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One of the best writing exercises I ever did was in college.

We were asked to distill a 10 page scientific paper on the relation between the dodo and a plant that went extinct along with it... into 100 words.

That plus the 10% Solution by Ken Rand are deeply ingrained.

Really helpful as I summarize these book chapters into a proposal. 150 words per chapter? PLENTY.

Writers – you can get around your local café's "no laptops" policy by writing your first draft by hand.

You might be surprised by how it changes your thought process and inspiration.

Bonus: typing it all up then adds a helpful step to the editing process. Adapt your handwritten lines as you type!

#amWriting a post on lazy language design. The hardest problem is not to write it—I can churn out a lot in a relatively short time. (Despite being lazy.)

The hardest problem is to build a (preferably acyclic) graph of all sections so that there's not too many dependencies and the flow is least interrupted by back/forward links.

Uuuuuuuugh. Now I get #Zettelkasten folks—having my writing as a bunch of "cards" would be nice indeed. But oh well—we have no reasonable visual/graph code editors, and I doubt we'd have these for writing either.

Ciao, Fediverse! 👋🏻 Time for an updated #introduction.

I'm a fiction writer, public librarian, and online diarist. If you guessed that I am a mildly pedantic, vaguely recursive thinker who appreciates a tidy structure while also dabbling in the chaotic arts, well, cite your sources.

I post about #libraries, what I #amwriting, #analog delights like fountain pens and ink, building #community, and whatever else I feel like.

Follow me, unfollow me, just don't walk beside me. My neck hurts.

Fortgeführter Thread

I never really tried to write "Terra Ignota" fic despite being a huge fan because I couldn't see how I could ever approximate these brilliant voices and styles. And now I don't even try, just write something adjacent, and I guess that's okay.

But the names...! The names are *hard*. There's so much meaning and worldbuilding in the names. How will I ever find names for my OCs?!