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schamspeareDo you need a human writer? I'm offering my services (I could use more work). Don't resort to AI sludge. Insist on a human point of view.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a>

Adrian SegarI and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.<a href="https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2012/03/i-and-thou-blogging-as-if-a-person-was-actually-there" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2012/03/i-and-thou-blogging-as-if-a-person-was-actually-there</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IAndThou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAndThou</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MartinBuber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartinBuber</a>

LongreadsIn today’s edition of the Top 5:-Seeking salvation, finding darkness -AI’s college years -What’s keeping you alive today? -A million crushing ways to write -A blueprint for experience <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/05/23/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-564/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://longreads.com/2025/05/23/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-564/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Top5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Top5</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#longreads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/essays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#essays</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/picks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#picks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a>

FlipboardJohn J. Lennon lives at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where he is serving his 24th year of a 28-years-to-life sentence. He’s also a journalist whose work has appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and more. Until last year, he was at Sullivan Correctional Facility, where he mentored emerging writers, both informally and most recently, through the Sullivan Nonfiction Writing Workshop. He writes for <a href="https://newsie.social/@nybooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nybooks</a> about setting that up, and what happened when it came to an end with the prison’s closure. “I often think about the time before I came to prison, when I had no promising future. I’ve come to realize that two opposing realities can be true at once: prison probably saved my life and it’s where I learned to write; and prison is a disgusting place that’s hurting me more now than ever,” he writes. “I’m both ashamed and proud of my path. But it wouldn’t have been possible if prison officials hadn’t given writing programs a chance.” [Story may be paywalled]<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/05/21/finding-the-story-prison-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/05/21/finding-the-story-prison-writing/</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Journalism</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prison</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Incarceration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Incarceration</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/JusticeSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JusticeSystem</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Crime</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Newstodon</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewstodonFriday</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a>

Damon ThomasDixie County High School had honor students give speeches to the local Rotary Club. At the end of the year someone got a $100 scholarship. Which didn't go far even in the 90s. When my turn came up I was skipped. Another took my place. Because the teacher organizing it all said she had "no idea what I might say." What terrified my teachers is now a selling point. I've got a lot of stories! You just have to come out and see what you'll get. <a href="https://c.im/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/stories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stories</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#florida</a>

Ian RobinsonScrivener 3 for Mac is such a joy to use for writing anything over a few hundred words. The current (ghostwritten) newsletter I'm working on is close to 3000 words. Scrivener makes managing all the sections so easy.If I had to keep only one app, it would be Scrivener 3. <a href="https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scrivener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scrivener</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoodApps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoodApps</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a>

FictionableOn the <a href="https://mastodon.social/@fictionable" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fictionable</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#podcast</a> we talk magic, illness and weather as Susanna Clarke returns to the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell with The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City:<a href="https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/susanna-clarke-bishop-durham-city-jonathan-strange-norrell" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/susanna-clarke-bishop-durham-city-jonathan-strange-norrell</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ShortStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShortStories</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#translation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Androgenes 🏴‍☠️🫂🔞<a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> May23: Do you prefer to write urban or rural settings? Why? I don't make this extremely modern and western distinction. I write to change perceptions not confirm them.<a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a>

Androgenes 🏴‍☠️🫂🔞Reading something about gothic and gothic horror. Doing so, I wondered as to why people invented vampires as an antagonist?Because the vampire turns human beings into the meat. It puts us in the position we put animals. Food source.<a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/gothic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gothic</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/vampires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vampires</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meat</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/veganism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#veganism</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a>

Steven CudahyThe <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoPrompt</a> for Friday 23 May 2025 is:<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/eventual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eventual</a>The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.@ me, if you like, or just include the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoPrompt</a> tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SmallStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallStories</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 678 — How important to your SC is their hometown or where they came from? (For example, are they proud of it, or are they considered a hometown hero?)</blockquote>Zilch. Nada. Bupkis. She was born there, but never graduated high school. She was one of those girls who was interested in boys (with muscles) far more than studies, and had her eye on a trade. It was constraining. She was discriminated against because of who she was. She hated the place; felt it constraining; knew everyone wanted her to do things she would hate doing. Later, she broke some windows and rolled a moving van (not hers, but one of those that wouldn't hire her) down a hill. Whether anyone figured out she was the guilty party and whether she's wanted by the constables, who knows? She's certainly not a hometown hero! She ran. In another city, she got tangled up with the mob. Now that she's been offered (and has accepted) a place in the praetorian guard (not Roman, but otherwise the same idea) and is training, she might get some press in her hometown. She's certainly not going to tell anyone back home. Definitely not her disapproving parents, for starters, even if they might finally be proud of her.[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mystery</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thriller</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#romance</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sff</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSReluctanceStory</a>

Marjolein Rotsteegtourist hot spot the hotel pool off season desolate<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/dailyhaikuprompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dailyhaikuprompt</a> - pool <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetrycommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tourism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/@dailyhaikuprompt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dailyhaikuprompt</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/haiku" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@haiku</a>

