"Oh, Trump delivered on FEMA best!" REALLY? Please, tell me all about your research. 😜 😆 😭
Here's some from 2020!

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-shifts-44-billion-away-from-fema-amid-record-setting-hurricane-season/

#WordWeavers 2024-08-09 Tell us about a character that you don’t like as a person.

Sooo many, hmm, I'll speak to many who have the same failing - Projection. When grown characters project their own motives and deeds onto others, good or bad, they invalidate the other's existence in their own mind. As humans we all begin at that level of emotional function, but must out grow it with empathy and compassion to become a fully-realized, functional adult citizens.

These flingers of fragile ego may be fun to write, but they are right jerks in real life!

Sam Neil's vile Inspector Chester Campbell in Peaky Blinders & Hugh Grant's Forge demi-villain in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves leap to mind. Ewwwww.

#writer #writing

#WordWeavers 2024-08-08: Is your plot linear or not?

I may be tardy to the party, but jumping in at my lucky number 8!
I have 2 divergent wips #litfic & #sff but neither is linear and both are 3rd-person Limited POV.

Coming originally from screenwritng to noveling, it was beaten into me that flashbacks are a rookie no-no if you want to be a serious artist. Equally beaten in is the information reveal timing to maximize twist. Thus I endeavor to sequence by the reader's need to know timing.

Not to say I don't do set-ups, breadcrumbs, foreshadowing, and callbacks, but I strive to open scenes and chapters of the past or future without the finger-to-lips flashback/forward bookend, though sometimes is cannot be helped.

Doing without it forces the reader/viewer back to attention and deeper engagement when challenged (not too hard) to exercise their inference skills by putting the pieces together. This technique helps with your story's memory stickiness as well!

#thecrooner
#agesofastra