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it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library
its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times
The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3
I LOVE LIBRARY
WE LOVE LIBRARY USERS
Today's Hype Post!
Hype people up for your original writing project (no fanfiction please- it's a wonderful medium but not the focus of this blog post) or work in progress by giving us some juicy details!
TODAY'S QUESTION:
Do you have a map of the world in your project that you can share?
In a science fantasy setting where there's no planets, just stars and ships floating around, maps are... tricky, let's say, with the level of technology I'm putting in the setting. There's no cool holographic space maps :(. There are individual maps for all the residential ships and the cities built in them, of course, but what if you're on a ship that's zooming around surrounded by other ships in motion? You don't want to crash into them!
Enter: the nautical almanac. These were published to help ships at sea navigate using the position of the stars, so you could always figure out where you are at sea when there's no other landmarks. And wouldn't you know it, that sounds a lot like what my characters need to find their way! Theirs are just more automated--a machine which can calculate the distance from any star it can detect the energy of, including the energy coming from the engines or generators onboard other ships, and prints out all that information in an unending stream of data that looks a fair bit like this:
The people aboard each ship will take all this data and manually plot out their position and direction, and can do the same for every other ship in their vicinity, then it just takes a bit of communication with those other crews in anyone needs to turn to avoid collision. And even this has been automated; rather than every ship needing their crew to do this by themselves, Navigation Control crews were formed to do all the work and just relay the information over to the ships.
So, no cool drawn out maps, but wondering what maps would be like turned into cool worldbuilding! Close enough, right?
Hey writers. I hate to break it to you, but sometimes the thing holding you back from writing isn't some profound piece of advice you have yet to hear. Sometimes the thing holding you back is you. Give yourself freedom to rest when you need it, but if you want to be a writer, you have to write. That means getting rid of the distractions, letting yourself get a little bored, and doing the actual writing.
There is a certain level of discipline required. I'm not saying the goal yourself 500 words a day, but I'm saying that if you want to write, you have to write, and you have to make an effort to write. You may have to carve out time to write and then be disciplined about using that time for writing.
Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space
Don't forget to play it loud as fuck
please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.
This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.
It took them two tries to ban it?
fantasy: the kingdom has been ruled by one family for 10,000 years
science fiction: a new species evolved in 30 years
Today's Hype Post!
Hype people up for your original writing project (no fanfiction please- it's a wonderful medium but not the focus of this blog post) or work in progress by giving us some juicy details!
TODAY'S QUESTION:
Do you have any art of your story or its characters?
I saw someone in the replies mention heroforge, which is a major lifesaver for me! sometimes the options can be a little restrictive and not exactly what I want my characters to look like, but it's great for visualizing stuff instead of endless pinterest boards.
This is of Ankaa and Titania from a science fantasy steampunk inspired wip, members of a militaristic force called the Wayfarers who protect humanity, the ships they live on, and the stars those ships are powered by from threats out in space. Epaulettes are a very good choice for designing fictional uniforms. You can never go wrong with epaulettes. The makeup is also very important and ceremonial for them and definitely isn't just because Titania first started as a LARP character I made my first year of college and I wanted a cool look :D
Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.
Happy Pride Month to everyone who has ever picked up a novel and thought, "this would be even better if they were girlfriends." 💕⚔️
I don't need AI to write. I can create fake scenarios in my head perfectly fine myself.
When you daydream about your story and it doesn’t magically write itself onto the page:
how do i introduce myself to cool writer people on here. hi, i'm kerry, a transgender sci fi and fantasy fan, and seeing so much ai bullshit being made has me thinking that if the bar is in hell and i've dreamed about jumping over it, then why shouldn't i? by no means am i a professional writer but why shouldn't i get to try when ai "writers" take themselves way too seriously?
i'm making this blog to try and hold myself accountable to actually write some of the stories rotating around in my head so i can share them with people who might be interested. if i write a page a day and not just obsessively worldbuild and daydream, then in a hundred days i'll have a hundred pages, and that's pretty cool!
i have a few stories that i'll be sharing stuff about; i'll give them their own posts to explain (infodump) about them, but for the time being, here's some basic ideas about them:
"those star-hearted girls": i'm taking current opinions on nuclear power and going "what if this was actually about lesbians in space who are part of a group of women called wayfarers who have stars, their equivalent of a nuclear reactor, shoved inside of their chest so they can survive being born without an actual heart?" there's so much to explain here i really don't know how to effectively cut it down into a synopsis. there's no planets in this world. "moons" are living organisms. they have cool powers but are also liable to blow themselves up if anything goes wrong. just vibe with me here. please.
"so that the dead don't speak": i've had this idea for all of a... week? and a half maybe? and i cannot stop rotating the characters within my mind. it's a zombie apocalypse story where the dead don't just bite, they mimic voices. so the main character has been raised to follow a simple set of rules: don't speak, don't learn other people's voices, don't try to save anyone if you hear them call for help. she's also trans and chose the name lance--as in, ambulance. she's a dork and i love her.
"untitled vampire story": see, i did planned a male love interest, but the urge to make them lesbians... well. it's a really strong urge. the vampires here come from norse mythology, where frigg used magic to bring baldr back from the dead, but only succeeded in creating a twisted version of him that can spread his undead nature to others. she's then kicked out from the gods and goes on to teach her magic to humans, creating witches. almost a thousand years later, a centuries old vampire meets a witch--who is adamant that the supernatural doesn't exist and she's nothing more than a normal scientist--and the two of them must survive a fight against the creatures created to hunt them both down.
I keep seeing posts about why this is a bad/hard time to be a writer and I want to gently respond that, past or present, good writing is never about ease or practicality.
Write because you need to. Write because you have something to say.
Our parallel needs for human expression and connection aren’t going anywhere. Nor is our need for storytellers with life-shaped perspectives.
If you talk about art the way you’d discuss diversifying an investment portfolio, I’d argue it’s time for you to rethink your motivations.
writers, instead of asking ai for help, you can always use your childhood trauma and repressed issues to help you with that fic
like i quite literally have never been more passionate about anything than i am about the human race’s invariable desire to tell stories and the fact that we always find a way to do it, through spoken language and written language and body language and visual art and theater and poetry and oral tradition and a million other things. there are so many things we take for granted about the human experience that we never stop to think about but i really want you to take a step back and consider how fucking amazing it is that our need to tell stories transcends all boundaries of time and geography and borders and language. it is one of very few things that is legitimately intrinsic to human nature and i will never stop being completely in awe of humanity for that.
