I think it is!

Reading is another thing that can help a lot (comics included), and basically any handcraft. Anything that makes you struggle a little bit

Indeed, that was one of my inspirations for the template of separate stories, although the setting is wildly different and it mostly becomes straight up feudal in the middle section. I would like to avoid scenarios of regression or dystopia, so let’s see if I manage!

Yes! It consists of five stories across four centuries, following the twists and turns of a library in Tampere as the world around it changes.

The first story was set in 2067, the second in 2148 and the one I’m about to write is in 2232. I always try to keep it realistic, so there’s no standard scifi tropes like aliens or androids or teleportation.

It’s a craft that requires failure, and everyone has their own learning times. As long as you’re enjoying it, you should keep writing it!

Would you mind sending the story once you feel confident with its final version? I’d love to give it a read!

Finally getting the chance to post without several days of delay! 😂

April has been quite fruitful! I’ve finally completed the revision of Kanteletar’s Section B, so I’ve already started to outline Section C (which is to be written across May and June, if I manage). School practice was intense so I didn’t get to write anything else, and next month will also be quite busy with… more useless essays 😩 Hopefully the last ones for the foreseeable times.

Plenty of summer projects:

• Kanteletar Section D (4/5)
• A short story (maybe 6k words? Not too long) about a tribe of Kobolds displaced by a faceless Empire and the social consequences of their migration
• Maybe something to send for Karl Schroeder’s “solarpunk” contest?

You won’t believe me but this time I’ve been late INTENTIONALLY! I wanted to write/edit a lot during Easter vacations and I managed to do so, so I postponed the update to include this writing burst 😤

• Edited four (out of six) chapters from Kanteletar’s Section B
• Submitted some flash fiction to Scrappy Capy’s Harbour magazine after a loooong time not submitting anything!

Considering I’m very deep into teaching practice (and I will be for the rest of April as well), I’m very proud! :D

It isn’t when you have complete tactical superiority and you want to intimidate your opppnents

Do you think tech amdo social media are a positive or negative thing?

Do your friends share the same opinion?

To me, it’s valuable in the sense that you shouldn’t be overly judgemental/self-critical towards your own writing and write anyway. In this sense, it resonates with me.

But if one reads it in the sense of “just write whatever, even if you have nothing to tell”, then I’d hard disagree; there are no worse stories to read than those in which the author doesn’t like/know what they’re trying to tell. I believe writing without purpose is counterproductive.

Did you really have to use AI for the picture?

Did you really need to make it with AI?

I’ve done lots of writing these past two months I was excited up until here, and then… 😅

But I vouch for the dream journal! I’ve done it some years ago and it really helps if you want to get into lucid dreaming. Not so much for story inspiration though 😅

If you’re looking for a new topic, I’d be interested in learning how to deal with copper tailings! 👀

“What a year, huh?” “Captain, it’s March”

…I’ve been swamped in university essays so I completely missed last month’s WC!! 😭

I’m slowly getting back in creative-mode-brain, and I did so with a quick not-so-solar-but-very-punk flash fiction. I’m planning to use this month to edit Kanteletar’s Section B before getting on to sketching Section C. I’ve watched a documentary on Gemeana’s copper mine, and I might write some hard-solarpunk story on the restoration of the valley’s ecosystem.

If all works out, it’s the last time I’m wasting my wordcount on dubious-utility academic essays!

Have you ever watched Shrek?

God fuck this is so wrong and disrespectful at the same time

Happy to hear you’re now employed, and hopefully the job will leave you enough headspace to put some words down at the end of the day!

I’ve finally started the second section of the Kanteletar novel, and the first half went very smoothly… until I got kinda stuck and I might have to tinker with the ending more than I had imagined. I wanted to complete it by the end of December, but it looks like I might need a couple more weeks.

I started taking part in a monthly anarchist writing workshop, so I hope I can get some new insights on my work AND I can provide mine to other likeminded authors!

Anyway, the target for this 2026 year is going to complete this novel and possibly write a quick fantasy novella I’ve had in mind for some time. Not too high effort, possibly Pratchettian, just to take my mind off the solarpunk genre before the next project.

Didn’t like how the plot hooks you in with Gustave & Lune having to deal with a world on the brink of the end, and then it becomes Verso & Maelle having to deal with family drama. Massive disappointment.