New Blog Post is out now! What Motivates your character?
#blog #writer #storytelling #subscribe #blogger
https://www.thedrawingdesk.com/post/unlocking-the-heart-of-the-story-understanding-character-motivations

My latest response to a First Line Fiction prompt. Best described by paraphrasing Melvin Udall, "But, a lot of people, that’s their story. Good times, noodle salad....Just no one in this car."
https://medium.com/first-line-fiction/my-hat-has-three-corners-f7b29f1a72e1 #fiction #WritingCommunity #readingcommunity #writer #Israel

📰 New Post From The AllThingsTech Blog 📰

Hands-on: M4 Macs

https://blog.allthingstech.social/hands-on-m4-macs/

#Tech #Technology #AllThingsTech #Blog #Blogger #Blogging #Author #Writer #WordPress

I updated my OMG.LOL page this morning. Nothing too major. Just updated some information such as my new job that I just started this past Monday as well as I added my @loops profile link for anyone who wants to follow me there and maybe a couple of other things as well.

https://cliffwade.omg.lol/

Check it out and let me know what you think!

#OMG #LOL #Blog #Post #Website #Author #Writer #Blogger #Loops #Work #HSTPathways #NewJob

thoughts about today (cw: lot of doom and gloom)

https://www.cdturnerwrites.org/stream-of-consciousness/016-this-is-like-waiting-for-a-potentially-life-threatening-diagnosis

#blogwriter #writersofmastodon #writer #writerslife #blog #bloggers #politics #electionday #election2024

We’ve been talking for a while about creating a #WritingHorrors series, similar to #WritingWonders / #WordWeavers / #WritersCoffeeClub, but for #writers of #horror, #DarkFantasy, or who just want to enhance their #writing with #dwrk elements in general.

This will be a series of short questions with a few longer #WritingPrompts mixed in, intended to help improve yourself as a #writer, and to improve whatever #story you’re working on.

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#Halloween #october

#psa If you use #Dropbox and are a #writer or #author, do you know about the Offline Files Access changes in Dropbox? It affects Basic Plan (free) users only.

Empirically, Dropbox Basic syncs any changes you make anywhere to the cloud, but only indicates a sync occurred on devices (phones, tablets). In the Files app on iPhone, I see a ghost image with a down arrow in a cloud symbol beside files changed elsewhere. I have to open them to get them to sync locally. If I have no data access at my moment of need, the local file either doesn't exist yet or is out-of-date. For some reason, my Mac always syncs and downloads, at least if it is open. It's my iPhone (likely my iPad, too) that don't.

What cued me is the notifications in the Dropbox app.

I've attached a screenshot. The notifications imply this is a new monetization feature. Sadly, a good one from Dropbox's company standpoint as it may get many more people to pay a minimum of $120 a year. (BTW, #Apple #iCloud now offers Keep Downloaded even in their free 5 GB plan, though I'm still testing to see if I trust this always works.)

#Scrivener uses an API, which seems to cause my Mac to sync file last changed on iPhone or iPad when I turn on my Mac... However, sometimes I need to pause Dropbox syncing and resume it on my Mac to get the Scrivener files to sync. Could this be the cause of those intermittent sync errors I've been getting lately, because I'm not paying $10/m for offline access? I can't definitively say.

In any case, we Scrivener users know you need online access when opening Scrivener on iPad or iPhone to get the latest files, consistent with the issue. There's no auto-download feature in Scrivener for iPhone and iPad, and on the Mac it's the Dropbox app controlling the syncing... oh, my.

All this seems to imply that without a paid subscription, Basic Plan Dropbox isn't good for disaster recovery after all data access disappears (hurricane, earthquake, black out). Of course, if data is important to us, the retort is "Pay for your f***ing security!"

Has anyone looked into this?

Linked is the May 20, 2024 Dropbox FAQ on this, and it's somewhat inscrutable. The image is of the notifications I've received that imply some change.

Anyone want to analyze this?

Please boost so we might some who can discuss this. #boostingIsSharing

#backup #sync #cloud #writers #journalism #journalist #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #FreeSoftware

https://help.dropbox.com/sync/access-files-offline#How-to-keep-your-offline-files-and-folders-updated-on-the-Dropbox-mobile-app

Musing

I love #writer conversations on social media, and community experiences such as NaNo, but I often feel like I can't participate because my genre is so different... Writing folklore collections is not the same process, and not the same problems. I would love to have more writers around me who work with folktales, myths, traditional material. Like @juergen_hubert 😊

This doesn't mean I don't love reading "behind the scenes" wip stuff from other genre writers though 😊

#WritingCommunity

Sept 9 #WritersCoffeeClub—Have you ever abandoned a writing project that wasn't working? What was wrong?

You don't even know. I have *two* blog posts that touch on this subject: "The Lament of Inspiration" (https://michaelthomet.com/2023/07/06/the-lament-of-inspiration/) and "Picking Up Old Projects" (https://michaelthomet.com/2023/08/24/picking-up-old-projects/)

I've got boxes of abandoned projects. I struggle with completing things. I always find some way to divert myself and then projects evaporate. It's frustrating.

#WritingCommunity #writing #writer

Nothing to see here, just a perfectly ordinary writer at work.

#writing #writer #writingcommunity #books #book #bookstodon #sff #SF #WIP #humor #humour #funny