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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 638 — Is your SC more introverted or extroverted? Or do they fall somewhere in the middle?</p></blockquote><p>Reina Īto is extraverted to the max. She was the first child born on Mars by over a year and was pampered by her mother (a chief scientist on the Mars colonization mission), and later looked up to as the big sis for the entire generation of Nisei born on Mars. She's sparkly and full of TMI situations, but also incredibly brilliant because she was never told she couldn't do stuff the way girls on Earth often were. She takes her big sis role seriously, and values friendship and closeness above most everything else, and protects her generation from reactionary ideas of gender and sexuality that would constrain women.</p><p>Marisela is the girl who could. She's May Ri's eldest daughter, and was shy when young, but you get the idea she's more extroverted when at 4 years old she scolds other adults waggling a finger when they don't treat her mother right, then a few years later announces, when her father returns home (he's gone 4/5th of the year), that her mommy is going to be making funny noises again that night. She takes up challenges, especially when it lets her do things, and more so when it makes her friends. She's very Nisei in the Martian sense, and becomes a symbol of the new Mars by her 22nd birthday.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSMarsNeededWomen</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p>Self-promo time! What links, publications or media would you like to share? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a> </p><p>I recently finished writing a feminist SF web-novel that I published on Mastodon. <strong>Mars Needed Women</strong> is a woman-centric adventure story of overcoming adversity while being female, with all the warts and frustrations, not as a man in disguise. It starts with ugliness of today's world having become the dystopian norm a hundred years from now. It takes thinly veiled jabs at a prominent bad actor. Our heroine, May Ri escapes becoming little more than a housewife to help colonize Mars, if you can call being shanghaied escaping, and being required to have children. (She does get to choose the gorgeous supportive guy, though, so that's a positive.) She's there with her children as power slowly shifts from being male-dominated. As the mothers and daughters increasingly control Mars' future (how is spoilers), May Ri with the support of her daughters gets to help create a world (Mars) the way unfettered women would image it. The men of Earth will take affront, of course. They will learn that women don't fight like men, especially when their children's lives are threatened, and their wellbeing is at stake. <strong><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSMarsNeededWomen</span></a></strong></p><p><strong>I will keep the web-novel available free-to-read at this link at least until April 10th: <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/114088945266387178" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11408894</span><span class="invisible">5266387178</span></a>.</strong> I am currently revising and expanding it, and plan to republish as a book later.</p><p>Here is posted a revised book jacket.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>A5. Last question before self-promo! Then there's burnout, which I feel will be the subject of another chat. How do you handle it, when your writing is only fumes? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a> </p></blockquote><p>I burnt out from my first career as a published author in 2001. I handled it by one day simply STOPPING. Cold turkey. No, I did not erase all my work and throw out the computer! I walked away. At the dawn of the digital age, I took up photography. I called it my short form because, as my I say in my title line, I was a novelist and did not write anything short. Every investment I made as an author was costly in time and lifespan.</p><p>Obviously, I am on the other side now. I found I could not NOT write and by 2015 I found a writing-lite solution to not being able to communicate my ideas about the world through my stories (the cause of the burnout being I was writing but nobody was buying). My solution was fan fiction, stuff that was meaningless as far as making money, because I couldn't, but I did get read and did get feedback, which was the coin I really needed at the time. I used it to address my writing issues, which by that time I could see more fully. </p><p>Now I'm writing commercially. My own SFF and fantasy worlds. More in my pinned introduction.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
Anita Harris Satkunananthan<p>Mermaids, memory, found family and mythical revisionings in a thick novel that marries epic fantasy with domestic fantasy. Watermyth enfolds a mise-en-abyme narrative strategy (the tale within a tale) to create multiple perspectives for those who like their fantasy novels a little mind-bendy. 🧜‍♀️</p><p>EBOOK DISCOUNT: USD4.99 for the rest of 2025</p><p><a href="https://mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/places-to-purchase-watermyth-ebook/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/pl</span><span class="invisible">aces-to-purchase-watermyth-ebook/</span></a></p><p>Also available through various library subscription/catalogue services. Here are the ISBNs:</p><p>Print: 979-8224480395<br>eBook: 9798223523611</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/mermaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mermaids</span></a></p>
