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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.01.05 — How do you choose the point of view for a new story?
I was going to say I always write in 1st person and that settles that question. I love uncensored possibly snarky POVs telling their story. It feels natural and it's very flexible since I write heavily character-centric stories. But, in 2025, I wrote a Mars dystopian satire, Mars Needed Women, and quickly realized 1st person wouldn't cut it. Even though the story is primarily from one character's point of view, the issue was that I needed to insert information the MC could not know. One chapter, for example, is a "newspaper" article. Another tells the story of a character who dies in a disaster. The epilogue is in the POV of one of the supporting characters. Thus, I chose to write in 3rd person close POV, which both provided POV flexibility—when the narrative required it—and fewer visible narrative mechanations to tell the story. Since my schedule required me to write one chapter every day for 31 days, it made it easier to actually successfully complete my commitment to finish in that timeframe.
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2025.12.08 — How does your work compare to the earliest work in your genre?
There is little comparison I can draw between, for example, Mars Needed Women and H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds other than both rely heavily on satire to utterly demolish the respectability of the current world order and the religious hypocrisy at the time. Oh, right—Mars and Martians play a part. Beyond that? Nothing much. 🤷♀️🤷🤷♂️
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#WordWeavers 2025.11.30 — While writing, do you consider your topics to avoid book banning or fallout of any sort?
Considering my last completed book (this year, titled Mars Needed Women) has a woman POV who's aggressive about having sex, an abortion scene (pre-op), forced school prayer, a former USA that's a theocracy, a tyrannical fundamentalist leader who's a polygamist and a hypocrite, a military where major promotions are based on kissing the right politician's ass, another society that's thinks gender is silly and fully integrates trans and gay people (important SCs), a nation run by women fighting for independence, and plenty things more feminist and even more heretical?
No.
The opposite it would seem.
Satire likes to maximize the toes stepped on and broken.
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2025.11.22 —What has been the biggest change to your style since you started out?
Old Style:
Her palm touched [the glass]. The outline of her hand fogged around it. Cold. Amazing.
Even she understood the wealth necessary to have an actual window on the exterior of the arcology. Were the Decath really that wealthy? She shook her head at the nonsense of spending that amount of money when you could buy a cheap wallview and program it for substantially less.
New Style:
Expensive. She touched an actual window on the exterior of the arcology!
Were the Decath really that wealthy? She shook her head. What nonsense, spending that amount of money when their cheap home wallview was as high resolution—and programmable! Well, nearly, but the perspective shift nearing an actual window fascinated her. She found herself looking to see the blue reflective side of the pyramidal building, then old Chicago far below, or craning her head one way or the other to see the lakeshore and newly rained upon glittering exurbs to the west. With some sensors, maybe a wallview could be programmed to respond to her head position and pan…
The examples are a revision where I'd fallen into my old style and am now asserting my new style. My shift toward mostly writing 1st person (the samples were third) has accompanied my shift toward grammar B fluidity and describing what the character experiences not the reader if they there, watching.
In my reply to #PennedPossiblities 851, I write dynamically about the sensation and the aesthetics of flight from a winged human's POV. My new grammar B style helps me answer from the melancholy POV of Bolt (though slightly too eloquently to be in character) from Reluctant Courier (for the Mob), something I could not have done years ago.
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#ScribesAndMakers 2025.11.01: What creative project(s) do you hope to work on this month?
- Get the beta edits done on Mars Needed Women.
- Complete composing Reluctant Courier (for the Mob).
- Go dancing in the street if I get both 1 and 2 done.
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4. Cat Rambo describes intense emotions that can power a story as “the big feels.” One of the problems is that it’s hard to write about big feels when you are still in the middle of feeling them. At there any big feels you’d like to put into a story? #Writephant
I hate bringing politics into a discussion, but I wrote a dystopian Mars colonization story in March based on and satirizing our current times projected 100 years into the future. I felt compelled to write this by the big feelings we were going through in the time. My outrage made it easier. The colonization company, EM Mars, had the initials of a famous billionaire because it was his legacy. It made this schadenfreude moment possible excerpted below. The Starship design is similar to the contemporary design. May Ri is our female engineer MC. Reina, later the first president of Mars, supposedly changed the flight software to strand the bad guy misogynists somewhere undeveloped on Mars, preventing them from taking over the Deimos space station.
The ship flared [brightly overhead in the Martian dawn.]
May Ri juggled the stopwatch, lost it over the edge [of the monorail trestle to puff in a red dust dune], and grabbed her binocs. "Did they bypass the timer—?"
