Inkican<p>Writing a Book? Here's How to Find Your Audience and Become a Bestselling Author</p><p><a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/how-to-turn-your-book-into-a-bestseller-with-the-right-pr/486012" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">entrepreneur.com/growing-a-bus</span><span class="invisible">iness/how-to-turn-your-book-into-a-bestseller-with-the-right-pr/486012</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writerscommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writerscommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativeprofessional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativeprofessional</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativebusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativebusiness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativebusinessowner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativebusinessowner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creative</span></a></p>
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WCC</span></a> 2504.04 — What are some tips and tricks you use to convey strong emotions?</p></blockquote><p>I think this is where my use of Grammar B helps me. Strong emotions, even things like anger, I think are associated with confusion and levels of self-doubt, which leads to cycles of justification or re-evaluation on the fly, quickly, immediately, erratically. or it just might conceivably—or very possibly since MURPHY in all things, right?—get worse, far worse; that type of thing.</p><p>The last sentence is a short example of a Grammar B run-on. It is non-grammatical; your high school English teacher would grade it a Fail. What it does is <em>breathlessly</em> fire off thought after thought in a continuing sequence, no sequence dependent on the sequence before. It flows. Like a speech. The reader never needs to backtrack to deduce meaning. Such a construct could be cut into individual sentences, standardized. But. <em>Why?</em> Rhythm of any sort drives the reader forward. It creates tension. All useful when writing emotion. A flood of description to overwhelm the senses, like the emotion itself.</p><p>Another construction I think works, usually mixed carefully with the run-on to break repeating rhythms, is telegraphy. I used that in the previous paragraph. Did you. Notice? Short, non-grammatical sentences. Missing a verb, a noun, or what not. It works like a drumbeat, focusing the reader on individual word or unsupported phrase meanings—and you get extra credit if you use a word with multiple meanings that could conceivably apply in context; emotion is confusion, innit?</p><p>In a sense, Grammar B is like finding poetry in prose. Used right, it uniquely depicts emotion. This is why I call myself a "prosaist."</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <br>#<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/grammarb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grammarb</span></a></p>
Emme Klama<p>Who's ready for some <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Friday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Friday</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Fun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fun</span></a>?<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>What makes you smile?</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 2504.04 — Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down? CW: self-analysis</p></blockquote><p>Oddly enough, this devolves to gender roles and the confusion an autistic can discover in any social illogic. As a child, I quickly evolved into a listener, observer, and a pleaser with my shyness providing me an escape route from any confrontative situation—things I worked on (had to!) as I became an adult. Wanting to be an author is not entirely compatible with these personality traits regardless of gender—there is a definite forwardness and egoist nuance to insisting on communicating one's ideas—and I couldn't rely on others to meditate for me. </p><p>I got praise growing up, especially when doing well in school. Then again, my mother had me convinced I'd die if I didn't bring home top marks. I mostly got to hide from praise. It's not that I don't, didn't, like it, but I could better process it unobserved and generally make it appropriately and comfortably undeserved. <em>A pleaser can't accept being pleased well!</em></p><p>Yeah, I got help. If you've heard of EST, I did that.</p><p>Now my reaction to praise is a Venn diagram of who, what, and where. If it is online, where nobody has to see me physically react, I'm a lot more copacetic with it. In person, it can be uncomfortable. I can still find ways to minimize the input but as I get older I'm better at fairly assessing my abilities. I do remember having this one fan at conventions that would greet me. She really wanted a sequel. Maybe she sensed I was shy, I don't know. But I grew to like her reminder.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommentingIsCool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photographer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/chef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chef</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
Xavier Góngora<p>I really like <a href="https://social.toplap.org/tags/pandoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandoc</span></a> for rendering PDF documents from <a href="https://social.toplap.org/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a>. One gets to write plain text files, with all its benefits (version control, portability, etc.). Documentation on formatting syntax and extension is great; the time it would take me to format this by hand, using e.g. LibreOffice <a href="https://social.toplap.org/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a>, is similar to the time it takes me to implement a template to accomplish it automatically.</p><p>Also, must <a href="https://social.toplap.org/tags/LaTex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaTex</span></a> you know is applicable without hassle. Talk about rendering <a href="https://social.toplap.org/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a>!</p><p>You can even write <a href="https://social.toplap.org/tags/Lua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lua</span></a> filters to manipulate pandoc's AST and implement custom functionality! I found a neat one to embed music scores using <a href="https://social.toplap.org/tags/Lilypond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lilypond</span></a>, here: <a href="https://github.com/pandoc/lua-filters/blob/master/lilypond/lilypond.lua" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/pandoc/lua-filters/</span><span class="invisible">blob/master/lilypond/lilypond.lua</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today In Labor History April 4, 1866: Russian revolutionary, Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II. He failed and the government executed him. Some believe that Karakozov chose the year 1866, since that was the year in which a character in Chernyshevsky’s “What Is To Be Done?” planned to launch a revolution. In the book, the protagonist, Vera Pavlovna, escapes a controlling family, and an arranged marriage, to start a socialist cooperative and a truly egalitarian romantic partnership. She starts a seamstress commune, with shared living quarters, profit-sharing and an on-site school to further the women’s education. Chernyshevsky wrote the novel in response to Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons.” He wrote the book while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress. The book inspired generations of Russian radicals, including the nihilists, anarchists and even many Marxists.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nihilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nihilism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chernyshevsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chernyshevsky</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolutionary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/commune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commune</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
