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@emsquared Thanks, Em. I've wanted to do this for years.
@solarbranka Thank you. I appreciate your offer. About to start the process now.
@falcennial Thanks!
This week I'm going to migrate my account from here on mastodon.social to writing.exchange. Been putting this task off for months because it's daunting, the partial brain damage I sustained some years ago making the learning and application of new software etc quite problematic and sometimes bloody upsetting. But it's time for me to make this jump, so here goes....

As of today, in an increasingly facist Britain, refugees' status will become temporary and subject to review every 30 months for all adults claming asylum

Shameful

#asylumseekers

So, just for clarity, Reform has pretty well unlimited money (funded from overseas mostly, shady donations, vastly wealthy bribers), has much of the media spouting their message whatever it is, and has their own TV station GBeebies), as well as the BBC promoting them and their ideas through out their "news" services.

And they still lost a by-election to the Greens. Who are incredibly impoverished by political party standards.

Maybe, they should be dismissed as a minor trivial party that they are.

#WritersCoffeeClub 2nd Mar 2026. Does your overall goal differ from project to project?

I hope my stories are different from one another. I certainly try to make them that way. What doesn't change is my goal to write books so that after the apocalypse, a few copies here and there might find their way into the hands of scattered survivors, who will I hope share my stories aloud with others around the campfire.

#WordWeavers 2nd Mar 2026. Do you write scenes out of order?

I tend to write linearly, on a compass bearing, from a skeleton plan of one sentence per chapter, starting at A and ending at Z. Occasionally, something or someone new and unplanned will occur on the landscape while I'm working, requiring - if I decide to include it - that I insert it somewhere and maybe juggle things around a bit. But mainly I write on my compass bearing.

#ScribesAndMakers 2nd Mar 2026. Do you know your story ahead of time?

Ahead of writing it, yes. I'm a planner. I enjoy pantsing short stories and narrative poems, but when it comes to novels pantsing only ever ends up a hot mess that takes longer to fix than it would to write with a good skeleton plan. Every novel starts with a character or two in a situation. I live with that scene in my head for a while and at some point extend its scope, and sooner or later the story forms in my mind.

You have to decide if you believe there should be international law or not

The Nuremberg trials laid out a very simple idea: the supreme international crime is launching a war of aggression

The UN security council must be rebuilt from the ground up

UN must be wrestled from US control, it must not be allowed to use it as just another weapon, and we must work towards an actual system of international law, one where we are actually equal. the other option is global war