Hey, there’s been a bunch of new users so I figured it might be a good idea to make this thread. Feel free to post your introductions, as well as any links to socials (only if you want to!) such as storygraph, goodreads, or bookwrym etc. I am hopeful to set up a bookwrym instance eventually but its still very much in early early early development.
Also be aware that there are alternative UI front ends, as seen from here. https://literature.cafe/post/315847
Howdy! I’m ZagnutInSpace, a long time reader and writer in search of a chill space to hang out and talk about books, writing (read: editing), and other generally geeky stuff.
By genre, I’m usually drawn to weird experimental literature, Oulipo, fantasy and sci-fi, magical relism, and poetry.
I’m currently reading a 500+ page epic poem without any regular puntuation or capitalization called The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford. The book is a super long meditation on civil rights and justice in the American south, and so far it has been a thoroughly fascinating and disorienting read.
I also program for a living, and in my free time I like to write little programs for fun. Right now I’m working on a tool (it may become “tools”) to help writers who are exploring constrained writing but dont want to draft out insanity-inducing flow charts or tables to get started with some more complicated constraints.
I do write a little myself, and I’m currently juggling my time between two novel-length ideas that I’m just writing on scene-by-scene basis when I feel like it, nothing too serious.
Glad to meet all of you on this instance and talk about literature!
I’ve considered making a writingtools community to catalogue some writing tools and software i know of (that arent AI based) to make things easier to find!
I would join something like that! I feel like there are lots of good ones out there, but not many aggregated or curated lists let alone communities.
Yeah. The thing with lemmy right now that is a double edged sword is that since theres such a limited amount of content, you’re extremely likely to get interactions over not getting any. But at the same time, communities can kind of die if people aren’t making any effort to post to populate it with content. That’s why I am hesitant to make new communities, as a small amount of active communities is easier to navigate than a few active ones mixed with a bunch of dead ones.
Interesting! I guss that makes sense with lemmy being the new kid on the block (among many in the fediverse these days). Honestly, I’m pretty new to this whole universe, but I’m excited to dive in and see what people are up to and how the whole thing works, so if I sound kinda naive, I’ll point to that.
Maybe it’s enough to post some kind of megathread in the writing community, that way the conversation is more directed on the writing experience as a whole instead of just tools to help with that practice.