Sarah J Hoodlet<p>Poll time!</p><p>I'm publishing my first middle grade (MG) story, and need to set a price for the PRINT format. It will be 5x8 inches trim size, with 104 story pages.</p><p>I don't have kids, so I'm not sure how to price it. If you have middle schoolers, enjoy reading MG stories, or publish your own MG fiction, what's an acceptable price?</p><p>Again, this is for the PRINT format. Thanks!</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Poll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poll</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/SelfPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/SelfPublish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfPublish</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthor</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a></p>
Robert Kingett<p>I think my new website is ready for prime time! Built with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>eleventy</span></a></span> <a href="https://sightlessscribbles.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sightlessscribbles.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Blogger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blogger</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/11ty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>11ty</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>
I. Latham<p>Hail Freya-Frigg on Freya-Frigg's Day!</p><p>A gentle breeze carries her fragrance far,<br>And boughs of budding birch<br>Whisper the Lady's name;.<br>The rich earth stirs, springing green<br>And in her wake a verdant carpet spreads,<br>Woven with perfumed hue.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pagan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paganism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paganism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/norsepagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>norsepagan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freya</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/frigg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>frigg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/goddess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goddess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/heathen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heathen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/druid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>druid</span></a></p>
C.J. Payling/Who Needs A Blog<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhoNeedsABlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoNeedsABlog</span></a> does book reviews?</p><p>(Content Warning: All words are generated by humans)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WriterSky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WriterSky</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a></p><p><a href="https://cjpayling.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/who-needs-a-blog-with-book-reviews-extremophile/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cjpayling.wordpress.com/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">4/04/who-needs-a-blog-with-book-reviews-extremophile/</span></a></p>
Writing & Editing<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> a story/novel is a mysterious process. You sometimes don't know where the words come from, but they are there waiting for you. They come from the farthest reaches of your mind and hit you like a hammer, or slowly work their way out to you over time." - Wrtr <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><strong><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> #<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TTMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTMD</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sfwrtr</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@Nisaa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Nisaa</span></a></span></strong></p><blockquote><p>I see you are coming back from burnout. Any tips on how to avoid it? </p></blockquote><p>I did answer that one so be sure to search the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TTMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTMD</span></a> hashtag, but my best answer was to ensure you can communicate to someone with your writing, if communicating is what counts for you. Since 2015, I have had a fan fiction outlet that generates feedback and page view to which I can write. However, being able to write replies to all you folk on Mastodon is also good.</p><blockquote><p>I’m excited to see you are publishing your book to Mastodon in chapters. What made you decide to publish it that way?</p></blockquote><p>I found a set of 31 women's rights prompts for March. Since the card was in French, the month name read "Mars." An SF feminist idea popped into my head. I took up the challenge. The result is pretty good (says the author immodestly), likely commercial quality with careful revision after fixing some science mistakes. Sadly, I've burnt my <em>1st Publication Rights</em> sale by publishing even temporarily online. I'm now busy revising and adding material, and think I can make a go of selling it, probably as a self-pub.</p><p>Wanna read the completed story? It should be available for the next week: <em>Mars Needed Women:</em> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/114261812977623863" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11426181</span><span class="invisible">2977623863</span></a></p><blockquote><p>What’s a question you wish someone would ask you about your work?</p><blockquote><p>How do you think <em>Mars Needs Women</em> does feminist lit differently?</p></blockquote></blockquote><p>I interpreted your question asking for a question as specifically for the web-novel, but it's applicable to my other works. How? By writing women embracing being female, but neither shamed nor accepting their fate. The story depicts women both as stuck in their role models thanks to their society, and redefining themselves and their roles when they seize the opportunity. The main character has to get married (but she does choose the gorgeous guy!) and has five daughters, but she's avoided the housewife trap on Earth as an engineer on Mars. Women are shown liking sex, nursing their infants in social situations, working on important projects, and convincing their husbands to assist in child care. Because the MC has a temper, she fights back when men in power interfere with the developing women's society. With the help of her daughters who become important side characters in the story, she finds cunning opportunities for the first generation of martian girls, and together they break open the patriarchal power structure that the conditions on Mars is causing to unravel. </p><p>PS: Sorry I took so long to answer. I was pretty messed up after the marathon compose, revise, publish grind during which I wasn't sleeping well.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommentingIsCool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>romance</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photographer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/chef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chef</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
