that relate to the ending so that, when someone finishes the book, they want to read it again to find all the clues. This is a great technique for kids. Helps them build a story without getting lost in never-ending land.
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