Zonal heating and exchanging mêmes with my partner
Added to the list! Thanks for the recco, it sounds like a good game to go in to if you've got reasonable expectations.
I don't want to like suck all the joy out of your life, but check out the cheap hobbies! Reading, writing, knitting, drawing, some sports, etc.
I briefly made the dumbass decision to take up cigars and cognac as "hobbies." Ugh I don't know what I was thinking. Anyway, quitting smoking and drinking has moved to much more reasonable substances, like tea and baking.
Also linked in that article is Matthew Salesses on the Possibilities of Climate Fiction, which I haven't finished reading yet, but looks to put racism and climate change in conversation. Just to pick one quote:
Cli-fi’s orientation toward the future would make sense if we thought that climate change, unlike racism, were still avoidable. The trouble is that it is not. The too-lateness, in fact, is why I started this essay.
Thanks for your feedback! I'm not sure why I went without quotations other than I've always wanted to try it. It feels a bit disorienting, which I like. If I end up having lots of back-and-forth dialogue, I might just add them back in though.
Thanks for the goal reminder! For my November goal (which is almost half over - eek!) I'm going to continue on my short story (set in the same world). I think I'll continue with the seat-of-my-pants writing for now, since outlining seems to be a bit of a procrastination trap for me.
So yeah, I'm going to try to write more, and messier, haha
Yoooo!! Congratulations, that is legitimately huge. I know external validation isn't the thing that makes you a writer, but it sure must feel good to have a clear signal from the outside world that your words are wanted.
Good goal for next month. Would love to hear a bit more about your cli-fi. :)
It’d be nice to have something I can share in next months update, maybe the opening chapter of my book?
Oooh!!! That would be so cool!
I have also had some luck with forcing myself to sit down for 10-15 min, like your goal. It's actually oddly infuriating when it works - like I'll sit down, completely resigned to failing to produce anything, but then sometimes just the act of trying is enough to trigger a flow of words. Now if only editing could "flow" like this... :p
Congratulations on all your progress this month! I'll be studying your Nautical Solarpunk resource in detail, as the world I'm working on features a river and port somewhat prominently. I was going to gloss over the ship designs, but why not sprinkle a little extra haecceity into the story when one can. :)
I would love to hear your takeaways on your first experience GMing. It's been decades since I've run a campaign, but I still remember the thrill and challenge of balancing the plot points you want to hit with that pesky gremlin, player agency, haha. (At one point I resorted to just forcing my players to be kidnapped to get them to another scene - not the best interactive storytelling on my part.)
Just a hunch but you strike me as a fairly detail oriented person ;) so I wonder how you'll handle players missing some obvious detail or plot beat. Ah! So fun! I envy you.
Slab on grade crew!!
I know that a downed power line is very visible, especially if it's live and touching water! I wonder if it's underground if you might miss the signs
I know it's totally backwards, but I feel weird when I go to a neighborhood that doesn't have above ground lines.
Whoa what is this reference!