David Bridger has moved
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<p>I have moved my account from the mastodon.social server to the Writing Exchange, here: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://writing.exchange/@DavidBridger" class="u-url mention">@<span>DavidBridger</span></a></span></p>
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Post #2164966
&quot;The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.&quot; Thucydides 5th century BCE
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Post #888399
#ScribesAndMakers 2nd Mar 2026. Do you know your story ahead of time? Ahead of writing it, yes. I&#39;m a planner. I enjoy pantsing short stories and narrative poems, but when it comes to novels pantsing only ever ends up a hot mess that takes longer to fix than it would to write with a good skeleton plan. Every novel starts with a character or two in a situation. I live with that scene in my head for a while and at some point extend its scope, and sooner or later the story forms in my min...
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Post #888398
#WordWeavers 2nd Mar 2026. Do you write scenes out of order? I tend to write linearly, on a compass bearing, from a skeleton plan of one sentence per chapter, starting at A and ending at Z. Occasionally, something or someone new and unplanned will occur on the landscape while I&#39;m working, requiring - if I decide to include it - that I insert it somewhere and maybe juggle things around a bit. But mainly I write on my compass bearing.
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Post #888397
#WritersCoffeeClub 2nd Mar 2026. Does your overall goal differ from project to project? I hope my stories are different from one another. I certainly try to make them that way. What doesn&#39;t change is my goal to write books so that after the apocalypse, a few copies here and there might find their way into the hands of scattered survivors, who will I hope share my stories aloud with others around the campfire.
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Post #888395
This week I&#39;m going to migrate my account from here on mastodon.social to writing.exchange. Been putting this task off for months because it&#39;s daunting, the partial brain damage I sustained some years ago making the learning and application of new software etc quite problematic and sometimes bloody upsetting. But it&#39;s time for me to make this jump, so here goes....