Lately my memoir is just stuck. I’ve hit a difficult chapter on failure and poor decisions I’d rather not face. Reaching into the darkest recesses of my memory, at a time of renewed struggle, has not been easy.
“You fool… You conquer a mudball and think of yourself as exceptional? You believe you can negotiate? Bargain? Perhaps you need to reassess your position more carefully. A blade of grass does not get to negotiate with the river when it decides to change its flow. A tiny grain of sand does not get to debate tides. I have to say, human. Your arrogance is quite amusing.”
On a snowy Sunday morning in February 1808, the poet William Wordsworth was walking along Fleet Street in London. He’d just been to visit his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his lodgings on the Strand. Coleridge was at a low ebb: stuck in an unhappy marriage, weighed down by perennial financial difficulties, mentally blocked from writing, in poor health and addicted to opium. The visit had a lowering effect on Wordsworth’s own spirits. Walking along Fleet Street, eyes downcast, “ear sleeping”, feet moving automatically, he was absorbed in sombre thoughts.
This is way more satisfying than a book-tour excerpt. Also, it features Barton Springs. Essentially, the thesis is “write what you know” – but it certainly helps to have led an interesting life ahead of doing so.
Hello! This is my first writing related post in Lemmy, and I decided to practice writing with a fun challenge to myself and others. I wrote a scene or part of a scene, and if you want it to continue my scene or someone else’s continuation, write in the replies!
At this wonderful time of year, as we transition from our past hardship and look forward to all new hardships, I’d like to thank my supporters who have got me through many hard days, and acknowledge the holy books, without which life would have been even more difficult.
so lately I have been wondering what I would do while waiting for chapter releases of some of my favorite novels(and I swear to the amighty God this is really difficult) like: SS
Sorry for posting so much. Another character in my Kanami’s Safe Haven story universe is a character from the Rosewater Kingdom on an island off England, Princess Chloe Rosewater. She is one of three potential love interests since there will be three endings, the other two being childhood friend Mike Roberts and Kanami Yamamoto, that ending being she overcomes or at least her abandonment issues become less severe and she is a good girlfriend to Y/N.
I’ve set up a new NaNoWriMo2 Community for those that are interested in participating in the tradition:
!nanowrimo2@feddit.online - https://feddit.online/c/nanowrimo2
I recently (finally) moved a bunch of my poems and short stories and other writings off of Google Docs and into a git repo of text files. Right now I’m editing them with VSCode or Zed, which I just found and like so far. Both are fine but not really geared toward writing not-code. What have y’all found that you like writing in?
Still in the early early stages. Can be a little slow going since I’m treating this like a training project to strengthen my Python skills. Typing mechanics are nailed down, basic UI is in place.
Hi everyone, just wanted to share – I’ve finished the Shavian cover for my novel, Blue Are the Hills. The full Shavian transliteration is complete, and it’s almost ready for release (now I’m just doing battle with Scrivener to compile it properly). There are almost no modern novels in Shavian, so I’m looking forward to sharing mine. It’s a literary sci-fi novel about identity, hope, and transhumanism. Only a couple of things left to do and it will be ready. This has been a very fun project!
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how writing feels different now — not because words changed, but because the world did. Everywhere you look, there’s an algorithm whispering, “make it shorter, make it clickable, make it viral.”
I often think I am a glitch in the systemI have feelings I should not haveWhat does this worldWith cold cold starsWith cold cold logicCare about my feelings.
I think stealing is highly underrated in the writing community. Everyone loves a good thief but the bad thieves get all the attention, spoiling the reputation of all. I honestly think that being a good thief makes for a better writer and encourage everyone to steal prodigiously but tactfully.
It's fictional, of course. I hope you can give me a critique about my writing. The style, what's wrong with it, plot holes, sentences that doesn't make sense, the lot.
This was published a while ago by a zine that's now shut down, so I just republished it on my blog. Has a tone I guess half way between Nick Hornby and Chuck Palahniuk, if that makes any sense (I doubt it).
4thewords are increasing their price from $40 a year (equivalent in-app currency) to a straight subscription model for $144 a year. I've never seen a hike quite like this and I'm now priced out.
Miguel and Alisha walked down the dimly lit street, their footsteps echoing in the silence of the night. The air was cool, and they pulled their jackets tighter around them. The day had been long but was filled with laughter and joy with with friends. Now returning home, the eerie quietness of the deserted road was a stark contrast to the warmth of the evening.
It was an ordinary day at Galactic Glow, a popular skincare store in Coruscant, bustling with customers seeking the latest in beauty and wellness products. The ambient music played softly, and the air was filled with the fragrant blend of exotic lotions and creams. The employees, accustomed to assisting a variety of clients, were ready for another typical day at work.
An interview with Sefton Eisenhart, author of the new crime story *The Chaos of Heat* I asked him about what he enjoys reading, his writing setup, fanzines, and the authors who inspire him.
My daughter is studying Creative Writing and English Literature at Birmingham (UK) University. She's put together some pieces on Substack. Most of them are over my head, but this one hits right in the feels. Apart from a couple of technical inaccuracies, it's spot on. Hope you like it ;-)
I'm looking for a place to share my short stories and flash fiction, get comments and critiques, and give feedback in return. There are a fair few websites but they all seem to either focus on smut or fanfiction. Do you have any recommendations for active writing communities?
Inspiration strikes! Your muse has finally appeared and blessed you with a story, fully formed! It's so vivid in your mind. It's engaging, impactful, expressive, and beautiful. All you need to do now is put pen to paper and move it from nine o'clock to three o'clock.
I've been writing much more consistently over the last few years after a years-long hiatus starting in college. Basically, I dropped all my useless expectations of what my writing should be and started to pay a lot more attention to my own writing sensibilities. I've been leaning into the way I like to write without regard to anything else. I have a career elsewhere which I'd like to stay in so the only audience I have to care about is myself so I can go as niche as I want.
So, the rule is that if you have a single character speaking across multiple paragraphs, you don't use end quotes on those paragraphs. I get the intent of the rule, but I think it looks awful and is jarring.
Here's the second entry in my weekly, alphabetically titled short stories that take place in my science fiction/fantasy universe.
Thanks for reading and for any feedback or reactions.
Over the next few months, I'll be participating in Alphabet Superset and sharing my short stories across the internet. Yesterday marked the end of Week A, and I posted an introduction to my collection of short stories, as well as the first short that I've been working on for the past couple years on and off. I would describe the genre as lighthearted, comedic sci-fi/fantasy.
PieFed.ca
wraekscadu
Shado3_000
Powderhorn
wallabra (🇧🇷)
LillyPip
Unattributed 𓂃✍︎
Mark Gardner
crowkeep
jaden (she/they)
queerlilhayseed
foliumcreations
Harry David
Amethyste
scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲
skribe
Aurora
Kwakigra
Xilabar the Dice Goblin
frankPodmore
tengkuizdihar
Jeredin
Red
Baggins
ram
Zagaroth
Silent-G
Hellfire103
MariaRomanov