Recent content by sianablackwood

Hello. I've heard striped paint before, but never grinder sparks! Dad occasionally jokes about sending apprentices off to get a 'long weight', though.

I've seen some really sad stories lately about people losing their writing, so I thought I might ask everyone here how you back up your work. I'd also like to say, if you're reading this thread, back up your work now! For my backups, I have a flash drive I sync when I first start up my...

Even if they start from the same base, wouldn't the characters' behaviour and personality be modified by their lived experience? Any number of male leads could be tall, dark, handsome and a simp, but a man who's grown up in a shifter clan persecuted by humans, he won't immediately react the same...

I switch around my software a lot because I've never found anything that quite does everything I want, for a price I can afford, and works on Linux. At the moment I'm using Obsidian for writing and Zim Desktop Wiki for notes, and it's pretty good except that I'd have to use four* entirely...

I would say yes to reading in general, and for a variety of reasons - skill development, research, and also just for fun. I'm not comfortable putting an amount of time as a requirement, though. I think it's more about the level of interest in stories and how they're put together - but that's...

Spicy

My username is a character name I thought of and never used, and when I started doing stuff online I thought it sounded like a cool pen name. My icon is a reworking of Nyan Cat using a LibreOffice Calc icon for the body and a stream of wordcounts instead of the rainbow trail. The character's...

I honestly just typed 'writing forum' in duckduckgo, then clicked through to a few different results that looked interesting. Writingforums.org was one that looked like it might be safe to mention fanfiction, and also the visible threads seemed to have a generally friendly vibe. I've also been...

I've never been here before. I was just feeling really overwhelmed by social media and thinking I'll probably never get comfortable with Discord, so I started searching for an active forum and found this one. Or rather, found the other one that was probably about to disappear and followed the...