A wetware computer you can buy. There aren't words. #SF, #cyberpunk, and ethics writer might be interested.

#BoostingIsSharing

#Writer #ScienceFiction #Author #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2025/06/04/hardware-software-meet-wetware-a-computer-with-800000-human-neurons/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=user/forbes

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2025.06.04 — Do you consider writing work? Would you say writing is your life’s work?

In the sense the work is used by most people, by definition, no. I'm retired.

Is it in the physics sense? Yes, it takes effort, consumes calories.

Being an author is my avocation.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

#PennedPossibilities 690 — SC POV: What do you fear losing the most?

I'll stick with the secondary character in 687, Chrome.

My country (alright, autonomous region) was invaded yesterday. I'm a dragon, and it's because of dragons violating "international norms" that it was invaded, regardless of me siding with the oppressed daemon population and me having acted as a railroad engineer in the underground railway that sent women to freedom in the north. Still… invaded. I worked as a spy for the north, helped track the movement of the dragon lords, and now everyone knows it. Moreover, my scary northern contact, who taught me to use my horns [to do magic] has turned out to be Rainy Days herself. You know… The Director of Home. The absolute planetary ruler? I've now been assigned to advise the military occupation governor, a kid genius daemon likely not even twenty years old. And she's coming on to me. It's been suggested (loaded word, that one) I acquiesce. Wanna guess by whom? Hint? Her initials are RD.

What do I fear losing most? If nothing else, my mind.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#WordWeavers 2025.06.04 — Describe the mood of the opening paragraph of your story using 3 adjectives.

Intense, bloody, infuriating.

Because of feedback from the beta readers, this prompt is both a timely and useful exercise. I may have to add it to my bag of tricks for during revision. What was in my mind included angry and outraged, but rereading the paragraph, the MC strikes me as detached. I might even characterize it as her acting like a superhero. I need to fix that for the v3 beta reader…

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSMarsNeededWomen

#PennedPossibilities 689 — What does a perfect world look like to your MC? Your perfect world may not be their idea of a perfect world, so let's pry into their brain and discover the lens they choose to view the world through.

This answer delves into spoilers territory, but only in a wide angle sense. The story arcs are barely started in the SF version, so it won't matter much unless you are reading this reply a number of years from its original posting date.

Her off-the-cuff answer would be that the world is perfect, it's simply all the people that keep her from studying her books that make it less than perfect. Delving deeper, there's more. She doesn't understand people and she's looking to explain the confusing parts as much as how the natural (and from our POV, magical) world works. She suspects there's something in people that's broken, but it's actually her reaction to having been betrayed when very young by a friend—although, let's not discount that her parents were killed when she was 5 and her actual subsequent guardian, Rainy Days, set her educational / social responsibilities bar intentionally way too high. I conceived this character as a study in how a good character can become evil (in a very reasonable, trying to save people, sort of way). Were she to find that something that affects most people that she could fix—and in the reluctance universe, it exists—she might fix it to make the world perfect. Discovering love and friendship ought (but won't necessarily) change her quest for perfection.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

If a book hasn't been banned somewhere is it even worth reading? 🤔😁

@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon @bookbubble @humour @reading

#IReadBannedBooks
#BannedBook #Book #Books #BookMemes #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Novel #Novels #Bookshelf
#Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

#politics #uspol #fascism Blueprint for how the #biglie works. Understand it, the enemy, their best weapon. Then you can fight it or use it in defense. A primer.

#propaganda

#BoostingIsSharing https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-brainless-propaganda-of-stephen-miller?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=user%2Fcuraffairs

Tonight's dinner: potage al a ad lib of Texas sweet onions including greens with Mexican green squash sautéed with with just picked basil, two types of oregano, parsley, and carrot tops, spiced with crushed black pepper, fd garlic, and pink salt. The onions and carrots were marinated in bourbon balsamic vinegar and garlic olive oil oil. The carrots were air fried and until soft and caramelized. When all done, I blended the softened mixture and the carrots carefully to keep it thick, and in tranches so there was liquid, paste, and chunky parts to mix in the bowl together with the deglazed liquid in the pan. In place of stock, I used drippings from lemon chicken thighs reserved from the previous night and boiling water to keep the mixture from going dry under high heat. If you duplicate you can skim "the schmalts" fat, but if you can tolerate a bit of fat, it makes the soup hardier. I ran out of Sherry but added a few ounces of red wine. More would have worked. I have more processed pictures, but I'm also hungry so that's all you'll see today!

More in #AltText.

#BoostingIsSharing

#Cooking #Photography #Photos #Soup #Author #Writer #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity