Ariadne ✅ @ariadne@octodon.social

@KthulhuKat hang in there, you'll be fine, and having gone to uni for engineering, working myself in technology and music, I know what it is like to be in classrooms and meeting rooms with 95%+ of the people in the room being men. So thank you for representing, stay strong, and all the best! xx

#cats day Foto hier: https://octodon.social/media/BqlhUFVms5Ab7kucJN0

I finally have the analogy to describe why I find the #writing to flow much better when I first write by hand on paper, and then on the computer, rather than directly on the keyboard. Writing on paper is like doing a keyboard sketch of an orchestral composition, and then when I put it on the computer, which for me includes revision, edit, often expansion, sometime deletion and moving, this is like orchestrating a full score. There you have it ... well, kind of 🙆

@craigmaloney @davidrevoy can't believe I didn't know this and almost missed it - thanks for the reminder! purrrrrrr

die Stunde ist doch spät, bzw. gegen Mitternacht, aber es ist Schreibe-Zeit 🕛 also los geht's!

so I did it again, posted my author thoughts on @AriadneAnarchist by mistake. Here's a copy/paste then: need to rein in my characters today. They are trying to get me to write/add to three different chapters simultaneously, and as much as I love being outside of space-time, that's not working for getting things productively on the page 😘 so characters, please be a little patient today, wait for your turn, and you'll get your part written down, I promise ☀ #writing #sf

@mona @garbados enjoying your quantum conversation :) (these are things I think about a lot, wrote a chapter about in my first (non-fiction) book, and are crucial to my 2nd book (SF) I'm writing now ... but they are still hard to translate into understandable, readable, fun fiction

@Nezchan thanks for posting this, I've been wondering the same thing

@Averly thank you, that's lovely! 😎

@Averly I've no idea :) but it has been cloudy cold and rainy here for two weeks now with barely any sun (i.e. makes me a bit grumpy)

@Averly ummm... it kinda depends on where you are on the planet, time of year, time of day, etc.

toooo much non-writing life got in the way this week 😠🉑but just had a nice exercise walk in the cold drizzle, and worked out a stuck-point around one of my main characters, so that's good (and the sheep 🐑 in the field fit into my characters' development, why didn't I notice that before?)

oops, didn't finish my thought. Two of the heroes are on board a freighter in the North Atlantic where they not only are beginning to really fall in love (as far as I can tell) but are unravelling a mystery of the plot.

back to writing one of the mid-chapters of my book. Two of the heroes (I almost wrote heroines, not to be sexist, but one is lesbian and the other is ... more complicated you'll have to read the story ;)

@Elizafox I couldn't agree more, I was a Unix/Linux admin for 2 years that felt like 20

there, I really like the way that chapter reads now! Thanks @raymescallado for your comments - they really helped! (I think I'll sleep well tonight now :) xx

well, maybe just over on @anticapitalist.party :) nah, jk x

@nolan really understandable and well done piece on this - thank you! xx