Hi folks, and welcome to writing club update number 14 (fourteen!). Opening up to page 14 of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles we find this paradoxically stark and effusive description of a coming storm. Or perhaps all coming storms:

It was like those days when you heard a thunderstorm coming and there was the waiting silence and then the faintest pressure of the atmosphere as the climate blew over the land in shifts and shadows and vapors. And the change pressed at your ears and you were suspended in the waiting time of the coming storm.

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And then the storm. The electric illumination, the engulfments of dark wash and sounding black fell down, shutting in, forever.

Being as much of my bioregion is currently in the middle of a month-long drought, we could do with a “dark wash” right now. I hope you’ve had a decent amount of rain wherever you are, and if you’re also in a drought, I wish for both of us a big beautiful storm soon!

Speaking of welcome deluges, here are our wonderful writers:

Hopefully your writing has felt more like a deluge than a drought, but even the latter can be constructive in its own way. This also goes to any visitors not on this list (welcome!): please feel welcome to reply and comment with your own thoughts and projects!

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
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    26 days ago

    I like your lists. I feel like you must have a very organized process for your tasks.

    Maybe write the planned Meteorina story? Usually I wrote those to be (tentatively) submitted to magazines, but since the rate of rejection is so high I kinda gave up on that front 😅

    Totally understand the exhaustion of rejection, but alsooo…nevergiveup!!! Rejection is part of the process. It’s like doing exercises at the gym. 😁 Anyway, I can’t really lecture–I’m a total coward when it comes to submitting to magazines, online or otherwise. I really admire your dedication and your output.

    Hopefully your summers have been good, and since I’ll have plenty of train commutes I’d love to read something from you! DM me stuff you’d like advice or feedback on 😄

    This is some great motivation. Honestly as hard as it is to write, it can be just as hard to get people to read it. Hopefully myself and/or some other writing club members can take you up on this offer! :))))

    • Clockwork@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      26 days ago

      Thank you!!

      I started doing lists during the quarantine period in order to keep me on track and never let myself forget or postpone things, and by now I have incorporated them in my autism 😄

      As for the reading others’ works, after many months of hearing everyone’s projects, of course I got curious! And I want to interact more directly with people here, so maybe that’s a good way to start 👀

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
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        25 days ago

        As for the reading others’ works, after many months of hearing everyone’s projects, of course I got curious! And I want to interact more directly with people here, so maybe that’s a good way to start 👀

        I’m really happy to hear this, because it was my main motivation for suggesting we start this writing club–selfishly, I just wanted to get out of my own head and actually exchange thoughts directly with other humans. Personally, I struggle with writing anything coherent over a few hundred words, so I think it’ll be a while before I have anything long form to share… Though I’ve got plenty of little micro stories up here.

        Also if you’ve got any ideas (exercises, collabs, challenges, etc) for the writing club or just generally about writing, don’t hesitate to make a post in the main community https://slrpnk.net/c/writing ✍️