#WordWeavers 3/4: For which characters do you come up with a backstory?
I don’t ‘come up with’ backstory for any of them. They tell me, when they need to, or it emerges organically, or, somehow, it’s ‘just there’. There’s a lot of…
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#wordweavers 3 Who has backstories.

All the primary characters including antag to varying degrees. More of the tragedies than successes that make them who they are. With plenty unwritten till some thing fits there on the canvas.

#NMPrompts #NMWW

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what machines can’t

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Such a weird article from a so-called #writer #author - maybe using #LLM #AI #GenAI has already fried his brain!

#writing #amwriting #writersofmastodon #writerscoffeeclub #scribesandmakers #wordweavers #authors

#WordWeavers Apr 2
Do you use any special means to get to know your characters? E.g. character sheets, prequels, interviews, etc.

I put them in situations that expose their biases. If an important meeting conflicts with a Guardians baseball game, my MC will *oops* forget the meeting.

#writing

#WordWeavers Apr 2: Do you use any special means to get to know your characters?

Nope. I do nothing consistent here. I usually have a few notes about who they are/what they want/character development, but it's mixed in with the overall planning.

#amwriting

Important: Unesco Replaces OER Acronym Today brings an important announcement from Unesco pertaining to open education. Those educational resources that have been referred to for the past nine years as “Open Educational Resources” are to be renamed. There are two reasons for the end of the use of the OER acronym. One is that there is continuing debate between those who believe these resources should be called “open” and those prefer to term “free” to describe them. Also, simply referring to them as “educational” resources has been shown to exclude many other areas where they have become increasingly important, such as research and training. As a result, officially they are no more to be referred to as “Open Educational Resources”, or OERs. From 1st April on, they are to be known as “Freely/Openly Enabled Resources Supporting Training, Education, and Research”. Unesco officials explained that while they realize that many people have become accustomed to the now deprecated “OER” terminology, it is important that these vital, renewable intellectual resources be renamed to something that highlights all of the areas where they are transforming education around the world. As such, it is expected that before long, those in the movement will become familiar with and happy to use the new term “FOERSTER” to describe these crucial resources. Please make a note of it!

#WordWeavers Apr. 1: Your opinion on April Fools Day and do you incorporate the day into your work?

Usually not. But one year I couldn't resist, and posted this link in a variety of #OER related communities:

stevefoerster.com/important-unesco-replace...

#WordWeavers Apr. 2: Do you use any special means to get to know your characters?

Not really. They sort of appear fully formed. I like the emergent nature; it can surprise me and change the direction of the whole narrative.

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#WordWeavers 2/4: Do you use any special means to get to know your characters? E.g. character sheets, prequels, interviews, etc.
Absolutely definitely not. Any such approach is anathema to me. I don’t assemble characters mechanically, the…
#books #writing #WriteSky #writingcommunity

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#WordWeavers 4/2—Do you use any special means to get to know your characters? E.g. character sheets, prequels, interviews, etc.

I write up a short character summary focusing on looks, background, behaviors, and most importantly, verbal tells and idiosyncrasies.

Sometimes I will write flash […]

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# Least Kan Lakan be Forgotten: April Fools Edition 3 of 3

**#FanFic #TheApothecaryDiaries**
#Wss366 Fool / #AprilFools #MastoPrompt Cruel #WordWeavers April Fools.

Mao took a sip under Lakan's watchful gaze.

“What’s that?” he asked.

Clack!

“Is it good?”

Mao shot En'en a piercing look. “ […]

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# Least Kan Lakan be Forgotten: April Fools Edition 2 of 3

**#FanFic #TheApothecaryDiaries**
#Wss366 Fool / #AprilFools #MastoPrompt Cruel #WordWeavers April Fools.

The room looked much as it had in her recent dream. Courtesans lounged on pillows while Joka played the erhu, looking bored. The […]

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# Least Kan Lakan be Forgotten: April Fools Edition 1 of 3

**#FanFic #TheApothecaryDiaries**
#Wss366 Fool / #AprilFools #MastoPrompt Cruel #WordWeavers April Fools.

As soon as Mao and her party were out of the madam's earshot, Mao said, "I need to stop by the apothecary for a moment. There's […]

#WordWeavers Apr 1: Your opinion on April Fools Day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

Since the rise of the Internet and Social Media? I fucking HATE it.

No, I don't incorporate it into my work. It sucks.

#Books #Writing #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity

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#WordWeavers 1 Apr
Your opinion on April Fool's Day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

The world is absurd all year. I think we should find a way to devise pranks that punch up instead of down, and do that all year too.

Most of my work isn't set in this culture. It's not impossible […]

#WordWeavers 1/4: Your opinion on April Fool's Day & do you incorporate the day into your work?
April Fool's Day is a fine thing when the spoof is done well. And as the originator of the Spaghetti Harvest story on the BBC, and of the…
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Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost is a cute, cozy slice of life about a ghost that travels through time and has tea with various famous people. #AprilFools: Yeah, I know I didn’t #fool you. While Bijou meets several famous people and even shares cocktails with Countess Elizebeth Bathory, one would hardly call it a cute, cozy story—surreal, pulp-inspired, full of cabals and fascists, yes—cute and cozy, no. What is it about? That is hard to say since Bijou and her companion Emily Pang don’t know either. All they know is that creepy rabbits keep showing up alongside the worst people in history, and they’re determined to find out what is going on and to stop it.

