events/2025-02-04-writing

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Online Homebrew Website Club - Writing Edition was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-02-04.

IndieWebCamp Writing Homebrew Website Club

February 4, 2025

Participants


Introductions

- Who you are, your writting projects and what you want to talk about

Vince

  • Want to write more content online
  • Tent to tilt to technical content
  • Go a bit less deep into specification, more for general audience

James

  • Enjoys writting
  • Getting out of the confort zone as a writting
  • What different thing for the future

Joe

  • Blogs
  • Comics - (semi)-authobiographical
    • More light weigth lines

Zachary

  • Primarily Sci-fi, wrote also poetry and fanfiction
  • Working on sci-series, short story collection

Sara

  • Writes fan-fiction
  • Cross-posts to AO3
  • Going through drafts; trying to reduce number of drafts.
  • Started an original short story / novella this week.

Michael - Compolser writting - Essays, think pieces,... - Interested in how people approch it, other people's perspective

Topics

    • Q: Setting Goals For One's Self / The Motive For Writing**

How do you write for a wider audience?

  • Writing about non-technical topics
  • Liking the idea of creating content, but not writing just to "put out more content"
  • Wants to expand on the things I can create that might appeal to people
  • Writing HOWTOs involves having a clear brief; long-form personal writing has more freedom.
  • Balancing the technical and the personal: can you add your own commentary? Experience?
  • Finding how and where to relate to others through writing
  • Writing is always conversation, regardless of how many or how few are involved
  • Can you write an article from a different perspective?
  • Writing for a different audience; for technical writing, write for someone who doesn't know how to code / have background in a given area.
  • Writing as learning different perspectives: find people to read your work before you put it in the world

Random James note: Writing as play.

  • Technical writing challenge that Joe has done before as part of a class: Write instructions for sitting on a chair.
    • The aim of technical writing is to include every possible instructions the reader might need: assume nothing

Roblox Game Design As Programming?

How Do You Think About Audience?

  • Posting on different platforms for different audiences (doesn't fit on your blog, it may fit elsewhere like Codepen).
  • Posting to the void.
  • The surprise of having someone reach out after enjoying an old blog post you wrote.
  • Writing something that I like; writing what we want to read.
  • Not thinking too much about audience.
  • Ties into the question of "what are you writing for?"
  • Write to learn; you can try to publish (indie, traditional, share in communities).
  • Submitting work to anthologies to learn, to discover like-hearted folks, community
    • Find people in communities of people who you want to reach (is it local? is it interest-based?) (Example: https://dimestories.org/, a writing community in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
      • Local scenes: poetry, writing groups, workshops, bookstores, libraries, etc

How Do You Go About Co-Writing / Writing In A Group?

  • Guest-star in others' blogs through doing artwork / graphics; a fun thing to do.
  • "How can I contribute?" when writing with someone else.
  • Compilation zines or collaborative fanzines (Tumblr is a great source for this)
  • Collaboratiive creativity is a little fraught because it's like any relationship: all the good and the bad
    • Key is to start with a positive feeling / a goal in mind; mutual interest.
  • Collaboritive comics: adapting written works to the visual format
  • What does it mean to collaborate on a work?
  • Collaborative creation ideas:
  • "ripples" from writing
  • Collaborative making is the perfect way to grow your confidence and people skills

Is there a convention for collaborating?

  • Email signatures to facilitate contribution to things

Other Notes

People on this call may like/things mentioned:

  • When you publish things, you don't have to share it with everyone!

Doing things in the void is a good area to experiment.

hats: https://www.wyrmbean.com/ and post about the algorithm: https://www.fractalkitty.com/w/

Idea of writing a book together on the web

  • IndieWeb Carnival but the topics are prompt for you to write a story about
  • Software To Use: https://once.com/writebook
    • James is happy to host this software if we do a community thing!

James meta note: This Etherpad is collaborative writing!

  • James is happy to co-write with people on this call!
  • Vince mentioned collaborating on something where he could do the more technical details and someone else could cover the narrative
  • Collaborating on technical things: reading the voice of someone who has made something is interesting.
  • "People like stories"
  • Note to Sophia from zachary.kai: create a list of all your domains! I'd love to see them!
  • Community haiku on https://kinopio.club
  • Guestbooks could be related? Community participation; collective result.
  • More tooling around community tools for making.
  • Is there a list of creative collaborative things the internet has made?
  • Random James thought: "how do specific words make us feel?"
  • "Just make the thing"
  • Wonder / awe as being self-fulfilling
    • highly inspirational as to how much translation and internationalization can be specific
  • Haiku formed by combining other haikus
  • Words feel different when you lose context, in both good and bad ways
  • Blogs as a way to save languages / words
    • Using mostly unknown words on your blog as a way to give them new life
    • The personal significance of sharing language and maintaining them
  • Writing challenge for anyone interested: write about a word or words that you use but may not be widely known.



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