Emma Cox

I am a creative living in Cornwall, UK. Making my mark in words, art and photography. #Writing #Writers #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #Art #MastoArt #Photography #Archaeology #History #Mythology #Folklore #Nature #NatureWriting #Landscape #Conservation #Gardening #Worldbuilding #StandingStoneSunday #Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #Reading

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2024-08-10 22:04:01

I have a juvenile hedgehog and its randy parents on my front lawn. 😳
The juvenile has buggered off into next door’s garden since nobody wants to see their parents doing THAT!
Now a totally different male hedgehog has turned up, turfed out the other male hedgehog and is now getting aquatinted with the female. The original male hedgehog sulked for a bit, then returned! But was sent packing again by the usurper.

2024-08-07 07:49:20

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 BBCs choice. They don’t have exclusive rights like they use to. Hence the limited coverage and a lot of fluff b-roll in between.
Bloody golf is on now. That is the perfect way to spoil a good walk!

2024-08-07 07:37:35

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 I like it. Much better than watching people thump one another in the face in the boxing. Got enough violence in real life.

2024-08-06 18:15:09

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@npub10d5…vvxa Ha! Yes, I loved it that the weather report flagged the humidity and how bad a hair day you were going to get.
What got me is all the locals were telling me how cool it was. I was melting!

2024-08-06 18:08:59

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@npub10d5…vvxa Ah yes, hot. I visited Houston in February and it was as hot as an English summer. Then I visited again in October and it was around 100F. I couldn't get use to the heat outside and the freezing air con inside.

2024-08-06 17:45:18

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@npub10d5…vvxa Thank you. The waterfall location is one I use in a story and it's significant for my two main characters.

2024-08-04 17:56:55

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@npub10d5…vvxa it is. I think too that the creative writing aspect allows you to view it as an observer and in a metaphorical way which is more accepting for the mind.

2024-08-02 12:12:44

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@npub10d5…vvxa (I’m going to sound like Bill Paxton in Aliens but…) SEVENTEEN POV? 😮
I’m also writing a supernatural mystery and decided to make it first person and one POV character.

2024-07-27 16:12:03

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@npub10d5…vvxa yes, that is exactly what it feels like. And the annoying thing is you probably will just to see how the bloody thing ends.

2024-07-20 19:56:43

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 ah. Miles from me. I grew up on the north coast near the Devon border. Then slowly moved further west until I’m now down the arty/weird/pagan end.

2024-07-20 17:43:22

One minor downside of being childfree is I’ve no idea when the schools finish.
Am I correct in guessing school’s out and it would be wise to not venture outside because it will be full of emmets?

2024-06-16 09:09:04

Me standing with my rock friend.
One of the Pipers near the Merry Maidens stone circle, West Cornwall.
Is the piper extremely tall or am I just really short?
#StandingStoneSunday #Cornwall #History
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2024-06-06 17:31:22

Scattered father in law’s ashes today. After these final years of ill health and covid lockdowns, it was nice to set him free on the moors he loved.

2024-06-05 16:39:20

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 I like my history, so I like to pick apart the historical films. Likewise, he'll pick apart all portrayals of hypnosis.

2024-06-05 16:35:21

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 what made this extra entertaining was I watched it with my husband (who is a hypnotherapist).

2024-05-19 21:18:14

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 I never understood the whole tribal football (and sports in general) following. My team is better than your team. Blah blah blah.

2024-05-18 07:04:59

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 I’d agree. Goldeneye was written with Timothy Dalton in mind and he played a grittier version of Bond.

2024-05-08 07:36:33

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@npub1zdz…tl8u why is there so much hate for the semi colon?

2024-05-05 18:23:31

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@npub1lyr…k7hs write something else. Discover some new characters. Listen to their stories which make you want to get up at 5am again and find out what happens next.

2024-04-10 21:03:43

This is wrong on so many levels. Reviving a zombie law so the patriarchy can control women’s bodies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68774959

2024-03-10 12:44:24

My favourite door. #SilentSunday
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2024-02-29 16:21:01

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@npub1lyr…k7hs I can’t see any outcome being good over there. If Trump wins, the whole world is fucked. If Biden wins, the US will get a repeat of the Capitol Riots but on a grander, potentially countrywide scale.

