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.

Thank god it’s not quantum computers

Expedition 33

I haven’t tried Obsidian on mobile actually, so I’ll give it a shot maybe!

As for LibreOffice, both reasons! Typesetting, more options, and partially comfort too

I can share the slides but since it was a lesson most of the things I said them by voice, including the experiments we performed in class 😔

Obsidian for notes and plans, worldbuilding on my personal site and LibreOffice for the actual text.

Sometimes I’m on the move and I have to sketch something down, so I send it to myself on Telegram and then move it to Obsidian once I can use the PC again.

We weren’t meant to do anything, no one exists and nothing happens for any particular reason, we are a chaotic yet structured event on the way from a big bang in a race towards the thermodynamic equilibrium and ultimately the heat death of the universe. This is a good thing, actually, because it means that you have the freedom to find your own purpose

Is this Cosmology Sartre? Astroexistentialism? I love the combination 🤩

It’s an incredible resource and I will definitely try and use it for my future stories! Thank you for all the time and effort you put into this.

I spent an ungodly amount of time in school last month (for my teaching practice), and I’ve only written… slides for my lectures 😅 …which was an absolute blast! I even closed it out with a legendary story of our understanding of light, from optics to quantum mechanics, and the students loved it! This overshadows the disastrous failure of the crowdfunding campaign for the other book, from which I finally feel free. This last month will be entirely dedicated to writing Section B of the Kanteletar novel, which I can hopefully complete before New Year’s Eve.

So yeah, nothing new on the fiction front, but I got to try my hand at scientific outreach writing and I should absolutely do it again at some point!