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Always had an interest in sci-fi, I mean speculative fiction... actually do I mean sci-fi, pulp space fantasy.
Would like to write more shorts dealing with aliens etc... except it's hard to come up with alien names. They always sound naff, but I can't call a guy with tentacles for a face "Gary" can I?
I guess I could if his real name would be unpronounceable with human vocal chords and they anglicise their names to make themselves more appealing to human society, but that seems like a cop-out.
I love that we’re two women shaving each other’s heads,
I’m plucking hair off my face and she’s painting her lids gold, I love it.
I love every burn, sting and scrape.
It feels like sisterhood, like survival, like playing a game we’ve been taught
when we were too young.
But damn,
we play it so well now."
— Bargain Bin Beauty Bonding.
A poem I wrote 3 ish years ago, really I don't need to rewrite it, but it needs a rework.
Got a story I'm working on that deals with issues from my childhood. Not sure what is worse, fear of writers block or fear of kicking a latent hornets nest of buried traumas.
"Write about what you know", they say. How do you cope if what you need to write about is your own pain?
Anyone got any experience of that?
Can anyone recommend existing books dealing with writing about personal abuse etc?
@Ghostwoods My problem is that I have countless shitty firsts. I get new ideas before I've gone away with the last. Discipline seems to be lacking. I'd really love to focus on one story and get it done, but I suffer from a poor attention span.
Hopping from one project to another or running in circles flapping my arms and wailing. Not knowing what project needs my focus next.
I hear tell of this "Ritalin". Is it any good? Should I steal some from a child?
@StevenDBT I struggle to focus on one thing at a time. I also struggle to let go of that which may be done. We are our own worst critics, which is part of the reason to let go and have your literal children go into the world on their own.
Books are like kids in that way, except they aren't sick on you or expect hideously expensive games consoles for Christmas.
Dear #gamedevs
Quit putting saved game folders in the Windows documents folder. It's created a mess.
%appdata% or Saved Games folders. They exist for a reason.
Like others, I moved here from mastodon.social to get a smaller more writing orientated community and a server that responds quicker than a sloth on diazepam.
I've been a struggling writer for many years, hoping now to actually finish some works and get them out there while there are still some readers left in the world.
Corvus Robotica
Peter Adams