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booksthatgoboom

@booksthatgoboom@nerdculture.de

Descendant of sea pirates. Cyberpunk author and sometime poet chained to a day job.

#cyberpunk #technoir #author #poet

Also #rescuedogs and #gaming and #climatewarrior, day job in #renewables #solar and I will probably post about a bunch of other stuff.

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booksthatgoboom, to random
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Huge personal milestone unlocked in 2024: I've managed to qualify to join the SFWA, and will be able to attend the Nebula conference and speak on a couple of panels.

I so seldom get to participate in the writing community in this deep a manner, and wow am I PUMPED.

booksthatgoboom, to random
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#WritersCoffeeClub 1/21 Do you know your ending before you start writing?

Sometimes! Of the two books currently published, I knew the ending for one of them in advance.

My current WIP I had a beginning and a single image for the climax, and wrote towards it. 90% of the ending grew from that image, but I didn't know all of it in advance.

booksthatgoboom, to Futurology
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When you're doing for a new and google derails you with the most hilarious shit:

anderlandbooks, to random German
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#writerscoffeeclub Jan 4 What aspects of your current or former profession do you bring into your writing?

I'm an MD (Ob/Gyn). That is very helpful indeed when it comes to medical aspects of the characters.

And I'm offering free advice for ob/gyn questions to all writers who are interested. For selfish reasons - if I read one more dramatic birth scene that's completely unreal, I'm gonna scream.

booksthatgoboom,
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@anderlandbooks Very cool! Let me know if you know an epidemiologist! It's been ages since I read up in that field, and obviously a lot has changed in the last few years, but I'm getting ready to dive into some research for the next book.

booksthatgoboom, to cyberpunk
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Lots of talk in #WritersCoffeeClub today about not giving brands free product placement... does anyone think brands might pay to not be the evil villain in a futuristic #cyberpunk work? Reverse product placement? Or maybe this would be considered blackmail? Hmm...

booksthatgoboom,
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@NaraMoore I suppose that, just to be on the safe side, I will not write Disney as the next megacorporate villain in my next cyberpunk book.

booksthatgoboom,
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@NaraMoore the principal evilcorp in the trilogy that I am currently wrapping up may or not be called “WalCo” 😅

booksthatgoboom,
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@NaraMoore Nice! This is the way - throw shade at evil megacorporations without actually using their names.

Lazarou, to random
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Perhaps the last person the Israel/Palestine situation needs is Elon Musk which is why he's flying to Tel Aviv tonight. 🤦

booksthatgoboom,
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@Lazarou Elon near a war zone, great opportunity for God or karma to prove they exist.

cstross, to random
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11.16 — What ancillary writing apps / sites do you find the most useful?

I've written about 20 novels and several novellas using Scrivener. When I need a word processor with formatting I turn to LibreOffice. But that's increasingly rare these days and I mostly compose text in Markdown using neovim.

Pet hate: Microsoft Word, which I pay a license fee for because I get to check the tracked changes on a copy-edited novel ONCE A YEAR and can't risk tripping over a bug in LO.

booksthatgoboom,
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@cstross Thinking of switching to Scrivener now that my Word Docs have all become a billboard for Microsoft to try to sell me more cloud space.

Can you expand on what you mean by "word processor with formatting?" I'd rather not get into a three-software situation with my writing, does Scrivener not have formatting? Or is it not good?

booksthatgoboom, (edited ) to solar
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Hey there Mastodonians.

Last week I lost my #job for the 3rd time in 2023: once to a bankruptcy, once to a toxic CEO, and last week due to an re-org by a parent company that eliminated my position.

Background in #solar #sales #leadership and fiction writing (MFA in creative #writing). Can you pass this around and reply if you have any job leads? I have 0 runway left at this point.

Edit: USA northeast/remote work please!

Edit 2: Portfolio, AKA my author page: https://pleasefeedthesquirrels.com/

booksthatgoboom,
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@MHowell Great question - added this as a reply to the original comment.

booksthatgoboom, to cyberpunk
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In an effort to enhance my community here I just mass-followed a dozen or so interesting-looking folks with #cyberpunk in their profiles. I have been spending more time on social media lately, but not as much on Mastodon.

