Welcome to the 22nd writing club update. Spoken aloud in English “twenty-two” or “two two” or “tutu” reminds us that anything can be made cutesie or twee, even a harsh number like 22. And shouldn’t that give all some hope for a cuter future?

Things have been getting warmer here, but still unusually cool, which suits me just fine. It’s lovely bike riding weather.

To any new eyes, this is a monthly writing club where we share progress on our writing related projects and general goings-ons. Everyone is free to participate either by commenting on others’ work, or by sharing their own goals and/or achievements.

  • grrgyle ( grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) OPEnglish
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    5 months ago

    For my goal I said I would write 1 000 word of proper story for this short story I’ve been poking away at. I mayyy have technically reached that goal, if I could up all my edits, but I got a bit lost in rewriting some exploratory character scenes. The tone has become much darker which I find easier to write (it’s an easy nihilistic sci-fi story closer to cyberpunk than solarpunk as it stands), but I’m trying to find a way to weave a thread of hope(punk) through it. We’ll see. It’s pretty out-there post-human sci-fi fare–very far from the more grounded roots of most of the writing we talk about in this community.

    Other than that I’ve kind of become obsessed with making maps for Doom (1693+), and while not strictly writing related (though I always have an environmental story or theme in mind for each map), I have been spending a lot of my creative energies there.