2024-02-29 15:51:44

So let me get this straight. The Tories say Labour has no plan. But they’re now stealing Labour’s plan to raise funds. But instead of using them to make the shitty UK a slightly more bearable place to live for society, they’re jizzing it all away on tax cuts in a desperate ploy to keep voters.
I fucking hate these scummy arseholes in charge. Fucking hate they’re making the lives of millions of people worse just to line the pockets of people who already have too much fucking money.

2024-02-27 14:33:51

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@npub1wu7…3d23 @npub1lyr…k7hs
I don't think it always does. Even when I 'pants' I have some idea where things are heading. Even if it's just general way markers.
I'd say 'pantsing' is more character driven rather than 'plot'. You allow a lot more wiggle room to allow characters to react/act/interact to allow them to grow into a 3 dimensional character. Too much 'plot' can stifle character growth. You force them into moulds which they don't fit.

2024-02-27 14:22:41

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@npub1lyr…k7hs I am a pantser. But (I'm stealing a quote from my friend who is also a panster) I want to finish this story in a year, not three.
I was lucky to win a 6 week course on writing Crime Fiction. My biggest take from the course was the tools to help outline and plan a novel. My current WIP is fantasy turned mystery, and I realised then I couldn't pants that. So I had to get the bones of the plot down. Learn about my MCs, villain, side kicks, alternative suspects.

2024-02-27 08:22:49

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@npub1lyr…k7hs I think I have an idea. Plus I’m trying to keep the tension between two of my main characters and lull the reader into thinking they’re growing closer and then I light a firework between them. 😆
There are benefits of a vague outline. I introduced a character to the scene with no idea what sort of personality he’d have and I discover he’s a hoot! Plus he’s randomly upped the stakes for my main character with a small side quest.

2024-02-22 21:07:29

It’s been said any word with -ed added to the end becomes a term for drunk. So let’s consider the writer themed ones:
I am completely…
Grammared
Novelled
Penned
Punctuated
Edited
Drafted
Chaptered
Formatted
Care to add more?
#Writing #WritingCommunity 🍷 🤪

2024-02-11 09:23:01

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@npub1k24…26zw @npub1d62…tshf @npub1765…xh0x
The cliffhanger ending of the last episode though… 😆
Actually, I like how Apple makes you wait for the next episode each week. Just like the good old days before streaming and Cefax still existed.

2024-02-11 09:17:00

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@npub1k24…26zw @npub1765…xh0x
I’m watching and was thinking I bet you’re watching too.

2023-11-17 12:08:32

I hate promoting myself, but... I will make this quick and (hopefully) painless.
🗞️ I have a monthly newsletter you can subscribe to.
https://emcox.beehiiv.com/subscribe
📚 I have a weekly blog. Where I write about my creative antics and shenanigans around Cornwall.
http://emcox.co.uk/blog
✏️ I wrote a free short ghost story a few weeks ago if you're interested in my writing.
http://emcox.co.uk/lady-howard-and-the-bone-carriage
#Writing #Art #MastoArt #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Blog #Newsletter

2023-11-06 11:24:29

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@npub1pxk…sxqy I wish it didn't. I would prefer it if I could write without that tiny voice inside telling me I could be doing something else.

2023-11-06 11:16:25

The problem with my brain is I always feel guilty for putting time aside to enjoy the things I like doing. The minute I sit down to write, I feel I should be doing something our culture/society would deem more productive.
However, I've enrolled in a six week writing course and now my brain is absolutely fine with me spending every spare moment on my writing.
🤦‍♀️

2023-11-05 22:06:15

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@npub1nql…ecju I so need to turn this into a series. I do plan for there to be a dark, serious vein with looking into murders and missing persons. But I think Rivers of London has rubbed off on me and I need some light humour thrown in at times.

2023-11-05 20:26:35

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@npub1nql…ecju That's a big old playlist. Lots of good stuff in there.

2023-11-05 12:43:36

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 Is it a free WordPress site? Or are you getting your own hosting/domain name?

2023-11-04 20:42:36

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@npub1nql…ecju @npub10d5…vvxa I think LOTR is due a rewatch just so I can do the commentary to my husband and say, 'In the book, this happened.'
Is Rings of Power coming back? That was entertainingly awful. I'd just read the Silmarillion before watching that and I didn't have a clue what was going on. My husband hadn't read and he didn't have a clue what was happening either.

