#PhantastikPrompts 20.8.25
Hast du eine Figur erschaffen, die dein Gegenteil ist?
Praktisch alle meine Figuren sind deutlich fitter als ich, die Wölfe sind sogar gerne und ständig draußen unterwegs. Sie sind außerdem fast alle wesentlich besser in der Lage, mit vielen Menschen umzugehen.
Beth ist wahrscheinlich am ehesten mein gutes Gegenteil - Führungsperson und sehr kompetent.
Negatives Gegenteil? Aleister McCraw.
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#WordWeavers 8/20. Is education freely given to all interested people in your story?
No.
In the Sacred Square, the Winds and Pillars are only given enough knowledge to do their jobs.
They don't learn how to read and write, for example. Totally unnecessary for following orders, after all.
It's something all of my chars struggle with.
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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Books I Had to Read in School and Liked
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A new article where I muse about summer's end, changes in my life and also post a bunch of pictures of flowers and such.
https://shellcreekpublishing.com/2025/08/19/end-of-summer-ruminations-and-reflections/
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#WordWeavers 2025.08.19 — Could you imagine a story in the same world where your MC is the antagonist?
Yes. Of course. Antagonists don't need to be evil or villainous, and few of mine are. Also, my MCs can be dangerous (however you wish to classify that), and for those SCs who deal with them, they are often antagonists already. In the current WIP, the MC and SC roles are switched from another story. MC finds our former heroine mysterious, frightening, and very challenging to deal with.
The main series antagonist has appeared as the MC in a few stories. I'd argue she's as empathetic a character playing MC role as the antagonist role. She's always very challenging, even when weak and vulnerable.
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#PennedPossibilities 760 — MC POV: Describe who you are in your group of friends. Tell is if you’re the motherly / fatherly type, the funny friend, the serious one, etc.
Friends, Friendship. Teammates. Buddies. Partners in crime†. Frankly, I don't get it. I do the job and make sure everybody comes back. I train them until they drop in a sweaty heap, but then they insist on group meals and singing, that stuff, and won't let me pay. Sure I have everybody's back in a fight, or with clients, or the boss, but that's the right thing to do. I am responsible for them. They ask me for advice, too. Sometimes weird. I ended up punching the cheating husband when he made a pass at me, which was actually sort of fun. At times they won't leave me along to be quiet with my books, which is really all I want out of life. I am really the wrong person to ask such a question to.
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Because it’s my personal account, I also have boards like “knitting” “baking” etc, which one of the article I read implied was OK because it’s a bit like when you have a newsletter chatting about your life, some readers like the glimpse of an author’s life.
I added one called “visuals” to pin things like outfits or scenes to do with my writing. There is, for example, a sketch I came across once which directly inspired the outfit one of my characters wears in Fair Haven, which I need to dig up and pin. Again, more interesting for existing fans than new readers,.
So, that is what I’m trying. The nice thing about it, apparently, is that each pin has about four months of legs, compared to hours, if that, on other social media. I’m going to keep working on keywords, and I’ll give an update at some point about how it’s going.
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#WordWeavers 2025.08.18 — Do you carry any symbols from your own life into your stories?
The main character in the current WIP uses a camera. It would be a Leica were it in our time. Symbolically, photography is something to be passionate about when you can't be passionate about what you really want to be passionate about (in my case, writing). Like me after my burnout, she's in a space where she unable to do what she wants, but in her case her resentment has turned to apathy.
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TODAY: The first online site to go up for presale is Smashwords. BEER POUR is available for pre-sale at Smashwords for $4.44, with delivery scheduled for 9/4/25 to coincide with the start of the NFL season. Working on full presale release across distributors. #beer #writer #Writers #WritersCoffeeClub #ScribesAndMakers #Authors #author #Satire #WritingCommunity #writing #Publishing #Books #bookstodon
Attached are the four types of pins I am using, remembering it’s a very visual medium. These are to a “Books” board, where I also pin other people’s book pins because I find it weird to only have mine.
An individual book post. I decided on a template and am sticking with it. Obviously you could use, and probably should use, the cover with arrows thing that is more usual. My main hiccup here has been coming up with a short description and good keywords.
A character vs character post. This is probably more a thing that might amuse people who’ve already read the book than something that would attract new readers, but it doesn’t hurt to have something that a fan might choose to re-pin.
A book theme post. I find this one easier. I love reading, I like bringing attention to somewhat lesser known books, especially when I mostly just see a sea of the same titles which already get plenty of attention. It’s basically thinking of a handful of books I enjoyed, and then coming up with a way to link them together and to one of mine. I assume that if someone has similar reading tastes to mine, they might also like my book. I’m not sure if it’s deceptive to include my book without comment though, maybe I should show the others, then a clear “if you liked these, maybe you’ll like…” format.
My monthly blog post. I post once a month on what I’ve been reading. I’ve started adding the book covers so I’ve got something to pin with the link. That’s it, I’d be doing it anyway.
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#WritingCommunity, a thread of long posts about Pinterest and book marketing.
Having read at least three different sources suggest Pinterest as a book marketing medium due to it being fast-growing and an effective visual search engine (not sure if Pinterest itself is pushing this or if they’re all picking it up from central source), I reactivated my old account to give it a try.
Long post: to save you time, I haven’t been trying it long enough or skilfully enough to provide a definitive answer on its usefulness :) But here are some comments on how it’s gone so far.
Firstly, I quickly remembered why I stopped using Pinterest and few years back - it is *extremely* algorithm-driven and *extremely* ad-riddled. When they demanded a birthdate, it was the final straw (though it’s unverified, so I gave them a fake one upon my return). Very many things need turning off in the Privacy settings, including AI training.
I began by following advice to start a new business account with only boards relating to my books but it felt too uncomfortably inauthentic for me, and also advised scheduling a month’s worth of pins, several a day, to please the algorithm, which was too much (probably better for non-fic authors though).
So I ended up deleting it and just using my existing personal account, pinning something of my own a few times a week, but others’ pins more often.
This, of course, means I have no metrics, which is why this is not a particularly useful post if you’re wondering if it’s worth trying. All I can really say is that my slow upward sales trend continues, and it may be slightly less slow since I started on Pinterest 6 weeks ago.
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What prizes and awards exist in your world? Why might your characters want one, or reject one?
Te Pae Tawhiti Distant Horizon Awards—Aotearoa New Zealand's first juried speculative fiction awards—are currently open to entries!
We’re very excited to see this award make its way into the world and are encouraging New Zealand and Pasifika authors to submit in the following categories:
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#ScribesAndMakers Aug 19 What's your favourite two letter combo? (i.e, th, ch, qu)
Ca/Sa, probably.
Or ng, as used in Tagalog and Vietnamese
#WordWeavers Day 19—Could you imagine a story in the same world where your MCs are the antagonists?
Jhana could be considered an antagonist for many secondary characters. I can see another story in the same world where she is the antagonist.
I could do the same for Tink's story, but it's a bit harder.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 19: Talk about the influence of folklore on your work.
Some Philippine and Indian mythologies influence some of my writing and worldbuilding, especially for Jhana's story.
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In addition to the write-up about the upcoming P+P cast:
* More than 78K Austen novels have sold this year thus far (compared to 64K for all of 2024)
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