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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-17 · 08:50 UTC

#PennedPossibilities 1131: Which landmark in your world stands as a permanent reminder of a major event? Describe it.

There is something. It's beyond global in scale and is all encompassing. It's inscrutable but few people pay much attention to it because it's too familiar and is too hard to fathom in its entirety. It stands as a reminder to the one who remembers stories of The Fall and the few who study the artifact that a civilization greater than theirs… vanished† .

I can't describe it because that would be spoilers.

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† The One Who Remembers made sure all traces of said civilization vanished, except for this "something." Of that she proved unable.

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-16 · 23:33 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 2026.09.16 — ~Create a poll listing 2-3 objects that have featured in your work and one that hasn't. Ask people to pick the one that hasn't.

In Reluctant Moon, an SFF novel with an advanced civilization that relies on human labor but not electricity, there are plenty of modern urban things to cloy readers into thinking it's our world until they realize it's not.

Three of these objects are in the novel. One isn't.

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-16 · 03:59 UTC

#PennedPossibilities 1130: If your MC could have a do-over and another life, one of their own choice this time, what would their profession be?

What she did before everything turned out wrong was her choice. It felt good. It validated her existence. It challenged her physically and she could be the best at it. How she handled her frustration when her profession got denied her was what made it all go wrong. As a day angel born into the same circumstance, she'd inevitably make the same mistake because with her personality she'd still be at odds with her family, who wanted her to go to college not become a laborer; she'd have nobody counsel her as to how to overcome her obstacles.

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 22:53 UTC

#PennedPossibilities 1124: MC POV: What stupid question have you heard someone ask (or asked yourself)?

Finally found one! Bolt narrates this #excerpt.

Rainy Days' idi had resembled fern leaves and sticks at the interstellar gateway [instead of a burst pillow after a pillow fight, now]. What? Was this a twin sister…? Impossible. People would know. I'd have heard. But who had an idi that changed once surfaced?
Stupid question, featherbrain!

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 22:53 UTC

#PennedPossibilities 1124: MC POV: What stupid question have you heard someone ask (or asked yourself)?

Finally found one! Bolt narrates this #excerpt.

Rainy Days' idi had resembled fern leaves and sticks at the interstellar gateway [instead of a burst pillow after a pillow fight, now]. What? Was this a twin sister…? Impossible. People would know. I'd have heard. But who had an idi that changed once surfaced?
Stupid question, featherbrain!

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 22:53 UTC

#PennedPossibilities 1124: MC POV: What stupid question have you heard someone ask (or asked yourself)?

Finally found one! Bolt narrates this #excerpt.

Rainy Days' idi had resembled fern leaves and sticks at the interstellar gateway [instead of a burst pillow after a pillow fight, now]. What? Was this a twin sister…? Impossible. People would know. I'd have heard. But who had an idi that changed once surfaced?
Stupid question, featherbrain!

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 22:53 UTC

#PennedPossibilities 1124: MC POV: What stupid question have you heard someone ask (or asked yourself)?

Finally found one! Bolt narrates this #excerpt.

Rainy Days' idi had resembled fern leaves and sticks at the interstellar gateway [instead of a burst pillow after a pillow fight, now]. What? Was this a twin sister…? Impossible. People would know. I'd have heard. But who had an idi that changed once surfaced?
Stupid question, featherbrain!

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 22:53 UTC

#PennedPossibilities 1124: MC POV: What stupid question have you heard someone ask (or asked yourself)?

Finally found one! Bolt narrates this #excerpt.

Rainy Days' idi had resembled fern leaves and sticks at the interstellar gateway [instead of a burst pillow after a pillow fight, now]. What? Was this a twin sister…? Impossible. People would know. I'd have heard. But who had an idi that changed once surfaced?
Stupid question, featherbrain!

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 21:02 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 2026.09.15 — ~What's a situation where you feel a ';' definitely works better than a '.' ?

This is difficult; I use both. Extensively.

Semicolons are great when sentences are closely related statements and you want to emphasize that—or want to create a more staccato rhythm by omitting a conjunction, a conjunction that could otherwise imply some minor separation such as one thing after another, or a undefined time difference between events. Note that I could have used a comma after "both" and before "Extensively." I chose a period for emphasis, to demonstrate an after-thought, pretty much as if I were transcribing natural speech. Natural speech is a great guide.

Take a moment. Please. Read my first sentence out loud, barely pausing at the semicolon. Pause longer after the first period.

See?

HTH!

PS: Your grade school teacher would fail me for my one word sentences. Even. If. For. Emphasis. In real life, people don't speak in full sentences; they ignore grammar, especially to make a point. I write this way. It's called "Grammar B."

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 21:02 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 2026.09.15 — ~What's a situation where you feel a ';' definitely works better than a '.' ?

This is difficult; I use both. Extensively.

Semicolons are great when sentences are closely related statements and you want to emphasize that—or want to create a more staccato rhythm by omitting a conjunction, a conjunction that could otherwise imply some minor separation such as one thing after another, or a undefined time difference between events. Note that I could have used a comma after "both" and before "Extensively." I chose a period for emphasis, to demonstrate an after-thought, pretty much as if I were transcribing natural speech. Natural speech is a great guide.

Take a moment. Please. Read my first sentence out loud, barely pausing at the semicolon. Pause longer after the first period.

See?

HTH!

PS: Your grade school teacher would fail me for my one word sentences. Even. If. For. Emphasis. In real life, people don't speak in full sentences; they ignore grammar, especially to make a point. I write this way. It's called "Grammar B."

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 21:02 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 2026.09.15 — ~What's a situation where you feel a ';' definitely works better than a '.' ?

