When describing the big things in your world, also remember to include the kind of small, human details that will make it feel real. Graffiti. A drunk's pool of vomit. The safety card in the back of the seat.
#WorldBuilding #StarWars #writing #WritingCommunity #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev
Yesterday, proofs came of my new novella, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, and it got me a bit excited. I have got print copies of my books before, but not one I designed from scratch. I was worried about how the cover would look like, and also because I used LibreWriter for typesetting, if the font was the right one, etc, but it all looks nice and cute. Proud of myself. 😊
Get the ebook or pre-order print here
ododopress.com/novellas/the-bl…
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A solarpunk novella about a grandmother who has to coordinate the defense of her decentralized nation when a colonizer invades. Available in ebook, audiobook, and print.DILMANDILA (Ododo Press)
I feel like it'd be a little weird to just insert some text from the horror novel that I'm working on, so instead I'll show you four things I found in my research process yesterday ^_^
With 26.5, you get ads in #Apple Maps. At least #Apple automatically opts you out of personalized ads. You Can't Turn Ad Display Off, however. Thank you Apple for making 26.x a clusterf%%k of bad design, an accessibility disaster, and now an exemplar for #enshittification(@pluralistic). When you upgrade to 26.5 and visit Maps, read the Advertising and Privacy link carefully. A good reason NOT to update. Can't tell you truly how disgusted this makes me!
I hope this BADLY damages Apple's reputation.
#boostingIsSharing and #altText
#iOS #macOS #iPadOS #author #writer #writingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon.
You have to live here for one year. There's no heating in winter except what you can provide by cutting down local trees.
(Things like this are great for imagining #fantasy settings.)
#WritingTips #travel #AmWriting #writing #winter #WritingCommunity
I mean, I like digging into pre-history when designing monsters, but seriously. Hallucigenia is a a 5cm (2inch) worm with legs and spikes. If reality could just fuck off and stop being more creative than me, that would be great.
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I should expatiate that this isn't some kind of hipster / lifestyle / Instagram-esque virtue signalling like I want to flex how I'm really into mindfulness and anti-consumerism; I spent _five hours_ writing on this thing today, it is literally the best tool for the job given my specific set of constraints and nothing modern has been invented that can best it, so this is what I use. Likewise, I have been using an iPod since 2003. Nobody has engineered a better one worth a damn.
I do not think of myself as a writer, I think of myself as someone who wants to write.
I carry a laptop most of the time, a Lenovo T14s which annoys me every time I use it that I didn't get a 13" one -- they shouldn't even make laptops bigger than that. But it's an infinite distraction machine, a myriad of little demands that all add up. I get that some people have their ultra riced setup with a tiling window manager you've never heard of and even their web-browser is in a terminal. I am not one of those people, I am a sloth with an Energizer rabbit for a brain. If I want to be free of distraction, I have to _physically_ remove myself from it. But it also means that even though I don't want hassle, I am also extremely adept at using my tools. I don't want "smart" tools that limit me or tell me how I should be working. I need a keyboard, a screen and same RAM to put text in to. I need the flexibility of general purpose, "dumb" computing, I do not need a writing _expérience_.
