@Priyajsridhar
I'm Elektra Hammond. Find me at untilmidnight.com
See me talk about SF/F, writing, comics, TV, and Supernatural at Con-Tinual (the Con that Never Ends) on Facebook and Youtube.
My next convention will be Balticon on Memorial Day weekend, where Permutations, an anthology based on Jack Chalker's Well World will launch.
Self-promo time! What links, media, and posts do you want to share? #writephant
@jeanmauel
I would like to be the first to welcome you to the writing community here. There is no algorithm like on X/Twitter and other services to generate a timeline of posts (called toots) on Mastodon. To do this you follow people that interest you, which you did for me so you've got this. We also follow keyword hashtags like #WritingCommunity and include those hashtags in our posts when they apply.
Including the following hashtags and the accounts allow you to be found by like-minded people. If you don't include them, you won't be noticed. Much. You do have a recognizable name…
There are also hashtag writer challenge games, where like-minded authors reply and discuss author-y things. It is both a good way to procrastinate (as if we need that), but also an opportunity to think about current characters and techniques and read what other authors think about the subject. Here are some incomplete lists to get you started.
These identify your community.
#Writer #Author #WritersOfMastodon #bookstodon #Writing
#SF #scifi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Mystery #Romance #Thriller #horror
Games:
#PennedPossibilities
#WritersCoffeeClub
#ScibesAndMakers
#WordWeavers
#TimeTravelAuthors
#EngenderedWriting
#Writever
#Writephant
There's more, but if you check these out, you'll quickly be surrounded by the like-minded. Also, since I follow a multitude of authors, but also artists and creative people, you are welcome to raid my follow list on my profile page for other accounts to follow.
Last, please take a moment to fill in your profile page. I do admit your name and banner picture is a great intro, but it's a good place to note what you love to talk about, what you would rather talk about, and it may not just be about writing and publishing. Today is good time to do that. (I guess RS is a little pushy.) Again, you are welcome to look at my profile page (and others) for ideas.
If you provide links anywhere on Mastodon, but definitely when building your profile page, include the full http version of the link. If you do, it becomes clickable.
Of note in regard to profiles, you can pin things like a longer introduction post or an essay you wish to share, so it is the first post visitors see. It's one of the features and actions hidden in the three dots menu (…) at the end of a post.
Again, welcome. Feel free to ask questions. If you use community hashtags, others might answer also.
I write science fiction that leans towards cozy, with plenty of mystery twists and humor. Find out more about my books here:
#Writephant A4 Does social media boost or drain your writing energy? How do you recharge creatively — by going inward or getting out and connecting?
It can boost. Connecting with other writers, knowing they're going through the same kind of things with their writing/querying/sales.
And I've used lots of real world events (current and historical) for inspiration. these things pop up on the right social media.
@davidtheeviloverlord @neve Yeah... his mom and I think he'll figure this one out in a month. #Writephant
@davidtheeviloverlord @Priyajsridhar
Mine just turned 21, so we're well past that stage... but he was an explorer, always wanted to go, go, go.
@davidtheeviloverlord And from all accounts is sounds as if it's only going to get worse, ugh
#Writephant A2 Do you get your story problems solved by ruminating or by talking things out with people?
Often by ruminating.
Usually this involves scrolling through the interwebs until I find something interesting.
For example, I'm currently writing about food safety standards (or lack of them) in a fantasy world, and our industrial world has been very inspiring, sadly.
@neve
#writephant A2 Do you get your story problems solved by ruminating or by talking things out with people?
I ruminate some, but more often rely on my subconscious. It's really good at waking me at 3 a.m. with brilliant ideas, dang it. Often the right thing occurs in revision, like yesterday when I was doing a pass on a section where a mother is listening while her daughter is planning a raid to save abused women and children. The word "inhuman" popped out as I was adding some gloss, in reference to the males causing the need, and suddenly I was on fire. I think I very much hit it out of the park, with the mother correcting the daughter about the word, and how proud she is when her daughter gets it.
I'd love to talk it out with people, but I'm kind of shy and never do.
#writephant Q2 Do you get your story problems solved by ruminating or by talking things out with people?
@Priyajsridhar Same! Interruptions are my arch nemesis...