Howard Aiken<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 677 — What is your MC’s greatest skill?His adaptability. He's been a labourer, a ships carpenter, a merchant, a trained cavalryman and and a Vatican enforcer. He's also fluent in several languages. He's a natural for undercover work. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/histfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histfic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a>

Farooq | فاروقSo I've found an interesting website/webapp here:<a href="https://feedle.world" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://feedle.world</a>The idea is so good. I haven't used it to see if the implementation is good too.However, there are two objections here. First it seems that the software is propriety. I wish it was FOSS.Second, it seems to be centralized. But of course, something is better than nothing.<a href="https://mastodon.social/@feedle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@feedle</a> <a href="https://cr8r.gg/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSS</a> <a href="https://cr8r.gg/tags/rssfeed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rssfeed</a> <a href="https://cr8r.gg/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blogging</a> <a href="https://cr8r.gg/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://cr8r.gg/tags/feedle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feedle</a> <a href="https://cr8r.gg/tags/NicheWebsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NicheWebsite</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WCC</a> 2025.05.22 /2 — How do you make a location you’ve never visited feel ‘real’ for the reader?</blockquote>How?I have the character interact with their environment. They encounter a green newspaper machine, put in a coin, hear the machine clank, smell the newsprint, then the coffee from the cart down the street, then salivating until it hurts, smelling a frosted donut then biting into the crispy oily maple goodness while talking to the pretty purveyor with blonde hair, before putting the back of their hands to their ears (with the sticky pastry in one and a cup of coffee in the other that splatters drops on a black sweater) as a fire truck with a clanging brass bell clatters down the cobblestone street pulled by a team of six white work horses with blinders.[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 2025.05.23 — Have you made up any swears or unique sayings for your characters? CW: Crude Language, duh.</blockquote>There is almost never an opportunity to use conventional or "modern" foul-mouthed language in any of my stories because there is no connection to 19th-21st century Earth. In Mars Needed Women, one character just uses the word asshole; his using it comes off as very quaint since he's a rough character now in his early fifties (but still sexy), talking about how awful he was when young. There are plenty of other made up or repurposed words, but no defined martian "swears." Instead, here is May Ri listening to her daughter:<blockquote>The teenager, her green eyes sparkling with the same fire her father's eyes often evidenced, explained what she meant in great unvarnished detail. The words "hypocrites" and "misogynists" featured along side martian swear words that made May Ri's ears burn. Mari had studied her father's "situational" rhetoric thoroughly.</blockquote>In the Reluctance Series, I make up "words." But first, for those who have followed me long enough to have learned about the devil girl, she's funny in that if someone is about to swear, she warns, "Language!" In most contexts (mob, prizefighter, "princess"), whomever she says this to abides, or regrets it if they don't.The following words may seem like cheats, but give them a moment to sink in before you conclude that. It's amazing how quickly a reader can get used to even nonsense when it has a definite context.While these are day angel slang, Thorn Rose uses them without much situational awareness (she's a daemon). Day angels have feathered wings and control surfaces, double-shoulders and extra joints to make it work, and use reluctant forces to let them fly. There's also night angels—too many spoilers there—but day angels so far are portrayed as lower class. These "swears" come from them; bear in mind, these people are very human.Flap v. as in, "Are you flapping crazy?" or intr. "Flap it all!" Not a synonym for sexual intercourse, but it does imply getting hit up side the head with a feathered wing. It serves the purpose. I originally used in a teen-rated YA!Flap and fluff n., NSFW originally involving wings and someone male, but you can use it generally for what's implied. 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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WCC</a> 2025.05.23 — Do you prefer to write urban or rural settings? Why?</blockquote>Since I write SF and SF-style fantasy, it's usually in places with lots of people. It could be in a spaceship, it could be a city. One early story was rural, where the main character was trying to escape the farm by pretending to be a boy; later scenes take place in a coastal town. The latest novel takes place inside arcologies on Earth (cities inside giant buildings) and dome cities on the surface of Mars, connected by high speed monorail. It's not only "urban" but always "inside." The novel where the MC deals with the mafia, becomes a bodyguard, and ends up as a championship prizefighter takes place in a city modeled after Baltimore. Why urban? Besides where the idea takes place or where the character lives, I know urban settings better.[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a>

Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)What facilities exist in your world for people to express themselves?(street art in Mendoza, Argentina)<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WorldBuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldBuilding</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/GameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameDev</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/authodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authodons</a>

Androgenes 🏴‍☠️🫂🔞I'm reading an electronic copy of a book. Down the side of the page it says "It is illegal to copy or distribute this document."In other books I have seen something like "If you think this book has been pirated please contact the publishers at..."Fuck off, capitalist assholes. I could care less about your exploitative economic system of forced relations.<a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#piracy</a>

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