jdpopham.bsky.social
Compulsive scribbler. Teller of small stories. Believes in whimsy, the written word, and fierce, dark coffee.
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O.o
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The desperate housecats of Blue sky
#DesperateHousecats
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Some people write because they can't not write.
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Ah. So not just the absence of a romantic subplot. Should include at least one primary character who experiences little to no romantic attraction, and the plot should leverage said aromanticism. Correct?
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Aromantic fiction = fiction that is not romance fiction? 🤔
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I will read it before the noms close.
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I'd just use the Icelandic word. Like many words from Old Norse it's a "skull word" that sounds like what it describes. And it's relentlessly cool.😎
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It's a matter of math, not opinion. But to understand why, you need a tiny bit of econ 101:
By the rules of GDP accounting, a country's trade balance has to equal national savings minus national investment. (Or: NX = S - I).
What exactly does that mean?
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"level up" not "leave up" 🙄
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That said, as kids leave up their reading skills we need to make sure there's plenty of content available to them that they find engaging, both fiction and non-fiction. That was a key factor in the two-classroom school I attended at the time: a wall stocked with good books for all reading levels.
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I have to confess that I resisted moving to "nutritious" books as a child. It was the insistence on the part of a teacher that I strengthen my reading skills by taking on more challenging prose that opened a broader world to me. I am ever in her debt for that.
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I hadn't heard of the jigsaw approach. I assume that's where I pull story fragments from the 'desk drawer of despair' and try to assemble them into a coherent story while.🤔
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After which much coaxing is required to get any new chapters to follow the "good" chapter.
"No really, each of you has a special part to play!"
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My cat battles with the sheets while I make the bed then, wearied from his labors, falls asleep on top of it afterwards.
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😂 Been there.
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Send me your poor plot-points, your tired characters, your unnecessary subplots yearning to be free....
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It is the way
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And when will you be stopping by Politics & Prose in DC? On the way to Worldcon perhaps?
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US publishers make sure Americans aren't discomforted by unfamiliar terms such as "knock-on", "fry-up" and "Scouser". They also make sure grey is spelled "gray" and tyre is spelled "tire". Oh, and they may change the title if it's not sufficiently lurid (see "Midnight Riot").
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😄
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Well played!
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Part and parcel of pushing the envelope. Well done.😊
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Just so. You can't excommunicate your way to a majority.
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The days are just packed.😊