daveruddenwrites.bsky.social
Storysmith. DOCTOR WHO. KNIGHTS OF THE BORROWED DARK. And CONN OF THE DEAD - coming soon!
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Making Yaz a Muslim cop, particularly at the time it was written (but also at any time) is such a good creative choice and I would have loved to see that explored more.
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People get better at writing as they write. Debuts should be treated as an investment in the future and a career to curate, not a carousel. Within reason, kids don't know or care when a book was written, the day they pick it up is a debut to them.
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New from @littleislandbooks.bsky.social by @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social - a bit scary, a lot funny, handy phonetic hints for pronouncing the undead evil’s name - worth the effort for the thrills! You don’t have to be Irish (or even know an Irish person although we’re EVERYWHERE!) to enjoy it!
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Thank you so much for the lovely shout-out Amanda, I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
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Juno Dawson once said 'pick one and concentrate on it' which I always thought was great advice, as they're all basically different languages with different cultures.
I mostly do Tiktoks because I can set the camera running and ramble about topics (I do English exam tips which teens like a lot!)
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Jack can I be part of your intellectual parliament - my policies involve one day off a week for everyone to play BG3 and Warhammer taught in schools
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It's such a weird place to put the base camp though! It's like they've gone 'bonj-ure.' Not wrong, exactly, but is 'lcha' easier to pronounce than 'cha?'
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Thank you for reminding me this exists!
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Oh yay I'm so glad you're enjoying it! :D
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I have done about a million and been asked a lot of weird things - definitely DM if you still need a second opinion!
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And I hope you're well too - it's been FAR too long
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❤️❤️
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Thank you so much x
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Thank you so much! Slightly nerve-wracking sharing but everyone's being very kind, which is a relief!
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Thank you so much Jackie x
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No higher compliment, thank you for the recce!
There's such great narrative meat in those details, but I know I'm a 'huge monster' fantasy writer first, and a 'that destroyed granary will means a rise in grain prices' fantasy writer second.
Any expert insight is always appreciated...
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I love this anecdote - as much as you're trying to make your backgrounds interesting and dynamic, sometimes its just variations on 'buy my eels.'
My third and fourth drafts are all about those assets - hard part's done, now it's time for me to really concentrate on Eel Trader 9
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'Can this cabbage be more grimdark please.'
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Absolutely, but that's what I think Bluey does well - the kids know parents were out late, the mam is tired, they're not mad at her for being tired, but she feels mad at herself. Every kid and parent has had that interaction, but it's refreshing in a genre of saintly mothers and unnuanced conflict
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that feel very real, and almost very respectful of the fact that parenting is hard and nobody's good at it all the time. Does that make a good show or does it make it a relatable show? I guess both?
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I don't disagree that some of it is sleep deprivation, to be sure. But I think parents definitely get a lot out of seeing imperfect parents in kids' shows - there are so many little details (the dad having his own ketchup because kids get the low-sugar one, the day where the Mam is clearly hungover)
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Oh my God, crowd scenes in historical/fantasy are the bane of my existence. And you can't help sometimes but make it sound generic, because it is just people engaging in TRADE. From CARTS.
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Oh this is brilliant, thank you for sharing!
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I don't want to say that you have to be a parent to get some of it, but I do think some of it what it does so well is the absolute lived-in, gorgeous mundanity of parenthood, and it does it better than most shows aimed at adults.