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Do you think every story should portray a deep message or moral? #ReadersCommunity #readers #writerscommunity

@L_E_Bendon Yeah. No matter what you do we're all at the mercy of luck and each path is really subjective. There's no one size fits all method of success

@scriblotta Querying is stressful. There's so much waiting and it's mostly out of your hands. Self-publishing is challenging because it's all in your hands and yet it feels like there's nothing you can do.

What do you personally think is more challenging? #writerscommunity #witerslife #AuthorsOfX

@McQuarterWriter Yep I would definitely agree with that

@scriblotta It's all challenging!

@ZsaffrynTerra I agree with all your points I would also say it comes down to what set of challenges do you want to tackle rather one being "easier"

They’re equally challenging just in different ways. Trad pub requires marketing. It isn’t all done for you, that’s why agents want to see an active social media. I feel like that is often misunderstood. But talented authors who self pub are up against an unfair stigma and that’s only getting worse with the influx of AI novels. But they aren’t up against the industry the way a querying author is. The odds of getting a book trad published is 1-2%. Both are wonderful paths but one is not easier than the other, just different.

@L_Eve_Gale No wait, it can't be that scarlet because that didn't happen in Gone with the wind 😳😅

@L_Eve_Gale Is that Scarlet from Gone with the wind?

It was #MothersDay in the UK on Sunday 🥰 so my werid mind was thinking 🤔 Who do you think is the worst mother in #fiction? #writerscommunity #ReadersCommunity #bookstwt

@ZsaffrynTerra I do think its werid that we don't sync up especially considering all the other hoildays that we collectively share Christmas, Hanukkah, International women/men day, New Years, Earth Day. Why is mother's day the odd one out 🤣

@scriblotta Same. 😅 France’s is at the end of May I learned. I vote we all sync up. Or… we could go above and beyond and make individual Mother’s Day cards that match each nation and really take celebrating to the next level…

Y’all ready for my latest blunder? I saw a TON of Mother’s Day stuff on social media yesterday so I sent my mom a text—I know that’s not much but it’s better than the two year silence we had from 2020-2022. Texting wasn’t the blunder. This is: It wasn’t Mother’s Day in the USA.

@BenDixonAuthor That is on my TBR list. I have only seen the movie. I think the movie really presented a balance between nature and nurture

@scriblotta Perhaps Eva in We Need to Talk About Kevin. She's not evil, just unnatural as a mother which makes everything go off the rails.

@lj_hennes Means you did it right 😉

@scriblotta It is a book series. …… ….. It’s my book saga. I didn’t know if this was a shameless plug. But I have a mother who abuses her child because of a bunch of underlying problems she caused. It felt worth mentioning. All 6 of my readers agree she is a terrible mother!🤣😭

@v_ananya_ Pretty good example though. I think she literally dumps her daughter so she was her boyfriend can travel or something like that

@scriblotta Bella's mother in Twilight. And more, but I can't remember them off the top of my head.

I think Oh Sangwoo's mother from #KillingStalking by #Koogi. I can't put the most horrific thing she did here (remember its a horror mangwa so don't go looking unless you are prepared) but she did raise a serial killer 🤷🏾‍♀️ so that should speak volumes.

@lj_hennes Was it a book or a TV show?

@scriblotta There is a series where a mother constantly mentally/emotionally abuses her son and makes him feel guilty for everything because she feels bad about getting her husband(her son’s father) killed. Everyone I’ve met who’s read the books agrees she’s their most hated character. 🤣

@ZsaffrynTerra @lj_hennes Yeah 😂 I think she wasn't too bad. How can you be with that as your theme song 😆

@lj_hennes @scriblotta Hot damn that song is so much fun to sing 🤭😂👏

@ZsaffrynTerra Too bad twitter doesn't track that 😆 I get being scared of twitter given its reputation 😅

@scriblotta I started my account in January of 2022, got so scared that I deleted the app and didn’t get back on until 2024. 😅

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

@ZsaffrynTerra Thank you 😊 I have broken that record today so I am hoping to maybe do 2000 words in total before end of today

@scriblotta Huzzah!!! 🙌 That’s an amazing writing session! High fives to both you and your muse!

Hello 5am Writer's Club 😁 I wrote a grand total of 1,726 words today 😱 that's the most I have written in a single day in years 😆

@ManuelRLavado Very true. For me as a writer plot comes first but it seems for most writers its characters that come first which has been very interesting to see in others responses

@scriblotta Without a solid plot and narrative structure, a character will never encounter a dilemma important enough to reveal their personality or the contrast between their words and their actions.

How important is character development in stories? #writingcommmunity #readers #writers #writingq

@LA_Knight89 Don't worry about it 😁 you've made a lot of good points. For me as a plot driven writer characters were always sort of a secondary thought. Even in my own novel my MC/LI are still pretty much who they are at the start but the development is in the romance

@scriblotta Sorry if I'm rambling, I'm mostly thinking out loud. I just woke up like 30min ago and I'm sleepy but I love conversations like this and discussing different kinds of stories. 4/4

Depends on what you mean by development - as in, a fully fleshed out character? Or they need to have some kind of character growth? I think both have their place but aren't always required. Frex, "Those Who Walk Away from Omelas" has no characters really but it's a great story.