2023-11-04 20:40:17

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@npub1nql…ecju @npub10d5…vvxa
I like (book) Eowyn. I'm sure I read Tolkien originally planned for her and Aragon to shack up and then he later added in the underwhelming Arwen.
I didn't like how Jackson messed with the Stewards of Gondor. Faramir is never tempted by the ring. He's practically a low-level Gandalf. Denethor's mind had been warped from overuse of the seeing stone and tricked into thinking all was lost.
And no one in the production team had any idea about longbows.

2023-11-04 19:10:30

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@npub1nql…ecju @npub10d5…vvxa Eowyn’s sword killed him in the film I think? In the book she cuts off his head and then Merry skewers him.
There is a general lack of the Dúnedain in the films too. The film gives the impression Aragorn is some loner proclaiming he’s the true king with the backing of the elves.

2023-11-04 17:53:12

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@npub10d5…vvxa I have a copy of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil on my shelf. He’s an important plot point as the sword Merry picks up at the Barrows when Tom rescued the Hobbits is the only sword which can kill the Witch-King. But a lot of important plot points got canned in the films.

2023-11-04 13:08:23

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Thinking about it, maybe the theme is rescue. Edie's life was about rescuing people. She was murdered because she rescued people. Lavinia, during her investigation into the murder, will rescue one or two people. Lavinia, at the end, will decide she likes the life of rescuing people, or helping them rescue themselves.

2023-11-04 12:33:12

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@npub10d5…vvxa For me, Tom is one of the better characters in LOTR. On each reread I enjoy the films less and less. The Hobbit was a mess.
I loved both the book and film of Jurassic Park. They changed the plot, but it made it better for the big screen.

2023-11-04 12:14:44

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@npub1nql…ecju then I’m probably thinking of some other film. I’m not a huge movie watcher. I’d prefer to read a book. Skull Cinema is much better!

2023-11-04 10:45:57

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@npub1nql…ecju Yes! I did have a look and found many bad listicles. I think Jaws was based on a book? Maybe Alien too?

2023-11-04 07:17:42

#WritersCoffeeClub films better than the book?
Based on books I’ve read and the adaptations I’ve seen, Jurassic Park and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/Blade Runner were great film adaptations even though they steered far away from the original material.
Otherwise adaptations are usually a disappointment.

2023-11-03 10:48:45

I have a main character in the current story I am writing with #Endometriosis and I don't want to make one or two vague mentions of her condition and allow the character to carry on as normal for the remainder of the book.
Is there anyone here with the condition who can offer me some suggestions to make her believable in her day-to-day life?
#AmWriting #Writing #WritingCommunity

2023-11-02 18:41:26

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@npub1nql…ecju in my head I can see further stories where Lavinia and Guy will take over from what Edie and George were up to. But I really need to think about the first story and stop going back and forth with other ideas.

2023-10-30 21:25:36

I'm all for more journalism about being child free, but this title just made me roll my eyes. I can't think how the author believes she'll be so bored that she has to plan ahead for things to do. Or that life lacks any joy or meaning without children and to find some semblance of it you must work hard for it.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/30/ive-chosen-to-be-child-free-here-is-how-i-plan-to-build-a-life-full-of-joy-and-meaning

2023-10-25 14:54:23

At that point where I’m thinking adding more is only going to ruin it rather than improve it.
What do you think?
#MastoArt #Art #WIP #Painting #Sea #Nature #Cornwall
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2023-10-25 07:01:00

#WritersCoffeeClub Oxford Comma or no?
I love the Oxford Comma. Makes total sense the Haunted Pencil Jacob Reece-Mogg banned his staff from using it. The Tories like confusing language and the Oxford Comma adds much needed clarity.
One example which REALLY needed an Oxford Comma.
“…Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector."
Grammar is powerful because it changes the meaning of the words.
A woman: without her, man is nothing.
A woman, without her man, is nothing.

2023-10-23 20:47:46

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@npub1nql…ecju maybe Edie should meet her?

2023-10-23 18:55:46

Maybe I should write a short story about a Dartmoor ghost story about a ghostly woman who rides in a coach made from the bones of her four dead husbands for my Halloween newsletter? Maybe even blog it?

