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Writing Blog Number 2

by S

Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #2311764

This is a continuation of my blogging here at WdC

This will be a blog for my writing, maybe with (too much) personal thrown in. I am hoping it will be a little more interactive, with me answering questions, helping out and whatnot. If it falls this year (2024), then I may stop the whole blogging thing, but that's all a "wait and see" scenario.

An index of topics can be found here: "Writing Blog No.2 Index"

Feel free to comment and interact.

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Waltz Invictus

a day ago
In response to "20241229 Debunking "Facts""

I've railed on some of these before. Like "theory" and "evolution." And why "evolution is only a theory" is like saying "gravity is only a theory."

Common sense usually isn't, and facts are subject to change, but primacy bias is a really tough thing to overcome.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Dec 29, 2024 at 1:30am
In response to "20241229 Debunking "Facts""

Dairy may be great for children, not so great for adults (my sister was lactose intolerant since childhood).

Processed dairy... like cheese... has its uses. Thailand has fresh local food year round. Montana and areas of extreme weather or supply chain issues do not and need preserved staples (pickled, sugared, salted, dried). Many cheeses keep well.

I have panic attacks! do.not.polygraph.me

Evolution however... may I add that just because I don't have offspring doesn't mean I haven't contributed to the next generation (or change).

Theory (some of which evolve over time)... and traditions (some of which evolve over time). Ignorance, however, doesn't evolve without some sort of experience or education.

Brains... how much is consciously being used may not be 100%. I'm sitting so my sense of 'balance' may be sleeping in the background. However, it better wake up when I stand up! Had issues with numbness yesterday (not fun).

Ancient knowledge and ancient 'knowledge' need to be rethought. The Earth evolves, so do humans. Well, some do. People still stuck in Leviticus... seems to be an American issue.

Dec 28, 2024 at 5:48pm
In response to "20241228 Messages In Writing"

Kåre เลียม Enga - As I said in the post, if the message is a part of the story and integrated all the way through, it's fine. It's when you get these diatribes in the middle of something where they don't belong or don't fit that I was having a go at.

Narnia being Christian allegory is fine. I mean, I never liked the books (I only read 3), so whatever.

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Dec 28, 2024 at 11:04am
In response to "20241228 Messages In Writing"

It's the same with setting. There's no need to dump everything on the first page. Or describing the main character in minute details ad nauseum.

Is Narnia Christian? If it's a great story well told, does it matter?

Kåre เลียม Enga

Dec 21, 2024 at 12:34am
In response to "20241221 Kudzu Plotting"

IMO Anne McCaffrey does this well with the parallel Dragonriders of Pern and Harper Hall trilogies. Adults-with-dragons; youth with fire-dragons. Memorable world building. Wonderful characters.

Kudzu the plant... only a curse for those who don't know its uses: forage, food, fiber.

Dec 19, 2024 at 7:09pm
In response to "20241219 'Misogyny' In Writing"

🐕GeminiGem🎁 - I chose Grease because it is so egregious and goes against everything Sandy had demonstrated up to that point. Dirty Dancing was set a few years later (early 60s), and, though Baby changes, it is gradual and is more a change of growing up, being true to herself. So, I think the time period can be used effectively without being so demeaning. As I see it.

🐕GeminiGem🎁

Dec 19, 2024 at 6:58pm
In response to "20241219 'Misogyny' In Writing"

I agree that when a woman changes herself to attract a man shows misogyny and is annoying...but...using the movie Grease as an example it an interesting choice. Yes, the lead female changes her appearance to appeal to the male. I think it was more because of peer pressure, but the peer pressure happened because of the pervasive misogyny of the peers. Interestingly, the male character does the exact same thing for the same reasons.

The movie is set in the 1950's, a time where the misogyny we see now is even waaaay worse. So, here is a thought. If you are writing about a time period like that and are showing social interactions of the characters, something like the pervasive misogyny is going to be true to the time and place the story takes place. Does that excuse it? No, of course not, but having present-day sensibilities in an era like that would make the story seem really off.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Dec 19, 2024 at 3:57am
In response to "20241219 'Misogyny' In Writing"

In my travels I try to connect with most everyone. I wonder what my stats would be... but many contacts have names whether human or not, whether the boss or 'servant' or guest.

In my writings...

thinking.

I do have characters without names.

SAD Holiday Potato

Dec 18, 2024 at 3:54pm
In response to "20241218 Children Characters"

As someone who is an Aunt to two children who have an age difference of four years, I can definitely tell you that they act completely different. Even though one of them is neurodivergent, the older one definitely acts more mature than the younger one.(also the older one has never tried to lick my feet.)

With very few exceptions, I've never had to tell an adult "stop eating my dress," "please don't lick me" or "stop pulling my hair," to anyone over the age of six. Yet within the last year or so I've had to tell my five year old niece these things repeatedly. She thinks this is hilarious.

Anyways, thanks for pointing out that kids aren't just miniature adults! I'll try to keep that in mind while writing.

Dec 18, 2024 at 6:44am
In response to "20241218 Children Characters"

Elisa: Snowman Stik - Writing about those who are neurodivergent is not something I feel I can talk about comfortably. I am trained as a teacher of those on the spectrum, and so I would not write a character in that regard because I do not feel it is my story to tell. But, yes, that last point may not apply to a child with developmental issues.

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November 16, 2024 at 4:28am

#1080021

20241116 - NaNo-16

NaNoWriMo #16

Day 16.

Stuggled a little today. I sort of wrote myself into a corner, I think, so I went back and rewrote to kill off one of the campers and injure another, which gives me an excuse to get everyone into the lightning affected hut.

Except the lazy guy, who won’t answer his caravan door.

It’s now evident they are being hunted by the creatures, and they have had to put up makeshift coverings in front of the windows. I need to remember that for later and Chekhov’s gun… or Chekhov’s broken window, as the case may be.

But I think still not knowhow it is going to actually end is what is stifling the creativity when it goes into coming to the end of the tale.

Now, while pantsing is the way I write, this does show an issue with that writing technique. By now, I usually have at least an idea of how the story is going to end. I can see where I am aiming. That means my writing gets direction as it reaches its conclusion. Still dithering about how I am going to end this, I think, is making me struggle with getting as many words down as I know I am capable of.

I have my usual Sunday morning video call to Florida tomorrow, so I hope by talking with her about the stories (as we are wont to do), it’ll break it open in my head. Writing about it, emailing about it, is all well and good, but that verbal sparring and back and forth, bouncing of ideas, talking over one another, the immediacy, can really help me get my thoughts into some sort of perspective.

The only thing I know for sure is the narrator survives because, well, he’s narrating. And his wife, otherwise it would be a real downer. I mean, there’s going to be enough deaths as it is, but that might be pushing it a little too far.

So, yes, pantsing means there is no real prep as such, and you will have to do a rewrite a lot of the time when you’ve finished, but when this whole “no ending” thing hits, then you’re in trouble. I mean, even in the fairy story, once the fairies told me they were good guys and I introduced step-uncle Dan, I knew he was going to be punished in some sort of fairy manner. I might not have had the details, but it was so clear that was where it was headed. I could write in that direction.

With no ending showing itself here, that is most likely the reason I am so stuck.

However, I did do some words today, and have cracked 80k.

3797 words today
Total words: 80135

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