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My five star review for The Creeping Death by @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social Great job!

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AI bros feeding prompts into an AI image or text generator so that a machine might spit out an image or a body of text formed by exploiting the intellectual property of millions of creators ARE NOT actual creators themselves. That's not snobbery, that's just simple fact.

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#SFFChat Thank you so much for hosting! Rather than attaching a link to my one free published story I’ll throw in this picture of my cat being a pain in the butt. Hope I can catch some of you at #WIPPit tomorrow!

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#SFFChat Outro: Thanks for answering and sorry about all the typos tonight! I did up the graphics really early this morning, so I'll use that as my excuse. 😅 Comment with something you'd like shared, then share someone else's!

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#SFFChat Q4: This one's a dream sequence, so a bit of a cheat because nothing is ever as it seems in dreams. I actually looked for this one because of the meditation line & its relationship to being "off", but I think the passage relates a little to both the ones I talked about earlier. From TETK!

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From my novel, "Out of Dark Waters." I don't think I can share the eucatastrophe-ish bits without spoilers, but there is a lot of Lovecraftian influence, including a sort of eldritch dragon-kaiju that features heavily in the last act. #SFFChat

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#SFFChat Q3: this one is a lot harder for me, but I'd say Neal Shusterman and the Unwind series really changed the way I wrote forever. It's been years, but those books still give me chills!

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#SFFChat Q4 Hard to find a short excerpt that demonstrates the themes but here's one of a separation at least.

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I call much of my work "dissociative horror" for a reason - I experience the world in a dissociated state, and it bleeds into everything I create. At first it wasn't intentional, but now I find that returning to the themes of dissociation in my work helps me make sense of the world somehow. #sffchat

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Circular themes: you end at the beginning! But you can never truly go home, because when you get there, you don't recognize it and it doesn't recognize you! Feliks stands before his countrymen after his long journey. #SFFchat A4

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#SffChat Q2: Trauma is a theme that I return to time and time again in a purposeful way because every person handles it differently. Trauma and healing usually go hand in hand for me, I try to write stories where things end up okay at the end. Healing doesn't mean the same thing for everyone, either

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SHADOW OF THE ELDERS is out now! 🎉 In a world broken by drought family and friends are ripped apart. What will they do to find each other again? What magic lurks behind their journeys? Will it save them or plunge the world into further chaos? Find out! #booksky #writingcommunity #fantasy 📚🪐💙🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️

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#SFFChat A3: @mrmaresca.com and I share a "the lengths people will go to, and the things they will discover within themselves, to protect their communities" vibe.

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Here’s Harris, who has just put on a net to turn into a monstrous bird for the first time. “Fear filled him. Would he be strong enough to move the massive body he had made? When he embraced the pain, & refused to be intimidated by his new form, it became easier to move.” #SFFChat

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Sample chapters of my high fantasy adventure, Out of Dark Waters, are now available through my website! jasonstigliano.blogspot.com/p/samples.html

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I feel a lot of inspiration from Lovecraft's, well, Lovecraftian horror, as well as from Tolkien's idea of eucatastrophe. For the latter, I appreciate the way that storytelling can make a happy ending tragic, by in effect highlighting how different that outcome would be from any reality. #SffChat

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#SFFChat Q3: Maybe it's more of a sense of mood, tone, or style, but the sense of mourning for a lost place or time in Peter S. Beagle and Mervyn Peake's work has always really inspired me. I think it's probably a quality I've sought out in a lot of writers' works. Jo Walton is another

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This is always hard. I like to think of my work as the thematic love child of C.S. Lewis and Dark Souls, but I’d say my biggest thematic inspirations beyond them would be Poul Anderson, Lovecraft (sci-fi and fantasy, less so horror), Ursula LeGuin, and the Alien expanded universe. #SFFChat

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#SFFChat Q2 (I'm so sorry for accidentally writing "Q1" for all these, haha): I think things not always being as they seem is a big one (in a broad sense--it gets more particular and specific in different works). Along those lines, I love to play with perspective and explore the ways in which

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#SFFChat Themes I come back to are service, about doing good in spite of being taught to do bad, about new disability and grief, and being scared but doing it anyway.

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#SFFChat Q3 How about Elizabeth Bear for writing characters who - even if they are powerful, heroic, brave, and famous - are infinitesimally small and ignorant cast against the scope of the world around them. Can't think of an author who does the realistic tininess and transience of humans better

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#SFFChat Q1: There are a lot that were accidental but became more conscious as I realized they kept showing up. Not exactly a theme, but people being outsiders within their "home" environments. There's always something other about my characters

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Dragons are Absolutely Awesome. #SFFChat

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#SFFChat Peter S Beagle’s comedy & tragedy of life & the importance of the despised & over looked people had a profound impact upon me at an early age. They’re themes that I work with a lot, consciously & subconsciously. Jason Sanford’s examination of nature & technology is another theme I love.

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#SFFChat intro Hi I'm Will and I write fantasy stories. The first thing I remember writing was a story about pandas who escape from the zoo when I was a child. I loved pandas and thought they were funny. I don't remember the plot at all but I remember them happily eating bamboo at the end.

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For me I’d say the themes of a character being a caretaker recur a lot by accident, never planned. Faith and doubt occur a lot with or without my planning. I’d also say that cosmic/ontological horror festers down into a lot of what I write, horror or not. #SFFChat

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The first thing? I think I was 12 years old. I’d just seen Transformers: The Movie. The cartoon one. I came home and wrote a ~two-page “novelization.” I drew a big old autobot symbol for the cover. I asked mom if I could write “shit” b/c it was one of Spike’s lines. She said no 😥 #sffchat

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#SFFChat Q1 - Duality. A lot of times my MC will face off against someone who is their opposite in some way. It's the JoJo's fan in me. Also the theme of Friendship. A lot of my characters will usually be surrounded by their friends or make friends and they accomplish something together.

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#SFFChat I don’t really write around themes intentionally. They do inevitably end up in my writing, but I rarely set out to write with specific themes in mind. I guess if you count queerness as a theme I do intentionally include that in every story.

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#SFFChat I don't start writing with themes in mind. I'll usually discover them as I'm working through the first draft. Once I figure out what the characters need, my themes tend to be things like 'finding self love' and 'found family'.

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#SFFChat A2: let’s go with part two. Intentional themes I think are for the eye of the writer, unintentional themes usually come out when the beholder (audience) come into play, because they bring their biases that colour the way they absorb what they read. 🧵

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#SFFChat I somehow continue to write about found families.That totally doesn’t…reflect anything about… my own feelings…about my family Anyways,I also have a lot of recurring themes around grief, learning to process emotions that have been pushed down, power struggles,and learning to accept yourself

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#SFFChat Q1. Someone always goes through an existential crisis in one way or another in my stories

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Nature is healing (nature is eating you alive) #SFFChat A2

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#SFFChat Q3. As I mentioned, connection and divinity are two of my returning themes. I prefer to add themes to my works with intent (often during planning, though they may also arise later), but I'm also aware that a reader may interpret a different theme in the story, and that's beautiful, too.

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Hello #SFFChat! I’m Lilly and I’m a 3rd year (🫨 that’s right, half way through baybee) vet student and writer of high fantasy. An early piece of writing that always sticks in my mind is a short story I wrote in 1st grade about what it felt to be like a lizard sunbathing on a rock

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Themes I love to explore: 1. Transformation (usually involving animals to refer to true reflection of inner identity). 2. The nature of monsters (what looks monstrous and is feared/ostracized vs what is truly monstrous and often hides in plain sight) #SFFChat

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