@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop TBR pile seems embarrassingly big? Overwhelming?Call it a library.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @DarrinBrunner Knowing your East and West helps?

@KF @NickEast_IndieWriter @fantasy @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop If you need rescued today:Tiffany is now quite grown up and may be wearing Granny's boots now.OTOH, 20 years ago, you'd want Granny.Susan can look after herself. I'd not trust her on the rescuing stuff.Carrot's probably helping to raise a cub.Conan may be preserved in a block of ice.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop Black with silver embroidery reading Metallica?Though neither are to my taste in music, which is otherwise quite wide.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop Fahrenheit 451, though Ray Bradbury claimed it was inspired by a woman listening to a radio. Also TV replacing books.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @joinin @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop Watch out for mould or arsenic (green covers?) on old books.Never been a fan of it. I prefer reading.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @books @fantasy @bookstodon @worldbuilding Oh, and leadins such as small caps or drop caps reduce readibility and accessibility even on paper, They often fail in ebooks.No indent at start of chapter or after scene break, then 1.3em / 16pt indent for regular paragraphs. Only extra space between paragraphs on printed kids books if no indent.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @books @fantasy @bookstodon @worldbuilding It depends how interesting and/or relevant it is.Dune actually only has quotes (imaginary) separating "chapters".Most of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels have simple scene breaks and no chapter breaks*. Footnotes are annoying in fiction and eventually Pratchett stopped doing them. They also don't work well (or at all sometimes) in real ebooks as they don't have design-time pages.[* some others seem to lack chapters]

@NickEast_IndieWriter @bookstodon @books @worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop Actually most popular fiction isn't very realistic:RomanceDetective / MysterySpyThrillers / AdventureWesterns (not popular now).Non SF & F horror.RobinsonadesA novel need not be one genre, that's a publisher/marketing thing.There is a spectrum between SF - fantasy - paranormal etc.Dune and especially the early Pern novels are far more Fantasy than SF.Even a lot of autobiographies are fiction or fantasy!

@lemonhead2 @NickEast_IndieWriter That was deliberately based on Arabs and oil.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @outdoor @nature@fedigroups.social @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world @hiking@fedigroups.social We call the soft bud-shaped ones the Pussy Willow.Catkins hang down and I think on hazel (most common here), birch & some oak. Maybe one kind of willow has catkins.

@grickle I know a cat that even does it to visitors.