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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 2025.08.01 — 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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#ScribesAndMakers 2025.05.29 — What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month?

Got the novel out to beta readers and an author associate has agreed to also look at it.

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#pennedpossibilities 633 — How did you choose the title for your story, and what significance does it hold for you?

Mars Needs Women was a 1968 schlock female-exploitation film. The title has had staying power (pun intended) even if the film didn't. My feminist SF short novel (now in revision) is about a woman from an endpoint technological religio-fascist society (2024 thru the 2100s) that takes biblical patriarchy seriously and leaves women few options but to be exploited. I wanted to show how women might run a society differently if they could get their chance.

The title came to me quickly, with the verb set instead to the past tense: Mars Needed Women. This is because women were contracted for colonization purposes, to have children. It's from a recruitment poster early in the story. When the colonization effort goes bankrupt and men die disproportionately compared to the imported women, the dynamics of power change. Over the 25 year span of the story, women and their predominately female native Martian children take over the jobs and then governing. When the women declare themselves an independent matriarchal nation, Earth's patriarchy slanders (ring a bell about modern time?) Mars' women so as to have an excuse to put down the "rebellion."

However, women don't fight like men. War isn't a game when you are keeping your children alive… This is why Mars needed women to survive.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2503.01 2/2— What are your goals for the month?

Added a new goal: An SF micro-novel written from #writever daily prompts named with a title tag: #RSMarsNeededWomen. In the French version of the prompt, the month "March" is Mars and the theme is women's rights. For some strange reason the two combined in my head into an idea for space opera. Viva la #engenderedWriting! Consider following me as I gin up a gender fiction story from... nothing, going gonzo pantser on this. I've written 2 micro-chapters of 31. I'll need some cheering on, whilst I also try to finish the main novel. Click the title tag above for the story, or the link below for this month's daily writing prompts.

English: https://framapiaf.org/@k_tastrof/114083193227367930

Français: https://mamot.fr/@alombard/114085991177067327

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