If you're a speculative fiction writer looking to connect with others or looking for a set time each week to write, I'd love it if you joined me for the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF)'s free Saturday co-writing sessions:

https://speculativeliterature.org/saturday-co-writing-sessions/

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#WordWeavers June 18. If you could have written any other author's book, what would it be?

Catheryne Valente's SPACE OPERA is *my heart*, my goofy, dumbass, romantic, sincere heart, in the form of a satirical sci-fi narrative.

Edit: I should have said "horny" as well.

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#PennedPossibilities 702: What is your MC’s greatest achievement?

Making a friend group strong enough to survive the shit I put her through in this book. My god.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Jun 17: As a writer, how anonymous do you want to be?

But if I'm anonymous, how can I have adoring fans? :)

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#WordWeavers Jun 17: Are there any midsummer traditions in your world?

No, but now I'm going to come up with one! Fuckin' eh. My book could end with a solstice celebration!

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#ScribesAndMakers June 17: Where do you draw the line? Aside from AI, which most agree on, what does not count as art?

That's the wrong way around, to me. What does count as art, IMO, is any performance or object that you do/make because it's pleasing to the senses and/or the mind, including your own.

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#ScribesAndMakers June 16: Have you ever tried hyperbolic crochet?

Good god. I could never. It's giving me anxiety just looking at it and imagining how you'd make that.

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#PennedPossibilities 701 (MC POV): What is freedom to you?

Home. Family. Community. Not this prison I'm in where they tell me where to go and when to eat and who to kill.

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#ScribesAndMakers June 15. How is your creativity so far? Anything you want help with?

I've written a very shaggy, hokey version of my big fight scene, and I would *love* to sit with someone and figure out how to turn the suck down. But they'd need to know the whole story so far, and that's what my writing group is for. : )

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#writerscoffeeclub June 15: Have you ever challenged yourself to write without editing? What were the results?

No. Not sure why I would. I mean, I can see the fun in it, truly flying by the seat of your pants, but if I want my writing to be *good*, I had better damn well edit it. The first draft is just finding the story, the beats, the motifs, the emotions.

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#WordWeavers June 15: If your MC found a clean, sealed, unlabelled box, would they open it? Why or why not?

First, she'd ask around to see who's it is. Someone in the arcology will know. If they don't, then she'll open it just to find something identifying and figure out how to get it back to them. It'd become a whole thing.

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#WordWeavers June 14 - What real song would be your antagonist’s favourite?

Some military march or another, devoid of actual spirit or energy. Something that's only just barely more interesting than listening to a metronome.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 14 Jun: Do you take notes for a WIP? How closely do you follow them?

Notes are different than plans. I have notes on what I've established to be true, as part of the writing process, and then I have plans for what I'm going to do past the edge of what I've written. And no, I don't follow them closely at all. :)

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#PennedPossibilities 698: Where was your antagonist born?

Montreal, Quebec. She was disgusted by the society she lived in. Everyone doing whatever they wanted. No one was in charge of everything. People thought they were "free," but they were just disorganized. It was messy. It wouldn't do. She needed to fix it.

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#WritersCoffeeClub June 13. Do you restrict what you read or watch while working on a WIP? Why or why not?

No, I don't generally. But I am aware that a writer's style can sneak into my consciousness, so I stay aware of their prose, they're voice, etc. I need to be conscious of these things in order to use them to maximum effect.

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#PennedPossibilities 697 — MC POV: What, to you, would be the worst way to die?

"If I ever... lose control. I think my friends might have to. They'd be the only ones who could. But I don't know if I'd be able to keep from.

"I don't like to think about it."

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#ScribesAndMakers 11 June: Do you give any of your work away for free?

If I could find somewhere to give it away for free where *people would read it*, I'd do it TODAY. I have a good job that pays well. I don't in fact want to be a working writer--it sounds nerve-wracking as hell and I like my job. I just want people to read it. :)

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#WordWeavers Jun 11 - What colour do you associate with your current story?

Slightly orange metallic grey. It's the dull, unpainted colour of the space station they're trapped on.

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#PennedPossibilities 696. In your SC’s opinion, what would be your MC’s greatest skill?

"She's just so... badass. I mean!"

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#WritersCoffeeClub 11 June: Who sees your WIP before it’s done?

My writer's group, my wife (once it's a bunch closer to *done* done), and hopefully beta readers, if I ever get some.

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