#WordWeavers 4/21. Is there anything that bores you about any of your characters?

1. Drawing their faces. (This applies to the most of the characters)

2. The constant worry that if I don't push them forward and activate them, they'll just stand there doing nothing but talking.
(My writing often starts with dialogue and is based on verbal ideas.)

Yesterday's write-up now also available on my blog. It was a nice day.

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https://www.norbertwoehnl.com/singles/tokyo-japan-metropolitan-teien-museum-cafe-lunch-2025-04-20

Has anybody got any suggestions for places where I can read serial fiction?

@kensanata wrote a blog post a while back about Perry Rhodan which has ignited my interest in something i can read in little chunks but my German is pretty poor.

#WordWeavers 21/4: Is there anything that bores you about any of your characters?
No, characters have to interest me or I won’t persist with them.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 21/4: What “established” writerly traits don’t really apply to you?
I’m not sure I know what writerly traits would be. I don’t have a great sense of stereotyping here.
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#ScribesAndMakers 4/21. Do you create for a certain niche or do you hope to have as broad an appeal as possible?

I write genre which means I target those who like that genre. This is sensible since I prefer to sell books than not.

My 3D rendering is audience-agnostic. I'm not trying to convince anybody.

#WritersCoffeeClub 4/21. In honor of @johnhowesauthor who doesn’t really like coffee: what “established” writerly traits don’t really apply to you?

I dunno - don't drink, don't smoke, never redraft/rewrite, don't agonise over the work, don't "cast" my characters, don't have any unfinished books, do edit as I go, don't cave-in over bad reviews, no self-doubt (I know what I can do), no consistent writing routine, seldom seek feedback, I don't have a TBR list, never hate what I'm writing, never get bored of my work,...

I looked at a whole bunch of "characteristics of writers" articles just for funsies. What an utter load of bollocks.

According to one we should all be sleep deprived.

Dean Wesley Smith: "Every writer is different, every project is different."

#WordWeavers 4/21. Is there anything that bores you about any of your characters?

No. If they bore me they'll bore the readers, so that would be bad.

https://mtzqwrites.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/write-the-year-2025-week-16-whereabouts/

The latest Fountain Pen video is now available for your viewing pleasure.

In this video I am looking at the fountain pens I have inked up in April 2025.

Join me now to see those pens.

https://youtu.be/LNombV_RM9w

I may not be able to walk properly, but I can still write. This afternoon shall be editing galore, I need to get moving on this manuscript so its time to light a fire under my own butt!

Chapter 5 is live! Mila and Sad Boy make their way through the slums, but what they find is more than they bargained for.

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https://churapereviews.com/2025/04/21/the-last-apprentice-chapter-5/

#PennedPossibilities 649 — What research did you conduct for your WIP, and did you uncover anything surprising or fascinating?

When you are writing 31 chapters in 31 days and posting a chapter a day, having only come up with the idea and character the day before starting, research is a concept dealt with by quick and dirty searches. I did have one interesting factino in my pocket, though. I'd found an article about growing fungus to make building blocks for construction on Mars, and knew the blocks might help repel radiation. Another recent article spoke about inflating a balloon for a habitat. I combined both ideas in the 4th chapter titled Glue. Beyond that, I spent quite a bit of time Googling things about 16 Psyche (an asteroid) and learned that Martian dust is poisonous, and like moon dust, pernicious. Recent NASA tests lofted by a private company to the moon proves that electostatic grids can capture or repel dust. I used that. Much of the rest of the technology I punted on. I realized green minerals on Mars might be rare, so I backtracked on some red-green-black ferric metaphors. Yesterday, I read up on planetary transfer orbits and made changes to the revised novel. I also learned about the Lunar Gateway space station concept, and will revise that concept when I get to revising the relevant chapter.

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Nonsense poems:

Floogles drive the destiny of galt,
With many shives and traces halt.
Batswanie moongles in the pond
With divided loyalties in jond.
Cavort! Cavort! the wandress cries,
And meanwhile all the turvey dies.

Masculine w/ o
Anchor in g
Feminine
Cannon
Loose
Blind
Lost
Ball

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Today, I wrote more than 5k words for a new project I shouldn't even be starting and which has no predictable outcome.

A writing brain is not easy to handle.

#WordWeavers 2504.20 — If someone gave you a million dollars (or equivalent) to never write again, would you take it?

I spent a lifetime scrimping, saving, investing, and being frugal to get to this point. Retirement. Now they offer me a million dollars? Sheesh. Gonna have to make me a better offer to stop me from doing what I like to do. [Sticks out tongue, makes raspberry.]

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