GL Francis

Step right up! Join in the wonders of Suntosun Circus, the troupe's trials & triumphs as they perform & covertly hunt demonic doppelgängers breaching the borders of reality. #fantasy #historicalfantasy #steampunk amazon.com/Suntosun-Circu…

@klhicks912 Well, as far back as Windows 95, I shut off Grammar/Spell checkers bc of how much they didn't know &/or colorfully flagged as wrong (e.g. with lyric prose, poetry, con-lang, experimental prose, & more). I can't trust them or AI to do/know more than what their programming has.

How do you feel about using AI as a writer? (By this I mean using it to edit, fact check, and provide feedback)

@KeruboSk 🙋‍♀️ Mostly my own work, but also a snowscape by a local artist, 3 works by my sister (2 of them ceramics--she was better w/clay than I ever was!), & a marina painting by my MIL (sadly, she passed before I could meet her).

Raise your hand if you have original art in your house

@QuestionAbyss Not often. A lot of ppl who know me in RL notice & comment that I auto-switch to the same vocal "tranquilizer" I use with frantic/nervous/upset animals. 🤷‍♀️

Do you make sure to remove anyone who, even in the slightest, makes you feel you have to walk on eggshells around them?

@QuestionAbyss IDK for certain, mainly bc some potentials I let go of or pushed away entangled personal peace with physical issues. The balance sheet rarely *balanced*.

How much potential have you likely "pushed away" over the years in favor of your personal peace?

@QuestionAbyss IDK about cautious, but I've become pretty good at vanishing from entanglements that are low/non-value.

Are you cautious about keeping yourself out of low-value social entanglements?

@QuestionAbyss By my teens *if* I became aware of their projections, but I think it was less about tiring of it & more about that double-life already established.

At what point in your life did you get tired of managing other people's projections that they made you to be?

@QuestionAbyss Overtly or covertly, I've been myself all my life. LOL my parents often repeated things like how I traded my Barbies for Breyer 🐎, took things apart to see how they worked (esp. some dad had to help me reassemble), or decorated our house exteriors w/ mud "paint" I made. 🤷‍♀️😁

At what point in life did you stop needing anyone else's permission to be yourself?

@QuestionAbyss By early grade school, I'd figured out living a double life, pursuing what I liked/interested me w/out worrying or angering ppl (e.g. parents). But I had more freedom than most kids. I read what I liked, explored woods/streams/etc. alone, collected rocks/feathers/bugs, & so on.

At what point in your life did you shift from external to internal validation?

@QuestionAbyss Had to look up the term. Yep, I experience it! Tasks done once & for all fall to (below!) the bottom of my priority list. Far ahead of them are urgent tasks, less immediate ones, cyclical or incremental tasks, & tasks done good enough for *now* but will need revisiting later.

What is the Zeigarnik effect and have you ever experienced it?

@QuestionAbyss 1st question: yep. Happy for some editing time on my writing; not so thrilled re: phase 2 of dental work. 2nd question: not quite uncharted. Spotting a 1977 diary entry maybe indicating how my rat experiment reservations started, I want to see if I noted more later.

Morning check in: Will you be spending the better portion of your energy on yourself today? What new uncharted territory of personal growth will you trailblaze today?

@BretVDB Whether anyone likes/dislikes such entries, I wonder if ppl who keep diaries ever consider that *private* thoughts/preferences/tantrums/struggles/etc. might someday be read by others. Perhaps a good reason to require one's diaries/journals be burned upon death.

Virginia Woolf’s diary entries on James Joyce’s Ulysses: “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. … I finished ‘Ulysses’ and think it is a misfire. Genius it has, I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first-rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.”

@ANelsonLMPotter @graestonewriter Enjoy the visit!

@graestonewriter Sadly, I won’t be able to make it! We have friends for dinner and they’re sticking around to visit more

#LineByLineTime, Let's talk about what we just read. The authors what you liked.

@graestonewriter I liked them all. Interesting, too, was one commonality: omission & misdirection rather than blatant lying.

@Elderac @graestonewriter Even in her suspicion, Eldora seems pretty gullible. 😊

@graestonewriter #LineByLineTime This is from Prisoner of the Past. Cable has just revealed himself to Hannah and told her to meet with his gang. Eldora was with him and is suspicious.

#LineByLineTime, It’s Time to Share Your Writing. This is a mini-critique hour, so make suggestions that help us hone our skills. Post your snippet as a reply to this message. If you can’t find the thread, click on my icon and scroll down. It will be right there.

@SilverAbby84 @graestonewriter Sometimes omission & sleight-of-word misdirection isn't as easy as outright lying.

@graestonewriter #LineByLineTime Since so many of my characters are psychic, it's hard for them to lie directly. But that doesn't mean they can't lie by omission or misdirection. In this scene, Gloria isn't comfortable letting her friends know what D'nay is.

@PenumbraMine @graestonewriter Yup! One morning, I was wearing shorts & tee shirt. By afternoon, I was in 2 layers of wool sweaters & thick woolen britches! 🥵🥶

@merelecroix @graestonewriter Hello lovely. Have you been having the interesting weather?

#LineByLineTime, Good evening to our #WritingCommunity friends. Gather 'round the table and introduce yourself. Is there a time when a lie is a good thing?

@graestonewriter His 200 y.o. age showed up in Suntosun Circus, but in this WIP, it's only been hinted in an earlier scene. Perhaps it needs to be more blatant earlier?

@merelecroix Yes, a little subterfuge. I like it. Two times you do some "explaining." I suggest tightening it a bit so you don't break the flow. The reader knows he doesn't age? Let us do the mental math as well. #LineByLineTime

@PenumbraMine @graestonewriter How cool sly Daisy answers truthfully and yet confounds with ambiguity until it's too late for Kars to react!

@graestonewriter #LineByLineTime From The Shadow Hunt. Here's the pinch. You get a distress call from the past, and it might be a one way trip. You have to leave without anyone know, but then your bestie, the king, shows up and demands to know where you think you are going?

@graestonewriter P.S. Don't close quotation after the 1st paragraph of Retta's 2-paragraph dialog. The close quotation mark goes after the ending of that quotation & before the break into narrative.

@graestonewriter Wow, they're slick! And Retta's quite a performer!