FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Warren Rochelle: How much of your own life—settings, events, people, pets—do you borrow and use? 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: FB: https://bit.ly/1MvPABV MeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Amy Leibowitz Mitchell: Do you know ahead of time if you’re writing a series, or do you realize it partway through/after the first one is done/if it’s really popular? 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: FB: https://bit.ly/1MvPABV MeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Kari S. Trenten: What off the wall thing would you really like to write about/include in a story, but haven’t yet? 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: FB: https://bit.ly/1MvPABV MeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Jenna Hale: How do you juggle multiple projects at the same time? Wall of post-its? Giant Scrivener files full of research and details? Careful scheduling of your writing time? 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: FB: https://bit.ly/1MvPABV MeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
LGBT people are regarded as “the Other,” and sci-fi and fantasy specializes in characters who are “the Other.” And “the Other” is often perceived as a metaphor or stand in for minorities and the oppressed. Queer people were not a regular topic of public discourse in the closeted world of the Golden Age of Science Fiction of the ‘30s through the 50s. And in this world, two very heterosexual writers wrote a series of stories about a very science-fictional form of “the Other.” Beginning with the story “The Piper’s Son” in February 1945, Lewis Padgett told of a near-future group … Read more