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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar. 23: What's the most you've worked on a WIP before deciding to scrap it? What happened?

I had a game I had worked on for four years. Card designs, graphics, art. Lots of changes and improvements but after constant tweaks it just… wasn’t clicking the way it needed to.

I scrapped the mechanics, rebuilt it into a brand new game, and I am much happier for having done so.

#boardgamedesign #boardgames #creativity

#ScribesAndMakers March 23: Do you consider yourself a frood who knows where their towel is?

Sometimes I forget my towel when I take a shower.

#WordWeavers 23. What are you careful about when writing?

Nothing and everything.

#WritersCoffeeClub 22. How do you organise your notes? (No notes?)

Organize? Hah!

I will say I’ve gotten better. There was a time that my D&D notes, for example, were scattered across three different notebooks. I did the same thing for some board game ideas. I’d spend so much time looking for books and flipping through pages trying to find something I was sure I wrote down.

Now each topic gets its own notebook. I also use Notes on my phone a lot which is searchable so that helps.

For the last nearly 20 chapters my edits have felt very minimal and I’m not sure whether I should be concerned or not.

To be fair, I’m really just making sure that it won’t be a slog for beta readers with this pass. But I feel like my edits themselves should be a bit more of a slog for me. Like, now I’m suspicious with myself. I shouldn’t like things as much as I do right now, right?

Well… keep on going and maybe the beta readers will tear me a new one. 😝

#amWriting #writingcommunity

Is anyone going to notice if I write an entire chapter in iambic pentameter?

#ScribesAndMakers 22 Create a micro-story in six words.

The shadows came; we looked away.

At long last… I just voted for the next leader of the federal NDP!

Anyone else down for another orange wave?

Two thirds of the way through my editing pass! Should be good to get out to beta readers by the end of the month!

Engage party pants dance mode!

#amWriting #writingcommunity #CrownOfHorns

RE: @TheEjj@mastodon.social

This is a friend of mine who has been showing me updates and getting my feedback for the last few months on a writing app he’s making.

He’s looking for folks for a closed beta. If that kind of thing interests you, he has a thread with info.

I for one am stoked to give it a go!

#ScribesAndMakers – 20 Mar Self-promotion day. Shame optional

Crown of Horns by F. David Schultz

- Diverse cast
- Industrial steam punk fantasy
- Inspired by Ukrainian history and myth
- Over 40 illustrations (handcrafted by the amazing @AudraBalionArt@mastodon.art )
- Perseverance through depression and trauma
- Art and ingenuity triumphs over tyranny
- Goats!

Learn more, read the blog, join the mailing list: http://www.crownofhorns.com

Get it: @m0DDdP@books2read.com