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FOR WRITERS: When Pets Attack (Your Keyboard)

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Marie Brown: How do you deal with your pets demanding attention while you write? Have you ever had cat-on-keyboard incidents that screw up your work? Has your dog ever eaten your favorite red pen and dyed his face red? A curious pet owner, currently straining to see the monitor around a cat, wants to know. Join the chat

FOR READERS: Supporting Your Authors

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Robin Harper: You know them, you love them! You pound the pre-order button, wish them a Happy Book Release Day on FB! You wake up and roll over to buy their books the moment they’re dropped and kid yourself that you’ll only read the first chapter then go to sleep and end up staying up all night wibbling over their creations ~ You Love These Authors!!! How do you support your favorite authors? Writing is not a six-figure income and with the power of social media, you are able to follow your … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Writing Bisexuality

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Bisexual characters often get shafted in fiction – either they’re erased altogether, or they are promiscuous (because, of course, the only way to show that a character is bi is to have them sleep with both sexes). How can we write better bi characters? What do we get wrong, and what should we be getting right? This is a legacy chat. Join the chat

FOR WRITERS: Stealth Eugenics

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Cyd Athens: This topic, which I believe would be a writer discussion, is inspired by something Else Sjunneson-Henry wrote on her Twitter feed. Her core contention: “If you’re writing far future, or even near future SF and you don’t have disabled people in it, then you’re participating in eugenicist thought processes.” There are other ways to frame this too. I’ll try to tackle it from a more positive angle – Should we rethink our future stories, specifically in terms of who we might be leaving out, and what it might signify? See … Read more