skyladawn.ca
Mystery/UF/Horror writer of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak unless she expects to say something that will amaze the whole room. Also a cat lady. Very tired. skyladawncameron.com patreon.com/skyladawncameron Cranky Canadian
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If we do indeed get the promised rain tomorrow, I am probably going to just stand outside the building and bask in it.
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Of course! Honestly I would likely make it a Patreon serial, that wasn't the original plan but it might be the only way to keep my sanity intact at this point.
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Yeah there's definitely a thing going on there, books also all being seen as interchangeable content, and I think the Venn diagram of books-as-content readers and "book must meet this checklist exactly or I will speak to the manager" is close to a complete circle.
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It's a very surface level understanding of "plot" being strictly Events Going A to B. How a sex scene is written, what is and isn't included, what is and isn't focused on, tells a tremendous amount about the story. Characters don't have to be diffusing a bomb at the same time for it to be important.
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But then I actually like reading and engaging with what I read, so... 🤷♀️
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This doesn't mean I don't believe elements can be gratuitous! But I start from a position of questioning why *I* find something gratuitous. Why I react how I do, whether I have different tolerance levels, what I'm missing if what I feel is unnecessary is actually intentional, what I've internalized.
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Sorry I just keep hitting this brick wall when people proudly declare they skip stuff in books and then don't understand what they've just read, and I keep wondering why they are reading in the first place. It's okay to have a different hobby, one you actually enjoy!
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And if skipping scenes and skim-reading, maybe consider that's the reason you don't understand things from plot to character motivation. Words exist on the page to be read. Your brain is meant to engage with the story and think about it. Missing swathes of the story will impair understanding of it.
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"What is this scene saying? What am I learning? How has this scene changed my perspective? What does this scene make me feel?"
Or, you know, nah, you can just go "omg this sex scene isn't NECESSARY, there is not enough PLOT in it" (like what do you expect, plot exposition during the fucking or...?)
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Skip reading sex scenes! Action scenes! Any description! Skip reading scenes for whatever reason--you're uncomfortable, you're bored, you're grossed out, etc. No one cares.
But if it's on the page, assume it's necessary, and maybe consider approaching stories as if they're more than just plot.
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Questions about what scenes are and aren't necessary occur during the editing and revision phase, between the writer and editors (and between the writer and herself wherein she second-guesses everything). Whatever is on the page in the final book is there because it was deemed necessary.
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Temps should drop tomorrow and I'll pick up stuff at the other store that carries veggie meats and marinated tofu and that, and I'm making a new freezer meal prep ingredient list so I've got breakfast sandwiches and burritos for "I'm depressed and I don't want to eat but I need to take my meds".
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Yesterday was chaos and I was exhausted so I wasn't here much, but sincerest thanks again for everyone's help. It was tremendously kind. I'm used to stretching groceries but most of that relies on what I've prepped in the freezer or being able to store leftovers. (Also, cheese--it relies on cheese.)
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Shawn got a little bit of feta because of course he did.
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That's Mo! She stared until I threw cheese off camera lol.
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Do you know why copyright sucks? It's bc artists live in constant financial precarity and often have no choice but to sign over their life's work to Michael Mouse for a fraction of what it's worth. You know what would be worse than that? If Copyright didn't exist and Michael didn't have to pay shit
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If you make a thing, you get to decide what to do with the thing. That's the bare minimum. Full stop. I don't care about your UBI utopia. You make something, it's yours, and you decide what to do with it.
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folks i believe strongly in neither forgiving nor forgetting
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Gotta have my cereal and have something to steam with my espresso. Also the occasional egg is some of the rare protein I get lol.
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I have a cart but then I also have to drag it upstairs and not in this heat lol.
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(I wanted a video of him coming to the fridge for it but he's not used to the change and because one of the containers in the door knocked over when I opened it, he ran away and does not trust it now.)
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(Other cats also got some, I was tossing the pieces off screen. He was almost in my lap trying to get the cheese, so you get REAL CLOSE SOUNDS of his nomming.)
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Also, I always time it so I buy like milk, eggs, and cheese when they're on sale, and the milk and eggs were not on sale, so I almost didn't buy them, but then I thought "Krista will yell at me if I say I did not get the because they were a couple dollars more expensive". I am pretty proud of that.
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Shawn will get his Babybel, I just need to sit here and drink water to recover from the walk, which was only a block but my god it's hot.
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That alone was over $100, not including the pizza I ordered for dinner while it was still too hot to go outside. (Y'all are so generous, it's good, I'm good, I can make another trip and all is well--just like omfg THAT is $100, jfc.)
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Rooting for Tucker!
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I'm on the 2nd floor in a 150-yr-old building that is really awkward for moving things in/out of (they took the exterior door off to get the fridge in). The delivery was quick this morning and at least not the hottest part of the day, but it was tricky getting the right sized fridge for the space.
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Apparently a lot of fridges are failing, the poor delivery guys had a full day of work ahead of them they said. 😬
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Most of my grocery list is just different types of cheese. 😭
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That's very kind of you, thank you!