Saying that a strong female character is a Mary Sue should have been left in the before times, but since it is coming back, have a blog about why Mary Sue is 80% stupid and 20% a symptom of your characterization problem. #writingcommunity #writestodon #marysue #writers

https://kathrynthornwood.com/blog/the-ballad-of-mary-sue/

In a bad writing mire just now. Everything feels like garbage and I want to just delete everything I've ever written and go find another job.

Encouragement appreciated. :(

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For the past year-ish, I've been working on a book series about a utopian society of Fae that suddenly has to deal with a mental health epidemic sweeping through it. My writing style is a combination of planning and pantsing: planning for big landmark plot developments, pantsing for the smaller details. I did a first draft of book 1 and just finished the rough draft of book 2, and I'm feeling _really_ good about the direction and how well it's coming together 

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Writing/ reading question for y'all: the book I'm reading, uses "male" instead of "man". As in, "the male I'd seen earlier walked past me." In this instance the reference is to a god or god-adjacent being. Similarly, "female" instead of "woman".

I've seen this style a couple other times lately, feels like, and I don't like it. It feels othering and jarring. Has anyone else seen this, and what are your opinions on this style? Is this a new trend or something, and *why* is it being used?

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Almost out of the revision hell!
Is it good for the book that I'm sharper at noticing and removing my fanficcy bad habits? YES!

Also me @ that thirteenth scene of the MCs gratuitously loving on each other, knowing it reads as superfluous, knowing I should cut it. #writestodon #writingcommunity

I tend to write sprawling stories with lots of character POVs. Since that doesn't make for a short book, to say nothing of the focus, I prune the character POV to a reasonable number and put the other scenes in a side novella. I'm about to do that for the fourth time; this will be the FIRST time I have a novella size stack of side scenes that are critical to understanding the events in the main novel, but won't fit within the novel itself. (Trust me. I've been trying. They don't work.)

It's both wonderful and daunting to have so many side character scenes that HAVE to be included somehow. I love writing a complicated story with lots of intersecting parts. But it's, well, complicated, and I keep running into: I have to write this scene, it's important, but I don't WANNA, it feels BORING. Which, of course, just means I need to figure out how to make it un-boring.

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My goal today is to finish at least one scene. Although, if I manage to write two, that would be great.

Have a nice productive/relaxing day!  

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What are your writing goals this week?

Mine is to finish Act II of Amniland - Book 3. I think I just need two more chapters to get there.

I wish you all a nice productive/relaxing day. ☕🍵

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Me: "Let's continue the story I started writing a few years ago!"

Also me: keeps getting inspired for unrelated stories featuring the same characters, but not for the current WIP.

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So last week, I reached my daily word count goal three times in a row and half of my weekly chapter goal. Let's see if I can do better this time.

What's your goal this week?

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