#WordWeavers #AprilFools #TimeTravelAuthors 04/1. Introduce your story with joke

#Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #Serial

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.**#WordWeavers #AprilFools #TimeTravelAuthors 04/1. Introduce your story with joke**

Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost is a cute, cozy slice of life about a ghost that travels through time and has tea with various famous people.

#AprilFools: Yeah, I know I didn’t #fool you.

While Bijou meets […]

#WordWeavers 01 April: Your opinion on April Fool's Day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

I'm going to write a chapter featuring April Fool's Day pranks.

At a school for teenage superheroes.

I might also write one set in my school for young* necromancers.

*kindergarten to year 12

#WordWeavers 1 Your opinion on April Fool's Day & do you incorporate the day into your work?

I try to ignore it except to work it into story prompts where requested.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi (@NaraMoore@sakurajima.moe) # #TimeTravelingGhost EP 8: Post 87: 2025 Arkham **#Wss366 Suit #MastoPrompt Lessen #TimeTravelAuthors 03/31. Author's choice/promo #WordWeavers 31 Share or tell us about a fun scene you recently wrot...

#TimeTravelingGhost EP 8: Post 87: 2025 Arkham

Coffee and cake with a hint of problems ahead.

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#Wss366 #TimeTravelAuthors Author's choice #WordWeavers Share a fun scene you recently wrote #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #Serial #Slowburn #Yuri

#WordWeavers Day 31: Share or tell us about a fun scene you recently wrote.

I have a scene where a woman prepares for dinner, while a spider spins a web nearby. The man in focus is as defenseless as the spider's prey.

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#WordWeavers Mar 31: Share or tell us about a fun scene you recently wrote.

Just finished a bit where the tavernkeeper in Eokar's home village came to the entirely reasonable conclusion that Eokar has become a bandit. She's only been committing deicide! This is now cleared up.

#amwriting

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#WordWeavers - March 31st - Share or tell us about a fun scene you recently wrote.

Summon saints for fun and profit!

'One farmer's widow in Hochseilstritz was plagued by a heavy load of debt. In her dire circumstances, she decided to beseech the holy Christopher for aid. Late at night, she […]

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#WordWeavers 31 March
Share or tell us about a fun scene you recently wrote.

Scene 2 of a short comedy play I'm writing, about a phobia support group. The first scene came so easily I was stuck for ages on the second. It's going to need tightened up a lot, but it's there now, and my writers […]

screenshot of Chuck Darwin's Mastodon post Bluesky has launched an AI assistant called Attie that allows users to design their own social media algorithms and create custom feeds within the company’s AT Protocol ecosystem. Attie debuted this weekend at the ATmosphere conference, which Bluesky sponsors. But Bluesky’s userbase did not embrace the new product. Instead, about 125,000 users have already blocked Attie’s Bluesky account, making it the second most blocked account on the network, according to open source data. Attie only has 1,500 followers, meaning that about 83 times more users have blocked the account than followed it. The only account with more blocks than Bluesky’s AI agent is Vice President J. D. Vance, with about 180,000 blocks — Attie even surpassed the White House account (122,000 blocks) and the ICE account (112,460 blocks). That’s some seriously detested company for a platform that skews left politically.

screenshot of the attie.ai account on BlueSky (desktop PC) - blocked

oh dear, BlueSky has a new AI

You know what to do!

techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/b...

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And Im thinking how diffrent our lives are now—diffrent from each other of corse, but what I reelly mean is diffrent from how either of us couldve imajined back in Arranfells. 2 years ago, is all it is, aint that strange? Its almost like were not even the same people and not just becos were older. Me, I even changed my name, but yet a lot of ways I feel I am the same. Tarry, Tari, there’s still the same me somewhere inside. I wonder do you feel like that too. Well Avi I have to be getting this done becos the Couriers are getting reddy to leave soon. So all I say is, and I probably said it alreddy at the start, I hope youre still well and happy being a Dawnsinger, being a Novice. Like I said were in diffrent lives from what we couldve ever imajined but seems like its terning out pretty well for me. I just hope its the same for you, and I hope you can write back soon, this summer anyway, and tell me. I do miss you but itud be a hole lot worse if we couldnt have these letters.

#WordWeavers 31/3: Share or tell us about a fun scene you recently wrote.
‘Scene’ may not be quite the word as it’s an epistolary episode, and I’m not sure about ‘fun’ either But can’t be picky as I’m mostly in revision mode, not many brand new scenes happening…
#books #writing #writersofmastodon

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#wordWeavers offload keeping track to whatever collectiveUnConsiousness i happen to be in a dialogue with at the time (and #keepNotes: )

#weeklyBeats #mirloMondays #artiphon #orba #music:
#tinyHome everything's turning up philhouse
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/jourapnal/tracks/26780 […]

#WordWeavers Mar. 30: How do you keep track of important info related to your characters, world, etc.?

A special section in Scrivener, a "world bible" spreadsheet for my series, and moleskin notebooks for brainstorming and notes when traveling.

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#WordWeavers March 30: How do you keep track of important info related to your characters, world, etc.?

It's a dangerous tool. I review the latest news on the internet.

Two hours later, I close the tabs to cat videos and Cleveland Guardians updates and get coffee.

#writing