Obsessed with the lives of imaginary people. #Reader. #Writer. Marcher Lass.
Genderqueer. she/her/they
Far too analogue to fit in any of your binaries.
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This means you can check out my writing and read a cute little novella for just $1.75!
An Unexpected Attachment is an erotic romance, with
gentle enemies-to-lovers tropes (the enmity is mostly in the past). It's a heart-warming tale of healing wounds and finding love in an unexpected place.
And also there's sex, and a hot guy helping a hot android install his dick 😅
#WritngWonders Day 8: What is your least favourite stage of writing a story?
I don't have a specific least favourite. Overall I prefer writing to editing, but the times when I just can't make myself write (or edit) for whatever reason, are the worst. Be that physical or mental health or loss of interest. There's no single thing that is always what makes it hardest, but I dislike it when it happens, because the thing I most want to do in the world is write and produce something others can read.
#WritingWonders day 8.
What is your least favourite stage of writing a story? Why?
The bit I'm at now, where I know what needs to happen, I'm keen & excited to write it, but there's too much OtherStuff(TM) going on in my life for me to feel I can sit down & get on with it.
I am very much looking forward to going to the dentist tomorrow. Not that I expect they'll be able to do anything there & then to stop my jaw hurting, but at least I'll know for definite what's wrong & have a plan for getting it fixed.
...I'm not looking forward to the bill I'll have at the end of it, but that's what credit cards are for.
@bookish if you're not going by train, do try & see Milano Centrale railway station. It's huge & impressive (was built as a statement by Mussolini, so the reasons for it being so are obvs not great). Milan seems to rather do huge impressive architecture - we also very briefly saw the shopping centre (Galleria Vittoria Emmanuelle II) which was crowded with tourists on a rainy weekday in April & the outside of the cathedral - were only there 2 hours though so don't have any other recs 😆
#WritingWonders: Sorry to have disappeared the last few days. The bad air from the wildfires caused a family health emergency and everyone is now ok, but I’ve been learning to make air filters and dealing with that sort of thing. Glad to be back. Missed you all.
#WritingWonders day 2. Do you think readers will find your MC likeable? Why or why not?
I think most people who read Under Leaden Skies found Teddy to be likeable - or at least I never heard otherwise so maybe everyone was just being polite?
He - and his son, Alex, who will be another MC in the reworked story - are both British, white, & upper class though, so they do have some traits which could be off-putting.
Pleased to report I have a.) concocted ridiculous cable/software hacks to get a sort of delayed hacky visualizer on the TV (by way of Spotify->Sonos->iPad mic->Staella->USB-C->HDMI->TV) and b.) written software to generate color schemes and automatically morph the hue lights through them (involving a bunch of colorspace transforms and the Hue HTTP API).
@_L1vY_ I once heard a geologist describe the Chilterns (south of the line as it crosses England) as "the northernmost reaches of the Alps" as they were apparently formed in the same geological event. I never knew about this though!
Wow, #Vice, that's an absolute shitshow of a "#privacy consent screen." 🤦♀️
It seems designed specifically to trick people to consent to things they might not want to. 👀
Settings in "User Consent" tab are "off", but there is a "Legitimate Interest" tab with the same settings turned on? The "User Consent" tab is displayed by default. It's easy for someone to think "oh, that's off, good" and hit "Save & Exit." 🙄
Obnoxious, manipulative dark pattern and a malicious (mis)implementation of GDPR! 😠
@rysiek loads of websites have this style of cookies widget. I came across one a few weeks ago where they listed every single service separately & it took me over 5 minutes to turn them all off.
Afaik, none of these style widgets are GDPR compliant as the guidance for that states there should be only 1 type of legal basis for storing personal data for each use, so you can't have both consent & legitimate interest for the same data usage...
I am trying to compile a list of vintage scifi stories that feature Andean Indians able to breath the rarefied atmosphere of the planet Mars.
This is of course impossible, but was a popular motif in scifi back around the 1950s. I seem to remember it appearing in an Arthur C. Clarke science fact book, then appearing in several stories by other authors. But I can't remember the titles or authors.
I think one was Crucifixus Etiam, by Walter Miller Jr.
@nyrath I've definitely read this trope & I remember the story ending with the MC having moved to somewhere in the Andes so his children would grow up there & then they would move higher up so the protag/narrator's grandchildren would be able to breathe on other planets.
It may have been Sands of Mars as mentioned by others as I read a few Arthur C Clarke books, but it was over 30 years ago so I can't be sure!
#WritingWonders 6/18: Have your friends and/or family read your books? Why/why not?
My wife of almost 19 years has been reading my fiction -- and making good suggestions -- for almost 23 years.
My parents read my first novel when I published https://starbreaker.org/fiction/novels/without-bloodshed/ a decade ago. I don't know whether my mother still has the copy I gave my parents. When she was packing up things to sell or give away as my father was dying, she picked the book off the shelf, looked right at me, and said to my wife, "Oh, look. Some asshole wrote a book." We haven't spoken in almost two years, and I am content to let that state of estrangement continue.
If she doesn't like the man I've become, she and my father should have done a better job of raising me.