Kagan MacTane (he/him)<p>Dear Goddess. Somehow just spent almost 2 hours doing <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> research.</p><p>This particular character's background requires me to find out about just when certain neighborhoods gentrified, and basically "Which neighborhoods were nice ones back in the 1970s? How about, how were things generally around 2000?"</p><p>But I'm getting some useful info.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>A4. If you were writing a story focusing on a character's injury, sickness or chronic condition, what tone would you take? Have you written such stories before? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a></p></blockquote><p>This question makes me chuckle. Yes, I have written such stories! It's not that the devil-girl stories are specifically about injury or mental issues that could use a bit of therapy, or about autism which they don't have a word for in her society because they see it as on the spectrum of being human, but it ends up being that way. She's a fighter, in attitude and in practice, so she gets hurt A LOT. She even becomes disabled and it's only with daily therapy that she can appear fully functional. She pushes on through, noting and discussing how she feels in her first person narrative, and when she's a prizefighter it is more of the same but a lot more often. To reach her goals, she sees trade-offs; it's a negotiation with reality. She makes sure her pain is a down payment on success, or that she learns something from experiencing it. That's her attitude: <em>I win or I learn something about it.</em> </p><p>The PTSD, however, infuriates and embarrasses her, and badly gets in the way. When she gets an episode, it is completely on screen. It turns her into a marionette with a few cut strings and we see her waking nightmares and horror replays I shan't detail here. In the end, it's her friends that help her find her balance again, and help her discover and overcome her triggers.</p><p>I take the tone of being intense.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>A3. Does your physical or mental state affect your writing? If so, do you take frequent breaks or engage in self-care, especially if you're physically injured? Mind you don't have to disclose specifics since this question is very personal. <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a></p></blockquote><p>Yes. I was once had a depressive personality. I learned for me it was that I had an illusion that I could control "things," and when I realized it was an illusion and I couldn't control "things," my depression pretty much went away. It doesn't mean I don't have "phases" when I just don't wanna. I heed that message. If I'm physically unwell, like when fibromyalgia sets in, I've learned to do only what I capable of—when that means ignoring my condition, I write anyway. Sometimes, amazingly, I can single thread (verses multi-tasking) in a Zen way and get a lot written so long as I don't expand my awareness.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p>A2. Which of your characters would you consider healthy? Or unhealthy? And yes, if they have mental illness you can decide based on that factor. <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writephant</span></a></p><p>May Ri has a bit of an anger issue, but it keeps her focused on getting ahead. It's not good for Earth's health when they attack Mars and kill one of her daughters.</p><p>Both Thorn Rose and Streak Carryingaton are quite healthy, but their society has mandatory health and mental services, so that's to be expected. When Thorn is dragged into a war zone, she may develop some PTSD.</p><p>The devil-girl has PTSD, which gets triggered when she loses control of situations where she's prevented from helping, because she knows what will happen if she doesn't. She is also autistic, but for her it is a superpower.</p><p>The main series antagonist is incapable of being unhealthy due to technological reasons. She's always 24 years old. It even rebuilt her in a Frankenstein monster fashion once to keep her alive, and though it rendered her healthy, versus dead, people can tell.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> <br>A1. To you, what does good health mean? And it doesn't have to be the conventional, stereotypical definition of "skinny, muscular and attractive" or parameters like BMI. <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a> </p><p>For me, it means being capable to do what I want and think without being foggy without pain.</p><p>For the women in my stories, it is definitely not skinny, and most consider themselves average. Their men seem to prefer that. Those that are strong don't consider it an attribute of good health so much as a means towards their goals.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)<p>Do you have a serious group with one crazy person, or a crazy group with one serious person?</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingTips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingTips</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/dnd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dnd</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/authodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authodons</span></a></p>
Emily Moran Barwick<p>Hi. I'm terrified. </p><p>I've been trying to make my own space on the web for years. And I've been stuck. Badly.</p><p>But today is my birthday. And I refuse to let another year pass without putting something—anything—out there.</p><p>So here it is in all its messy glory. My first post on my barely-there <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>website</span></a>: <a href="https://fromemily.com/hi-im-terrified/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fromemily.com/hi-im-terrified/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>It's not great. But it's okay...enough.</p><p>And I hope it means something to someone.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActuallyADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyADHD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>
