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Do you read? I found that reading and writing go hand in hand for me, and the times I've written the most were the ones when I also read the most. It's kind of a mutual feedback dynamic!

God bless sensitivity readers!

Disregard the question in the above comment: this is absolutely metal! I would love to use such a (text)book in my future classes! High schools generally do such a bad job showing why physics is important and how much of what we are surrounded by is explained by the discipline.

This sounds really interesting! What branch of science, if I may ask?

Also keep us posted, I'm down for betareading if you ever need!

Thank you! Part of me is kind of self-sabotaging though, because I already know I'll beat myself up if in two months I won't be able to match how much I'm writing now 😅

So basically hieroglyphs are like "supertropes", stuff that when you see it, you can immediately tell which genre you're reading/watching. After I translated the SSL (check June Writing Update) I got curious and tracked which were the most common ones and which ones were, let's say, missing:

Here's the link if you want to read about it!

FINALLY some sun popped out, so I did my best to enjoy it. I still wrote plenty, and by following my usual template:

Done this month:

• Kanteletar's first section is almost done (17k words, draft, 🇮🇹)
• Translated a "quick fic" (1k words from a random prompt) that didn't quite make the cut for our collective's magazine
• Wrote a quick fic on an orbital city in year ~2350 of my setting
• Wrote a small "analysis" of state-of-the-art solarpunk hieroglyphs (can share/explain upon request)

To be done in August:

• Translate Kanteletar's first section to English
• Sketch that Meteorina story (setting is post-Campi-Flegrei detonation, where rebuilding communities ask for help to whale communities in the Tyrrhenian Sea)
• I'm not editing that fantasy until the editor(s) contact me with comments xD

I'm starting fulltime courses in September, so August is the last month of unintentional vacation I got. Will try to make the best out of it.

I think I do something quite similar, although in different form. When I get an interesting idea, I put it down in an "Ideas' Drawer" and let them rest. If after two years they're still interesting, then they're worth writing a novel out of.

Now, this is not financial advice, but this method of sketching the prompts and see what grows can work very well and I support it!

It took me a while to read it because it's written in a style I'm not used to, and it felt very rambling and messy. Despite that, I liked his rants against Heinlein, Lovecraft and Star Wars, and it conveyed quite a great point on what science fiction should be about.

Personally I'm going to use this chart to sketch factions in my solarpunk stories. It's not a perfect diagram, but far better than the old political compass.

I think it's because it's an old story that I wrote in 2021-22 and I edited/reviewed it so many times that I just can't motivate myself to edit it on my own again. It would be a lot easier if I got someone that followed me through the process because it would feel like I'm not entering the echo chamber again, but maybe that part will begin next month (hopefully!)

Well, summer is hardcore SUCKING here (been raining for like 12 days out of the last 15...), so I got the chance to write a bit more.

Done this month:

• Translation of ALXD's Solarpunk Seed Library to Italian (also the reason why I had to delay this update for a few days)
• Finally started the Kanteletar novel! Only three chapters in so far, and only in Italian
• After reading mostly fiction for six months, I read an essay (Work by Andrea Komlosy) and damn, it felt so refreshing!

To be done in July:

• Finish the first Kanteletar story and translate it to English
• Edit that god-forsaken fantasy I've been postponing for... I don't want to count the months even, lmao
• I've had another cool idea for the Meteorina, so maybe sketch that down too?