Aron Silver#ScribesAndMakers 27 April: Reticent?
Me? If anything I think I’m often too transparent 😅
Carryl#ScribesAndMakers 4/27. Reticent?
I’m not always sure what to make of these one-word questions. You’re more likely to get a weird answer from me.
Anyway, now I’ve checked what it means, indeed Gabe is about a few things, and if they share some, they’ll keep it vague. They’re more emotional lately and not doing so well at their “I’m nice really” act, but they’re a clever bean and keep themself safe.
adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)
Ruby Jones#ScribesAndMakers 27 April: Reticent?
I'm assuming this is a prompt to find a quote in the WIP? I don't have 'reticent' so I went for 'reluctant'. This is from chapter 13 of Synthetic Agency:
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Solo licked his lips, looking down at his hands. “What if I change back?”
“Why would you change back? You obviously don’t want to do things like that now.”
Solo shrugged, reluctant and one-sided, like the teenager neither of them had ever been. “I was that way for a long time.”
ig 🏳️🌈#ScribesAndMakers 27. Reticent?
'Timid and reticent though Eleanor may have been in most circumstances, she was fearless in defense of her friends.'
Pent Up Games 🔞#ScribesAndMakers 27. Reticent?
Yep.
Quasi#ScribesAndMakers 26: #TTMD with @JessMahler
The growth story structure fascinates me, as I tend to do similar (like focus on different characters in the same story), yet with external conflict that I resolve as well. You mentioned a serial and seasons, how do you decide when to finish such an arc? And distinguish temporary stability from actual?
Also curious whether you think there's a max out number on poly?
Finally, anything else you wanted to mention today and didn't yet get the chance?
Walter ThinmanThanks to everyone who joined us for #ScribesAndMakers #TTMD and thanks to @JessMahler sharing some of your creative life with us. I enjoyed reading your answers!
Jess Mahler#ScribesAndMakers April 26 #TTMD
'Ello.🙋♀️
I implemented music/songs in my works, mostly what was/is relevant at the time the story takes place.
Therefore, my question is…
Do your characters enjoy music?
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Music plays an important cultural and personal for for my characters in Planting Life in a Dying City. In their culture, songs are passed down through a family, and when the characters come together to form a new family, they all share the songs of their families of origin.
Music doesn't come up much in any of my other books.
Poloniousmonk#ScribesAndMakers Apr26
Are there any tropes that you think are underappreciated or underrepresented? Alternatively, if you could elevate an uncommon story element to trope status, what would it be?
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I really appreciate "thriller" stories that aren't about winning a grand confrontation, but rather enduring peacefully and avoiding confrontation yet still winning.
Otherwise, I have a lot more complaints about offensive tropes that I like to subvert than preference for unused ones. "The Magical Negro" and the Black warrior-woman are two that have long since needed to be retired, so I notice things like "The Fall Guy" (2024) and the "Joan is Awful" episode of Black Mirror for subverting the old racist shit.