Kirsten Menger-Anderson<p>I went to two public libraries last weekend and enjoyed some really amazing public programs: Night of Ideas at the SF Public Library and Foster Youth Museum - Lost Childhoods Exhibit at the Redwood City Library. Then I sat down and wrote a piece about the right to read, because library book bans have been much on my mind, and I wanted to talk about that today, Right To Read day. I put the piece up on Medium--I'm not a part of the partnership program, so it should be accessible to both members and nonmembers. Please take a look, and happy National Library Week!</p><p><a href="https://kma500.medium.com/our-right-to-read-684f6cc639b3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kma500.medium.com/our-right-to</span><span class="invisible">-read-684f6cc639b3</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/righttoread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>righttoread</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@fedigroups.social</span></a></span></p>
Ixtli Dekami :coolified:🍕⚾🖖<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelAuthors</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> 7 Color in your story</p><p>Lots. Take the Standard Body™ as an example. Every single one comes in a slightly different skin and hair color, and it's the same with the Uniform™ and all accessories that comes with it. When you put a group of Standard Bodied™ people together, they look like a pantone chart. And those colors have sort of a meaning for each user. It can be a maddening experience…&gt;=)</p>
Ixtli Dekami :coolified:🍕⚾🖖<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> 637 Does your MC have a past that haunts them?</p><p>—No. Like Frankie said: Regrets… I have a few, but then again, too few to mention. Love that song, by the way. What I have is a tail to be stepped on, and, believe me, it's a *BIG* tail. And it's like a lizard's tail: every time I cut it and think it's all over, it grows again, and again and again. This never ends…</p><p>Our Hero</p>
Ixtli Dekami :coolified:🍕⚾🖖<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> 7 World Health Day! What's your take on the "suffer for art" argument?</p><p>As long as the suffering comes from other people's reaction to my work, and not me, I'm all for it…=)</p><p>As we say here in México: Between your art and mine, I prefer my art* =)</p><p>* Those who know Spanish will appreciate such wise and deep words, and, perhaps, won't curse my name because of this lame old joke…=)</p>
Ixtli Dekami :coolified:🍕⚾🖖<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> 7 Does your MC have a secret? Can you give us a hint?</p><p>He *IS* a secret by himself. An open secret kind of secret, that is. The *#⚡$%💀! Maistro and the Old Hag brought him back after his first death in his new and improved Standard Body™, but his family, friends, not-friends, creditors, tax authorities, etc. they all believe him to be dead, and he wants to keep things like that. But lots of people know about him in this supposedly new and very "discrete" secret identity…&gt;=)</p>
Steven Cudahy<p>Sheathed violence. Memories of sun. Clouds.<br>Ghosts of raindrops fading on the stones.<br>Absent a bow your arrows<br>lie quiscient. Razor-tipped presences<br>upsetting as flies in the sugar,<br>threatening as your crooked smile.<br>Lunch leftovers sweating in heat.<br>At this range there would be no escape<br>puncture and shock and blood.<br>Eventually I will stand and walk away<br>shaking. Anticipation of sharp steel rush<br>chilling the sweat trickling my spine.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SmallPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallPoems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoPrompt</span></a> 5 Apr 25 - quiver</p>
Silver Huskey<p>TWWR Round up 04/07/2025– On The Cusp of Disaster</p><p>The theme of the webcomics I'm following is a coming disaster.</p><p><a href="https://www.twwronline.com/2025/04/07/twwr-round-up-04-07-2025-on-the-cusp-of-disaster/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">twwronline.com/2025/04/07/twwr</span><span class="invisible">-round-up-04-07-2025-on-the-cusp-of-disaster/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fandom.ink/tags/Furry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Furry</span></a> <a href="https://fandom.ink/tags/Webcomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Webcomics</span></a> <a href="https://fandom.ink/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://fandom.ink/tags/Xenofiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xenofiction</span></a></p>
Michael Thériault<p>A busy literary day yesterday. Two straight-up rejections, a third but with compliments, and an acceptance of my short story The Untold Roar by JAKE: The [Anti-Literary] Magazine, specializing in “the artistic weird,” which I suppose is what kind of writer I sometimes am. A boy delivering the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SanFrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SanFrancisco</span></a> Chronicle in the St. Mary’s Park neighborhood of the City, when boys still did that, encounters something that becomes a lifelong secret. Out 14 April. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Fictionable<p>Fictionable arrives on paper with a stylish edition of Diana Evans' haunting story Broth, where three friends go out for dinner. But are they all ready to share?</p><p>Diana talks pared-back prose, female friendship and category errors on the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lor.sh/@fictionable" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fictionable</span></a></span> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/diana-evans-broth-ordinary-people-a-house-for-alice-podcast-interview" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fictionable.world/podcasts/dia</span><span class="invisible">na-evans-broth-ordinary-people-a-house-for-alice-podcast-interview</span></a></p><p>Get your copy at <a href="https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fictionable.world/pages/fictio</span><span class="invisible">nable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans</span></a></p><p><a href="https://lor.sh/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/ShortStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShortStories</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>