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FOR WRITERS: Flashbacks – Love ‘Em or Hate ‘Em?

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: The Flashback – a fantastic tool for showing the backstory of your characters? Or evil spawn of satan that must burn in eternal hellfire? Discuss. 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

FOR READERS/WRITERS: Queering Golden-Age Sci Fi

FOR READERS/WRITERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Many of us grew up with an appreciation for the Golden Age sci fi greats – Asimov, Clarke, Silverberg, Bradbury, Clement, and many more. But they were a product of their time, and in retrospect much of their work would be very different if it were written today. So pick one of your favorite Golden Age sci fi stories and tell us how you would like to see it queered up for today’s readers. For fun, here are some great homoerotic Golden Age pulp covers. Join the chat

FOR WRITERS: Story Monogamy Vs. Playing the Field

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: One of the ways I avoid writer’s block is by having multiple stories going at once. If I get stuck on one, I can switch to another while I figure out the issue. Not everyone likes to work on multiple projects at once, though. What about you? Are you a story monogamist? Or do you like to play the field? 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 … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Koalas, Ferrets & Other Off The Beaten Path Shifters

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Davina Jamison: Have you ever written a story with an unusual shifter? What kind of shifter was it? And what unusual traits did it have? 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

FOR WRITERS: Villains and Redemption

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer RW Urbina: Do villains deserve redemption? Or how evil is too evil when writing the big bad? It’s something I’ve been struggling with during the last month. 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

FOR WRITERS: The Song That Wrote The Book

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Jerke Stueart: Do you work hard to find THE song that makes the writing go like lightning? Sometimes I HAVE to find the song first before I can write… before it catches fire. And which stories of yours were written to which songs? 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

FOR READERS: When Is It Too Long?

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Voss Foster: How many books is too many for you to pick up a series? If you come to a series when, say, book 26 is coming out, does that make you wary of starting such a large task, or do you relish the idea of falling in love with something so large? 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

FOR WRITERS: Building Your Own Worlds

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Davina Jamison: How do you go about world building in fantasy and/or science fiction — and how do you avoid letting popular fiction influence you too much in the 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

FOR WRITERS: You Can’t Make Me!

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Jana Denardo: Do you procrastinate on your projects in any creative ways? Do you feel guilty about it or do you find it recharges your batteries? 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

FOR WRITERS: Figuring Out Your Writing Process

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Every writer does it differently. We all have our own ways of putting together a story – whether it’s where, when or how. Some writers outline intensively, while some fly by the seat of their pants and clean up their stories later. Almost all of us have our own quirks when it comes to the writing process. What are yours, and how did you figure them out? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, … Read more