Margie

Creative writing coach, writer, painter, autism and ADHD, wrestling fan, devotee of Animal Crossing and Cozy Grove, 2% neanderthal.

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2024-08-10 05:40:01

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@npub1gcz…y955 what's your favorite?

2024-08-01 05:12:55

#writerscoffeeclub #writingcommunity #pennedpossibilities #wordweavers
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2024-07-09 01:55:47

CHAOS: an Alternative Plot Structure for Neurodiverse Writers
I've been working on this for a long time. Only recently have I taken on the name of Chaos to describe this alternative plot structure. It's nothing new. I'm only describing a form of writing that's existed on the edges of literature for decades. This is the traditional journey plot structure that appears 99% of the time in TV/film/novels: This plot structure is very focused upon…
https://ladyristretto2.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/chaos-an-alternative-plot-structure-for-neurodiverse-writers/

2024-07-06 16:25:05

#WordWeavers 5 July: Have you ever had a crush on one of your characters?
Yes; it's a normal part of the process. Sometimes the crush is the non-romantic type, sometimes it's romantic. I kinda need to crush on my characters in order to want to write about them.
I've written stories without crushing on the characters and it comes out very dry and it was painful to write.

2024-07-03 17:26:52

#PennedPossibilities #Writing 364 Do you ever dream about your various characters?
No, I never do. I suspect that this is because writing has developed into a kind of dreaming. I think dreaming is another form of creation and imagination. I've got a whole other thing going on in my dreams.

2024-07-02 17:49:26

#WritersCoffeeClub 2. When you complete your WIP, do you intend to have a Half Title? How do you feel about them?
I hadn't heard the name before, but I've seen this kind of page, of course.
I'm totally going to use them now, but only a 17th century version.
Thank you, writerscoffeeclub, for introducing me to such a fun formatting idea.
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2024-06-21 03:30:03

#PennedPossibilities 352 — What advice would you give to help others create plotlines?
Don't worry about it. Follow your passion. If need be, everything can be fixed later.

2024-06-06 03:34:44

#writerscoffeeclub 6. Have you queried agents for traditional publishing? How did it go?
No. I don't do "traditional" well, in any respect.
Why query agents? To be published, to make money, to reach the widest possible audience.
The first I can do myself. The second is, as we speak, becoming an urban legend: the writer who makes a good income from writing. As for the last, I can't reach everyone. I can reach some. 5 readers are as important and impressive as a million.

2024-06-05 21:42:05

#WordWeavers #Writing 05 Do you have fans/people who enjoy your writing? What’s your relationship to them?
My therapist read a one-act of mine entitled "Frank Lee Anne" (about a trans girl living in a walk-in closet and obsessed with Anne Frank). She loved it and went nuts over it. It made SO uncomfortable. My thank yous were mechanical, as I'd had praise before. It's very difficult interacting with people who like my work. Some have been intense and weird. I don't know how to deal with that.

2024-06-05 21:37:17

#PennedPossibilities 336. Would you or have you ever used a mixed metaphor in your writing?
I have no idea. But, now that I think about it, mixed metaphors sound kinda fun. They create a disconnect, as if the reader suddenly pauses and thinks, "What?" They could be funny, but they could be insightful.

2024-05-03 19:01:20

#WritersCoffeeClub Day 3: Does your work include pictures, maps or other custom graphics? Share your pics.
Yes, it does. My current WIP has various images and vids. Attached here is the cover of a book one of my characters wrote.
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2024-04-25 16:23:51

#pennedpossibilities 295 — What is your MC or SC’s posture like?
Eva Novakova: slouched. She has the low muscle tone and weak core strength associated with autism.
I'll do my SC because I'm excited to have one and I hadn't expected another character to show up:
Dr. Schnellwurst Von Hoffenboffen: his posture reflects the gravity of his 2 phds and the pomposity of his fake name.

2024-04-24 16:58:33

#PennedPossibilities 294: What, to you, are the most important elements of good writing?
Passion
Education (define however you wish)
Self-awareness
Fearless creativity

2024-04-13 07:31:46

#poetrycafe April 12: can writing poetry be learned?
Another way to phrase this: can poetry be taught?
If we're teaching/learning poetry, what exactly are we using as learning materials? Other poems, presumably. You'd have to know how to read as deep comprehension of language and grammar. Metaphors.
You should know what poetry isn't. So, study all other forms of writing and see the differences.
You should understand yourself and others and read everyone like a text. Be self-aware.
Maybe?

