Procrastinating! At The Library
#WritersOfMastodon
With the resurfacing of these harmful narratives about women's proper or natural place being in the home, it feels like a good time to revisit the Wages for Housework campaign and see what may be recovered or adapted for today
https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/wages-housework-campaign-history/
#feminism #WagesForHousework
I've switched to Filen from Dropbox, happy with it so far https://filen.io/
nostr:npub1kkpqaymaay95q7h5ytavpud4p77j90x2nd6qyk5ta9k82sccgauss65sfx Yes, that's what I thought at first - then a UK narrator surprised me with shone-pronounced-as-shown! (Maybe sanitising their accent for the US market?)
nostr:npub15qfm3w3zezjan74fw82q7gnnjv2zfcmkwt7t2u3mskctl9n8au7samwmjf huh! Maybe, or maybe there's a regional variation here, or maybe everything's just blending 😊
Oh nice, two drabbles accepted for Shacklebound Books 'Programmed Hearts' anthology! On one of my favourite topics, too: robots and feelings 🤖❤
(Submissions are still open as far as I can see https://shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/)
#MicroFiction #ScienceFiction
nostr:npub1d8jmymfve90zlqekc7ay2a7fp9zdc48kt7yhug9mpst5cnftur4qvg04lj that's so cool, congrats! 🥳
Dream Foundry do all kinds of great projects across the "speculative arts" (not only fiction, but games, comics, art...) including contests, an online conference, and a large, well-moderated Discord server which has been a fountain of useful information and interesting conversations about writing, editing, and the SFF world at large.
Find out more about DF at nostr:npub14p2zdr8xquh7rzygp6s9kdwf9ac44jht3q2t6r4ld2wdfaqujqxscw82n5
And here's the invite link for the server: https://discord.com/invite/dreamfoundry
#WritersCoffeeClub day 2: Plotter or pantser? It varies depending what I'm working on (eg episodic podcast drama has needed a lot of plotting) but I'd say mostly plotter. Just a framework though, as I try and leave lots of room for discovery.
nostr:npub1kkpqaymaay95q7h5ytavpud4p77j90x2nd6qyk5ta9k82sccgauss65sfx Shared it with my circles this morning and it's already getting a lot of interest. I've got a story ready to roll one month hence. Most exciting.
nostr:npub1v0h5w389cez3dz2n57jayhwjgh7pajw37qrvkg46fx2n68e25n0skpnlsn Wonderful! Thank you 💖
nostr:npub1cc52zf209jt56xgeak0h468zmxlagcaudyusg2ztm7cceguz9ydqqkh45g It's finally here! ❤🤣
But mostly I'm endlessly curious about what it feels like to walk around being *us*, in all our infinite variety. For me, scifi, fantasy, and horror offer amazing tools for us to understand each other better, to share our joy and suffering, our triumphs and challenges. I love reading these stories and I wanted to make a dedicated place to share them! 😊
Behold, the Secret Project I've been working on for the last several months...
Introducing nostr:npub1z6wjf4juvk0aqfmwtl6r4vqg7y5u356xdwsjafcufhagudk8zx3qns2e2d! A digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives http://www.inner-worlds.org
#SpeculativeFiction #SFF #SFFH #LitMag #ShortFiction #SubmissionCall
This project is close to my heart because I've always read speculative fiction to know myself, but over the last few years writing it has been so helpful in making sense of my experiences of trauma and mental health struggles.
Behold, the Secret Project I've been working on for the last several months...
Introducing nostr:npub1z6wjf4juvk0aqfmwtl6r4vqg7y5u356xdwsjafcufhagudk8zx3qns2e2d! A digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives http://www.inner-worlds.org
#SpeculativeFiction #SFF #SFFH #LitMag #ShortFiction #SubmissionCall
Crab Tales Magazine is an SFF flash fiction magazine about crabs.
🦀 crabtalesmagazine.com 🦀
We are open for submissions until the 23rd September.
Please see our submissions page for guidelines on what we are looking for.
We pay 3 cents per word.
We love SFF and we love crabs!
*clicks claws*
nostr:npub1alerdlptn84tw9z74um9xmzwutl0wnhzann0mrtewm8vdmqzqxnq809mc0 is our EIC (and everything else).
You can support the magazine here: https://ko-fi.com/crabtalesmagazine
All donations go towards paying our contributors!
#writingcommunity #writing #sff #sf
nostr:npub1auk4sx9zk0auerp20znyksakzehdn2f66k0dwvmf0n5nk2p6luvq7rhk8j This sounds great 😊 I have a story idea set in the late neolithic / early bronze age, not romance, but about a relationship between women, which I hope to get on to one day!
It will not, however, be in London 😔 Which is a shame, but there are many other fine places.
Whenever nostr:npub155v5x2l9jyf44zxppky9arufn3zh5y92kpu2xquw65rh4fxz7fjqrtg6vj's away I tend to pick a comfort watch TV show and kind of inhabit that world for the week. This time it's Corner Gas 😊Wanda is my tiny smartarse hero ❤
nostr:npub1mxkqn7tt893sn78tskkqcx46rgjn7fcal4nkus5rl8nwhr2qmstsgqalwe YES I adore it and wish more people had seen it! Incredible script and acting from the two leads.