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Writer of literary fiction focusing on identity. Why? I'm still trying to figure that out one book at a time. Write what you know is a problem for me. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally Always 🌈✨| Respect, Love, Equality ❤️ | Team Blue For Life 💙🌊

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 9h

blonde

strawberry-blond

I hate English.

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 12h

"Lennox gave a *hoarse* chuckle." That would have been a really funny typo to miss.

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A picture of a horse with the caption it's enough to make a horse laugh.

Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 17h

Don't encourage my inner research demon.

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 23h

Back Pressure: deliberate counter-pacing that withholds the next causal beat and saturates the moment with thematically charged particulars, converting the reader’s narrative hunger into bodily unease.

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 23h

Inadvertent tongue twister. Looks fine on the page, but out loud it is three times later and speaking very slowly.

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 2d

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Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda @krishna-author.bsky.social · 3d

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 3d

There is every style. I came to realize - that at least for me - that for most conversations there is no reason to add dialogue tags. Each speaker should be distinct enough for their words to make it clear who is talking.

Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 6d

Four months later...eesh...revision 3 done with at least one more to go. Past me, 90% was very optimistic. I should be celebrating, but...tired.

Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · Jun 1

I finished two revisions of my book! I am 90% done! ...begins line editing...two days and one page later...make that 1%.

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 7d

Oh yes, that changes Chapter 3 too...and Chapter 8...oh and Chapter 11...

Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 7d

This character would not do that, plot or no. The words saying they do are all a lie. Sure that upends the book, but misunderstanding the character so badly - and letting people see that in print - is so much worse.

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 7d

I met him when he did a reading at a library. I had nothing cool to say. Never meet your heroes...because you will look like an idiot.

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 7d

I write because I *don't* understand the MC. I'm just as surprised as the reader - perhaps more so since the MC just shredded half my notes in a single paragraph.

Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 9d

Countless revisions prove that I am not a great writer, I am a persistent one.

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 9d

Alternatively it is something you want to do, which is different.

Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 9d

In theory people could Karen you just because, but f them is one take.

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 9d

Is the book industry more regressive than movies or tv?

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 9d

Nothing about LGBTQ+: kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/t...

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 9d

I have a similar dilemma in a book where the MC's sexuality is all over it - including romance - but the book isn't really about that. I think I would have to accept that bisexuality is triggering, which I have a hard time doing. I don't recall any warning label on movies or tv.

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 10d

Research doesn't necessarily make a good story. And I absolutely cannot help myself.

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 10d

You have done better than me. I have given it up for spates too...but then there is the occasional weekend bender and before I know it I've fallen off the wagon.

Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 10d

I would like to think of my writing as Kafka meets Dorothy Allison.

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 10d

You could be writing! Is there an off switch to that?

Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 10d

Writing...writing...getting into the flow...writing...making progress...wait...is this factually correct? ...three hours on Wikipedia later...

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Poncho Writer @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 11d

Sometimes a word just feels a certain way.

"Marcus donned his hardhat and took a breath. He stepped toward the boarded brick mastaba."