2024-04-10 01:18:47

#wordweavers Apr 9 What powers (e.g. political, religious, corporate, magical, natural, etc.) influence your characters’ lives?
Information. The power of information (not learning) is kinda staggering, especially considering our current addiction to and fetishization of information.

2024-04-10 01:14:26

#writerscoffeeclub 10. Do you have favourite words you like to use? What are they?
Fuck.
That's all.

2024-03-27 01:05:42

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@npub1c57…awu5 Whoever said that to you needs to go fuck themselves. That neurotypical bullshit is annoying.

2024-03-17 05:37:21

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@npub1ek8…t2en @npub1vnc…930t So sorry for my late reply. Just lots of life crap.
Please do tell stories!

2024-03-16 07:27:35

#pennedpossibilities 254: How do you use social media as an author?
I don't know 🤣
I've read a bunch of stuff about social media and marketing, but it's tough because my impulses are always to write and flavored with #AuDHD. So it's a struggle.
I read that it isn't necessary to have EVERYTHING, just what I feel comfortable with and will maintain.
I think my best discovery was linktree.
https://linktr.ee/hereticgoddess

2024-03-16 03:33:13

#WritersCoffeeClub 14Mar - Should you avoid sentence fragments?
No.
Life is rarely, if ever, a complete sentence.

2024-03-04 21:10:06

CW Coaching can be misunderstood. Just because someone writes, even has written a lot, the coaching is still helpful.
Think of it like exercises: the creative muscles need to do some jazzercise or they get stiff.
Part of my desire to coach is to exercise myself. I will do ALL exercises with you.
PS honestly, I don't know what I was thinking with the alien/cow hybrid.
#creativewriting #creativity #writing #writer #writingcommunity #writerscoffeeclub #writerslife #seizethecow
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2024-03-02 04:42:33

#WritersCoffeeClub—March 1: What inspired you to begin writing?
To begin writing seriously? My high school junior year English teacher. We had a close relationship that was not appropriate. He would go on about how good a writer I was. He encouraged me to write erotica. He'd read me his novels before and after school. Probably a lot like Miller's Girl, but without the sex. Despite this unglamorous, quagmire of manipulation, I walked away with a genuine love for writing and belief in myself.

2024-02-26 00:31:34

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@npub15wt…7rek @npub163a…t5jr Drama. Poor management. Unrealistic/conflicting goals and expectations (I'm only guessing.)

2024-02-25 05:38:26

#writerscoffeeclub 25 Feb 2024
How do you feel about Amazon's influence on books and publishing?
I think anything that combines art and money is heinous. I have a socialist/communist philosophy of art: like medical care, everyone should have it for free.
That being said, and speaking from our current reality, Amazon has some good points. Like all corporations, they don't care about art at fucking all, let alone artists.
My books are on Amazon and I should do something about that. 😬

2024-02-24 06:05:46

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@npub1ek8…t2en I LOVE IT!!!!!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

2024-02-23 20:48:22

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I ADORE Malcolm and Jamie. They're my favorite angry Scots

2024-02-22 21:47:12

#writerscoffeeclub #writingcommunity #pennedpossibilities #writersofmastodon
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2024-02-22 21:24:52

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@npub1ek8…t2en Awww you're especially sweet yourself. I'm glad I could help in a small way 💜💜💜

2024-02-22 03:53:03

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@npub1ek8…t2en Feel better soon. Mastodon isn't the same without you 💜💜💜

2024-02-20 03:47:05

#PennedPossibilities #Writing 230 What characters in your WIP or your latest work are most similar to you or to people you know?
I'll talk about just one because he's difficult. Gaja, the medieval pirate/barber surgeon. Rumored to be a Sri Lankan prince. He's modeled after a childhood friend who died by suicide when we were 14/15. He's been popping up regularly in everything I write. It seems like an unconscious compulsion. It's a strange form of processing as I don't control it.

2024-02-15 03:25:31

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@npub1ek8…t2en I'm starting at the beginning with chapter one!

2024-02-15 00:48:06

#writerscoffeeclub 15. What's your field of expertise? What are you most skilled at?
Writing. I've focused more on that than anything else in my life. Not just actual writing, but theory and criticism. I collect words. I have degrees in it. I examine everything in terms of how something is written. I've always cared more about writing itself and thinking about it than getting published or produced. When I finish one project I immediately begin another. I've never wanted anything else.