@Priyajsridhar We used to have so many locks and gates all over the house back in the day :)
@neve A little sad since baby niece and nephew came with their two sets of parents this weekend, and everyone left this morning. But having them here brought lots of joy. Baby nephew was not happy to find out we have childproof locks on some doors though, lol. #Writephant
I'm doing OK, finally went in to get help for my shoulder and am starting to see improvement, so that's unexpected (in a good way). Hopefully it lasts.
First, as always, how are you doing this Monday?
It’s time for the Monday evening writing chat #writephant! I’m your host today and the topic is… Writing Energy
This post is to announce to all those who knew about my web-novel Mars Needed Women, who may have boosted or linked to it, that I have deleted the posts from Mastodon. I am heavily into revising it for publication.To prevent 404ing, I've left only the jacket blurb post of March 1st. As best I can remember, that's the only link I gave out. I hope so. I'm tagging hashtags to which I posted links to the novel this one time to prevent confusion. You are welcome to PM me.
#pennedpossibilities #engenderedWriting #writerscoffeeclub #wordweavers #scribesandmakers #writever #writephant
TL;DR
The story was published daily in March 2024 as part of a #Writever challenge, and I completed all 31 chapters one a day using all 31 Women's Rights prompts, managing to complete the last chapter and post it only 20 minutes into April 1st.
The story was definitely beta, with a plot hole and janky science and a few character boo-boos, but I like the result. I have since greatly revised the story and added plenty of material. Writing content daily to fit it into a toot-length that worked out to 750-800 words max forced compromises.
I plan to publish the novel in book form. As such, I have deleted the original free-to-read version. When I've sold or published the novel, I'll be sure to inform all my followers.
If you were part way through the story, PM me.
For you that read it, and for those who favorited chapters, Thank you.
@ltrapp
Welcome to the writing community. @strangeseawolf answered your direct question, but I'd like to answer your indirect one. On Mastodon we ALSO follow keyword hashtags like #WritingCommunity and include those hashtags in our posts when they apply. These hashtag and the accounts we follow take the place of an algorithm elsewhere, so if you don't include them you won't be noticed (much). There are also hashtag writer challenge games, where likeminded authors reply and discuss author-y things. Here are some incomplete lists to get you started.
#Writer #Author #WritersOfMastodon #bookstodon #Writing
#SF #scifi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Mystery #Romance #Thriller #horror
"Games:"
#PennedPossibilities
#WritersCoffeeClub
#ScibesAndMakers
#WordWeavers
#TimeTravelAuthors
#EngenderedWriting
#Writever
#Writephant
There's more, but if you check these out, you'll quickly be surrounded by the like-minded. Also, since I follow a multitude of authors, but also artists and creative people, you are welcome to raid my follow list on my profile page for other accounts to follow.
Last, take a moment to fill in your profile page. Today is good. Again, you are welcome to look at mine (and others) for ideas. If you provide links, include the full http version. If you do, they become clickable. An interesting profile and your posts are how people decide to follow you.
Self-promo time! Drop links to your creations, including writing, art and other media! What do you want to share with the #Writephant crowd? #writing
Mars Need Women is a hopeful yet deeply dystopian feminist SF web-novel (free-to-read on Mastodon) that leans heavily into Women's rights issues. It is a woman-centric adventure story of overcoming adversity while being female, with all the warts and frustrations, not as a man in disguise.
Our wannabe engineer heroine May Ri escapes a disheartening life, faced with becoming little more than a housewife because she lacks "blessings," to help colonize Mars—if you can call being shanghaied escaping and being contracted to have children a benefit. (She does choose the gorgeous supportive guy to "work with," though, so that's a positive.) As she learns to make uniquely useful martian machines, she keeps putting herself at the center of a global martian dust storm as martian power shifts from being male-dominated to a predominately female 1st generation of martians. May Ri together with her five daughters, shape a world (Mars) the way unfettered women might imagine it.
When the men of Earth take affront—of course they do—they learn that women don't fight like men, especially when their children's lives are threatened, and their wellbeing is at stake. #RSMarsNeededWomen
Thread: https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/114088945266387178.
I am expiring the thread on April 18th. If you start reading it now, add a comment or send a private mention and I'll delay expiration.
#BoostingIsSharing and read more in #AltText