"No," said Reina's voice over the frenzy of others, on a private comm.
May Ri realized the magnitude of the flare. Not separation. No benign peeling off of three tiny boosters. It brightened, quickly blinding. One flare, five, then twenty. A string of pearls in the heavens, snapped off a mythical deity's neck, strewn angrily across the sky. A swarm of fireballs, another flare, two, then red comets that looked that way due to the increasing friction of re-entry.
"Oops," said Reina. "Should've run more sims [on my software modifications]."
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2025.09.20 — How might your work be seen as a criticism of the present moment?
In Mars Needed Women, the reader visits a world that is endpoint of the death of democracy we seem to be witnessing now. The Chicago the protagonist lives in is the follow-on christian nationalist nation that is no longer the US (despite the rewritten history). May Ri is a woman when it doesn't mean much, who exploits the stupidity that results from money buying power at the expense of people capable of advancing society and technology. She eventually has to fight to save a new world, Mars, and a nation led by women, the Sorority, that she has helped found simply by doing what she does best, build things. The book is being beta read.
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#ScribesAndMakers 2025.08.01 — Alt: Word.
This word comes from Mars Needed Women, which is in beta. The Decath Crown, as it is referred to, is one of a number of antagonistic organizations the book's MC ends up dealing with, but it is also the most insidious. I don't expect anyone to read about this out-of-context, but I will admit that I invented the religion for a fascist state instead of using a real one to diffuse my fear of needlessly picking on one religion and likely upsetting part of my potential audience. After the fact, it feels a bit like I am picking on all religions, only kind of passive-aggressively. I'm okay with that. Everybody needs their nose tweaked now and again. What follows is a slightly [annotated] excerpt from the glossary in the book.
Decath - A religious organization which was a successor to the various Christian nationalist faiths that created NADS [North American Decath States] from its predecessor state [the United States], consolidated into a theocratic state-supported ministry. The religion is now world-wide, except where banned in five catholic countries. Adherents say it is not a successor to Catholicism, but a rejection of it. It comes from Dissenting Catholicism, and teaches that the liberal interpretations promulgated by the various orthodox and protestant churches regarding Christ's word was unfounded, and furthermore misrepresented God's will based on improper readings of both the new and old testaments. Their catholicism is a new orthodoxy that properly interprets an apostolic church structure while supporting a protestant ideal of a priesthood of believers that is guided by ministers. It is accurately spelled De-cath not Dis-cath. This because the members of the initial Synod of Alabama—which drew together the leaders or designates of various nationalistic churches, their largest corporate sponsors, and hundreds of US congressmen and sixty-nine senators—thought having the word sound like decaf would sell better amongst the disparate flocks they shepherded.
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2025.07.08 — Have you ever received feedback on a piece that completely missed the mark?
Yes. One reader, who thought themself a feminist, found they were only a feminist to the extent that women mostly conformed to gender roles (were "feminine"). I discarded that feedback as women acting with sexual agency was one of the points of the story. Another completely mis-categorized the book based on a blurb-like chapter I had since removed from the book, and refused to read further.
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Blurbs? Why are they so difficult? Advice, please? Where do I even start?
Think about the story. What comes to mind? Write a few sentences about the event that makes it special, or that person, or that mystery. Don't even worry about spoilers.
Keep it short.
If no ideas come to mind, try answering the writers challenge prompts, you know, the ones you mentioned in your hashtags but thinking you want to say something about a specific story or the characters in that story.
I recently wrote a novel and I spent much of March and a lot of April answering prompts with #RSMarsNeededWomen as the subject. A lot of those turned out to be great blurbs. Write a lot of them. You'll find your blurb.
A piece of advice: A blurb doesn't have to summarize a story. It doesn't even have to give major plot points. What it has to do is say something compelling about the story that's in or about the story. A tidbit. An earworm. A scent of rose that makes you look for the bush.
HTH.
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Today's first draft of chapter 23 (Ceiling) in #RSMarsNeededWomen is complete, with 21 characters in toot-length remaining. Took 1h 35m to write. Twisty feminist fiction. After revision, I'll publish it later in the usual thread.
