Great to be back! Thanks @gregpincus.bsky.social.
I loved spending time with you all. Enjoy your week, and write wonderful stories (using whatever method or structure you prefer). 😉 💓
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Ha. I get that. Maybe we should tag in, tag out like wrestlers. 😉
Definitely. They're truly brilliant, sort of unheralded in the realm of story development. They remind me of the classic writers of short stories and radio dramas, endlessly pumping out new scripts and the quality is always better than it has any right to be. #kidlitchat
It really is. The interactive and systemic elements make it a completely different endeavor, and it's really refreshing when you're sick of writing your book. 😆
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OMG, action scenes are the most pain to write. So meticulous and labor intensive. 😆 I prefer really exciting dialogue scenes. Same as action, right?
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That's definitely a key part of my process, sort of an overlapping tool I use in my own and work and in my day job.
Those materials were so formative for me in childhood. 😉
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Wow. Respect. 🙇♂️
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I remember those from when I worked at B&N! 😮
We do a lot of that in game development too, mapping out story beats and how we match them up with game systems and features.
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You should totally write that Campbell picture book, BTW. #kidlitchat
I had a blast writing Spellbinders: Break the Game, which is a humorous deconstruction of the Hero's Journey. The protagonist misinterprets a similar book as a self-help guide and tries to follow it to become a hero.
It does not go well. 😆
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So true. My characters always send me packing after a first pass, and I'm just sitting shotgun for the rest of the story. #kidlitchat
Both, I'm afraid. 😉
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God luck get your connection back! 🤞
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Now I need to look up Seven Plot Point outlines. 😆
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Oh, interesting. I totally forgot about the STC. Sounds like it was a good place to start to help you reach your own process. 😄
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The government shutdown is over, but food needs remain. Please support your local food bank. #writersagainsthunger #kidlitchat #writingcommunity
It's almost always an organic process of discovery, starting with completing a first draft. I almost never go in knowing what I plan to do. The structure grows out of the fallout of Draft 1.
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Everybody ready? Got your snacks/desert/beverage of choice? Good! Because it's almost time for #kidlitchat. 9E/6P ON THE DOT. We'll be expecting you!
At the end of this year’s Books by the Banks, a visitor dropped by the author tables to give each of us a unique 3D-printed cat from the collection she carries. She gives them out to brighten peoples’ day.
I signed a book for her son. My inscription?
“Listen to your mother.”
❤️😻📚
Looks rad! Congrats. ⚔️
Thanks to Ashley Aya Ferguson for coordinating our panel at Books by the Banks this weekend in Cincinnati. Loved meeting and sharing stories with Mary Kay Carson, @tanyakonerman.bsky.social and Kristy High. Great festival. ❤️
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Kind of amazing to be at a book fest in another state and have fans of your series come in to buy the latest installment. 🥰
Thanks, goobers. ❤️ U! 😭⚔️
Love that neighborhood. Jealous. 😍
Let's go, #readers! I'll be signing and speaking this weekend at Books by the Banks in #Cincinnati. Bring the whole family (and the goblins too)! 👺
Hope to see you there. ❤️
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It was great to meet you at BBF! Sad I didn’t get a chance to come by again and chat. Hopefully we’ll see each other again soon. ❤️
