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for readers and writers: characters with disabilities

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Readers: who are some of your favorite characters with disabilities in speculative fiction, and why? Writers: what have you written? 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. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

For Readers & Writers: Spec Fic Podcasts

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: What are your favorite spec fic podcasts, queer or otherwise? 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. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

For Readers and Writers: Coffee or Ke’vefo?

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Scott: Is it coffee or ke’vefo? When you read sci-fi, do made-up words for food throw you off? Authors, do you use them? Why? 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. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Reading and Writing the Climate

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: The climate is changing, and fear and hope are in the air. As a reader, what’s the best cli-fi you’ve read? As a writer, what have you written – and are you fearful or hopeful? 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. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Mix and Match

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: What’s your favorite mythological or paranormal creature mash-up or hybrid? Readers, what have you read? Writers, what have you written? 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. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

FOR WRITERS: Bathroom Breaks

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: In real life, we use the bathroom, shower, shave, and do all manner of boring life tasks. but you rarely see them portrayed in spec fic. How do you handle these mundane necessities in your work? 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. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

For Readers and Writers: One Time, At Con Camp…

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Give us your most over-the-top story of something that happened at a con you attended. 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. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

FOR READERS AND WRITERS: What Is a Metaverse?

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Riffing off today’s Qtopia post – what do you think a metaverse is? What are your hopes/fears for it? Writers, have you written about it? 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. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

FOR AUTHORS: Doing the Research

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: If you could visit one particular place – present, past or future – to research a story, where and when would it be? 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. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe