Lester D. Crawford

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"My dragon friend is the brown color of rich farm soil." "They spread manure on those fields. Are you telling me your dragon friend is shit colored?" "Well... yes, but I wouldn't say that to him." #AmWriting #Dragons

Censoring closed captions when the actual audio is not censored discriminates against people with hearing impairments. Apparently, I'm not the only one who feels this way. #ClosedCaptioning #HearingImpaired

Microsoft Word grammar checker told me: "If you want to give certain parts of your sentence equal emphasis, construct these parts in a similar fashion. Repetition of word patterns or key words will make your sentence more balanced and easier to read." That will get it flagged as AI. #AmWriting

#WIPSnips October 15 - pass On the other side of the mountain, they saw spoilers. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #Dragons

#WIPSnips October 13 - blue Lying in the grass and looking up at the sky. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #Dragons

#WIPSnips October 12 - pulse Hope feels discombobulated. "Her pulse raced" is cliché. I put a note in the manuscript to remind me to find a better way to say it. "Thoughts swirled" is probably also cliché. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi

There is goodness in the world, but it's being overwhelmed by darkness. Please don't add to the darkness. Be a light.

#WIPSnips October 7 - comparison Hope and the baby dragon try to solve a math problem. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #Dragons

#WIPSnips October 6 - rice I put one of my common meals in the story. Hope later suggests it be called a wrapped feast. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi

#WIPSnips October 5 - wall The Walled District of Privilege Inspired by the real world. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi

#WIPSnips October 4 - contract Hope knew the baby dragon was meant to fly. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #Dragons

Considering the chiastic structure of the story I'm editing, I saw a connection between the beginning and the ending. I made an edit to enact it and felt a tingle all through my body. It was perfect. That thrill is why I write. That thrill is why I create. #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritingCommunity

With darkness dominating the world, I had almost forgotten that there are still some decent people even if they are few and far between.

#WIPSnips October 3 - petal The vibrancy of superbloom colors had been a reprieve from the darkness in the world. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi

#WIPSnips October 1 - injury The goal is not to cause injuries. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi

#WIPSnips September 30 - guard The world is a dark place. When I began this story, the world was a dark place, but not as dark as it has become. I've had to darken the story's world to keep pace. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi

#WIPSnips September 29 - well Well, well, well. "Well" occurs 123 times. Well, I think that's a bit much. I go to that well to often and might do well to remove a few. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi

#WIPSnips September 23 - tumble The stuffed toy mountain cat. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #Dragons

One of my writing tics is the phrase "going to." My current manuscript has "going to" 33 times. My characters are always going to do something. I'm going to have to do something about that. #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritingCommunity

#WIPSnips September 21 - stream The baby dragon watched. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #Dragons

#WIPSnips September 17 - effort Practice fighting with a dragon. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #Dragons

All the world's skies are connected. All the world's skies are one. When you destroy your sky, You destroy everyone's sky.

#WIPSnips September 10 - teeth The baby dragon learns to hunt. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #Dragons

Rereading Spark by Sarah Beth Durst. I realized what the title meant. I had missed it on my first read in 2019. Pixit to Mina: "You are the spark that can ignite the world." Mina: "I am the spark." Spark isn't in reference to the lightning beast Pixit. The spark is Mina. Roll credits. #AmReading

#WIPSnips September 8 - mental Hope writes and talks about her experiences. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi

#WIPSnips September 6 - sigh Hope sighed, "Okay." When I finish a task and prepare to tackle the next, I sigh, "Okay." So, I give that characterization to Hope. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi

#WIPSnips September 4- collapse Dragons don't hoard. They collect. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #Dragons

#WIPSnips September 3 - effective Hope learned to dance. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi

#WIPSnips September 1 - garden Hope has access to a patch of dirt. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity

#WIPSnips August 31 - chip Potato wafers for the baby dragon. I hadn't planned a snip for chip since it doesn't occur in the story. Then I remembered the reason there's no chip is because I had chosen to use wafer. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #Dragons

#WIPSnips August 29 - adept Dragons love to play in the water. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #Dragons

#WIPSnips August 28 - snuggle Survival was a daily struggle. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Dragons

Most people read at a 4th- to 7th-grade level. So, I should write like a 10-year-old? My word processor rates the writing in my current story at grade level 5.3. I remember from back in the day, one of the technical papers I wrote rated at grade level 17. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

#WIPSnips August 26 - symbol Be a symbol. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

The world is a dark place. Now we've lost one of the world's brightest lights in that darkness.

#WIPSnips August 25 - panic Hope disliked jingling, tinkling, and clinking sounds. Panic occurs 20 times in this draft. That might be too much panicking. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

#WIPSnips August 22 - fresh Hope freshens up. In days past, public restrooms for women were rare. Therefore, when a woman guest arrived, she was offered the opportunity to "freshen up." #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

#WIPSnips August 19 - anymore Call Hope Boot Man. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

#WIPSnips August 17 - dark Hope has a nightmare. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Dragons

Being brave brings light to a dark world.

#WIPSnips August 12 - heartbreak Big Bear Valley eagles Jackie & Shadow and their eaglets inspired several scenes (such as attached) in my current project. Hope would be heartbroken if Baby dispersed and left her. I'm heartbroken that the eagle Jackie passed away. #AmWriting #Dragons #Eagle #Jackie

Big Bear Valley eagles Jackie and Shadow and their eaglets inspired scenes in the story I'm writing (caring for the baby dragon, him begging for food, struggling with learning to fly, and Hope realizing he will someday disperse and leave her). Jackie passed away. Loss leaves a hole in one's heart.

#WIPSnips August 8 - melody Dragons can replicate any sound. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Dragons

#WIPSnips August 7 - handle I was told goat horns are great "handles" to manage goats. Does that apply to baby dragons? #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Dragons

Another magic moment happened today. A paragraph appeared on the screen as I let my mind and fingers flow, a paragraph that captured the spirit of the story, a paragraph that led to a chapter ending that brought tears of joy. Days like today make the hard work of writing worthwhile. #AmWriting

Lanolin #FlashFiction #MicroFiction attempted #Humor #WritingCommunity #AmWriting Having fun writing.

#WIPSnips August 3 - thrill The baby dragon is becoming obsessed with animals. #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Dragons

#WIPSnips July 31 - twist Didn't think twist in story. Discovered nine — two because I had twist problem with shoulder strap on bag. Kept untwisting wrong. I laughed at my clumsiness and said, "I need to put this in the story." #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WriteSky