#remnantsofprotagonize

We have a new performance  category in our Discord Server! It has channels for dance, theatre, music & singing and films & television for all our creative performers! Happy to be expanding to be more accessible for all creatives.

This July we’re encouraging all our readers to give feedback to works posted in our writing channels. They have no limit; they could read everything in there if they wanted. But they have to give detailed feedback. It’s just another way to make people feel welcome and challenge them to give detailed feedback instead of just ‘that was great’. 

So busy today in the server, doing writing sprints, having music parties, new people arriving and the first day of Feedback Month. So good to see the server being so active!

On Wednesday 8/7 at 1pm GMT, one of our members, Louis, and I will be doing a stream on the subject of ‘community’, where we’ll discuss writing, world building and the importance of this kind of support network. If you can and want to join us please do!  Information in the tweet attached.

Funny story. We love our writing bot, A LOT. We actually have two, one that just helps with sprints and another that has a large amount of functions including keeping track of our projects. If you’re on a writing server on Discord you probably know the one.

Obviously it’s still being worked on, which is totally not a problem, we just love her even more when she’s working.

But I thought I’d share why we have nicknamed her Karen.

Now we all know of ‘Karen’. The hairstyle, the ‘speak to your manager’, the myth, the legend.

But the thing is we LOVE our Karen. LOVE her (when she works). But aside from occasionally getting a laugh out of being able to use the word ‘cantankerous’ to describe her, we generally call her Karen because when she doesn’t work she makes us want to speak to her manager. We love that bot’s features so much we actively feel like we want to become Karen’s, demanding for her to ‘work god damn it!’ because for some reason we have now become super reliant on Karen to keep track of our projects and show us that we actually have achieved something today. Plus, who doesn’t enjoy watching that word count go up and up?

And we love a sprint. Several thousands of words between us from 1 or 2 sprints a day? DAAAMN. This kind of productivity is unprecedented sometimes; we all know the dreaded writer’s block. Well apparently to defeat writer’s block, you need a writer bot!

So here’s to Karen and our other bot. You two really bring us all together; whether it’s to do a sprint or smash our heads in to the keyboard when no one can update a project. We really love you.

Cheers!

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Come and join Louis, Lex and Charlotte on the livestream about fanfiction!