2023-10-23 15:39:51

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@npub1nql…ecju cheers! What is the book order?

2023-10-23 12:10:57

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@npub1nql…ecju thank you. That would be wonderful.

2023-10-22 20:14:38

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@npub1nql…ecju I haven’t. I know I need to.

2023-10-21 04:02:50

#WritersCoffeeClub How do you write an internal monologue and/or telepathy in your work?
My current WIP is in 1st person, and the instances where she is internally monologuing or breaking the fourth wall and directly talking to the reader are kept in the same style as the rest of the body text.
I don’t have telepathy in my books, but I did have a mute character. I used italics if he communicated through writing and dialogue without any dialogue tags when he used sign language.

2023-10-20 21:35:56

Uncanny is entertainingly shit ghost hunting tv. Though not as entertainingly awful as Most Haunted. I am a sceptical Scully, but willing to be proven wrong.*
I am firmly in the ‘it’s sleep paralysis, not a ghost’ group because I have had some pretty terrifying experiences through sleep paralysis.
*I supposedly have the ghost of a woman who wanders through the houses here as this was once the gardens to a larger house nearby. But she hasn’t bothered to say hello to me.

2023-10-14 08:15:13

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@npub1eeu…4aku Thanks! I think the rub between beta and writer is communication. Giving betas guidance of what sort of feedback you're after means they have a clear idea of what the writer wants and the writer is happy instead of frustrated when they get a reply email saying 'loved it' and nothing else.

2023-10-11 10:41:29

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@npub1nql…ecju @npub1gx6…xcqu Our comprehensive school also had a 6th Form so I stayed put. It wasn't great mainly because our school caught fire (an obvious inside job because strangely only the old part was damage) and I spent two years in chilly Elliot huts trying to do an Art A-Level with only tissue paper and goulash. Miss Whittaker was the Liz Truss of Geography teachers and we told her she was crap.

2023-10-11 08:06:11

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@npub1nql…ecju @npub1gx6…xcqu my problem with school is if felt like you were going along a production line and spat out the other end. In school I realised what I subjects I enjoyed, but inevitably I was forced into doing something else or shoehorned into a narrow curriculum. I loved art, but none of my teachers liked what I produced. I loved English, but my teacher hated my stories. I loved history, but not the time periods I had to learn. I loved geography, but the teacher was fucking useless.

2023-10-10 21:33:26

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@npub1nql…ecju I had a similar experience. I was the “quiet, conscientious hardworking child who was a delight to teach’** so I was promptly ignored by said teachers, shoved at the back and left to get on while they dealt with the disruptive kids. I remember being in the intermediate maths group (they should have put me in the top group). I finished set work early in the lesson and everyone copied me.
**written on every school report I received.

2023-10-10 18:56:54

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@npub1nql…ecju that’s interesting. I assumed teachers were drilling good handwriting into us for decades.

2023-10-10 07:50:42

#WritersCoffeeClub Did you learn cursive/joined-up writing in primary school?
Of course! I still write cursive. Can anyone else remember Words and Pictures with the Magic Pencil?
Is it no longer taught in schools? I guess teaching typing is the norm now. I know I have to concentrate on my handwriting for it to stay legible because I’m so used to using a keyboard.

2023-10-06 21:46:46

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@npub1h7c…e0hk as a pantser, I go by the Indiana Jones ‘I don’t know, I’m making it up as I go,’ method of minimal prepping.

2023-10-06 21:10:48

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@npub1nql…ecju it does, which is why I seem to be spending most of my time writing a sub-story that follows Edie and George’s backstory. How did a 15th century man end up stuck in the fairy realm? What was he getting up to before Edie met him in 1973? Who did she piss off when she freed him? And who else did they piss off over the next 35 years both human and fae?

2023-10-06 20:46:14

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@npub1nql…ecju im motivated. Too many people have said they want to read what happens next. I wish I knew what happens next. I’ve got character arcs sussed. Just not the plot.

2023-10-06 20:44:23

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@npub1gx6…xcqu it is. I feel I’m going to be the odd one in the group. I can imagine lots of people writing traditional detective stories and then I’ll turn up telling them I’m writing something akin to Rivers of London but led by an amateur sleuth.

