Speculative mystery writer and game designer. Writes about the #future, #hope, and murder, often in the same story. Here I'm mostly going to be posting about #mystery #writing. I love positive #tech that aims to help the world and not tempt us to exploit the masses. May talk about #games from time to time. One day, I'll make a game designer detective.
🏳️🌈 My characters are #queer because I'm queer and I'm not sorry about it. Pronouns are he/him or whatever you want.
| Website | https://michaelthomet.com/ |
| Games Website | http://incobalt.me/ |
Feb 13 #WordWeavers—What's your favorite thing that you have on your desk or in your writing space?
This "fortune" that actually really lifted my spirits one day after feeling like my writing wasn't important anymore.
I know it's silly and I don't put any stock in these things, but sometimes you need something to hold onto, you know?
Feb 11 #WordWeavers—Share a scene that gave you lots of joy to write.
I'm not the biggest fan of tormenting my characters, but this scene from Bear and Bird at Clairmont Circle was really fun! Zach gets put into a fairly embarrassing situation by Andrew's charismatic approach. Sometimes, I love making Zach squirm!
Jan 29 #WritersCoffeeClub—Describe the saddest moment you've written. Share an excerpt.
I reserve a lot of sad moments for pivotal scenes because I don't like writing about sadness just for the heck of it. I wrote a pretty sad scene in a story that's out for a contest right now, so I won't be sharing that. Here's a short scene from the start of Facility 108, though, which opens on a rather sad emotion.
#amwriting #writing #WritingCommunity #mystery #scifi #sciencefiction #excerpt
Nov 19 #WritersCoffeeClub—Describe the funniest moment you’ve written lately. Share an excerpt.
I am in the last third of the book, so most of it is pretty serious right now. As much as I think it's a good idea to have tonal lightness paired with the dark bits, there's a point where it seems inappropriate. Here's a passage from chapter 11 that I think is the most humor I've shown in a while.
Nov 17 #WritersCoffeeClub—Do you draw out maps/floorplans/diagrams/etc. for key set pieces in your writing?
I love drawing maps, even though they never really matter in the end. It just helps me to visualize things. Here are four maps, one for a project I'm working on and three that aren't being used at the moment.
Oct 10 #WritersCoffeeClub—Did you learn cursive/joined-up writing in elementary/primary school?
Yes, I learned in third grade technically, though I also learned before then on a cycloteacher (so I was rather bored of it during grade school. I currently write with a sloppy, tight print that is unreadable, but I occasionally join letters as they flow. I was taught D'Nealian style printing, and now people can't read my lowercase 'k'. I sometimes use a half-cursive r in print (it looks like a z).
Already I am waffling. I just tried to put an em-dash in my document. I looked at it and said, "No, that's too long!" Maybe it's just different fonts. An em-dash is supposed to be the width of an m, while an en-dash is the width of an n.
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Here, it looks right, and the em-dash is good. But that's in Mastodon-sans-serif. In Arial (which I do my game writing work in), the em-dash really is too long! See the picture for reference. So, maybe that's just it.
Sept 7 #WritersCoffeeClub—Share an image of a favourite book cover design, other than your own.
I had to think about this, because I'm a bad writer who doesn't really think about covers at all. I don't notice them much, because I know they are often not representative. I like designs rather than graphics. That said, the first thing that came to mind was Un Lun Dun by China Mievill. My second thought was something just very art deco like The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton.
