Comments on: Accepting The Weird In You – A Writers Must #1000speak

By: The Premio Dardos Award | Sara Letourneau's Official Website & Blog

The Premio Dardos Award | Sara Letourneau's Official Website & Blog — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:16:33 +0000

[…] times it’s a writer’s individuality, or (as Sacha worded during her #1000Speak post) “the weird in you.” And like many other writers, Sacha frequently offers tips about the craft, from how to […]

By: judithbarrow1

judithbarrow1 — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:57:47 +0000

Reblogged this on Barrow Blogs: .

By: Sacha Black

Sacha Black — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:26:04 +0000

In reply to saraletourneau.

Yep still draft one although within 10k of the ending and some bits have been redrafted – apparently I’m not great at working linearly! Lol. I’m going to do a synopsis and chapter summary once I’ve completed draft 1 to keep me more on track for draft 2. What do you do when your not writing?

By: saraletourneau

saraletourneau — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:21:21 +0000

In reply to Sacha Black. Thanks! Yours sounds really interesting, too. And you've got plenty of time to work on your blurb. I have one written, but it needs some reworking. Are you on Draft #1 of your novel, or further along?

By: Sacha Black

Sacha Black — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:26:59 +0000

In reply to saraletourneau.

That sounds absolutely amazing I actually really can’t wait to be able to read it ? sounds right up my alley.

Mine is YA/NA, sameish kind of genre – fantasy/dystopian. Set in a world where the inhabitants are charged with keeping the balance between our world and theirs. (Their called keepers) The main characters parents are murdered right before her Keeper ceremony and then her ceremony goes wrong so she is flung into trying to fix it all and figure out how the two are connected before the balance between our world and theirs breaksdown and destroys life as we know it. Not a particularly interesting blurb – but then I haven’t written my blurb yet!!

By: D.G.Kaye

D.G.Kaye — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 03:40:19 +0000

Rock on Sacha! Weird is beautiful. Weird is only to someone else that is beyond their scope of comprehension. If we were all conformists, the world would be like vanilla robots. Kids can be so hard on other kids because they know no better, they’re jealous of what the other has more of, or perhaps even because they are products of ignorant parents. Whatever it is, in this era they are now being called out for it. In our era we may have been the victims of these bullies, but look how great we turned out! Wonder what ‘they’re’ doing now? 🙂
Excellent post my friend!

By: Sacha Black

Sacha Black — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:24:42 +0000

In reply to Dr. R.

aww thank you so much for saying that :). I hope you too have accepted whatever weird you have?! :p The older I get the more acceptable being weird is – and like you – I don’t even want to be normal any more 🙂

By: Sacha Black

Sacha Black — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:23:10 +0000

thank you 🙂

By: babbs

babbs — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:42:32 +0000

how proud :
Throughout pregnancy I thought i was carrying an alien !!! I knew it was going to be wonderful journey as my daughter played harmonica with the buskers at one, spoke from the moment she got up until she went to bed on every subject imaginable and read fluently ” Red Hen and Sly Fox ” aged three. Aged four would net a butterfly document it by checking her reference book and release it to the world liberated and free…aged around six, like a little scientist, pulling hairs from her head and placing them under her microscope, nothing was safe from spit to bogeys and writing for hours and hours in her numerous volumes of journals…drawing people with more fingers than normal, spiders with boots on and cows with several udders… on arrival to a new house my daughter then aged 14 looked at me, ‘shall we’ thus running bare foot down our new road in torrents of rain to the amusement of our fabulous new neighbours who we hadn’t seen in their doorways watching the road turning into a river, further more greatly amused shutting me outside in the garden wearing a fifties polkadot swimsuit and full Mickey Mouse head mask…she embraced the fact mum kept her motorbike in the sitting room…..I am proud of my unique daughter who’s more than ever determined to be the writer she aspires to be….WEIRED isn’t she wonderful…

By: Dr. R

Dr. R — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:35:02 +0000

I actually feel powered up after reading through this. I totally get trying not to conform and trying not to be normal because it’s boring. Truth be told, I don’t want to be normal, I don’t feel like having to conform is my only option in life. Experience has taught me not to be normal, that sometimes the best thing to do is to stand out from the crowd. One of my mottos for life: rebel against normality. I’m glad you’ve accepted yourself because if you don’t like the person staring at you in the mirror, you obviously need to do something about it. Groups can be bad but cliques are the worst of two evils, they judge everyone, the normal and the weird yet they can be weird themselves. We are all weird in our own ways, we shouldn’t try to squash our own quirks but embrace them else we turn into grey, brain-dead zombies, not even shades of grey, 50 in number could arose the passion in them.