Welcome to the sixth writing club update!

I hope everyone has had a good November (and part of December (these posts keep taking me longer and longer into the month to post - they’re basically mid-month posts now lol)). These increased indoorsiness is often good for the types of projects we’re embarked on.

So without further ado, here are our dashing Participants for the month!

Have a great December and new year!

  • okasen@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    Apologies for replying so late!

    I succeeded in starting off of Amazon and found another good distribution method.

    But. Romance! I find that it’s more fun and escapist for me to write romance. I grant myself a lot more artistic liberty with it for some reason, whereas in sci fi I get caught up in details. There’s also a very strict structure to a true romance novel which I’m not an expert on, but basically readers expect a 3 act structure and happily ever after ending. I find the structure freeing kinda?

    Re: correspondence style, I find this to be such a cool compliment. I consider my email skills to be really good honestly, ha. Though I need to write more letters to folks. I enjoy it and always mean to do it more.

    And thank you!

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      5 months ago

      I grant myself a lot more artistic liberty with [romance] for some reason, whereas in sci fi I get caught up in details.

      That totally makes sense. I find I can write sci-fi defensively, like I’m imagining readers’ complaints and writing in little world building details as parries.

      But then I remind myself that my favourite sci-fi tends towards fantasy, or lo-fi, or focuses more on interactions between beings, so maybe I shouldn’t bother with an imaginary audience that I can’t relate with.

      Idk. Thoughts, lol.

      Glad to hear you’ve found a nonazon distribution solution! I hope it works out well.