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FOR READERS & Writers: Across the Great Divide

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Writers used to toil away in solitude, cut off from everyone but family and editor. Now we have social media (flawed as it is). Readers/writers, how has the ability to connect with each other changed reading and writing? Writers: This is a reader/writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR WRITERS: I Know There’s a Word for That…

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Olivia Wylie: Do you ever get that ‘it’s on the tip of my tongue, I know there’s a word for this, arg!’ feeling? Does it stop your writing in its tracks? What do you do about it? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR WRITERS: Readings & Signings

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Paula Wyant: For authors who have done book readings/signings: How much do you read, and, more importantly, how do you decide on an excerpt to read? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR READERS & WRITERS: My next Con

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Ryane: What conventions are you looking forward to, virtual or (eventually) in person? Writers: This is a reader/writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR WRITERS: It’s So Long

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Be honest. Do you have a length problem? Do all your short stories wanna be novels? Are all your novels bursting at the seams with extra words? How do you rein your words? Or do you? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR WRITERS: Talking About the Craft

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Mary Lanham: What area of storytelling craft do you wish people would talk about more? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR WRITERS: The Never-Ending Draft

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Due to various circumstances (Pitch Wars, agent subs, adjustment for agent subs, self publication) my latest manuscript is on its seventh draft. What’s the most number of drafts you’ve done? And what’s your normal drafting process? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

READERS AND WRITERS: Good (And Bad) protagonists

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Olivia Wylie: What makes a good protagonist? What makes a bad one? Discuss. Writers: This is a reader/writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Hardcovers – Love ‘Em or Leave Them?

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Back in the day, spec fic books from the big publishers often came out in hardback first, and the you waited months (or years) for the more affordable mass market edition. It was a mark of how much you loved an author if you bought their books in hardcover editions. Now? Not so much. So my questions today – readers, are there some authors you still buy in hardcover? What do you consider a fair price? And authors, have you ever thought of putting your own books out in … Read more

FOR WRITERS: What If Our Bodies Could Make Their Own Water?

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Jim Comer: What if gene-modded humans generated water in our tissues, like koalas and kangaroo mice do? What sci-fi possibilities would that open up Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf