“You are not the author of what readers feel, just the provocateur of those feelings.”
~ *The Emotional Craft of Fiction* by Donald Maass
20.10.2025 16:50
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“You are not the author of what readers feel, just the provocateur of those feelings.”
~ *The Emotional Craft of Fiction* by Donald Maass
broke 60k and closed out chapter 16 of my WIP today. closing in on the climax
where’s everyone else at ?
sounds like you have some good coping strategies. i need to get on that, someday. someday, but not today, and not until the end of next year. heh. i do like to read what i wrote on kindle or by scrolling back a bit to get touchstones though, so we’re similar in that way. how’s the art coming along?
readers don’t read. they just crouch like gremlins and say they’re aura farming
i appreciate you saying.
yeah i need to internalize this but it’s hard because i want to keep pushing forward to The End
what do you do on your off days or how do you walk yourself through lost days?
objective reality exists for me to dunk on solo leveling
(i read the webnovels: twice, because I forgot I read it the first time [brain damage simulator was very effective])
i got tired of the MC glazing tbh.
having trouble choosing a character name?
pro tip:
steal them from people you meet
did someone say cat girls
~ and so the push towards The End continues
WIP: book 2 in the Series that Shall Not Be Named
[stats] chapters 1-15 are complete, and account for:
55,284 words ~250 pages.
onto the rising action >>> towards the climax.
all gas, no brakes. let’s go
yeeee
i [need] consistent production to feel good about myself. so it’s tough when i don’t hit my dailies. i’ll try to internalize this tho 🫠🫡
so did the rapture get rescheduled or… ? can someone please call up customer service and report back to us what the deal is?
pov shifts are evil and you will not convince me otherwise
“Put on a page what a character feels and there’s a pretty good chance that, paradoxically, what the reader will feel is nothing.”
~ *The Emotional Craft of Fiction* by Donald Maass
i did not 🫡
undershot by ~300
you reminded me i should repost this today too 🫡🤣🫠
most recent google search to make mr. fbi agent sit up straight:
"would dismembered hands rot and decompose in an airtight box"
“Hope is a revolutionary patience… so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”
Anne Lamott’s *Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life*
okay, time to lock in and get some words down
“Do you think your writing is worth doing— as an end in itself?”
“Oh, yes.”
“You are sure?”
“Very sure.”
“That must be very pleasant.”
“It is,” I said. “It is the one altogether pleasant thing about it.”
Ernest Hemingway *On Writing*
— Edited by Larry W. Phillips
Green Hills of Africa, p. 26
“If you need more practice, polish, craft, coffee, time, or a bigger team in your corner, don’t worry. Keep going and all those things will come. What you need before and beyond all that is faith.” ~ *The Emotional Craft of Fiction* by Donald Maass
“You do. What you may not have is belief. So I’m here to tell you: believe. You don’t need more years, manuscripts, acceptance, likes, stars, movie deals, money, or anything else material to be a true novelist. You are that novelist already because you are human.” [Donald Maass]
“We have everything we need to tell stories full of human authenticity and emotional truth. There is nothing at all to hold us back. Nothing at all. Nothing more is needed. Right now, this minute, you have the instinct, eyes, and heart of a true novelist.” [Donald Maass]
Me: *typing carefully* I have decided that 'comps' is short for 'compsognathus,' and therefore you will note that my pitch document describes small dinosaurs rather than 'comparable titles,' so if you
Me:
Me:
Me: *sighing, backspacing*
… are you suggesting i erp with REAL people, in the irl? that would be... nah, no way. I ain't doing that
my audience is baked in
they are waiting on the sidelines, slavering
i just imagined them, so they must exist
some person I talked to at the SFWA networking reception at worldcon said they had their query in an agents email for 3 years, met at a convention, shook hands and introduced themselves, pointed towards the old query-- THEN got a deal
i summon: blue eyes white dragon
and then: Blue eyes white dragon
I summmon you! blue eyes white dragon
on 1st VS 3rd perspective:
both are good, just pick one and stick with it.
one time i wrote 60k words into a book in 3rd, then switched to first person
… do not do this.
