@Gypsysoul68 Bannon would never go into labor, that sounds like work 😎

Unfortunately, I have a +full time job so with vaca ending, the rewrites slow.

I'm not quite sure how, but I am a couple of months away from seeking a development editor. I have 2.5 rewrites to complete and a third took a week so I'd guess 2 months, 3-4 if I'm honest about my normal schedule. I've been forever in rewrites but previously lacked technique and a strategy. I'm honestly surprised how productive rewrites are with a valid focus. #ICanDoIt! #writing

@Xponent This reminds me of Kierkegaard who had a theory that since God lives outside of time, any prayer you make could be fulfilled before you actually made the prayer so that you'd never even know you'd done it.

@Linwelly Thank you. That's how I'm feeling but I'm very new at this part so it can be hard to tell. I also have another part of my brain that genuinely wants to promote this one which is an odd feeling.

Fortunately, I'm +50k words in so the writing part is being taken care of by my obsession ;-)

If you should stumble upon a great and seemingly perfect title, would you reveal it before publication/release or zealously guard it? How about if you cannot find the phrase used anywhere?

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What is a good way to distinguish forms of communication such as verbal vs telepathic or digital. There are perhaps style guides which cover this? I've been using italics for non-verbal communication and I fear that it is obtuse and hard to read, particularly in exchanges including both verbal and non-verbal comms. I'm also toying with using 'sent' instead of 'said' but that is a bit clunky too, though easier to read. Is there a more standardized methodology?

#writing #writers

@WendyForbes This looks like a double exposed pic, like the data for two pics got combined and written to the same file. The upper arms are translucent compared to the legs. I'd guess someone with long hair walking by, perhaps more toward the camera vs. perpendicular. That and the low light camera using longish exposure or doubling up data into one file. It's a bit easier to see in the larger pic on the site.

@j0n "he expects law enforcement to thoroughly investigate"

I need you to investigate why you lied to me about your investigation. Get right on that, will you? 😄

@IamYvonneL We're not quite there yet https://www.cnet.com/culture/bulletproof-bodyguard-blanket-designed-to-shield-schoolkids/

@sw00p So much more efficient than killing outsiders, to kill the concept of outsiders

@Numerous_Piccolo_564 Not only that, you could extend the runtime of the phone substantially by replacing old batteries instead of replacing the phone.

Tying the obsolescence of a device directly to all of it's constituent pieces doesn't ever sound like a good idea.

I was doing dishes and listening to my work as I do and found I actually kinda like my characters. After I was finished, I lay on the couch and listened, finding parts I liked but had forgotten about. Then I fell asleep and no #writing was done.

@Museek It occurs to me that future historians will have to sift through ancient data. Something like if someone discovered a stash of authentic, ancient Roman recordings of music.

@Writelighter I haven't. I'm planning a pass to add descriptive prose as I feel my work can be dry. I am going to try Pinterest for just such inspiration. Thank you! As far as the whiteboard, I'm attempting to visualize the equivalent of a very large battlefield and I need a deeper understanding of how the characters move and interact within it. Also, my drawing is terrible so transient is best 🙂

I feel as if I'm working through process barriers. The last section of the book is big in scale. I know key points of character moves but struggle wiring them all together because I simply don't have the vision of it. I can see what I'm writing but I keep focusing on the individual subplots when they need to weave together cohesively. So, I got a visual aid.

After an overall inspiring #writing session editing a supernatural fantasy I'm working on, I bought a whiteboard. Originally inspired to work on the book, I realized that I did not have a complete vision for what I planned to do, so I waited until I had a whiteboard. It feels odd owning my first, personal whiteboard.
Waiting for that doesn't mean I could stop writing though.