ada-hoffmann.bsky.social
Spec fic writer, poet, autist. They/them. Philip K. Dick Award finalist, Rhysling & Elgin nominee, & author of the OUTSIDE series. Canadian.
More about me and my books at http://ada-hoffmann.com/
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Was there ever a trick to figuring them out, or did you just soldier on until you'd done enough that you could yeet the manuscript back to your editor/agent and ask what they thought?
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Thank you!
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If I ever do figure out how to write this silly book, then watch out, I guess :D
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...I feel like it's not just the times. I feel like I'm struggling to express something coherently with words and characters and situations when it isn't even fully coherent in my head yet. There's something *in* here, but I try to put words to it and the words just go in circles.
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I go for days not wanting to touch it, and then I see some new thing I want to do with it in a burst of clarity, and then the clarity slides away again just as fast.
Maybe this is just how it goes right now? I know nearly every author is having some kind of trouble writing in these times. But...
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Bogi I like these slides but I am just having some *feelings* on the amount of times that certain things are said or discovered or identified and then suppressed/forgotten, and then rediscovered again, and then
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I don't know if advice is wanted, but... imho, if you are not feeling resilient and defiant, you don't have to be.
You don't have to go full doomer either. But like - queer folks in the field are hurting and scared. I think it's ok to say we're here and writing and hurting and scared.
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Time, skill, money. Mostly the first two.
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*shrieks ultrasonically*
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Someone already mentioned the ones from Peter Watts' BLINDSIGHT but I am obliged to mention them again, because *whew*
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Hi! I'm genderfluid and bisexual and I write SFF, including the OUTSIDE cosmic horror space opera trilogy: www.ada-hoffmann.com/books/the-ou...
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How do you manage to write under a pseudonym in between all the writing you do that *isn't* under a pseudonym
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Working *on* a thing, my goodness. Should not be posting while I'm this tired.
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Or else one of the answer options is a dad joke 🤔
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Like one of those popups that asks for your birthday to verify your age, except it's "Are you a dad (yes) (no)"
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I mean, if they sent the code indiscriminately to everyone without checking if they were dads then that's their problem not yours :D
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I think he would bang them too, tbh
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I'm fond of this Isabel J. Kim story where every single character is named Dave: clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_06_23/
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Yesterday I mentioned yawning to my therapist, as an example of something, and then immediately yawned by sympathetix reflex with myself. :P
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THE STRUCTURE OF THE FRUIT FLY BRAIN IS NOT EVEN COMParrrrrgh I won't rant because you are aware already
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FRUIT FLIES oh my god
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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My fantasy series I wrote as an undergrad was literally in the Dungeons and Dragons universe but also they had running water and rock music because I said they did, so there.
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(you are extremely correct :D )
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(not me, trying to reconcile my insatiable Pride Month desire to do All The Things with my sensory & energetic hard limits, and coming up with this joke instead of an actual solution, no sir)
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Ev x unnameable cosmic horrors? (I actually think she is aroace, tbh. We may have had this conversation before. Shipping is a lie.)
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Thanks. So did my friend who was there with me and it's what I am doing now :)
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A little on the dense side, probably not making it into regular rotation, but they definitely tasted like cookies and not like whatever else you might expect cookies that were partly made from crickets to taste like.
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But someday I will figure out how to write a good character whose gender is fluid like mine without having any magical powers about it. Idk why that day has not yet come.
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Oddly, when I started to understand my own gender more, I started moving away from shapeshifters and towards human characters with more legible, stable trans identities - mostly nonbinary characters and trans men (like Rowan from IGNORE, who I love so much and can't *wait* for readers to meet him)
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When I was writing the Vaurians I didn't realize that I was genderfluid/multigender myself, but now I understand I was playing with a fantasy of being able to own that fluidity and make it easily visible - which I find difficult to do irl with a non-shapeshifting body and limited fashion sense.
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You could put them on a really cute murderboard and use them for outlining 🤔