2024-02-09 04:46:17

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@npub1aum…5jx0 @npub1kt3…5004 I read your chapter. You have an impressive and experienced command of language. I have a couple of observations that you may or may not want. The book is published, so it doesn't matter. I thought I'd offer.

2024-02-06 21:08:48

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@npub1gvl…8ag7 @npub1mk4…rdnx Perhaps in plot based stories all of the emotion comes from the plot. Yes, the characters simply function like cogs, but the emotion is more akin to curiosity or intrigue, ending with intellectual satisfaction. That's what the writer experiences.

2024-02-06 05:27:35

#WritersCoffeeClub 24-02-06
If you were to write a sequel centred on one of your SCs, which would you pick?
Hildy, Alys's daughter. During the medieval plague, she goes through some awful shit. She's 13 and has already lost her husband, two close friends, and her father. She also has a horrible miscarriage while having the plague herself. It leaves her mangled. She becomes a surgeon out of necessity and it changes her. She gets quiet and isolates herself. She unnerves me, honestly.

2024-02-06 05:20:40

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@npub1gvl…8ag7 I think the question implies that there are writers who do not feel what their characters feel, and just plug in a logical set of emotions for each situation. Which sounds like a great way to write badly.

2024-02-05 06:08:57

#WritersCoffeeClub 5. Can you feel the emotions of your characters as you write them?
Yes, and it's difficult to handle sometimes. I've read speculation that there's some link to #autism and #synesthesia. It's always been like this and I wouldn't change it. I can't visualize much about my characters, but I can feel everything vividly. Sometimes, because of this, they seem more real to me than people I've known.

2024-01-31 23:52:25

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@npub1d62…tshf I suspected that control of the world would be a big factor for people. It is empowering to dictate the laws of physics and reality.
I do have a soft spot for gothic romance. Who do you recommend?

2024-01-27 09:16:15

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@npub1yse…jaay I completely agree. Having characters wait to bang is also good, not only for the tension to build, but because it gives time to build circumstances for the scene to happen that are valuable and important.
Thank you for this discussion! I hadn't thought of this in this way before! I love it!

2024-01-27 08:47:21

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@npub1yse…jaay It's never healthy to combine religion and sex. Both are complicated enough.
I'm trying to understand why an explicit scene is needed. What does that say about the characters? Is it a moment of extreme vulnerability in which we see something different in them? But so many sex scenes are identical. Lots of huffing and puffing and tits and ass.
Nothing that happens after can be the same as before. Not just events but values and goals. They have to be different with each other

2024-01-27 07:43:56

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@npub1yse…jaay I watch a lot of old movies, particularly noir, and there are many chaste kisses fading to black. Or a very artfully positioned, "Darling!" I find wondering what is happening in that brief dark is more fun than watching it.

2024-01-27 06:41:56

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I used to be really in favor of graphic material in movies, TV, books. These days I don't see the point. Well, unless you want erotica and then the point is obvious.
But these days, I keep wondering why it's necessary. What is the production or book trying to generate in us as a reaction?

2024-01-27 06:31:17

I'm really curious: how does all y'all feel about sex scenes? Are they irritating or do writers blatantly use them as a form of transition? Need they be explicit? Not only in movies/TV, but in prose.
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2024-01-25 02:56:05

#WritersCoffeeClub #Writing 25 How do you feel about writers who write outside of their gender/sexuality/race etc?
So, only men should write about men and women about women, etc?
And I'm only allowed to write about women who are bisexual, au/DHD, have PTSD, have Italian/Mexican/Native American/German/Spanish/Egyptian/Neanderthal heritage, with two college degrees, writing ability, and are big wrestling fans?
Shut up.

2024-01-24 17:10:45

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@npub1nn8…8sed
.........Seriously? Is this some sort of Freudian mind game?

2024-01-23 16:54:13

#Wordweavers Day 23: If your book was a movie, what would it be rated and why?
Oy, X. Okay, book: Dying in Passion. Set in Pompeii months before the eruption of Vesuvius. It has black magic, human sacrifice, cannibalism, graphic sex across all orientations, incest, extreme violence (but nothing that isn't considered "main stream acceptable"), rape...I feel like I'm forgetting something...
I think of it in terms of the film Caligula and the dazzling Helen Mirren. I would cast her in a second.