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#Homophobia Rears Its Head at #ChiliCookOff at a #CountyFair in #California
A #Conservative #extremist #harassed a #gay #couple in the #competition with #homophobic #slurs and ran over their #supplies
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Conservatives #Extremism #DomesticTerrorism #HateSpeech #Hatecrimes #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.advocate.com/crime/chili-cook-off-homophobia-california
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DJI Avata 360 rears its head with new pricing, launch information and design details revealed
ⓘ US Drone Supply A supposedly official DJI Avata 360 photo. The DJI Avata 360 has resurfaced in…
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Samsung ‘H8’ foldable rears its head as rumoured Apple iPhone Fold rival
Samsung has finally presented the Galaxy Z TriFold internationally after months of waiting. For reference, the company’s first…
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Samsung ‘H8’ foldable rears its head as rumoured Apple iPhone Fold rival
Samsung has finally presented the Galaxy Z TriFold internationally after months of waiting. For referen…
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Samsung ‘H8’ foldable rears its head as rumoured Apple iPhone Fold rival
Samsung has finally presented the Galaxy Z TriFold internationally after months of waiting. For referen…
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The #MAGA death cult rears its hydra head. #Biden's policy that would have guaranteed #NursingHome residents @ least 3.48 hours of nursing care a day will be reversed.
“We have minimum staffing standards for doggy day cares, we have minimum staffing standards for child care centers,” said Sam Brooks, director of public policy at the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care. “It’s absurd to think that this is some burden that is going to undo the industry.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-gop-expected-undo-biden-110000447.html
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The #MAGA death cult rears its hydra head. #Biden's policy that would have guaranteed #NursingHome residents @ least 3.48 hours of nursing care a day will be reversed.
“We have minimum staffing standards for doggy day cares, we have minimum staffing standards for child care centers,” said Sam Brooks, director of public policy at the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care. “It’s absurd to think that this is some burden that is going to undo the industry.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-gop-expected-undo-biden-110000447.html
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@Zerofactorial nah it rears up and attacks people that qualifies
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As June rears its summery head, the first set of games head off into the sunset on the 15th June.
https://clouddosage.com/games-leaving-game-pass-ultimate-15th-june/
A total of 6 games are leaving Game Pass Ultimate with 5 of those cloud enabled.
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As June rears its summery head, the first set of games head off into the sunset on the 15th June.
https://clouddosage.com/games-leaving-game-pass-ultimate-15th-june/
A total of 6 games are leaving Game Pass Ultimate with 5 of those cloud enabled.
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As June rears its summery head, the first set of games head off into the sunset on the 15th June.
https://clouddosage.com/games-leaving-game-pass-ultimate-15th-june/
A total of 6 games are leaving Game Pass Ultimate with 5 of those cloud enabled.
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As June rears its summery head, the first set of games head off into the sunset on the 15th June.
https://clouddosage.com/games-leaving-game-pass-ultimate-15th-june/
A total of 6 games are leaving Game Pass Ultimate with 5 of those cloud enabled.
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As June rears its summery head, the first set of games head off into the sunset on the 15th June.
https://clouddosage.com/games-leaving-game-pass-ultimate-15th-june/
A total of 6 games are leaving Game Pass Ultimate with 5 of those cloud enabled.
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Current 93 - The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion
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Current 93 - The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion
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Manchester Evening News: Number one for news, opinion, sport & celebrity news [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Man United transfer concern for Michael Carrick rears its ugly head again
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Phil Stacey On Hockey: Resiliency rears its head as streaking Bruins rally to top Montreal | Sports https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/427415/ #Boston #BostonBruins #BostonBruins #Bruins #DavidPastrňák #EdmontonOilers #goaltender #Hockey #IceHockey #IceHockeyLeagues #NationalHockeyLeague #NationalHockeyLeagueTeams #NHL #SeasonsInAmericanIceHockey #SeasonsInAmericanSport #SeasonsInCanadianIceHockey #sports #StanleyCupPlayoffs #TopTierIceHockeyLeagues
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And as summer winds down--but rears its head today with a vengeance--the "heat and..." series comes to Loureiro and Vinho Verde. From a producer that makes 'em to age, this regular 2015 is gorgeous--fresh, with a juicy, succulent finish and good depth for the style. Always liked this year! 11.5%, $17. #wine #portugal #vinhoverde @quintadoameal
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Why #SETI Might Have Been Missing #Alien Signals
Rsearch highlights an overlooked complication: even if #extraterrestrial transmitter produces a perfectly narrow signal, it may not remain narrow by the time it leaves its home system... "If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there, potentially helping explain some of the radio silence we've seen in technosignature searches," said Dr. Vishal Gajjar
https://www.seti.org/news/why-seti-might-have-been-missing-alien-signals/