G'day!
I'm a YA Fantasy Writer of epic adventures & conflicts with diverse casts. Also a lover of travel, history and teaching who pens occasional poems.
I'm an AroAce ADHDer & a nonbinary person🏳️🌈. Also an Aussie🇦🇺 on Wurundjeri country.
My YA Fantasy Books: https://elisecarlson.com/books/
On Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/elise-carlson
#RuarnonTrilogy #Fantasy #Author #LGBTQIA #WritingCommunity #Poetry
#WritersCoffeeClub Sep 3: Is there one piece of well-known writing advice you ignore?
"Write what you know."
If I could only write what I know, I'd be bored to tears, and the reader would be too.
I like to say that I strive to "know what I write" instead. Writing for me is about exploring worlds, lives, and experiences that are different from my own, and that I may not know much about when I start. But hopefully I know a lot more about them when I'm done writing.
#WritersCoffeeClub 3: Is there one piece of well-known writing advice you ignore?
"Do not talk to me of the Deep Writing Advice. I was there when it was written."
Advice is fine, you consider it, work with it, look for its use in writers you admire, decide how to use it if at all. The key is the word "advice".
Endless regurgitation of what say Chekhov said when writing Chekhov as though it is legally binding and handed down by Aslan, no.
#WritersCoffeeClub 3: Is there one piece of well-known writing advice you ignore?
Any and all absolute advice.
My #writing rules:
1. Every rule has its exceptions.
2. Sure, try to understand rules before you break them but more importantly do what works for you!
3. Neurotypical people made the rules. Yes many readers are neurotypical & we need to cater for them, but I am neurodiverse (ADHD) & I will not force my brain to write to meet all neurotypical expectations and I will die on this hill.
#WritersCoffeeClub 03 September: What's one piece of writing advice you ignore?
Anything that claims THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO BE A WRITER!!!
You have to find the right way for *you* to be a writer. Your way of writing is as individual as you are.
#WordWeavers September 2: What could you change about your world to make it better for most people?
I could have had sorcery discovered by teachers & law makers first, so it came with everyone's education, laws already in place and didn't cause revolutions, class & international war & sorcery-phobia.
Zaldean Warrior culture, toxic masculinity, homophobia, transphobia & sexism could die & Tarlah & the Urai remain friends. Nartzeer could be long dead. There could be no story 😉
#WritersCoffeeClub 2: On a scale of pantser to plotter, what are you?
Well into pantser territory 😉. I begin with a dramatic scene, complete with soundtrack, in which hazy characters defined by their emotional reactions behave in accordance with fuzzy world building. A few ideas for conflict and world building follow (in my head or written) then drafting begins.
Characters grow and the plot gets fleshed out in drafts 2-3. Draft 4-5 utilises an editing list to tidy up the mess (plantser?).
Its a newsletter month for me, which entails banding together with other #indieAuthors, and sharing a link to a selection of #Fantasy #Books obtainable via our newsletters.
My own Rebellion is Due is in this link, the story of a youth determined to participate in an organised rebellion to liberate his people from brutal foreign rule. #Bookstodon
Time to update my #WritingPrompt & #Writer Hashtag list (and remind myself -again- to use hashtags 😉 ).
Prompts About Wips
#WordWeavers
#PennedPossibilities
#WritersCoffeeClub
Short Fiction Prompts
#Vss365
#MastoPrompt
#MicroPrompt
Poetry Tags
#Poetry
#Micropoetry
#Hailku
#PoetryCommunity
#VssPoem
#575prompt
Writer Tags
#WordWeavers
#Writer
#WritersLife
#WritersofMastodon
#Fantasy
Author Tags
#Bookstodon
#LGBTQBooks
#AuthorsOfMastodon
#IndieAuthor
Yay, a new tag to talk to writers on. Hello #WritersCoffeeClub!
I'm a fantasy writing, queer Aussie, earning a living with my second passion: teaching.
I'm currently writing about a bookish, enby heir striving to prove their worth in their perfect father's shadow, with the help of four lost Aussies, and the hinderance of war, betrayal, treason, politics, action & adventure.
My #RuarnonTrilogy is an epic, YA #Fantasy with enby, aro-ace & more #LGBTQIA+ rep. Books 1&2: https://elisecarlson.com/books/
#WordWeavers 01 September: Introduce your antagonist with as much sympathy as possible.
He was created to serve as the right hand and first sword of the Goddess. After thousands of years, he's starting to realise that it's a job without much in the way of career advancement opportunities.
S.T. Veje
Stephen Cox Author
David Marshall