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#PennedPossibilities 649 — What research did you conduct for your WIP, and did you uncover anything surprising or fascinating?
When you are writing 31 chapters in 31 days and posting a chapter a day, having only come up with the idea and character the day before starting, research is a concept dealt with by quick and dirty searches. I did have one interesting factino in my pocket, though. I'd found an article about growing fungus to make building blocks for construction on Mars, and knew the blocks might help repel radiation. Another recent article spoke about inflating a balloon for a habitat. I combined both ideas in the 4th chapter titled Glue. Beyond that, I spent quite a bit of time Googling things about 16 Psyche (an asteroid) and learned that Martian dust is poisonous, and like moon dust, pernicious. Recent NASA tests lofted by a private company to the moon proves that electostatic grids can capture or repel dust. I used that. Much of the rest of the technology I punted on. I realized green minerals on Mars might be rare, so I backtracked on some red-green-black ferric metaphors. Yesterday, I read up on planetary transfer orbits and made changes to the revised novel. I also learned about the Lunar Gateway space station concept, and will revise that concept when I get to revising the relevant chapter.
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Nonsense poems:
Floogles drive the destiny of galt,
With many shives and traces halt.
Batswanie moongles in the pond
With divided loyalties in jond.
Cavort! Cavort! the wandress cries,
And meanwhile all the turvey dies.
Masculine w/ o
Anchor in g
Feminine
Cannon
Loose
Blind
Ball
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Today, I wrote more than 5k words for a new project I shouldn't even be starting and which has no predictable outcome.
A writing brain is not easy to handle.
#WordWeavers 2504.20 — If someone gave you a million dollars (or equivalent) to never write again, would you take it?
I spent a lifetime scrimping, saving, investing, and being frugal to get to this point. Retirement. Now they offer me a million dollars? Sheesh. Gonna have to make me a better offer to stop me from doing what I like to do. [Sticks out tongue, makes raspberry.]
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.20 — What rôle does religion play in your writing?
Religiosity is important in many of my stories, even when it is as prominent as vacuum by its absence. Usually, I don't write in the point of view of the religious, but I did write an SF novel in the point of view of a shaman. I'd lived in Bali for awhile, and having studied the culture and theatre of the island during college, felt I had a feel for animism. At university, I studied religions and non-western cultures as part of my degree, as well as folklore and mythology. I find it fascinating. At least as far as my writing goes my degree has proved useful.
More often I write about how people wield religion to abuse society. My latest novel (now in revision) pits a fictional religion and a theocratic plutocracy (where our world is headed) against one woman's quest for freedom. It is the background main antagonist. For the people in the other WIP, the concept of a supernatural or the divine is absurd; they don't even have words for it in their vocabulary. Nevertheless, the MCs are destined to face people who bear unusual ideas about how reality actually functions, who might react badly when upon meeting a woman with bull horns and a man with ruby-edged white feathered wings.
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(Ep 1) Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Analysis: Framing Devices
I showed my nephew the cover for his story today. His eyes grew wide, and he fell onto the couch, pretending to faint (the kid's dramatic, just like his father 
).
"Do you like it?" I asked him once he recovered.
"Um, yes!"
Cover reveal for Mission Aboard the Longfin coming soon!
(Oh, and in case anyone's wondering, his sister DID ask me to write her a book. Now I have to think about some kind of adventure between a girl and her dog... 
)
the opening paragraphs of my novel
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The Tower loomed over the tangled silhouette of the Last City. Impossibly tall, it split the luminous night sky into two halves, its black outline visible as an emptiness, a void of missing stars. No lights pocked its surface, and what few sparks glowed in the Escherian disorder of buildings below it were not powerful enough to cast onto its monolithic sides.
She knew she was dreaming. It was not the first time she’d dreamed of this Tower.
Librarians are dangerous: A public service announcement by Brad Montague
Dear Enthusiasts,
I write to you today as a concerned citizen. Many aren’t brave enough to say it, but the time has come. So, I will say it:
Librarians are dangerous.
(Dramatic music should be playing in your head right now.)
You thought they were just keepers of the quiet. Guardians of the “shhh.” The ones who handed you a dusty book and pointed to a beanbag chair.
Wrong.
“Did you…” She trailed off, thinking. “Did you have any dreams?”
The question was so careful, so studiously innocent, that Riley immediately knew that Therese knew he’d had a nightmare. How she knew, he couldn’t imagine, but she did. The idea of her seeing his dreams made him go cold, his stomach dropping, his breath quickening.
“N-no, nothing I remember. I don’t usually.” He cleared his throat. “Remember dreams, I mean.”
I have always fallen for weird people with a lot of issues, in friendship as well as dating.
Still, nothing tops the looks everyone gave me when I admitted that I still searched the web for death certificates from a certain village ever since one friend stopped writing me.
I'm just a worried witch with a heart for the troubled ones ...
You should learn to be resourceful.
It saved me from being #homeless again today. If I wasn't well versed in how to protect myself, and use what is available to me, I would have been much worse off.
As sad as it is, the #usa is absolutely brutal to you if you suddenly find yourself in a crisis.
You need to be ready, and know what options are available to you. If you don't and a sudden crisis happens, you'll suffer much more.
Especially with how the US is going now.
The Haiku Shack Magazine is looking for poetry and microfiction for its second issue. Theme: What does home mean to you?
Complete guidelines at https://creativeramblings.com/haiku-shack-magazine/
novelWriter 2.6.3 has recently been added to the Fedora 41 and 42 repositories. At the moment, the internationalisation files are missing in the released package, but an updated release is on the way.
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/novelwriter/novelwriter/