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ig 🏳️‍🌈<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 4. Whose advice about your writing would you follow?if the argument is persuasive enough, good advice can come from anyone. but i make a point of mostly following the advice of writers i respect, and not that of seminar-peddlers from the publishing industry. these people always give you the human version of AI slop, and their advice is about as trustworthy.

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 4. Whose advice about your writing would you follow?I will listen to anyone polite and positive about it. (And maybe even if they are not. You can learn something even from *holes.)I follow advice that is reasonable, if I choose to. I have been known to disregard good advice.People in order:My daughter a professional writer who has views reasonable similar to mine.Roxy, a good friend, VN developer, and diversity consultant. (Not as often because she is also ASD and can get rather anal about odd things.)Other beta readers.The rare person who comments.Random people, including you all. <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NMWW</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NMPrompts</a>

Sax Brightwell 🇨🇦<a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 4. Whose advice about your writing would you follow?Someone who proved they could see what I was at least trying to express, and pointed a reasonable-looking way to expressing it better.

BernWordWeavers for 4th April, 20254. Whose advice about your writing would you follow?I’m not sure. I’d certainly give more weight to advice from published authors, and those who work in the publishing industry, but whether I’d *follow* that advice? That's a different question entirely... 😏 <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a>

Chad Grayson<a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/wordweavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordweavers</a> 4/3 Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?While I don't do it that often, I don't usually find it that hard, though I do hurt my own feelings about it occasionally. Sometimes, the gods demand a sacrifice.

Aurora<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 04/04 asks whose advice on writing we would follow.Definitely those of my sensitivity readers if I use them. They know certain things better than I do. Same goes for the people helping me with the "Einfache Sprache" stories. In prose I like to think less is more and that goes for grammar and sentences in "Einfache Sprache", but not neccessarily the story. Sometimes you have to tell to show and I had to learn that because the approach is so different from what I was used to.

Amber<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 04/03/25 - Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?No, it's so difficult! While I do like writing a good death scene, I feel like it's something you have to be very careful with because of how much it can impact other characters and the plot. I only kill off characters if I have a really good reason to. For example, Fenrir & Rhea would not be part of the story at all if a certain someone didn't die first.<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amwriting</a>

Alexander Corby 🇵🇷<a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 4/3 Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?I enjoy a meaningful, heart-wrenching, beautiful death. There is no better honor to a character than to give them a good death. I lost my dad young, so I had to confront death early. I learned that death doesn't have to be a evil thing and there is a great amount of liberation that can come with accepting the idea of death and I try to express that in my writing.But when it comes, it is final.

Winged_unicorn🧙🏻‍♀️🌕🔥<a href="https://mastodon.stickbear.me/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 4/3: — Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?killing evil chars is easy cuz I never like my evil chars. other chars, scs, it depends if it will add to the story in some way. mcs? it's not easy cuz I like my mcs and twice writing their death. or, what acted like a death made me cry.

S. Lott<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/western" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#western</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a>4/3. Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?It varies. The bad guys get killed left, right, and center. Well, a few of them, anyway. There needs to be a purpose in the plot.Further, this is horror. Lingering beyond death in one of those nebulous, wasting states is far more horrible than simple death. I prefer insanity and suffering.

Steve DeGroof 📚🛸<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> Apr 3: Is it easy for you to kill characters?Sometimes. Some characters, though, would be particularly difficult to kill. Dolores Crabtree, for example, hasn't even been born yet. And, when she is, it'll be in an artificial reality of her own making. Loves a good paradox, Dolores does.Also, she's managed to rig it so that the evolution of mammals is dependent on her continued existence.Honestly, I think killing her would just piss her off.

Orion (he/him)<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> Apr 3: Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?No, it's hard. There are two characters in my MS who I built in order to die, so that's not hard. That was the plan the whole time. But my main characters are kids who've been dragged into a horrific situation, and I just want them to *escape*.I probably should kill one of them, to make the stakes real, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that, or even if that's actually the right thing.

Alina Leonova<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 3 — Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?It would be incredibly difficult to kill a character I’m emotionally attached to — someone I feel that I know and love. It’s easy and might even be pleasant to kill a villain who made my MCs suffer. Though I don’t remember particularly enjoying it when I did it once — the bad guy had a good reason to do those things. Pretty easy to kill insignificant characters, but it might be sad. 1/2

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/wordweavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordweavers</a> 3/4 Killing characters Part 2When is it okay? I think of it as a covenant. What is my covenant with my readers? I write feel good stories, so no killing characters readers are attached to. My work is horror adjacent, so some killing of minor characters is expected.I sometimes write darker stories, and that darkness is immediately communicated. In those stories, I can and have killed significant characters, even the narrator. It is important to me not to break my covenant. So I wouldn’t start a happy story and end it as a tragedy. It may limit my plot options, but it is important to me.<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/nmww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nmww</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NMPrompts</a>

Ixtli Dekami :coolified:🍕⚾🖖<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> 3 Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?Yep. I love my characters (specially the bad guys), but when the moment to pull the plug comes, unplug them I do. I'm 3V1L, remember? =)Besides, my multiverse retroactively includes every single thing I've written, so if I *REALLY* want to bring back someone from death, I have more than a few ways to do it including magic, M4D 5C13NC3 or simple multiversal copies…=)

Kagan MacTane (he/him)<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> Day 3: Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?This is something I'll find out when it comes time for me to do it. I suspect it will vary with each character, and have something to do with just how I feel about them. (Okay, what I'm really trying to say here is that there's one character I think will be relatively easy to kill, and another who I suspect will be much harder.) 1/2

Kagan MacTane (he/him)Obviously the right time to do it is when it's the right thing for the story. But how to determine that? I guess I'll go with "When it produces the emotions in the reader that I want them to feel at this point." 2/2<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a>

Humphrey Archer<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 3 April: Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?Very easy. On average, I kill at least one MC per short story. Most richly deserve it. Some just screw up. My stories are all about reply-guys going up in flames, some literally

Eli (a writer) (for humanity)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> Apr 3. Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?Oh, definitely. I'm averaging over one death per book so far, and that number is only going to go up.I've done this for a lot of reasons. Some are allegorical, some help with worldbuilding (because we get to see e.g. funereal rites), some are just because that's the natural endpoint of a conflict.But if you don't like to do it, that's okay! There are lots of good stories in which no one dies.

Chris Jags<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> Apr3. Is it easy for you to kill characters? When is it the right thing to do?- Yes and no. I find certain types of characters super easy to kill, and others no. Kinda depends on "do I personally like them". I left a character's fate ambivalent once because I was like "what if I WANT to write about her again?" but the audience could've chosen to believe she was dying if they wanted to.- whenever I feel like it. I don't have ground rules for these things.

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