Last week we tooted proposing #PitMasto, a version of #PitMad for mastodon.
We're currently developing the idea and thinking mid-January, which would give authors time to finish and edit their #nanowrimo masterpieces. (At least in theory, we know how NaNo can be. 😜 )
If you're interested in a day for authors to toot pitches for their novels and hopefully catch the attention of an agent and/or publisher, please favorite or boost this toot.
@Unthinkingclunk I find there's much more engagement on Mastodon in general than on Twitter. You are much more likely, when shouting into the void, to have another voice reply and you can have a conversation.
On Twitter, most of the time the void will swallow your words, and that will be the end of it. I credit the Local/Federated timeline system for encouraging the greater engagement by creating more visibility for people you don't normally interact with, but find interesting anyway.
@Unthinkingclunk Well, it literally is shouting into a crowd of people, so that performative feel is really part of the experience. But that's less intense on smaller instances like writing.exchange than a huge one like mastodon.social.
Plus, you'll likely find that there are a few people you like to talk with more than others, so maybe you'll be replying to the things they say more than just blurting stuff out. That's valid too.
And the first draft comes to a close, at 8,230 total. Not bad.
Now I have to turn it into a story.
3,500 words today. Good progress there.
It's fun how fast you can go writing action scenes.
@HeatherKinnane I'm seeing that with what I'm writing right now, in fact. Lots of places where I look at it and say "this needs dialogue", or "be more granular here".
Someone I was talking to a few months ago put it well, that your first draft is the plot outline in prose form. It's not a story yet.
A productive day writing, my first in ages!
Managed to pound out 2,344 on my first draft, that ain't bad. Now to surpass that tomorrow. *flexes*
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