@nyrath You will love this (would also be a good thing to add to the Unobtanium section of your website-- fits the holy grail for sci-fi writers, of something rare and useful found in space that cannot be easily replicated on Earth)
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https://science.arizona.edu/news/conversation-asteroids-solar-system-could-contain-undiscovered-superheavy-elements
I was sus of this at first but apparently reputable journals reported on this? Slightly old news but neat, I didn't know this existed.
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Of these four, what chat program do you use the most, if any?
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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Also I have a wobsite now, see https://stardustverse.carrd.co/, it's mostly focused on my life's work, aka my book series, you can see my portfolio there as well as an intro to it. I might add more about my personal life and such later.
Sorry for this shameless plug.
[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing #AmWriting #sff #TheStardustverse
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I can't believe I forgot to post about this, but the current WIP Stardust book is currently being updated on a forum called Spacebattles. I intend to mirror it to Royal Road soon, but you may read it here. https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/stardust-blueweb.1201502/
I will be posting updates. It is a spy thriller with some very experimental exploration of how cybernetic hive-minded aliens live. It's a bit difficult to write but has been going well.
[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing #AmWriting #sff #TheStardustverse
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Can someone give me a rundown of the recent #bluesky drama? I've been distracted with other stuff and wasn't following it too well. I heard they were abusing their power and also not banning a known transphobe? Something along those lines? Fill me in pls.
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A dear friend of mine has been evicted and is now homeless. They are hanging on, for now, but their only real plan is to escape to a friend in Delaware who is ready to house them. Job search has failed as they're in backwater Louisiana. No other friends nearby
They're suicidal and are losing hope. Please help them so they may have a decent life again, they've been suffering from a year in various unstable households.
https://paypal.com/paypalme/amaroq
60 boosts and no donations??
[#]mutualaid
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Can someone recommend me some hard or semi-hard transhumanist #scifi (preferably prose or webcomic form) that does not have a faux-rationalist eugenicsy vibe to it and has a more laid-back and creative attitude regarding posthuman enhancements and so on, while also not having a technophobic, conservative attitude that treats the human body and mind as something sacred and untouchable like a lot of sci-fi that touches on these topics?
[#]sff #books #sciencefiction
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing October 25: How long is the shortest story you've ever written? Can you link to it?
I wrote a bunch of microfics and a 9k word short story. I'll probably collect the best of the microfics and the short story into one work and publish it after cleaning up and slightly expanding the latter.
I'll ping everyone who favorites this post when I do so, so yeah.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing Oct 24: Do you criticize other writers? Who and in what way?
In terms of style or most kinds of content I don't really criticize authors; I may lambast books, franchises, or even whole genres but I rarely have an an axe to grind against authors themselves, because I know from experience that authors of bad fiction are often very sweet people.
But if you're a bigot (especially as a modern writer) I will pull no punches and boycott your work.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing Oct 23: How do you capture a character's unique voice in dialogue?
I try to pin down what their mental voice is (to me every scene plays out like a movie scene in my mind). Then pin down what kind of phrasing that voice might use and that kind of person might use. Also how many and what contractions/informal words and the length of sentences they use-- it seems subtle but it has a huge effect and can make the difference between a teenager and a professor.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing October 22: What's your favourite writing convention to eschew?
Overly formal grammar. I don't even recognize when I write a sentence fragment, or use punctuation in the slightly wrong way, or have a run-on sentence. Who cares? It's understandable anyways to any human with a functioning brain.
I think just about the only wrong way to enjoy fiction is to scrutinize the phrasing of things. The meaning is the same in any case, and grammar is a social construct.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing October 20: Do you agree with Terry Pratchett, who said, "There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write."
Terry, I respect you more than almost any writer. I think you're in the top 3 of fantasy authors of all time. But this is a shit take especially when applied to neurodivergent writers. It's very real with ADHD for example.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing October 19: Do you go to fan conventions or similar?
Even if there were any in my area, I'm too introverted and uncomfortable with traveling to go to any sort of convention. I likely never will, because I don't see what I stand to gain from going to there that is worth taking possibly weeks of my time.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing October 18: Do you read scripts? Would you try writing a script or screenplay?
No, after the Collective fiasco I have decided to not experiment with writing and I will forever stick to prose books. I have little interest in the constraints of visual media anyways.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing October 17: What's the body count in your WIP? Is this typical for your work?
Current WIP (Blueweb) is too early to say, so.
Origins: some villainous extras die
Marathon: some heroic extras and a lot of faceless enemy crewmembers die
Labyrinth: a lot of major characters die
Unenforceable: nobody dies
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing October 16: Have you ever tried to write something set in a culture other than your own? How did it go?
Stardust's Terran Federation is not at all like Russia, yeah. I'm not so proud of my own culture and I always felt more generically Western than Russian.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing October 15: Which of the different marketing tactics you may have tried has been the most successful?
I don't have the budget to advertise so I come to people I know online and ask if they'd like to read the books I wrote.
Forum ads failed to drive much engagement so I found direct word of mouth is better.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub #Writing October 14: How does your plot structure grow? Linearly as you go? Or does it grow out from one or more ideas?
I have a plot idea. I write a start scene. I make a very loose outline of the plot and a spreadsheet of the characters' names, identities, personalities, strengths, weaknesses, and equipment. Then I just kinda write, linearly, until the plot reaches a logical conclusion, in one draft, with no further planning. Kinda like a solo TTRPG campaign.
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