This is difficult; I use both. Extensively.

Semicolons are great when sentences are closely related statements and you want to emphasize that—or want to create a more staccato rhythm by omitting a conjunction, a conjunction that could otherwise imply some minor separation such as one thing after another, or a undefined time difference between events. Note that I could have used a comma after "both" and before "Extensively." I chose a period for emphasis, to demonstrate an after-thought, pretty much as if I were transcribing natural speech. Natural speech is a great guide.

Take a moment. Please. Read my first sentence out loud, barely pausing at the semicolon. Pause longer after the first period.

See?

HTH!

PS: Your grade school teacher would fail me for my one word sentences. Even. If. For. Emphasis. In real life, people don't speak in full sentences; they ignore grammar, especially to make a point. I write this way. It's called "Grammar B."

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 21:02 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 2026.09.15 — ~What's a situation where you feel a ';' definitely works better than a '.' ?

This is difficult; I use both. Extensively.

Semicolons are great when sentences are closely related statements and you want to emphasize that—or want to create a more staccato rhythm by omitting a conjunction, a conjunction that could otherwise imply some minor separation such as one thing after another, or a undefined time difference between events. Note that I could have used a comma after "both" and before "Extensively." I chose a period for emphasis, to demonstrate an after-thought, pretty much as if I were transcribing natural speech. Natural speech is a great guide.

Take a moment. Please. Read my first sentence out loud, barely pausing at the semicolon. Pause longer after the first period.

See?

HTH!

PS: Your grade school teacher would fail me for my one word sentences. Even. If. For. Emphasis. In real life, people don't speak in full sentences; they ignore grammar, especially to make a point. I write this way. It's called "Grammar B."

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 21:02 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 2026.09.15 — ~What's a situation where you feel a ';' definitely works better than a '.' ?

This is difficult; I use both. Extensively.

Semicolons are great when sentences are closely related statements and you want to emphasize that—or want to create a more staccato rhythm by omitting a conjunction, a conjunction that could otherwise imply some minor separation such as one thing after another, or a undefined time difference between events. Note that I could have used a comma after "both" and before "Extensively." I chose a period for emphasis, to demonstrate an after-thought, pretty much as if I were transcribing natural speech. Natural speech is a great guide.

Take a moment. Please. Read my first sentence out loud, barely pausing at the semicolon. Pause longer after the first period.

See?

HTH!

PS: Your grade school teacher would fail me for my one word sentences. Even. If. For. Emphasis. In real life, people don't speak in full sentences; they ignore grammar, especially to make a point. I write this way. It's called "Grammar B."

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 20:37 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.15 — What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?

If it is online, check sources. If it's an #AI response, take the small print warning,

AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses† [,]

at face value, and check all the provided sources skeptically. If it was said by a blogger or especially an influencer, found in the comments, a discussion thread, columns in random website no matter how professional it looks or attributed to what looks like a real person, or in minor unknown news sites, assume it is hearsay and opinion until corroborated. If the fact is based on a study (or studies) not yet peer reviewed, it is not fact only an assertion. Read the data. Correlation is not causation. If the site or clip is selling you something, especially if it has something to do with facts presented, those facts are untrustworthy.

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 20:37 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.15 — What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?

If it is online, check sources. If it's an #AI response, take the small print warning,

AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses† [,]

at face value, and check all the provided sources skeptically. If it was said by a blogger or especially an influencer, found in the comments, a discussion thread, columns in random website no matter how professional it looks or attributed to what looks like a real person, or in minor unknown news sites, assume it is hearsay and opinion until corroborated. If the fact is based on a study (or studies) not yet peer reviewed, it is not fact only an assertion. Read the data. Correlation is not causation. If the site or clip is selling you something, especially if it has something to do with facts presented, those facts are untrustworthy.

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 20:37 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.15 — What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?

If it is online, check sources. If it's an #AI response, take the small print warning,

AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses† [,]

at face value, and check all the provided sources skeptically. If it was said by a blogger or especially an influencer, found in the comments, a discussion thread, columns in random website no matter how professional it looks or attributed to what looks like a real person, or in minor unknown news sites, assume it is hearsay and opinion until corroborated. If the fact is based on a study (or studies) not yet peer reviewed, it is not fact only an assertion. Read the data. Correlation is not causation. If the site or clip is selling you something, especially if it has something to do with facts presented, those facts are untrustworthy.

=-=-=-=-=
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 20:37 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.15 — What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?

If it is online, check sources. If it's an #AI response, take the small print warning,

AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses† [,]

at face value, and check all the provided sources skeptically. If it was said by a blogger or especially an influencer, found in the comments, a discussion thread, columns in random website no matter how professional it looks or attributed to what looks like a real person, or in minor unknown news sites, assume it is hearsay and opinion until corroborated. If the fact is based on a study (or studies) not yet peer reviewed, it is not fact only an assertion. Read the data. Correlation is not causation. If the site or clip is selling you something, especially if it has something to do with facts presented, those facts are untrustworthy.

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] · 2026-09-15 · 20:37 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.15 — What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?

If it is online, check sources. If it's an #AI response, take the small print warning,

AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses† [,]

at face value, and check all the provided sources skeptically. If it was said by a blogger or especially an influencer, found in the comments, a discussion thread, columns in random website no matter how professional it looks or attributed to what looks like a real person, or in minor unknown news sites, assume it is hearsay and opinion until corroborated. If the fact is based on a study (or studies) not yet peer reviewed, it is not fact only an assertion. Read the data. Correlation is not causation. If the site or clip is selling you something, especially if it has something to do with facts presented, those facts are untrustworthy.

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