Going to try to take a more direct hand in the shape of my digital community here and elsewhere. If you are someone I randomly followed without any interaction, you now know why!

booksthatgoboom, to random
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#WritersCoffeeClub 14: Many writers own cats. Is pet ownership essential for your writing?

My wife and I have added two dogs to our family, and it has tremendously enriched our lives. I do object to the notion of ownership, however.

A cat or dog is a living thing with its own personality that feels emotions like love. You shouldn't treat it as an object or adornment for your life. You should be ready for it to have its own idea about how to live. You should also definitely get one.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 10/1: What's your WIP and what's it about?

There are two I'm kind of bouncing between at the moment.

"Singularity's Edge" (just shy of 10k words so far) is about a bomb disposal robot that gains sentience just as the human world is beginning to collapse. It's dark, and depressing, and not fun to write.

"The Scrimshaw Sorceress" (24500 words so far) is more fun, it's a post-apocalyptic story that takes place about 1000 years after aliens colonize Earth's oceans.

booksthatgoboom,
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@seanpatrickphd Hah, I thoroughly enjoy writing dark an horrible things about the collapse of society. Maybe it's cathartic for me or I am terrible. Or maybe it's a Zom 100 thing where I am fantasizing about freedom coming through the end of the Rat Race...

booksthatgoboom, to climate
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I really want to celebrate the life of a rockstar like Diane Feinstein. But today all I can think about is how she became roadblock to climate legislation later in life, and how much damage that did. Should have passed the torch and retired at her peak 10 years ago.

#uspol #climatechange

Some_Emo_Chick, to random
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booksthatgoboom,
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@Some_Emo_Chick HEY is this a real word? Heavily introverted, possibly on the spectrum, and in a leadership role in sales.

Is it virtue? Or is my people-pleasing problem just stronger than my introversion? At least it's been defined!

booksthatgoboom, to microsoft
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Hey there fellow #authors - the #Microsoft Word garbage pile has finally grown too high. After 2 weeks of editing, it decided that I was not me, and somehow displayed all my changes NEXT TO the original, so for instance I had changed "heart" to "chest," and it was displayed as "heartchest." This was done hundreds of times across like 40 pages. I'm about done.

What apps do you all love to use to write, and why? Please halp!

kyonshi, to cyberpunk
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Just a reminder, we are on the exact timeline for that rad dystopian #cyberpunk setting you liked as a setting in the 90s.

The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/

booksthatgoboom,
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@kyonshi The punch line at the end, that the FDA approved them for human trials.... Jesus.

booksthatgoboom, to missouri
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Happy Spidertember in #Missouri - it's the season when most #spiders are giant, and the spiders own everything outside. That's not my grill anymore, it belongs to the spiders now.

booksthatgoboom,
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@dreadpir8robots Yeah, to be fair to the spiders I haven't used it for a few months. Today's adventure involved grabbing the propane tank to get refilled, little knowing that it now belonged to a very large wolf spider.

booksthatgoboom,
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@dreadpir8robots Last fall there was a pretty big yellow garden spider that built a web in the corner of my garage door. It shook every time I opened it, but it was never in the way, so we co-existed peacefully. Eventually it got cold out, and one day when I opened the garage door, the spider was dead just beneath the web. That one actually made me sad.

But wolf spiders hiding under things can fuck right off (I didn't kill him, but he was certainly not invited back).

booksthatgoboom, to random
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Fair warning: this article is HEAVY - story of a 13 year old essentially forced to give birth to her rape baby in Mississippi due to chaos created by anti-abortion laws.

https://time.com/6303701/a-rape-in-mississippi/

#uspol #abortion

booksthatgoboom, to animals
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Happy #tongueouttuesday to those that celebrate. Please enjoy old lady #rescuedog Zelda, whose tongue has very few teeth to hold it in her mouth. #dogsofmastodon

booksthatgoboom, to cyberpunk
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So in my experience #cyberpunk works tend to be terrestrial cities, and we don’t really explore colonies on other worlds or maybe there aren’t humans on other worlds. But I wouldn’t say that’s foundational to the genre. What books do you all love that are “cyberpunk in space”? #scifi #spaceopera #bookstodon

booksthatgoboom,
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@grueproof And hear them you shall! The second half of the audio book is slated for our road trip home to KC from Maine, so we'll have plenty of hours to wrap it up.

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