I didn’t write last week.

I’ve been going through some health issues and juggling the Ever Something to Say episodes.  They tend to do better on alt platforms because as we know, Youtube stifles certain people based on content and keywords, also I’m sure no one really cares what anyone else has to say most days, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun creating a vid to say it.

Showing another person around my state has opened my eyes to how lucky I’ve been to live in a place of beauty rich and rare, and, also that in this time, where my country is still on the height of the rollercoaster and we have not yet begun a full vertical descent into whatever is coming.

By that, I mean according to some people and my own knowledge of history, some people I speak to,  streams I watch, and others who serve as prophets we are to face more problems with resources, economics, global interactions, wokencomics/culture and more.

Today my world is good.

I got to breathe the sea air and think about how far I’ve come with my health and my goals. I got to spend time with a friend and talk about all the things you gossip about with a good female friend. Yes, there were dicks mentioned. Old dicks, not present dicks. For we both have no dicks right now.

Behind us was a table of very young women but they had to be 18 because they were drinking Margaritas. They also ordered Margherita pizzas..so maybe it was the only adult word they knew at this point in their newly-found adulthood. *shrugs*

It got me thinking about different stages in life. I felt old, but also glad I’d already surpassed the pain they would go through. Eg maybe a chronic health diagnosis, a violent relationship or two, bills, heartbreak, disappointment because, as positive as you’d like to be, all that shit’s coming, girls.

And it happens to easily, you don’t even notice it, you’re just trying to survive the fallout from the last explosion.

I was almost 21 when my first real longterm relationship started, it spanned years and was rife with drama, pain, confusion, mental health issues resulting in him being hospitalised repeatedly, and abuse.

I hoped those girls wouldn’t experience that shit, some people don’t, right? Some people meet the love of their life early and live happily ever after, some people spend their money and time on imitating Only fans “models” and that becomes their grift, and they don’t get stuck in the things I once did. They’re smarter.

But today I’m at a place where I accept it. My past happened. I’m not there anymore, and I’m surrounded by the most amazing things in nature that I couldn’t see before because I was stuck in my head trying to survive.

It was an interesting feeling that I probably couldn’t explain correctly if someone had asked for details. Here I am.

 

 

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I’ve struggled. If you follow me on one of the social media pages or YT, Rumble etc, you might have noticed a slip in the consistency of content. Just know, I’ve tried. Lol In between doing the tourist thing in my own city on account of special visitors, I’ve been dealing with some health issues that I think were brought on by living in an awesome location by the beach but in a mouldy apartment that never gets fixed. It was built with faults, and the structure is damp, even with attempts to change the areas I can.

 

 

 

Here are some pictures of the things I’ve been up to while trying to juggle the EVER SOMETHING TO SAY episodes and this blog. I’ve taken two weeks off because that, my car breaking down and medical issues have forced me to go a bit crazy LOL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Your audience isn’t stupid. Well, probably not. Over-explaining your narrative is tempting when you are starting out or trying to establish the setting or the intricacies of your main character.  If you’re not as experienced in authoring a novel you might be tempted to use the extra word count to splash around, sometimes it’s why you may see excessive explaining in the beginning of a novel whose author has chosen to add a prologue.

^^^Side note – PROLOGUES ARE DANGEROUS

Again, you might be tempted to write one, specifically, if you have a giant sci-fi epic adventure series planned…but if you’re writing something smaller, and generally speaking, my opinion is to stay away from indulging in a prologue. Usually, you find the author dumps info and half the story is in the beginning, you can predict the end, or you get to know this barely-related backstory to everything that isn’t a major factor that happens in the present or you find the book could have gone without. Sometimes you realise the author wasted 20 pagses of word count and about an hour of your time. ^^^^^

Back to your audience being stupid, let’s assume you didn’t try to write a novel with 3rd Wave Feminist themes and your audience, therefore, is not stupid, the temptation to overshare and explain every tiny thing is sometimes a problem.

There are reasons someone may do this, maybe they aren’t confident they’ve conveyed the themes they intended. Maybe they forgot they’d mentioned the relevant stuff earlier after another round of editing.

Dialogue is another place where people fall into sneaky-telling, telling an excessive amount of information in areas that seem mismatched when you could just show or STFU until later when it’s more appropriate.

“I feel like eating fish for dinner but the last time I ate it, I found out I was allergic. (YOU CAN END IT HERE) And that day I ended up in hospital, but it was when I discovered my husband was squeamish because I threw up. He has a problem with that stuff, and it would no doubt come into play next week when we have dinner at the neighbours’ house.

Okay. I don’t care about the backstory behind the husband right now. I care about your craving to eat fish, barely even the fact you’re allergic.

I guess in a film, the character could be remembering her last encounter with eating fish and then a flashback would happen showing her in hospital throwing up(?) But…You have a medium with more dimensions than sight, so use it effectively.

Over-explaining is often a waste of word count. Tying up a loose end or ending, a long-running intricacy/subplot can be done effectively without ten pages of telling the reader how they should feel about the scene or action. You need to write intensely and with artistry to make them feel a certain way.

If you have to reaffirm how the audience should interpret something that has happened in the book, then you aren’t doing a good job as a storyteller!

 

TLDR: 

*Don’t sneaky-tell or info dump, it shows lack of skill or a lack of confidence in your writing and also your opinion of you reader’s intelligence. 

 

 

 

 

 

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