Writing & Editing<p>Writing: Stories can shape the way we feel and see the world around us, how we respond and interact with it. - Wrtr <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amediting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amediting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> ~ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> ~ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authorsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authorsky</span></a></p>
Jules Octavian<p>Our newly minted art editor, Walter Liu, can’t find the local art scene. Walter’s new to the Brownlow area, born in Hong Kong and raised in Toronto, so he’s encountering rural Eastern Ontario for the very first time. Strangely enough, I think he likes what he sees. Maybe a little too much.</p><p><a href="https://countyfencemagazine.com/meeting-the-goddess/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">countyfencemagazine.com/meetin</span><span class="invisible">g-the-goddess/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/freethegoddess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freethegoddess</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/whoisthegoddess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whoisthegoddess</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/muse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>muse</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/quintearts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quintearts</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ygkarts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ygkarts</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vanmural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vanmural</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arts</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/indiewriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiewriter</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Rural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rural</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RuralArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuralArts</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/CanCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanCon</span></a></p>
Writing & Editing<p>Telling a story in a book or a novel is taking your reader on an adventure; to let them discover the world you’ve created, helping them to live inside the story and characters you've created for a while. - Wrtr <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authorsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authorsky</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://writing.exchange/@UnCoveredMyths" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>UnCoveredMyths</span></a></span> <br>Problem solved! Not a <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Scrivener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scrivener</span></a> bug, but this happened because I do things differently.</p><p>Issue: Scrivener can't export more than a page of a file, it gets truncated or misrendered. Page view with Show Invisibles shows a red box surrounding the text.</p><p>Problem: Table formatting has be inadvertently applied. <strong>This can happen when you copy text from a web page into the file.</strong> In my case, <em>I copied it to a template,</em> then used the template on every single file.</p><p>Solution: Turn on View > Text Editing > Show Invisibles. Find the red box. Use > Format > Tables > Remove Table.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
Evander L Fragoso<p>If you haven't checked it out yet, my first publication, the poetry book From The Depths, is available as a print and ebook on Amazon. If you've already purchased the ebook version, it's been updated with a few new poems, so be sure to give it another look!</p><p>From The Depths is also available for preorder on other ebook retailers like Apple, Kobo, Google Books, and Barnes&Noble! On top of it being available in other ebook stores on April 19th, I'm excited to further expand the availability of my books to various ebook libraries.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/selfpublished" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfpublished</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ebook</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://elflinks.weebly.com/books.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">elflinks.weebly.com/books.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://writing.exchange/@UnCoveredMyths" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>UnCoveredMyths</span></a></span> <br>Oh, yay me, I found a <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/scrivener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scrivener</span></a> bug in the newest version. I just wrote it up for Literature and Latte. I had a reputation as a programmer as able to discover bugs nobody else ever found, maybe because I'm neurodivergent? </p><p>Here is a few samples of misrendering that is preventing me from creating a manuscript of any sort.</p><p>Image 1: Scrivener screen shown. Note on the left that a header overwrites text. The two page view only shows the first page of at least two in the file. This result is mirrored in export when compiled in any format.</p><p>Image 2: This is a scrivener screen with Show Invisibles on.<br>In this case, the next paragraph is shown on the second page, but it appears to be in some sort of layout box which is editable. Instead of being truncated like most of the chapters (and the other image), the text shows up on page three. This is also how export compile formats it.</p><p>Edit: Second image actually truncates the file on the third page and presents a blank page on the fourth. At least it is consistent!</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
Agenda du Libre<p>Beauvais: La suite bureautique LibreOffice, Le samedi 5 avril 2025 de 09h30 à 12h00. <a href="https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/31965" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">agendadulibre.org/events/31965</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/oisux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oisux</span></a> <a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/logicielsLibres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logicielsLibres</span></a> <a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/atelier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atelier</span></a> <a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/libreoffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libreoffice</span></a> <a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/calc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>calc</span></a> <a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/draw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>draw</span></a> <a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/libreEnFete2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libreEnFete2025</span></a></p>
Amber<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> 04/03/25 - Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?</p><p>No, it's so difficult! While I do like writing a good death scene, I feel like it's something you have to be very careful with because of how much it can impact other characters and the plot. I only kill off characters if I have a really good reason to. For example, Fenrir & Rhea would not be part of the story at all if a certain someone didn't die first.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a></p>
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