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Update / Où j'en suis.

I'm still at home, so no worries.

I am working on formatting my tale, 'The Princesses and the Dragon'. I am going to try using Lulu.com as the platform. I'll see how it works, but it's quite a task.

Kindle helps a lot by providing templates where almost everything is ready to go — you just have to copy and paste your text in. On the other hand, Lulu provides templates that are a blank canvas. So I am working around this.

I am also working on translating the tale. It was originally written in French, but I want to publish it in English as well.

So here I am. Not bad!

Oh yeah! I am slowly working my way through some reference books for my medieval novel. Slowly getting there!

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Où j'en suis dans mon écriture.

Je travaille à la mise en page de mon conte, « Les princesses et le dragon ». Je vais essayer d'utiliser Lulu.com comme plateforme de publication. Je suis en train de regarder comment cela fonctionne, mais c'est un peu plus compliqué que prévu.

Kindle aide beaucoup en fournissant des gabarits où presque tout est prêt à l'emploi - il suffit de copier et de coller le texte. D'un autre côté, Lulu fournit des modèles qui sont l'équivalent d'une toile vierge. Je travaille donc à mettre mon conte en forme...

Je travaille également à la traduction du conte. Il a été écrit à l'origine en français, mais je souhaite le publier en anglais également.

Alors, voilà où j'en suis. Pas si mal !

Ah oui ! Je travaille lentement à finir certains de mes livres de référence pour mon roman médiéval. J'y arrive doucement !

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me as a writer

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I didn't know that. No idea if it is as widespread as in russian but in a lot of english and french speaking fandom, fanfiction is not really considered. The "trash" comment comes often in the conversation, even though those same people didn't read any fanfiction. I guess it depends on the group of fan you are.

Fanfiction writers be like:

"here's the immensely time consuming 100K word novel-length passion project I'm working on between my real life job and family! It eats up hundreds of hours of my one and only life, causes me emotional harm, and I gain basically nothing from it! Also I put it on the internet for free so anyone can read if they want. Hope you love it!" :)

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Update/Mise à jour

I haven't been very active on this blog lately, but that doesn't mean I haven't been writing.

I have finished the story of the princesses and the dragon and even found a very kind and talented person to do the cover and illustrations. I am now working on the final editing and formatting. I am also looking around to see if I can find another platform to publish my stories (we shall see).

I am reading some of my reference books and writing notes for my medieval romance story.

So, things are moving, just not very quickly!

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Je n'ai pas été très active sur ce blog ces derniers temps, mais cela ne veut pas dire qu'il ne se pass rien au niveau de l'écriture.

J'ai terminé l'histoire des Princesses et du Dragon et j'ai même trouvé une personne très gentille et talentueuse pour faire la couverture et quelques illustrations. Je travaille maintenant sur l'édition finale et la mise en forme. Je cherche également à trouver une autre plateforme pour publier mes histoires (nous verrons bien).

Je lis certains de mes livres de référence et j'écris des notes pour mon histoire de romance médiévale.

Donc, les choses bougent, mais pas très vite !

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Person: What's your book about?

Writers:

I'm both somehow 🙃

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“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

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so anyway i found my moms xfiles fanfiction from the 90′s

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The story would end differently for sure..... no. No. No... no fic ideas. NO.

I had a vision. What if Snow White had been raised by Tolkien’s dwarves…?

So I present to you, the human princess of Erebor ! 👀

🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎⚒⚒⚒⚒⚒⚒⚒⚒

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I dont understand what is going on. Why flag your post? What the actual heck?

Why the f**k is that gifset of the Minas Tirith archives I reblogged being flagged as potentially mature content? Gandalf’s big naturals aren't even in it. 😑

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Everyone is probably familiar with the Bechdel test - to pass it, a work of fiction must have at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man.

But I propose a broader sort of Bechtel test, one that asks, does this woman have opinions, interests, pursuits, or abilities beyond the traditional "feminine" spheres of children, relationships with men, domesticity, beauty, and the like?

If you're creating characters that exist in some of the relatively retrograde patriarchal societies that have existed throughout history, this can be difficult to do without slipping into anachronism. Yes, there were women who went against the grain, but realistically, they were in the minority, because society was explicitly structured to rid women of independent thought and action, and confine them to the sphere of marriage and domesticity. Unfortunately, those tactics worked, which is why it took so long for the fabric of society to change.

And while women progressive for their time are fascinating to write about, not every woman can be that. If every woman was the suffragist, or the One Female Ranger, or the independent single mother or the rebellious princess, not only would it be repetitive, but it would be unrealistic.

The conformists, even if they exist for no other reason than to be a foil to the progressives, still need to be individuals in some way that transcends traditional female spheres. That is the subversion that I feel writers need to work on when writing the tradwives, the princesses, and the "girly girls."

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Last line tag

thanks @annabthesolitarywriter for the tag!

I decided to share the last lines of one of my original works (and that is why I am posting it with this account).

Once again, it's unedited. It comes from the story "The Dark Lady by the Sea", in a medieval fantasy setting, with romance (a lot), battles, betrayal, and my characters being pitted against each other.

(Le texte est encore en anglais. Il sera traduit en français mais pour le moment, je me concentre sur l'édition).

"On my honour, old hag, I'll give my niece the best wedding she could wish for. But you can't stop me from having fun..." She huffed again, but nodded. Then she bowed deeply to him and started for the door. "I will inform the household to follow your orders for the organization of this event." "Just for that?" She didn't answer, didn't even turn to look back, she opened the door and closed it. Crispin sighed. And stretched. Yes. It would be the most outrageous wedding ever. Suddenly the door opened and her voice snapped. "Do. Not. Touch. Anything!" He laughed as the door slammed shut again. She hadn't changed at all. He smiled. It was good to be home.

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Why are there so many different types of arrow?

Huge thanks to Ruby Ferguson for teaching me to make some of these, and Jim Gerlinsky for making the grappling hook arrow

More Outtakes on Patreon

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Hop, on s'y remet...

And here we go again!

Nothing fancy, just a bit of : where I am and what I want to do./ Rien de bien compliqué: où j'en suis, et ce que je souhaite faire.

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Just created/je viens juste de créer...

... a new children tale/un nouveau conte pour enfants.

My kid asked me to tell her a new story. I asked for a few elements and just... jumped into it. Now I have to write it down because I know she's going to ask for it again! / Ma fille m'a demandé de lui raconter une nouvelle histoire. Je lui ai demandé quelques détails et je me suis lancée... Maintenant je vais devoir l'écrire parce que je sais qu'elle va me le redemander!

I have to write a second one tonight! And I didn't even finish the first one (but I'm glad she liked the first one so much). /Je vais devoir lui en raconter une autre ce soir ! Et je n'ai même pas fini de retranscrire la première histoire!! (Mais je suis contente que la première lui ait plu).

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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

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