Jon_SIt's a privilege (and pleasant surprise!) to find that my poem The Cat is After Brunch Journal's Highlight of the Week. Do give the site a look - so much good work there.
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Hans Cummings (he/him)#WritersCoffeeClub May 6: Talk about something you've written which you expected would (or expect will) divide readers.
There's a story I'm writing that deals with the "true" nature of the afterlife, and it has nothing to do with Western "Christian" beliefs.
#WordWeavers May 6: What writing-related challenges have you encountered recently?
Being motivated and feeling like any of it matters while everything falls apart all around me.
Robin Wren#Writing Report: 1243 words written tonight. That concludes chapter 14.
First draft of my novel is at: 75,490 words.
Orion (he/him)#WritersCoffeeClub May 6: Talk about something you've written that you expect will divide readers.
My lead character isn't the one to fight the Big Bad, for ~reasons~, and I think that might disappoint people, but it's got to be that way. She can't be the one.
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#WordWeavers May 6: What writing-related challenges have you encountered recently?
The, um, the writing part. That's the challenge.
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist#ScribesAndMakers 2026.05.06 — Ghoti (fish) is a word created to demonstrate the odd pronunciation variations in the English language. Create or share a word you've created.
Here are some synthetic words. I keep a lexicon for the Reluctance Series to add them to, along with regular words the definition of which I've either extended or warped. The definitions below were tuned to lessen any spoilers, not to mislead.
Arithmocosm: The vivid mindscape a daemon sees when they think mathematically.
Chromatype: 1. A trait passed to one's children without out the aid of the chromosomes, but instead is a flight of epigenetic switches reluctantly† turned on or off around the time of conception. 2. A type of human differentiated only by the epigenetic switches inherited from either their mother or their father.
Crystalscaphe: A word for spaceship where the destination traveled within is not exactly space—powered not by rockets but by miracles. Derived from bathyscaphe, if you wish to ponder what the word could mean further.
Idioglyph: An idiosyncratic marking associated with all chromatypes. Some people even think they say something about them. Also, informal, singular: idy; plural: iddies.
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† The various forms of the word reluctance are important to the series of stories. It is both a MacGuffin and a glue that holds the stories together, and saying anymore would be spoilers.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
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