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Howard Aiken

#PennedPossibilities 619
What type of “accent” does your MC have?

My MC was born in Spain, raised in Morocco and spoke Sabir (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medite) for several years as a sailor. After that, he learned French and Italian. English was the last language he learned, but 14th century Middle English was an emerging language without a "received pronunciation". Literate people spoke French as a second language, so his accent would not necessarily have sounded "foreign".

en.m.wikipedia.orgMediterranean Lingua Franca - Wikipedia
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ciwi ✍🏼🏳️‍🌈🪨

Hello #writingcommunity :blobcatcoffee:
It is time. I want to read more blogs from other writers. Are there any that you love and recommend? It can also be your own hehe.
Preferably #queer and from/about women, but that’s not a must.
I am specifically curious about personal struggles, feelings and thoughts about being a writer/the process of writing etc.
And I also would love to find some new amazing stories to read and worlds to dive into ☺️✨

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Hannah Steenbock

#ScribesAndMakers 3/19. At what age did you start creating?

My Dad inspired me to write little fan fiction stories when I was around ten years old. I even have one here, written on small scraps of paper with wonky handwriting because I wrote them on the bus home.

I knitted and crocheted a lot during my teenage years and twenties. Kept writing down ideas for fan fiction.

And in 2000 the writing bug hit and I started my first fantasy novel. Since then, I've been writing.

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

@golgaloth

How many characters does your novel have?

Good time to analyze. Here goes:

The web-novel is constrained by my toot length of 5,000 and the 31 total prompts to be written one chapter a day, each day of March. It's very sparse and exact of word; it has to be concise. It's at 11,300 words as of today. Even so, I have:

  • Dozens and dozens of background characters, some named, some quantified as crowds.
  • 17 speaking side characters, half as bit parts.
  • 1 main character, who may be slightly sociopathic.

How textured is your world?

It's Mars. It is a character that's ferrous, ferric, and ferrosoferric in color (greenish, pale red, and slightly black), and both rocky and sandy. It's in the dome colors and the colors of the clothes. Mars is being colonized by EM Mars Corp, until it goes bankrupt. The E and M stands for what you think it does, and the silver rocket-like shuttles are misnomered starships. Earth is covered with fascist theocracies, and the MC, who lives in Chicago at a Lakeshore address, is a woman who's is told by a minister that her best choice for career, all that she's worthy of, is housewife and child bearer. She ends up building things on Mars, then destroying... [spoilers]

How many weird words do you use?

Depends on what you mean by weird. Regolith. Nisei (1st generation in Japanese). PainAway. Synth-silk. Vid and Vac.

Made up are Cargoon (a Martian cargo helicopter) and Shroom (fungus grown as building bricks).

I'm keeping the words mostly current vernacular despite maybe being 150 years in the future, but avoiding swear words and anachronisms. I will admit to using words and giving then extra meaning that can be figured out by context.

#RSMarsNeededWomen thread: eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11408894

#BoostingIsSharing

The cover art for Mars Needed Women. The background is of the Mars surface with rover tracks, big rocks, sand, and a greenish sky. There is a triskelion image of Mars, which is a tattoo in the story. The back cover reads as follows: Shanghaied May Ri struggled when the EM goon clamped an aromatic wet rag over her nose and mouth... Waking weightless and nauseated—stuffy head pounding, being floated somewhere—despite grogginess, she eyes-closed punched someone, spinning away to bounce off a wall. The click of cartilage, the thump off a bulkhead, the blare of a warning horn, and "Rig for ring spin!" rang in her ears. A tech clapped a bag over her mouth before she vomited up her last putrified meal, while enduring the blonde's glare as blood beaded around her nose. May Ri glowered back. Sitting on the wall, dragged on her butt, her inner ear then her innards soon informed her the wall was becoming the floor. From the author: “A hopeful deeply-dystopian feminist SF story, with thinly veiled jabs at our current world's bad actors making for a bad future. Please note the past tense in the title: Mars Needed Women. The story's women are going to work to bring down the system, at least that part that's oppressing them, in a massive unscheduled disassembly.”
Eldritch CaféRS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist (@sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe)Attached: 1 image > 2503.01 — Women #Writever #Mars #SpaceOpera ## Mars needed women. (Blurb) May Ri bought into the hype and the spiel, not realizing it was the last gasp of a long dead oligarch's dream. When the money dried up, nobody would finance the supply missions. Who cared about the ten thousand up there when you could outrage the millions down here with something less expensive? Earthers returned to their petty games of slavery—that wasn't called as such—and empire that ate nations. On Mars, colonists were pushed to their limits: The terraforming mission, the domes, the spinlauncher and Deimosbase, the raising the first and second generation martians. Men died disproportionately. In the end, a few strongmen attempted to corner the growing "female resource" to their benefit and to the benefit their sons, working to crush the whisper of the half-forgotten promise of democracy that had followed May Ri to the planet of war. She and her daughters led the way, fighting. Together with "sisters" and with "aunts," they redefined *which* gender would be considered a "resource." They found that the blood of the ever-absent fathers spilled on the rusty regolith of Mars blended in nicely. Earthers were outraged. #RSMarsNeededWomen 01 [Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.] #BoostingIsSharing #gender #fiction #writer #author #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers #RSdiscussion #RSstory #microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory
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SuzyShearer

Last chance to buy book 5 in the Silk Rope Masters series!! Grab a copy before it ends.
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“I adored this story!”

“This book is AWESOME!!! This series and this book is a total must read. Super spicy and steamy.”

“This love story is so full of surprises and has an emotional depth that is amazing. Absolutely loved their journey to happiness and their naughty exploits too!”

#BDSM #maturecouple #romance #contemporary #newrelease #read #readromance #romance #romanceAuthor #romanceNovel #romanceNovels #bookstadon #WritersCoffeeClub #writingCommunity #wordweaver #creativity @bookstadon #romanceBooks #bookstodon

Ebook of Kaden by Suzy Shearer. Background is looking down on a lime-washed wooden surface with a cream scarf casually laid across. There are bunches of mauve & white small flowers resting on the scarf. Above the scarf is a cup of cocoa.
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