I think the verb "to inch" is great. I mean, you can't force that to be metric can you? "She two-or-so-centimetered closer to him" just doesn't have the same impact, does it? 😆 #overthinking #amwriting #writersky

I'm inching closer to starting to properly plan "The Seventh". This follows "Skirmishes and Schisms", though not immediately. Once I have ensured all versions of The Cleansing are at the correct stage, I'll have the right rhythm going. I'm not a great planner, but I need to be better. #writersky

While it is still well behind the article/post version, I've updated the manuscript version of "The Cleansing" as well today. You can now read up to the end of Chapter 17. Although I get minimal data, if you view or read my #writing, thank you. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting @worldanvil.com

Episode 30 of "The Cleansing" is now live: Vazkyr and Kanda-Nor enjoy a relaxed end of the day. Back in Shanvér Woods, Shenzàn was already waiting to question Findat about the dangers of their mission. Tempers flair and Azachet is forced to intervene. #AmWriting @worldanvil.com #WritingCommunity

I have almost brought my Chapters on #WorldAnvil up-to-date. So I've published Episodes 28 and 29 of The Cleansing tonight. Vazkyr at her most flustered and forgetting basic things like...shoes. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Serial

It appears sitting under a tree, looking up at the sky and meditating on what the clouds look like IS a good way to drum up ideas. #WritingCommunity #AmOutlining

I've been able to schedule next week's early-access chapter of The Cleansing on Patreon and Ko-Fi. In Episode 32, Kanda-Nor and Vazkyr get familiar talking about familiars. Episodes 1 - 28 are now available on @worldanvil.com. → www.worldanvil.com/w/qal-ath-fj... #amwriting #writingcommunity

It's been a rough week with my general health and pain levels. But I have managed to write ~1200 words (by hand, hence approximate) for my #serialfiction. If I could just douse the brain fog, I could write much more. It's hard to write when your brain fires in 10 different directions.

Well this is awful. #WritingCommunity vickyweberbooks.substack.com/p/what-nobod...

Well, I mean, it's not entirely false... 😆 #postscript #andrewsmcmeel #writersofinstagram

Another #sketch of Azachet from an upcoming episode of "The Cleansing". It's kinda tricky doing my own character #drawing when I'm self-taught, but I'd rather they be imperfect and made by myself, than by a machine. #OC #amwriting #writingcommunity #fantasy

I've been trying to practice drawing my characters' faces in under 15 minutes. No problem if you're an artist. But me, yep. Here's my 12 minute Azachet, the Sablesand tiger from The Cleansing. #drawing #sketch #OC #writingcommunity

Hey Folks, I finally finished the #pencildrawing for my fantasy chapter. I've uploaded it to my @artfol.app page. I've also added new Early Access chapters to both my Ko-Fi and Patreon folk. More story going public soon, too. #AmWriting #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity artfol.app/a/uOKjOrO

I've been unable to do much of the writing as I have wanted to, but at least this #drawing related to my serial #fiction is finally coming together. Still some spider details, tree shading and light casting/shadows to do, though. #amdrawing #pencildrawing #fantasy

All the indie authors who use AI for their covers because “what am I supposed to do, I can’t afford an artist” would probably have a melt down if artists did paintings and had AI write books to go with the paintings. Anyway, shout out to indie authors who have really bad photoshop covers.

I have a #NewChapter of "The Cleansing" out now. The confrontation with Shanvér's spiders still fresh in their minds, Shen, Vider and Veman trudge back to rejoin the others. Their complementary skills give Shenzàn concerns about their mission. #WriterSky #WritingCommunity #Writer #WriterLife

I still haven't fully adjusted to being on a lower #WorldAnvil package where I can't set my own "meta" title tag and meta description. I'm sure there must have been some logic behind it at @worldanvil.com HQ, but I can't figure it. I'd have to almost double my membership fee to get it though.

While not new, I've done a re-read of Episode 14 "Meanwhile in Cafe Svarte" www.worldanvil.com/w/qal-ath-fj... For anyone reading via @worldanvil.com's Manuscripts, that chapter has been added here: www.worldanvil.com/community/ma... Enjoy. #AmWriting #OriginalFantasy #WorldAnvil #Writer

I had a meds review for my #chronicpain and dosages have been tweaked. This week, I have managed to type up some serial fiction, and I've started a "chapter sketch". I hope to have new Qal'ath content out early next week. #writing #writingcommunity #writersky

I hadn't intended on being of social media this long. My chronic pain and fatigue have been frustrating and I've ended up crashing out on the sofa, rather than out in the office. And I had forgotten I'd removed the Bluesky app from my phone. I don't even remember why. I've been #writing though.

I've had my head in some woodwork the last few days, but my brain is whirring on a few story elements coming up in The Cleansing. Next week I have to sit down and do some planning for a new novel-length piece. With the way my tales work, more coffee than normal will be needed! #writingcommmunity

@worldanvil.com Hey, I'm updating my Mastodon profile and have added a link to my WA site. But I'd like to manage to do the verifying process. Unfortunately that involves rel="me", and I don't think we can add that with the current BB Code, can we? Could this be added to our profile social links?

I'm having to battle a bit with @worldanvil.com's old-school WYSIWYG editor that's in their manuscripts feature, but I'm slowly migrating chapters in now. The cleansing in quasi "book-form" is up to Chapter 11 as of now. #AmWriting #OriginalFiction #Fantasy www.worldanvil.com/community/ma...

I'm finally catching up with publishing the article form of my serial fiction, "The Cleansing". So, four more episodes are now up on #WorldAnvil, starting with "They Are Not Alone". #SerialFiction #Serial #Writing #WriterSky #WritingCommunity

I've finally written a few sides of A4 of new #serialfiction storyline to type up later this week. Also managed to complete a #sketch for a future episode. It's good to be moving forward with #writing again.

As part of getting my head around all my writing, I'm reviewing that which I've already published for free on @worldanvil.com. "Fallen Down" had a weird formatting thing with loads of bold text. I've fixed this now. Enjoy! #ShortStory #Fiction #Fantasy #Writing www.worldanvil.com/community/ma...

After some thought, I've finally made a couple of episodes of "The Cleansing" public on Ko-Fi. Findat's diplomatic team are camped in Nakasz Clearing in the woods. Veman and Vider have been sent to do the supposedly simple task of collecting firewood. #writer #writingcommunity #fiction #serial

Latest #OC #sketch is of Farynna. This is in a chronicle I'm still planning, but have some scenes drafted already. "Linking" is how mages communicate audibly and visually. But when a mage contacts someone who has never linked before, the pain is almost unbearable. #fantasy #drawing #feline

I've also noticed...and noted that I am behind in publishing episodes of The Cleansing onto #WorldAnvil. Currently, I am looking into what I publish publicly and why. But it means Patreon, and to a degree Ko-Fi supporters (all 2 of you🫂) have extra episodes available to them for now. #writing

After a long silence here and on WorldAnvil, I have finally been able to progress my #writing. With being away, I could not plan the chronicle I intended. However, I have progressed my #serialfiction. I've published it for #Patreon access only for the time being.

Hey #WritingCommunity, although I'm not over this month-long illness, I am now slowly getting back into #writing. My other half told me to "get the story out of my head" that has been in it for 7 years and only then to work on other things. I'm currently summarising the first "book". It's messy🤦

I've added a new early access to a new scene for my WIP novel "The Seventh". I've also pulled together a couple of other write-ups from last year's "false start" on this book😄. So I have a #Patreon "collection" solely for this storyline. Previews are Patreon-exclusive. Thanks. #writing #fiction

I nearly gave up #writing this weekend, but I didn't. If ever you've written about why anyone should keep writing if they have zero readers, thank you. Other writers probably just saved all my work. How? By writing about writing. I've linked a few posts in this one. #WritingCommunity #Writer

After yesterday's struggle, I wrote a scene for the next "book", called "The Seventh". Whether anyone reads it, I completed "Skirmishes and Schisms" on @worldanvil.com and I have another full novel draft on my computer called "Wrenched". I guess that makes me a #writer. #writing #unpublished

I'm currently reading various (human written) posts around the search of "Why write stories even if no one reads them?" Various writers/published authors' views may be the antidote to my current, defeatest temptation to delete everything I've written about my world. #writing #writingcommunity

To say this month's been "hard" is something of an understatement. It feels like life and everything else is out to stop me from writing or drawing. I have started a drawing, but it's nowhere near finished. And that's not the same as settling to actually #writing.

I know I'm not here often anyway, but I've been ill most of this week, which has the "bonus" of aggravating my #ChronicPain. On the off-chance there are DMs waiting for me from you, I'll reply once I'm well enough. Thanks.

Today, around family time, I've been #sketching a picture of one of my characters from much later in my world than the serial fiction. When my #Fibromyalgia is too bad for writing, #drawing is still a way to connect to my world. #sketch #wip #originalcharacter #fantasy

Now I've passed my hand-drawn #sketch through #GIMP filters, I can show you my sketch of Findat. He's currently leading a small diplomatic team through Shanvér Woods to where their allies, the Aevyormii, live. And no, at this point in history, they don't have quicker transport. #amwriting #drawing

I've published the next episode of "The Cleansing" on #WorldAnvil. This is a "building" episode, as in things are fairly calm. If you discount Naja nearly trampling down Vider's highly sophisticated and irreplaceable lantern anyway. #AmWriting #SerialFiction www.worldanvil.com/w/qal-ath-fj...

While feeling ill, I've been working on #drawing a couple of characters for my #writing. Not sharable...yet. My challenges: - The same male character in formal wear and at a different angle in camping/outdoor wear. - The same female character but at two different ages because of when she appears.

Hey, most of my family have come down with some bug or other and it's aggravated my own long-term health issue. But after food, caffeine and meds, I've written a plan for the next few scenes of my serial fiction and started writing. I'm also partway through drawing Findat. Progress🙂. #amwriting

#writers #authors #writingmynovel #writeaway #writinglife

"“The master has failed more times than the #beginner has even tried.” – Stephen McCranie" - If you have tried and are still trying, know that that #process in itself is a #success 🙂 Wishing you a fruitful and #mindful week ahead! buff.ly/WJ4jFwp #MondayBlogs

As a #drawing exercise today, I roughly sketched a new impression of "The Chronicler" (aka Add'màr). To make it scalable and okay in digital I applied some GIMP smoothing. I will have to redraw this digitally I think, as I'm not using online tools to re-draw or generate it. #newavatar #sketch

So, after not being able to write for one thing and another, I've managed over 2000 words of *draft* text tonight. And bullet points for what happens next. Guess I should go get some rest now! (Image is my own creation from a hand-drawn pencil sketch). #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersky

Chapter 22, "They're Not Alone" is now up for Patreon early-access. Well, I'm playing with #Patreon's preview feature. So if you don't support in that way, you *should* still see a small portion of it. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

Hey folks, I've just made Chapter/Episode 21 of The Cleansing public. I haven't formatted it on WorldAnvil yet, but the Patreon version is here: 📖 www.patreon.com/posts/cleans... Findat's team start setting up camp, while Kanda discovers the coordinates he needs. #amwriting #writingcommunity

Are there any #WorldAnvil users that also utilise #Firefox? I was using the "new" article creator modal, but then needed to add a secret (another modal on top) and that seemed to cause my system to freeze up. I'm just wondering if other FF users have had that or if I've messed something up? Thanks!