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Refill the Topics Bucket

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It’s that time again. We need to refill the topics bucket. Please list your topics like this: FOR WRITERS: This is my topic idea FOR READERS: This is my topic idea FOR BOTH: This is my topic idea Topics that have been done to death: —What inspires your writing —What’s on your TBR list? What we’d love to see: —More topics about horror, paranormal and fantasy (tho of course sci fi is great too) —More topics about letters in the queer alphabet beyond the G/MM, tho we still want those too —More silly and interesting topics Please post them in … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Impact Story Ideas

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Impact

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: It’s just two weeks until the official start of the 2018 Queer Sci Fi flash fiction contest. This year’s theme is “impact”, so I thought we’d have a little fun and brainstorm ways “Impact” could be used in a story. Go! Note that all ideas posted here are free game for folks to use without compensation/recognition. Join the chat

For Writers: Where Do Your Ideas Come From?

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FOR WRITERS: Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Paula Wyant: Not necessarily only limited to QSF, but a question that I (as a reader) would love to hear answers to (and as a writer hate to hear) is: Where do you get your ideas? I know Angel hates this topic whenever it comes up, and I will expect a suitable snarky response from her. But seriously, what inspires your story ideas? Enquiring minds want to know. Join the chat

Discussion: Where Do You Get Ideas?

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Today’s topic comes from QSFer Elizabeth Barrette: Where do you find ideas for stories? Specifically, a lot of material about queerfolk is crap, so it’s necessary to sort through and find reliable, relevant stuff if you want to do research. How do current events influence your writing? Do you work in things like legal changes or scientific advances that affect queerfolk, or ignore them? It’s a good question. For me, many ideas originate in music, or in calls for submission – anthology calls have been a great source of new story ideas for me. Sometimes a newspaper article will trigger … Read more