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Jtmoriartywriter

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I am a full time writer/reader encouragement poster. Good! Follow me for beautiful nature, and to discuss the finer books you've read, and follow along as I write my own.
Currently writing a junior fiction SF for my nephew, then a rough draft for a Space opera.
You will see book 4 (W-ix and Worry) in 2024.

Thank you for supporting my writing:

Book 1
http://getbook.at/TheFullLifeofaRobot

Book 2
http://getbook.at/amachineofblood

Book 3
http://mybook.to/Stainlesssteelsouls

Loves Daft Punk, cats, and coffee.

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Hello- I’ve been off for a week crook, but now back and raring to go. Time to resume writign my novel 😊

Just posting to create some accountability, really, with you all and void, for myself. 🤔

Do you have ways to help bring you towards writing?

@bookstodon @amwriting

Jtmoriartywriter,
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@mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting As the best Douglas Adams always said, "bum glue".

Jtmoriartywriter,
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@pelielios @mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting It sounds like you wrote the fun part first, and now must bridge the written to the Ended, and don't like or enjoy the foreboding slog.
My 2c, but this is my take. Don't write a connecting bit, just make it 1 scene, a time jump, so the book overshoots this part you're having trouble engaging with/writing.

Bubsy was a good game, lotsa fun. And good luck!

Jtmoriartywriter,
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@pelielios @mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting Ahh, the dreaded passion. "Kill your darlings", as they say. I've written a fair few scenes with chars not making it, or suffering some huge loss, shed a tear every time. But I know the book will be better for it.

In that case set aside a proper day, schedule the time, and write it out. Get your fav drink n snacks, but you will have to work at it.

And afterwards, it'll look better. It always has for me, again this is just my suggestion, but big, uncomfortable scenes are often the ones I get the most feedback on.

Good luck <3

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Hullo friends!
panic stations. I have gotten The Date. By 27th Sept the platforms wants my latest book, Stainless Steel Souls, so they can have it definitely by October 1st, to satisfy all their (my) preorder customers.

I had 2 weeks and 2 days for edits from the day I learned of the date, but since then:

-I got conjunctivitis, as did my child-bot and feminine companion
-we got better, hers got worse
-my car died
-her car died
-my car is better
-I do not know what day it is, because Monday is usually grandparents visit day but we've been sick, so "events of the week" are totally out.

I woke up today, Monday, and honestly felt like it was Wednesday. It's a sheer force of effort to know where my mind is, let alone the day.

Excuses, right? No, just what's been going on while I've been trying to settle into good, 4-hour long edits of my book. So far I have managed exactly 0 of these.

Honesty gets you square with yourself. I have filled out 2 chapters with character descriptions that were lacking in my earlier edits, but I need proper chunks of time to write the missing chapters, needle the chapters that will hint at fun for the next book(s), and otherwise make sure it's fluffy and reader-friendly.

This has also meant not reading that book I saved for time, Andujar, the Robot Gentleman, but I guess now it's a reward book for after everything is actually submitted.

Support me, I love Mastodon and will keep writing whether I get wondrous sales or not. The link to the presale (.99c) of Stainless Steel Souls is in my profile, as well as to books 1 and 2, "The full life of a robot" and "A machine of blood".

Love you all, feel free to post your own promo too.
@bookstodon

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Sometimes, @bookstodon , the landscape of writing is so alien and hostile that you cannot see the book you were writing, the characters you were breathing life into, or the idea you began the entire journey with.

Then you start some #amwriting theory, just talking outloud to a trusted sounding board (in this case my partner), and they politely listen for 15 minutes. They get the joy of being there when you hit upon the ideal turn, the twist, the character revelation that will work, that creates sense once again from your unearthly landscape, that makes it Okay to Stop Worrying, and proceed with your edits.

Then you #amreading over your work, and liking it, and able to plant credible hints throughout the writing that makes the newly discovered ending Just PerfectTM.

Love you all, thank you for the constant support on mastodon, even during my quiet, busy periods.

Moriarty.

Ps. "Stainless Steel Souls" is my current work, due out October 1st. Tag me for the presale.

Jtmoriartywriter,
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@MimzyDub @bookstodon thanks =)

(Its actually an upside down aspect of my friends roof, and they are very much into perspective changes via light. The texture is as rough as it looks.)

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