Hi folks, and welcome to the 10th writing club update. That’s right, it’s the big “One-Oh” - we’re in the double digits now.

I hope you are all safe and as well as can be, and able to find some time for creativity/writing. The weather here has been a hodgepodge of warm to surprisingly brisk; although seems to be angling towards warmer now. It will be nice to see the pollinators waking up and doing their rounds soon. Life doing its thing and all that.

Onward to our writers! By my count we’ve got:

Here is a link to last month’s post if you’d like to refresh your memory, or just take a little trip down memory late.

  • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’m back after missing last month. I was pretty overwhelmed with work and gutting my laundry room after I found a old leak (so much mold, yuck).

    I have still been writing. Mostly notes and reviews of books I’ve read. I did get inspired after reading stepford wives to do kind of a modern interpretation of it. One thing that stuck out to me is how bored all the men were with their robot wives & how much they had isolated themselves out of their inability to engage with their families on a human level. I think there’s a deep sadness to the book that is often overlooked because of horror elements.

    I wrote a short story about a future where most people are plugged into a sim & have robotic partners. The MC is a guy who wakes up one day to find he’s bored with having a partner and life he completely controls. It then follows him as he tried and fails to have a romance with a real woman, but learns the value of human relationships and a world that we cannot control.

    I’ll see if I can get it typed up and edited to share, I think it’s a fun little thought experiment. Though it does get pretty dark in the middle.

    Happy spring to everyone, i look forward to seeing what people have done :)

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I wrote a short story about a future where most people are plugged into a sim & have robotic partners …

      That sounds really cool! Definitely a great hook. I imagine this is the modern interpretation inspired by The Stepford Wives you were just referring to? I would love to read that if you do share it. It sounds like an interesting angle to take on the experience of loneliness.

      • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Yes! It is an interpritation/response to the stepford wives. Kind of extrapolated it to an extreme and definetly influenced by more modern concepts like virtual reality. Kind of asking what would happen if that tech/world continued to the present day.

        I’ll definetly keep working on it. Knowing there’s someone who might give it a read definetly helps with the motivation/ inspiration :)