[#]PennedPossibilities 551 MC POV: If you could have one talent or ability that you don’t naturally have, what would it be?
"I want to, you know. I want to be the guy. The guy everyone says, yeah, he knows what to do! I want to be that guy. The guy. You know?"
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[#]PennedPossibilities 552 How strong is your SC's sense of ambition? What is something that they strive for in life?
They're kids living in a highly functional anarcho-socialist infrastructure. Their ambitions are "live a life, have friends, make art."
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[#]PennedPossibilities 553: MC POV: Talk about something made by hand.
"The doors on our floor were painted by everyone on the floor. Everyone did their own. They're all about the people who live there. I love those doors."
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[#]PennedPossibilities 554 How do you stay motivated to write?
It's hard sometimes. I get tired. But then there are these people I created, and they're crawling around in my head, and they NEED CLOSURE. That's my motivation.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 555. Are there any themes for stories that you’re excited to explore in the future?
I'll find them when I get there. I don't pick themes beforehand.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 556: If it ever came down to it, who would your MC be willing to die for?
Her family and her friends. But she's been preoccupied with saving herself. Sacrificing for others isn't the point of the narrative she's embedded in. She's the one who needs saving.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 557. How do you balance multiple projects at once?
Poorly. Next question!
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[#]PennedPossibilities 558: For the writers who only have one WIP: Have you ever started or considered starting a second project?
Why you have to be like that?
Of course I have story ideas all the damn time, and I frequently "consider" abandoning my current project to chase after them, but that way lies a hard drive of half-finished novels and short-story cycles.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 559 MC POV: What is a sure-fire way to distract you from the task at hand?
"Hm? What? What is it? I can try? Come on! What are you doing? I wanna try!
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[#]PennedPossibilities 560: Your MC has exactly two hours to do something with a small amount of currency in their world. How are they spending the time and money?
Money's not an issue--it only tracks resources, people will give you stuff for free if you ask and just note down the value in terms of environmental impact--so she'd probably go to an elevated plaza full of food machines and watch the city fly by.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 561. Give us your thoughts on the genre of your WIP. Do you love it, is there not enough stories written within it, are you an avid reader of the genre, etc.?
The genre of my WIP leans into hard SF (with one effectively magical element). I think hard SF is a lot of fun if you use real(ish) sci/tech as part of the story but less so IMO if you make your story about the sci/tech. just my preference.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 562. Do you have a writing routine?
I wish. I grab time where I can. I used to write at night, but that's just draining these days.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 563 — Silly question: Who would your SC want to take goofy photographs with? If cameras exist in your universe, of course.
There was this guy they knew, Teo, just a golden-retriever of a man. Not excessively thoughtful, but friendly as hell. He took pictures of EVERYTHING and posted them to his wall. Everybody wanted to be in them.
And then I violently murdered him to help the story progress. Sorry, Teo!
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[#]PennedPossibilities 564: What are your SC’s views on marriage?
"Love is love, and marriage is just a thing people do. My mama and dad and dad's boyfriend told me."
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[#]PennedPossibilities 565: What would your MC’s go-to song at a party be? Would they be dancing?
Huh. That's really interesting. It's 150 years in the future, so they'd have whole new musical styles, but also, they'd have access to the WHOLE media library of the world--once you're socialists, you really stop caring about giving corporations money for music by artists who've been dead a century--so I don't know! She might love the hell out of "Dancing Queen."
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[#]PennedPossibilities 566: What hobbies do you have outside of writing?
Right now, Linux. I never thought an OS could be a "hobby," but here I am, listening to Linux podcasts and following the developments in the FOSS world. I like it because it reminds me of computers from the 90s/2000s, and it's largely apolitical but still rooted in ethics that I like, and that sense that technology ought to be for everyone is an underlying "thing" in my current project.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 567 — SC POV: Tell us about a time you said “no” as a child.
A friend told me I should stop reading so many books and be more social. I said no thank you.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 568. How should the MC come across to the reader at end?
Mature. Capable. Resilient. Fucking scary in a fight. In need of serious therapy.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 569 — Do any of your SCs represent something important within the story? Explain what it is, and tell us why they represent that very thing.
Calm.
Ethics.
Neediness.
(Three different characters.)
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[#]PennedPossibilities 570. When your MC is in a tough situation, do they use their words or their actions to get them out of it?
Ha. Their words get them into bad situations, and their actions get them out of them.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 571: What or who motivates your antagonist to act the way they do? Could a new motivator convince them to change?
She believes she's protecting humanity from an existential threat, so she's completely certain of the righteousness of her mission. It's possible she could discover new information that sways her, but she's in so deep that she'd actually just twist whatever she learned until it confirmed her existing beliefs.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 572: How seriously does your SC take themselves?
My funny one desperately wants to be the Big Damn Hero. He takes himself way too seriously.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 574. When was the last time your antagonist cried?
She cries every day. She gazes out the window in the direction of the Earth, and she laments how many children she's failed to find and train, and how many she'll have to kill as a result. It breaks her heart. But it's necessary. She knows she cannot stop. The mission is sacred.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 575 — Random: Do you currently have any ideas (for WIPs) you just can’t let go of? Is there anything you’re dying to write?
