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Streams, fantasy craft books, & YouTube! :)
🕑 Added 2024-02-26 15:22:13 +0000 UTCHello, hellooooo!
Popping in today with a couple announcements.
First up, I'll be over on the Inimitable Books, LLC channel for a Scrivener workshop today at 12:00 noon CST. I will be playing the part of the curious and confused (a role I know well in regards to Scrivener). I'm very excited to pick the brains of Zara & Kelli and learn from their expertise.
It's funny, having been a longtime user and lover of Scrivener, I'm aware I know ~5% of its capabilities. So here's to hoping they'll help me get up to 15%! Bahaha.
Second off, don't forget that we have our Double Stream Days coming up!
The first Double Stream Day of the month will be this Wednesday, February 28th, at 9:15am CST.
And Double Stream Day #2 (and our book club discussion of ON WRITING by Stephen King) will be the following day, Leap Day!, February 29th at 1:45pm CST. (I'm very excited to spend my Bonus Day with y'all!)
Ahead of that, I'd like to announce that March's Crafts & Drafts book club pick is WONDERBOOK: THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO CREATING IMAGINATIVE FICTION by Jeff Vandermeer. (He's won the Shirley Jackson award, Nebulas, three times World Fantasy winner, wrote a NYTimes Bestselling Series, etc. Truly the list goes on.)
This book kept coming up in my searches and, in reviews, people insisted it was perfect for intermediate fantasy writers (and beginners!).
I'm personally most excited for the scattered essays included in the book, from the likes of Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lev Grossman, and a lot more.
There's also a lot of "extras" on the Wonderbook website that might be worth checking out, especially if you don't want to commit to buying the book just yet. (I've put a Hold on a copy from my library first!)
And finally, look at the state of my iMovie:
After taking an extended break from YouTube, I'm finally back to editing footage! I'm currently hoping to get a video a week out, starting with February's Prime Writing Weekend vlog. (Including links where people can vote on their favorite submissions for the haiku and 7-word story challenges!)
The click click click as I cut and move and edit footage is a rhythm I've missed and I feel so good about getting to the place where I did miss it, you know? For a while I wasn't sure if that drive would return but my brain has been itching with ideas and enjoying executing them.
I've even turned reading ON WRITING into something of a vlog too, so I'm excited to finish that up in a couple days, discuss it with y'all, and see what ✨realizations✨come from it.
Okay, okay, I think that's it. Until Wednesday! :) I hope you all have a wonderful start to your week and happy writing!!
Comments
Anja Kuemski
I found the artwork and the essays incredibly distracting. I couldn't focus on the main text and decided to read the main text afterwords in one go. That did not help at all. It was nothing new, the author was a bit of a show-off, I just did not like the whole style. The essays (and even more so the artwork) were mostly pointless, overly personal with nothing really helpful, with the exception of Ursula K. Le Guin, but even that was not as impressive as I had hoped. The World Building section and the one about editing had a couple of interesting points but a short blog post with bullet points would have been enough for that.
Kate Cavanaugh Writes
OMG I'm very nervous now. Haven't started it yet but can't wait to hear your thoughts. Too surface level?
Kate Cavanaugh Writes
Ooooh, let me try to do some evening ones this month! :)
Anja Kuemski
I'm glad I ultimately decided against buying it and borrowing it instead. What an utter disappointment. Probably the worst book about writing I have ever come across.
78kgsofshade
Looking forward to your return to YT (since I can never make day-time streams, stupid work gets in the way LOL).
Mary 🧸
I can not believe I missed our writing sprint today :( but alas I will be there tomorrow!
Kate Cavanaugh Writes
I can TOTALLY see why. I've read it several times but def think I should make it a yearly re-read too.
Kate Cavanaugh Writes
I think the revised edition sounds really cool too! Not sure which my library has (I think it comes in today) so we'll see! :) Those that have each version will have to compare.
Ashley
I love On Writing. We had to read it in a class in high school and I’ve reread it at least once every year since.
Anja Kuemski
Wonderbook looks really interesting. I think I might actually buy the revised edition.
fox
omg i just moved so im very busy unpacking atm but im sooo hoping im done in time for the double stream days!!! it'd be PERFECT timing!
Kate Cavanaugh Writes
Ooooh, and if you want an extra fun challenge (and haven't already submitted), don't forget that there are 3 days left to attempt the 100 Word Story from Black Hare Press for February. This month's theme is vikings! (I also still need to submit, eek.) https://www.blackharepress.com/submissions/
