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Kate Elliott

@kateelliottsff.bsky.social

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Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I ❤️ my schnauzer. Hawaii. ✡️🕊️ She/her. Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide: https://imakeupworlds.com/index.php/2015/02/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1h

yegads

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 11h

A short, and super useful, four part thread on structure and recipes. Succinctly and clearly explained.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 23h

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 16h

there is a faroe islands saga

strangely, it more or less begins with some guys killing each other, saga like

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 19h

Now we are talking!

(one of my great grandmothers was Faroese, in case you were wondering!)

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Tiny Faroe Islands took a big step toward its first World Cup with a stunning 2-1 win against the Czech Republic.

Stunning victory for Faroe Islands keeps World Cup hopes alive; Netherlands, Scotland, Croatia win

Tiny Faroe Islands took a big step toward its first World Cup with a stunning 2-1 win against the Czech Republic.

bit.ly

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 19h

no need to apologize for a slight, medium, or vast squee! I love people being excited about things.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 19h

interesting, as my experience with Google in the last year is that AI slop has ruined it as a search function and I no longer use it for searching the internet

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 20h

thank you

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 20h

thanks for all this

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 20h

well, Hawaii is not a place that has much patience for celebrating folks like Columbus, considering the fate of Captain Cook

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 20h

curious to know what this reply has to do with my post

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 23h

Your yearly reminder that in 1972 the state of Hawaii changed the name of the holiday observed on the second Monday of October to Discoverers Day in honor of all discoverers a& particularly the Pacific navigators whose skill and courage populated the many islands spread across the vast Pacific Ocean

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

thank you for this. You mention in the post that you wrote some code, but how does Obsidian work for people like me who, uh, can't do that? I can work with what's available but I can't create any patches for myself, if that makes sense.

(I'm always looking for new ways to organize my thoughts)

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

besides the fact that he's incredibly knowledgeable about something I know so little about but which I find interesting when discussed in context, as he does, it's also that he is cool and smart in a way none of them can ever be but are sure they ought to be recognized as being.

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats! Incredibly lovely!

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

lol you are way nicer than I am.
Fuck her and her prissy holier-than-thou entitlement

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

💯

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

a bizarre hill to die on, but oh well

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, hello

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

Here's where I shout: "NILAH!!!!"

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

I am keeping my expectations for the Anthropic settlement very very very low for this reason

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 2d

this is amazing

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 2d

beyond the complete "we didn't register your copyright" fuckup, my other fundamental issue is that I don't believe any of the estimates for how much an author could get, like those huge lawsuits where the check at the end is for $35

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, there would be as much to-do. Come on.