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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 1d

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For Tales from Karatera, I usually listen to this. It's an ambient music mix with a "dark desert" aesthetic. Helps me get into the tone of the setting.

youtu.be/Vo7n4j3OrNs?...

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 1d

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This is a funny one, because most of the fictional worlds I'm invested in are objectively terrible places to live. So it's a matter of figuring which one sucks the least.

I suppose Discworld wouldn't be as bad, I guess? Better than living in Westeros.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 3d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 21 📚

I want to say "all of them" but I'm pretty sure I'd die on day one if most of them! Still, I'd love to vist Pern, and I'd move to The Shire in a second.

What about you?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 21 What's a fictional place from a book you'd love to visit?
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 2d

Not at the moment, no. I don't have a story that's ready for beta reading just yet, but I'll keep you in mind for when I do.

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 3d

Oh hey I passed 50 followers yesterday. That's sick.

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 3d

Uh, primarily dark fantasy at the moment, with the hopes of writing some sci-fi later down the track. I've got a post pinned on my profile that has a list of the stories I've written so far, in case you're curious to read.

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 4d

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This is a good question, because I don't pay munch attention to tropes. All that matters to me is that the story is told in an engaging way.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 5d

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Tropes you love (or love to hate)
Enemies to lovers?
Wise old mentor?
Suddenly beautiful without her glasses? (Okay, that one makes me 🤮 as an adult, but as a teen 😍)

Share yours.

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 19 What's a book trope you absolutely love?
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 4d

Okay I think I've finally got an editor to look at Clanless. Hopefully that should be available to read in 2-3 weeks. Beta reading of A Matter of Faith is coming along very slowly, and I intend to start working on story number 5 this week. Ball's still rolling, albeit very slowly.
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 5d

2. SPIRITBINDERS
Chloe, a young girl with an unusually deep attunement to the spirits, finds herself caught between three magical practitioners, all hoping to turn her into their new apprentice...

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Spiritbinders

Written by Thomas MansfieldEdited by Liam Selby Chloe walked up the path that led to the witch’s hut, carrying a basket of bread, cheese, and olives. She hummed a nervous tune as she walked, keepin…

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 5d

1. A SOLDIER'S LOT
Fayiz, an experienced soldier of the Redblood Mercenary Company, is forced to spy on an advancing army of dragonkin, with only a nervous new recruit to aid him...

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A Soldier’s Lot

Written by Thomas MansfieldEdited by Claire Bradshaw Fayiz crawled across the cliff, his black-and-red tabard scraping against the dirt and leaving long dusty smears the colour of rust. The sun bla…

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 5d

TALES FROM KARATERA

An ongoing set of eight short stories set in the desert world of Karatera, where monsters, warlords and dark spirits reign supreme. This post will be updated periodically with links to each story as I post them on my main Wordpress blog.

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 5d

#writinglifemonthly 18

I keep my pile on my bookshelf, just oriented in a different way to make me go "oh right I'm meant to be reading these".

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 5d

#writinglifemonthly 17

I think just how much the stories change during the drafting process. Like, you start out with what you think is a pretty solid idea, and then as early as your first draft you realise that it wasn't as well-defined as you thought, forcing you to go back to the drawing board.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 7d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 17 📚

For me, writing is a constant state of learning. What's something unexpeted to come out of your writing?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 17 What's the most surprising thing you've learned while writing your book?
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 5d

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From the first short story I "published" on my blog:

"Fayiz crawled across the cliff, his black-and-red tabard scraping against the dirt and leaving long dusty smears the colour of rust."

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 8d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 16 📚

What type is yours?
* Creates emotional tension
* Holds a contradiction
* Disorients the reader slightly
* Raises questions while seeming diffinitive

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 16 Share the first line of your book
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 8d

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I keep hitting the "n" or "." key when I'm writing on my phone, so I keep accidentally making nonsense words or bogus site names. I'm sure I've made countless other mistakes while drafting.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 9d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day15 📚

So, as someone with #dyslexia I can tell you I've made hundreds, possibly thousands of such mistakes. But one I made over and over again was writing "abortion" instead of "aboriginal" 😳

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 15 What's a funny or embarrassing typo you've made while writing?
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 9d

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Don't have one. All my stories are online and physical prints aren't really feasible for me right now.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 10d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 12 📚

Published - Feel free to use this one as a promo

Unpublished - Don't tell me you haven't made a mockup

Readers - Share one of a book you want made 😁

Artists - Share your creations

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 14 Post a mockuo of your book cover.
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 9d

I suppose its the refining of what I write that's the difficult part for me. That and sustaining my own interest in long-term projects.

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 10d

*it. Goddammit

Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 10d

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Well, I haven't really authored anything, so I don't have much to say for this one. I do agree though that the two myths you mentioned are utter crap - writing is neither easy, and if you're investing labour into your work, you ought to be paid for ut.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 11d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 13 What's one myth about being an author you'd like to debunk?
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 11d

#writinglifemonthly 12

This passage is from A Matter of Faith, one of my current WIPs. This particular part is describing the khenedrin desert people, who are basically desert elves. Basically I just want to know how interesting they sound by the description I've written.

There were fifteen khenedrin, most of them sitting around the fire pit, watching them without a hint of surprise. Their beauty rendered Bellona speechless. They were lithe of body, all of them, with skin that shone burnt copper, light bronze and dark amber. The lobes of their ears hung down past their jaws, pointed like daggers and pierced with tiny quartz gemstones. Most of them were shorter than her, but only by a head or so, and they all sported hair that shone like molten gold.

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 11d

This post is a brief update on where my short story project is at. TLDR, I'm trying to get Clanless edited, A Matter of Faith is being beta-read, and She-Devil is gonna be it's own thing going forward. For more of my thoughts, have a read below!
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Reordering the Story

Hey, so I missed the last blog post. Sorry about that. I’ve been doing one of those Bluesky writing prompt games (a couple of them, actually), and with that I haven’t been working on this as much as I should have. But I’m back! So, now for the usual update on Tales from Karatera. I’ve made the decision to take my…

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 12d

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This is generally how I edit my drafts, with a notebook filled with other people's feedback beside me for easy reference. This one is for A Matter of Faith, my fourth short story, which went through three wildly different drafts before I finally showed it to people.

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 13d

#writinglifemonthly 10

Hardest part for me is working on the bloody things. It's not even that I don't have time to write, I just have trouble figuring out which specific time slot to write in. I often leave it too late, and end up too tired to do any meaningful work.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 14d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 10 📚

As a #neurospicy author, I find sticking to one project is really challenging, especially if I'm in a hard slog phase that doesn't give me any dopamine.

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 10 What's the hardest part about writing for you?
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Alieno Calne Ozymandes @halfalieno.bsky.social · 14d

Zero Point Survivor and Zero Point Games is at #pax #indiegames #unsw #zpg

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 14d

#writinglifemonthly 9

Bending the rules a bit here, but my first and main source of inspiration was the video game Dark Souls. The dark, hostile atmosphere of its worldbuilding really made me think "hey I want to make worlds like that".

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 15d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 09 📚

This one's not just a book you love, but one that makes you want to write. It could be fiction or non-fiction. What about it inspires you?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 09 Tell us about a book that inspired your own writing.
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Zero Point Games @zero-point-games.bsky.social · 17d

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#indiegame #update #indiedev #devdiary #patchnotes #asrpg #zpg

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