BrightFlame (she/they)

Very true. I should add that!

Finally began @aemarling.bsky.social 's Neon Riders and love the #solarpunk features of the story.

The novel was selected as one of the 5 best Solarpunk books by @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social (mine too!)

So join me in reading it!

@fivebooks.com #BookSky

#solarpunk book club with @susankayequinn.bsky.social ! Next up is a wonderful anthology that decenters humans, edited by @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social .

Writers' fraught relationships with hope ⋆ BrightFlame Why are authors reticent to write hopeful fiction? So many write dystopian, grim, and horror stories. Where is the hope?

Check out my latest blog that notes many #writers would rather write #horror #grim #dystopian works than #hope these days. (Is that what you all prefer to read?)

Hope you'll take a look: brightflame.com/writers-frau...

#hopepunk #solarpunk #SFF #SpecLit #WritingCommunity

I highly recommend @teffeau.bsky.social 's A HUNGER WITH NO NAME. A story of rebellion and #hope. Take a look.

#solarpunk #hopepunk #SpecLit #SFF
#BookSky

We left good vibes and sundry greetings for you during the previous session in the room! @davering.bsky.social

@acwise.bsky.social Just noticed the reverse side of your postcard for Ballad of the Bone Road (that I look forward to reading). "Wish you were here darlin' xoxo Jimmy Valentine" Really fun to see that following your reading at #Capclave!

brown chipmunk with darker brown back and white stripe on side stuffs their cheeks with chewed leaves. They sit in a flower pot filled with green leaves of many shapes--all volunteer plants.

I'm procrastinating from a story deadline. So here's a little chipmunk for you.

#WritingCommunity #WritersLife #Writing (not) #WillIMakeThisDeadline?

@susankayequinn.bsky.social , I think you can relate!

#SpecLit #SFFH

...drafted the blog plus inched along on the story. Blog out soon about how authors respond to writing hopeful fiction. (you can subscribe to my blog on my site brightflame.com)

good one! I had to look at your alt-text to make sure you were seeing what I was seeing!

Nice to meet Syd at Capclave! Hope to see you all in November!

How ... honorable! (I've not been to Arisia yet. One of these years!)

I should be finishing a story I'm writing against a deadline ... so of course, I'm inspired to write a blog post instead.

#WritingCommunity #SpecLit

Nice to meet you in person ... and note how your math background + spec fiction intersect!

The Working A modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and …

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Thanks to @buchanan.today , I'm adding The Binding to my TBR as well! Lovely to discover!

I hope you enjoy The Binding. Looks like you kind of have a theme going with both of these titles :-)

Enjoy! (And thank you! )

Webbing up! Growing community that lifts #solarpunk and hopeful #climate fiction. Follow @hopepit.bsky.social

#hopepunk

Fun to see #authors I know at #Capclave and meet new folx.

Full day of interesting panels ahead.

#WritingCommunity #SpecLit #SFFH

Nice to know both of you! 😁☀️

I look forward to reading!

The War on Truth Heats Up (just in time for Constitution Day) Hannah Arendt famously wrote, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer

From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"Propping up fossil fuel is like propping up white supremacy: the future of the USA is a nonwhite majority, and the future of the human race is renewable energy."

I highly recommend following her for #truth #justice
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-war-on-t...

I love my writing group! Go @bsfwriters.bsky.social !

#WritingCommunity #SpecLit #SFF

fyi, checked #Solarpunk Mag website and the #CliFiPit event is postponed.

Just checked #Solarpunk Mag site:

"UPDATE: DUE TO A LACK OF RESPONSE FROM PUBLISHERS, WE’RE POSTPONING #CLIFIPIT IN ORDER TO CONTINUE BUILDING A PROGRAM THAT IS WORTH PARTICIPATION BY AUTHORS. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING." [caps theirs]

So not this week.

#ClimateFiction #CliFi #hopepunk

loaded question.

My mosaic novella formed of linked solarpunk stories.

This whole thread! #futurism #WritingCommunity #BookSky #SpecLit

yeah, Selena has excellent taste and instincts!