I very much want to write a sequel to my novella (unpublished... sigh...). My current project is bleak, and my novellas are fun. I need some fun right now.
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catch as can for me too
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@KathyBryson Damn. And you're a professional. What hope do us hobbyists have!?
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@orionkidder
quasi professional - I still have a full-time job to pay bills 😆
also I've been writing for awhile - jus stick with it, you'll get there
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@KathyBryson I don't know if there's anywhere to "get," you know? The publishing industry is basically a cartel, Amazon publishing is a scam, and self-publishing is an entire job on top of the job of writing. Maybe I like being a hobbyist and earning a living doing something else!
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@orionkidder Given how modular and user modifiable Linux-based distros can be; the Linux Kernel which is the core of all distros does have a lot of hobby potential!
I don't mess around too much myself, however, I will keep abreast of anything newsworthy in FOSS and Linux Spaces. Fedora is the distro I'm currently using and enjoy (mostly due to the Flatpak support right out the gate, and ease of use).
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds I'm on Debian, mostly because it's made to work with Gnome, but I'm contemplating shifting to Gnome on top of something else because as much as I appreciate the extreme stability of Debian, it's also really limiting in other ways: you have to manually install Flatpak, you have to manually give yourself permissions on your own computer, etc.
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@orionkidder Oh, I know all about Debian! I appreciate that they are so rock solid, but, it's at a cost of being so old. Their packages are so stinky due to age, like a cheese which is out of date!
You do have options, at least when it comes to GNOME on top of something else. I came from Ubuntu (Debian based, but packages are a bit fresher) to Fedora that uses the latest stable version of GNOME. Fresh, rolling release (it's been stable so far with no issues outside its own quirks).
If you need proprietary drivers, there are minimal hoops to jump through...Personally, it took me about 10 minutes to set the proprietary drivers and codecs up!
ZorinOS is Ubuntu-based, but based on my readings on it, it's very user-friendly! The set-up is just as easy as Ubuntu and the interface looks quite nice!
I wouldn't suggest Arch unless you're prepared to work for your installation. It's a very hands-on distro, I'd only recommend it to those who are quite proficient with messing around with Linux.
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds I'm hearing a lot of praise for Fedora. What holds me back is the corporate nature of the organization. I'd rather support a democratic non-profit. It's a lot of factors to consider.
That being said, the difference between Gnome 43.9 and Gnome 47 is only a few features and cosmetic improvements, so I don't feel bereft, and it's not hard to install flatpak on Debian, so even though I wish they'd just pre-install it, my apps are up to date.
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds Like, I get the FOMO on the most recent versions of everything, but unless there's one killer feature I really need, I'm fine with being a little behind. It's not been an issue so far.
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@orionkidder Mmm, rolling release isn't always necessary unless your hardware is more recent and needs newer kernels for vital support. Staying on Debian would probably be best in your case if you aren't feeling that you are missing out on anything from recent distros. Their stance on security is pretty good too, but can be considered annoying at times, like you referenced in your response to me.
They might be the closest thing you seek in terms of structure, as they don't have a very corporate feel. However, Debian is built with the purpose to serve the needs of all, being made free for anyone interested in using it. Their non-profit supports projects made by people in the FOSS and Open Source space, they feel like the most wholesome of distros.
Sure they have issues like not having a version that allows for default installs for Flathub and Flatpak, but as you said and as I know...The barrier to access is so minimal, it may as well not exist.
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds Yeah, that's how I landed on them. Partly it was determined by Ubuntu and Mint being the most recognizable, and both of them being Debian-based, but then once I was there, I was like: This is good. This works.
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@orionkidder Debian did a great job onboarding people with their installer and rock solid distro. Everything works as intended, as it was built for that very purpose. They even made it easy to access all the proprietary stuff that one might need (gamers tend to need non-free drivers for the best performance in games). Apt is one of the best CLI tools that I've worked with when a terminal was necessary.
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds I did not know Debian maintains the APT repositories. That makes me even happier to be using their distro & DE and generally supporting them.
I just wish Nautilus wasn't so under-powered, honestly.
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@orionkidder Yeah, Debian built APT from the ground up! It shows in how smoothly it works for anything Debian-based as well, as a simple and to the point Command Line invoked tool.
Nautilus suffers from a lot of debuffs on Debian, whereas, Ubuntu and Linux Mint buffs it a bit. Nautilus is debuffed for the sake of all that inner stability that Debian has, if it were a bunker in an apocalyptic setting...The Debian Installation would survive!
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds Granted, Nautilus is a design philosophy not a mistake, but there's some basic functionality that I do think is missing. It's a matter of where you draw the line at "basic," of course. The good news is, Debian doesn't prevent me from loading up Nemo or Dolphin, which are both pretty damn good.
Funny thing about APT, what pushed me over the edge in favour of switching to Linux was watching someone type, "sudo apt-get..." and the program appeared. It was like magic.
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