2023-10-06 20:37:37

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@npub1nql…ecju I can imagine it will be useful, and fun too. So the plan is to mainly research and world build this month. Then I’ll have lots of fodder when it comes to working out my murderer and motives along with any red herrings with the help of this course. That’s the hope anyway.

2023-10-06 17:37:28

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That's me enrolled in a six week online Crime Fiction Writing course in early November. Exciting!*
*Especially since I have pants the beginning of a fantasy novel which has pretty much turned into a murder mystery.

2023-10-06 12:46:56

I know a knock the birdsite a lot since the new boss took over, but I did win myself a Curtis Brown course on there today, which was a nice surprise. 🙂

2023-10-04 18:46:21

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@npub1nql…ecju thank you so much. I feel my other story has been more about finding my feet.

2023-10-04 11:58:41

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Slightly off topic for today’s #WritersCoffeeClub question, but I had a lot of fun researching different time keeping methods across the ages. The Roman idea of 12hrs of day and 12hrs of night despite the fluctuating lengths of daylight across the year seems utterly bizarre.
What I do like in some old calendars is the idea of a leap month when everything got really out of kilter. I put that in my WIP and called that month the Wandering Moon.

2023-10-04 07:34:53

#WritersCoffeeClub How do you write the time? In text or numbers?
Text. Numbers look wrong to my eyes among the prose. I find numbers pull me from the narrative and I’d rather the reader forgot reality while reading my story. Unless I’m copying out a visual display with numbers that a character is reading, then I’ll stick with text.

2023-10-03 07:36:02

#WritersCoffeeClub Should a writer have a face shot on their book cover or within their book?
It’s up to them, and/or the publisher.
However, this also ties in with the author’s name on the book. Is a face shot and my full name going to sell more books or is it more appealing to readers if I remain ambiguous?
Personally, I don’t want to hide who I am. I also find it odd a certain high profile author and TERF uses an ambiguous name and a male pseudonym for her work.

2023-10-02 17:53:58

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@npub1yy2…7vpm I’m glad you got yourself out of it. I think too that we are conditioned culturally to ideals and when we go against the grain we’re seen as outsiders. You’re meant to have a steady job, a car, a home, a family. You should look and act in certain ways.
Everyone took advantage of my helpful nature, and as I didn’t have kids, I picked up the workloads of those who did. If I got to do an exhibition it was because the male collages saw me as stand totty rather than anything else. 🤷🏻‍♀️

2023-10-02 10:38:47

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@npub1yy2…7vpm Yes! I hit 40 this year and I want to ensure I spend as much of this second half doing what I enjoy.

2023-10-02 07:34:57

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@npub1wu7…3d23 @npub1gx6…xcqu this is probably how I’ll play it. I’m still getting to know my characters and discovering their strengths and weaknesses. Which character would pick up on what clues?

2023-10-02 07:27:02

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@npub1nql…ecju the offer is there if you do need ever it.
I can send over the first few chapters if you want. Probably not the best of time since it opens with my main character sorting out her late aunt’s estate.

2023-10-01 21:31:30

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@npub1nql…ecju I’m really sorry to hear about your dad. You mentioned you visited him with family recently. I understand the release. My FIL is in poor health and sometimes it feels it would be kinder if he went sooner rather than slowly faded away.
Typo, I’m afraid. I could make it his name. It doesn’t have to be what we call him in folklore.
I’m here if you need someone to talk to.

2023-10-01 20:41:21

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@npub1nql…ecju I think this was for me? I’ve got a few chapters of Guesthouse that are relatively readable. Now I’m trying to work out how a character can trick Gwyn up Nupp. The problem with writing is I can easily put characters into problems but struggle with finding solutions to get them out of them.

2023-10-01 20:27:14

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@npub1wu7…3d23 @npub1gx6…xcqu I do something similar when I pants. I have vague key scenes mapped in my head and let the characters work out how to reach them.
The problem for me trying to write a murder mystery is I need the murderer, motive and breadcrumbs as the characters solve the crime. I can’t really coast through. I need to leave the reader clues and it’s hard when I don’t know what’s going on. 😂

2023-10-01 11:14:07

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@npub19m5…28dy yay! Thank you.

