It’s an incredible resource and I will definitely try and use it for my future stories! Thank you for all the time and effort you put into this.

I spent an ungodly amount of time in school last month (for my teaching practice), and I’ve only written… slides for my lectures 😅 …which was an absolute blast! I even closed it out with a legendary story of our understanding of light, from optics to quantum mechanics, and the students loved it! This overshadows the disastrous failure of the crowdfunding campaign for the other book, from which I finally feel free. This last month will be entirely dedicated to writing Section B of the Kanteletar novel, which I can hopefully complete before New Year’s Eve.

So yeah, nothing new on the fiction front, but I got to try my hand at scientific outreach writing and I should absolutely do it again at some point!

I edit without issues many of my more recent stories, it’s no big deal in general. It’s just that I’m grown past fantasy and the thought of having to edit that thing simply demotivates me. I want to write solarpunk and scifi now, fantasy is behind me. I have no interest for it.

Anyway, if the crowdfunding goes well, I’ll be followed by an editor, and I know myself well enough to say that with a clear goal and a set deadline I’ll breeze through it when push comes to shove. :D

Glad to see our club is slowly growing!

Haven’t written a lot, but I put down a short story I’m very proud of, and re-sketched the second section of the Kanteletar novel. Now for the whole next month I’ll be busy with advertising the crowdfunding for the (still underedited!) fantasy books, although I’m not very hopeful about that going well 😅

But regardless! Goals for next month are mainly to be able to do the required salesmanship and maybe polish that short story so I can share it with you!

I’m sorry but whoever made this completely missed the point of solarpunk.

It also shows how much easier it is to repackage cyberpunk and make it look new, compared to actually imagining a positive future.

Great news! Soon the thesis is done, one last leg!

Congratulations! I’ll try to read it as soon as I have some time and get back to you with feedback, if you don’t mind.

bio/corp/hell/hope/punk

I think only two of these will survive by the end of it 😂

As I had predicted, this month has been absolutely hectic and riddled with deadlines; my customary bullet-point list will have to be shifted as-is to October 😓

Not only that, but I’ve been addled with a poisonous idea that can’t leave my brain and I know I can’t write either. It’s badass and it has potential, but the written page would be the absolute worst medium in which it should be told. Maybe I’ll save it for some comic in the future, if life puts some eager artist on my path.

The positive news is that one of the Meteorina short stories will be published in an Italian anthology at some point this month, so I’m glad something is bearing fruit!

I haven’t read the whole global corpus yet, but two of my favourite authors are Renan Bernardo from Brazil and Wole Talabi from Nigeria (the latter writes more scifi, but has some interesting solarpunk-adjacent stories).

In general, it’s much, much harder to find authors from the Global South because USians have such an easier time not only promoting themselves to editors & publishers, but also reaching their audiences.

Curiously, all white American authors. I wonder why this keeps happening.

Thank you!!

I started doing lists during the quarantine period in order to keep me on track and never let myself forget or postpone things, and by now I have incorporated them in my autism 😄

As for the reading others’ works, after many months of hearing everyone’s projects, of course I got curious! And I want to interact more directly with people here, so maybe that’s a good way to start 👀

I would love to try and send them a book review, but I need to rummage among those I’ve read in this last year. There’s a very powerful one that comes to mind, but sadly it’s only been published in Italian 😔

Missed this post earlier but absolutely seconded.

I always try to make my prose as easy as possible, especially when describing characters and their dialogues. I don’t always manage, especially because I let my hand run a bit for environmental descriptions, but ease-of-access is something I strive for. Look at Sanderson: he makes people read 1000-pages tomes of epic fantasy, how does he do it? It’s his prose: mind-boggingly easy, to the point of numbing the reader. To me it’s a flaw to push it to that extreme, but it works for his readers.

As usual I’m the late poster here, for good reason this time!

Done this month:

• Fixed and translated Kanteletar’s first section to English
• Semi-planned another story for Meteorina
• Sketched a setting for a tidally locked planet with a metal-heavy crust

To be done in September:

• (Re)plan Kanteletar’s second section (I had a sketch but I would like to pivot to something more focused on how the library becomes collectively shaped by the visitors in time)
• Maybe write the planned Meteorina story? Usually I wrote those to be (tentatively) submitted to magazines, but since the rate of rejection is so high I kinda gave up on that front 😅

Hopefully your summers have been good, and since I’ll have plenty of train commutes I’d love to read something from you! DM me stuff you’d like advice or feedback on 😄

while my “ideas list” ballooons

I can guarantee that this is the eternal burden regardless of writing droughts! It might feel bad, but look at the positives: your brain is still active and ready to create. It would be ten times worse if you kept writing with an empty ideas’ list.

Also, please share those ideas! I’d love to join in the brainstorm and bounce them around.

conference that lets local writers pitch to lots of publishers

Man I’d love such a thing in my area! Provided that I don’t write in this country’s language (yet), so it might still be challenging. But at least it’s a great way to know fellow authors!

Also welcome here! I’m very interested in that technological unemployment topic, and coincidentally I’ve read an interesting overview by Uncanny Magazine just this morning! Hopefully you find some inspiration and discussion around here 😄

Do you read? I found that reading and writing go hand in hand for me, and the times I’ve written the most were the ones when I also read the most. It’s kind of a mutual feedback dynamic!

God bless sensitivity readers!

Disregard the question in the above comment: this is absolutely metal! I would love to use such a (text)book in my future classes! High schools generally do such a bad job showing why physics is important and how much of what we are surrounded by is explained by the discipline.

This sounds really interesting! What branch of science, if I may ask?

Also keep us posted, I’m down for betareading if you ever need!