Writing tip: Unless it's a submarine adventure, never use Gibraltar as a setting.

Any #NaNoWriMo participants that would like advice / encouragement, feel free to reach out. I've done three, and they were instrumental to getting my novels jumpstarted.

Unsolicited #NaNoWriMo advice: Set your Scrivener target for 60,000 words and your deadline for November 29th. You'll thank me later. (You are using #Scrivener, right?)

@matt What about a writing.exchange digital library (file server) for manuscripts, writing books, etc.?

@kensanata Please add me to Writing. #Trunk

So far: Mastodon experiment a success. To the lovely writing.exchange, while workload permits: Would love to critique your fiction if you want a test reader. My way of giving back to the Local Instance. :)

She had nodded off at her desk when the shadow in her study moved. Trick of the light? Flicker of sleep? It moved again, then solidified from the absence of light into corporal form.
She screamed, shrunk back, and grasped for a weapon, any weapon. Only her favourite pen came to hand. The shadow stopped.
"We discussed this," he croaked, still now, a wary eye on the pen.
"I know," she whispered. "I'm sorry."
"Write."
She put pen to paper, and her protagonist slipped back to shadow.
#WritingPrompts

@luka Just started listening to your stuff on lukaprincic.si. Wow.