2023-10-01 10:17:48

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@npub1k24…26zw Oh I'm sure it will. I have drafted something of an ending scene in the hope the pantsing will reach it (or at least some semblance of it).

2023-10-01 10:16:36

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@npub1nql…ecju You'd like that. There's a scene where the MC is in a crowded pub any everyone is singing along to Fairport Convention's Tam Lin.
You've got some version of The Tempering from an earlier beta read. I can't recall if it's changed a whole lot. But it's morphed into a trilogy and I need to know what happens at the end because inevitably I'll end up needing to tweak stuff in the previous books.

2023-10-01 09:58:39

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@npub13u2…66cv whenever I get round to finishing them.

2023-10-01 09:57:46

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@npub1k24…26zw I know you are a sucker for those. 😁 I am too. The Tempering has morphed into a trilogy, and I loath to query the first part until I discover how the hell it's going to end.

2023-10-01 09:36:35

#WritersCoffeeClub What's your WIP?
I have two WIPs on the go. I like escapism so I write fantasy. One is set in the traditional medieval-like fantasy setting while the other is a portal fantasy between our world and the fairy realm.
I am interested in history, mythology, nature and folklore, and these are apparent in my writing. I also like found families, and morally grey characters because good v evil is bollocks.
Blurbs below. Would you read either of them? Or shall I quit now?
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2023-10-01 07:39:00

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@npub1hxh…gxt9 Gywn ap Nudd is the leader of the Wild Hunt in Welsh mythology. Also the ruler of Anwnn.

2023-10-01 06:41:22

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@npub1gx6…xcqu you can switch off an individuals boosts if there are some serial boosters who flood your feed.

2023-09-30 20:46:23

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@npub1nql…ecju maybe you have to be on shrooms for it all to make sense? 🍄
This confusion in tales is a point in my story. My MC discovers a lot of folklore is true, but the tales are told from human experiences/interpretations and usually with a lump of Christian editing and allegory. So the reality differs from the fairytales we’ve been telling.

2023-09-30 20:26:03

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@npub1nql…ecju I really need to read more Celtic mythology books. It all much more interesting than the crap that passes for tv these days.

2023-09-30 19:41:49

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@npub1nql…ecju a mix, but mainly in his Hunter/Psychopomp guise. I don’t want to copy mythology, but take the bones/origin myth and put my own slant on it.

2023-09-30 18:55:49

Tonight’s research rabbit hole is Gwyn ap Nudd.

2023-09-30 09:12:13

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@npub1gx6…xcqu I tooted earlier I changed my avatar and apologised to those who will wonder who the hell I am before realising it’s just little ole me.
Perhaps I just need to start at the end of the story and pants backwards?

2023-09-29 17:02:24

I’m slowly realising I can’t pants a murder mystery. #AmWriting

2023-09-27 16:48:13

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@npub1tfp…0mnp @npub18dn…a7tx @npub125d…yray and sorry, John. I thought I was already following you. The problem with following hashtags is I see all these people on my feed and I’m not actually following half of them when I really should be.

2023-09-27 16:44:35

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@npub1tfp…0mnp @npub18dn…a7tx @npub125d…yray excellent! Although when these sorts of questions come along I inevitably can’t think of anything good until after the event. One of the great benefits of writing is I (meaning my characters) can be sharp and witty because I have a lot of time to think about that comeback remark (gawd, I wish I could do that in real life).

2023-09-27 12:11:13

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@npub125d…yray ew! It’s like those pimple popper shows. I read a British pathologist’s biography once and that was fodder for writing research and equally harrowing.

2023-09-27 12:06:40

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@npub13f9…e0tz Orbis was very useful to help me gauge travel times and base them in my fantasy realm.
https://orbis.stanford.edu

2023-09-27 12:03:47

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@npub18dn…a7tx @npub125d…yray
I feel today’s #WritersCoffeeClub question needs the sub-question: tell us the most random bit of information you’ve discovered while researching your novel.

2023-09-27 08:34:57

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@npub13p4…wqtr and that has so many different factors to consider, like the environment and the persons age. I discovered babies tend to mummify because they have a lower water content. I also discovered in previous centuries the loft was a popular place to hide an unwanted stillborn and often weren’t discovered until the present day owner started a loft conversion. 😳