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FOR WRITERS: Writing The Perfect First Scene

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: How do you start a new story? Do you labor over the first scene? Or does it just come to you? Or maybe you circle back later to tweak it? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Mixing Sci Fi and Paranormal

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Do you ever include supernatural aspects in your work? Readers? Do you like your sci fi with a side of paranormal? Writers: This is a reader & writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat

FOR WRITERS: The Best Professional Organizations?

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: In your (always humble) opinion, what are the best professional organizations for spec fic writers, queer or otherwise? Points if QSF was the first thing that came to mind. ;) Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Last Time in This Series

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Denise Dechene: Saw this on Twitter “Why is it that TV producers don’t expect us to remember what happened last week without “Previously on” reminders, and yet book publishers expect us to remember the details of a story for a whole year or more? “. So I got to thinking there are a lot of readers who don’t do de reads. Do you think that books in a series should have a recap page/s at the beginning that the reader can skip if wanted? And to the readers-would you read … Read more

FOR READERS: Reading Diversity

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Ryane Chatman: As a reader what do you do to increase your reading diversity? Author wise and character wise? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat

OWN VOICES: Transgender, Non-Binary And Gender Fluid Authors

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Welcome to #ownvoices on the QSF Facebook group. Each week, we’ll feature a different group of writers who don’t get the attention they should. Today, we’re featuring trans, enby, and gender-fluid authors. If you’re a trans, enby, or gender-fluid spec fic author, tell us about yourself, your experiences as a trans, enby, or gender-fluid author, and the spec ficbooks you write with trans, enby, or gender-fluid characters (with links, please). If you’re not trans, enby, or gender-fluid, you can still participate – share your favorite trans, enby, or gender-fluid spec fic authors. Note: Today’s #ownvoices is about authors who are trans, … Read more

FOR READERS: (De)Toxic

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Olivia Wylie: There’s been a lot of talk about toxic masculinity. What books would you give a young (especially queer) guy to show him what healthy masculinity looks like? What would you like young boys to see in stories? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat