Seán!

Putting this out there again, because I'm unsure how reach works in the Fediverse and how I can connect to the people I want to find:

Any SFF/horror writers out there writing in unorthodox styles, formats, or mediums? Mild or extreme, books with other stories in the footnotes, flash fiction universes, or stories told via geocache, doesn't matter. I wanna connect!

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Show threadleece3d ago
@ShadowsAndSorcery take a look at @rdm - he ha just published some of his flash fiction and more is available if you look at his profile page. Mostly sff but there is one horror. Disclaimer: he is my husband.
Show threadSeán!9h ago
@leece I will, thank you!
Show thread🇨🇦 TRH 🇨🇦3d ago
@ShadowsAndSorcery Try this
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12gei-jZAPEAstti5LB9g7jdZBmwDjiBR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117343382261635250701&rtpof=true&sd=true
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Show threadSeán!9h ago
@Mayor_of_Smartarse Good stuff, but I am looking for individual writers in particular who want to boost each other's unorthodox projects!
Show threadKarl Heinz Häsliprinz2d ago
@ShadowsAndSorcery trying and failing to write in native hypertext if that counts. slightly unorthodox in my first book.
Show threadSeán!8h ago
@KarlHeinzHasliP I'd say that's weird enough yeah! Though I'm more interested in what you were doing with it, how it changed how you told a story. See, myself, I'm writing fantasy fiction (of many many flavours) but as flash fiction, a format the popular consciousness just does not equate that genre with, and a format I'm continually surprised to learn many writers have never even heard of.
Show threadKarl Heinz Häsliprinz7h ago
@ShadowsAndSorcery It is more world buildy and less story-telly in hypertext. It feels easier to write a ttrpg than a novel when I hypertext it.
Show threadClockwork ☃️✒️2d ago

@ShadowsAndSorcery

That's exactly what I've been writing this whole time! 🤩

Right now I'm working on a five-hundred-years history of a library, written by historians of the 25th Century. They use footnotes to explain what happened in the last five centuries to readers who have lived... somewhere else 👀

Show threadSeán!8h ago

@clockwooork HELL YEAH footnotes seem to be a slightly more common unorthodox technique in genre fiction and I'm so glad to see it. In-universe texts are also such a fascinating concept, too, good on ya.

See, myself, I'm writing fantasy flash fiction, totally against the grain of the popular notion of what fantasy "must be", so I gotta embrace anyone doing anything different.

Show threadClockwork ☃️✒️8h ago

@ShadowsAndSorcery

Good god I LOATHE the current golden standard of 10-books-long fantasy epic sagas. Give me some of your flash fiction!

Show threadEliza MB2d ago

@ShadowsAndSorcery

I’ve seen ‘please boost for reach’.

That and relevant hashtags which you’ve done already.

Show threadDźwiedziu2d ago

@OneInterestingFact
Add #AskFedi

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Show threadRSNikhil2d ago
@ShadowsAndSorcery Suggestion: JayHenge Publishing (sci fi, offbeat, ...) https://masto.nu/@jayhenge
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