2024-01-23 01:45:41

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@npub1arr…uugh @npub1aum…5jx0 I think miscommunication is a deeply embedded human problem. When we share a language, it really doesn't mean shit. Most of the time it's because we aren't honest about what we want.
Sure, you have the miscommunication silliness when a girl dresses as a boy and the boy falls in love with her DESPITE(?) that he has only known her as a man. Elizabethan trans storylines are deeply problematic.

2024-01-20 23:11:22

#writing #writer #writingcommunity #writerscoffeeclub #pennedpossibilities
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2024-01-17 07:54:36

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@npub1cus…6789 There's also faith. I have faith that the astronomers, who I have never met, know enough about the science to know if Hades does exist, and if they tell us this is so, I will believe them. If I go to Hades, this could qualify as a fact, but I could be having a hallucination so then, not a fact, but possibly still a truth if I believe the astronomers.

2024-01-17 02:09:59

#WordWeavers for 17th January, 2024
17. Is there a story you’d like to write but aren’t sure you can?
My WIP, the medieval piece set during the plague. I stepped away from it over a year ago because it was really fucking with my mind. I was having unhealthy reactions to the characters and what happens to them. I want to go back to it, but I don't know how and in a healthy way.

2024-01-12 19:56:42

#WordWeavers Jan 12
Do you support other writers?
Let me preface by saying this isn't self promotion.
I want to coach writers. When I started writing, I had no one to read my stuff. In college, I learned quickly that most people use critiquing as a form of violence and self-aggrandizement.
I know a lot. I know how to talk to people about their work. I want to help writers in isolation and encourage them. Money isn't important. I want to help.
What writers do is important, published or not.

2024-01-05 08:19:12

I'm putting together a #creativewriting coaching business and I need guinea pigs.
For #FREE I will fully critique any story up to 10,000 words. In return, all I ask is for a testimonial for my website. Message me.
I have a BA in English lit, an MFA in playwriting, experience working in theater. I've had plays and books produced and published respectively. I even wrote freelance erotica.
#writing #writingcommunity #writers #writersofmastodon #writer

2024-01-04 22:05:19

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@npub1cus…6789 I think neurotypical people aren't doing because their brains are so dormant and sluggish. They also are really physically insensitive. I mean, concerts? Why does anyone need that much stimulation ? 🤣🤣🤣

2024-01-04 22:00:07

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@npub1cus…6789
What do you mean by "well"? Why are you asking? I need to go huddle under a blanket now and bite my nails.

2024-01-04 21:58:15

#WritersCoffeeClub
What of my past do I bring to my writing?
🤣🤣🤣
The bad stuff. Even bad stuff I forgot about. So much I don't know about my past (and myself). It's fucking insane.
Does anyone else read something of theirs and find the answer to a personal problem that 1) never knew you had, or 2) you were struggling with and the solution emerged in the story?
#writers #writing #writingcommunity

2024-01-03 21:16:11

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@npub1dzj…4cun @npub1u6s…vn8n
https://www.amazon.com/Billionaire-Dinosaur-Forced-Me-Gay-ebook/dp/B00MCVVH6G/ref=kwrp_li_stb_nodl?nodl_android=1&dplnkId=f7ec154e-b8de-4e5d-99d4-02563444ee93

2024-01-03 21:14:26

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@npub1dzj…4cun @npub1u6s…vn8n Amazon took it down?? But monsters are totally fair game legally in erotica. There's fucking dinosaur erotica on Amazon 🦖

2024-01-02 19:47:05

#WordWeavers 2: What scene in your current WIP are you proudest of?
During the medieval plague, a priest has been killed by a mob in a church after preaching that the plague is punishment for their sins. The scene involves a main character after she's been told what's happened. This vibrant, bubbly woman is sitting in shock. They had had a complicated relationship. The plain silence of her pain is agonizing.
I cried for ten minutes after writing this scene. My reaction scared me a little 😂

2023-12-31 10:12:51

Hi!
I'm Margie. I had an account on Mastodon a while ago, but I kinda ran it off the road and lost my keys. Then it blew up. So I'm starting fresh.
✴️I'm starting a creative writing coaching business. There's a link on my profile. I'd appreciate guinea pigs to help me hammer out details and test material.
✴️I have autism and combined ADHD.
✴️I live in Las Vegas, NV with my husband and two cats. Or we live with them. It's their house after all.
#introduction