✍️ Writing
A community for writers, like poems, fiction, non-fiction, short stories, long books, all those sorts of things, to discuss writing approaches and what's new in the writing world, and to help each other with writing.
Rules for now:
1. Try to be constructive and nice. When discussing approaches or giving feedback to excerpts, please try to be constructive and to maintain a positive vibe. For example, don't just vaguely say something is bad but try to list and explain downsides, and if you can, also find some upsides. However, this is not to say that you need to pretend you liked something or that you need to hide or embellish what you disliked.
2. Mention own work for purpose and not mainly for promo: Feel free to post asking for feedback on excerpts or worldbuilding advice, but please don't make posts purely for self promo like a released book. If you offer professional services like editing, this is not the community to openly advertise them either. (Mentioning your occupation on the side is okay.) Don't link your excerpts via your website when asking for advice, but e.g. Google Docs or similar is okay. Don't post entire manuscripts, focus on more manageable excerpts for people to give feedback on.
3. What happens in feedback or critique requests posts stays in these posts: Basically, if you encounter someone you gave feedback to on their work in their post, try not to quote and argue against them based on their concrete writing elsewhere in other discussions unless invited. (As an example, if they discuss why they generally enjoy outlining novels, don't quote their excerpts to them to try to prove why their outlining is bad for them as a singled out person.) This is so that people aren't afraid to post things for critique.
4. All writing approaches are valid. If someone prefers outlining over pantsing for example, it's okay to discuss up- and downsides but don't tell someone that their approach is somehow objectively worse. All approaches are on some level subjective anyway.
5. Solarpunk rules still apply. The general rules of solarpunk of course still apply.
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Actually I developed the time system before I developed anything else. 😅 As the gas giant is quite large, eclipses are common.
I'd like a small magnetosphere like one of the Jovian moons. There's a proplanetary hemisphere (tidally locked to the planet) and an antiplanetary hemisphere (facing away from the planet). Then there's a leading hemisphere that faces toward the direction of the orbit and a trailing hemisphere opposite. So turns out a moon has a lot more hemisphere divisions than a planet.
I'm interested to see the experience of living there!
Maybe this isn't useful but I've generally had pretty good luck asking worldbuilding questions in specialized communities here and on reddit. Sometimes people are really excited to jump into hypotheticals and sometimes I find myself trying to explain the concept of fiction, it's always interesting seeing which communities go which way.
There's a weather community on Lemmy and a meteorology subreddit (if you have an account over there) maybe they'd be able to make some more suggestions?
Best of luck!
Thanks!