RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WCC</span></a> 2025.07.12 — How much do themes of transience or permanence appear in your work?</p></blockquote><p>Often, it appears. Characters, even the most entrenched, find their world is fragile or unpredictable. Like in real life. The devil-girl uses this to her advantage. Any time somebody tries to use a job, a situation, or something material to pressure her (sometimes to the point of blackmail) she tells them if they continue she's okay with throwing it all away and starting elsewhere where they won't have her services. Usually, she gets her way. One story, however, she's attending a school and is loath to give that up. What crap she willing to endure, what bad things she's willing to do, in that situation proves interesting—what the antagonists end up suffering when she reaches her breaking point is even more so. </p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>romance</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Restore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Restore</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSReluctanceStory</span></a></p>
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Hello #WritingCommunity
Currently #amediting
One of these is old and one is new. And I won’t say which way round they are.
Gut feeling please. Which version looks better to you?
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Please boost for a wider sample.
I have a debate in my brain that I often get stuck on that hopefully #society may fix by the time I get there in like a decade:
I really want to work in #medicine in some form or another, whether it be a nurse or some kind of counselor for #addiction or other ideas I have.
I am very hyper focused on #health and #biology and they're my biggest nerd interests, and love helping.
Yet I really don't want to #work in a corrupt system that profits off of mandatory suffering.
A haiku inspired by Dorothea Lange's photo "Abandoned Farm in Mechanized Wheat Fields, Oklahoma"
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #photography #poetrywriting #writing #writingcommunity
Cendrine Marrouat - BlogEarly photography: Abandoned Farm in Mechanized Wheat Fields, Oklahoma – Dorothea Lange | Cendrine Marrouat - ArtistSharing my favorite images from the early days of photography...
I had a very sweet conversation a bit ago.
I had made a post on the Tourettes subreddit about a year ago describing a bunch of tics I had.
Someone read this and realized they had a lot of the same problems, and didn't know why they were in so much pain. They went and got treatment and said I saved their life.
It made me think.
I told them that I didn't save their life -
They did by being aware of what they were feeling and seeking out info to help themselves.
I am always studying how the #brain works as I have a few very complicated #disorders associated with it, and #neurology so my desire to understand myself leads me to trying to understand the #science of why.
I was studying how different #drugs affect the nervous system, and into the topic of mixing them, and how that leads to your perception.
You can't get "high" in multiple ways at once.
Your brain turns it all into one input, and it's like an entirely different drug.
I’m planning the death of two of my characters.
I hand write the first drafts of my translations in cheap spiral-bound notebooks using a fancy-ass fountain pen. This essay on hand writing in an age of AI by Deb Werrelin is preaching to the human choir, but it's still a good read.
https://electricliterature.com/ai-cant-gaslight-me-if-i-write-by-hand/
Electric Literature · AI Can’t Gaslight Me if I Write by Hand - Electric LiteratureThere are all kinds of slow movements, slow food, slow families. Perhaps it’s time for slow writing
Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'
https://jollygoodsw.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/working-through-writing-a-c-compiler/
Jolly Interesting Stuff · Working through ‘Writing A C Compiler’Some time ago I decided I wanted to create a c compiler for the Hack processor in the nand2tetris book. After several dead end attempts that I might describe later I found this book : Writing a C C…
Off the Rails: Reflections on a Semester with “AI Tracks” and Rethinking Student AI Agency https://emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/off-the-rails-reflections-on-a-semester (interesting instructor reflections on giving students choice of 2 tracks, AI free or AI friendly) #AI #education #writing
Off the Rails: Reflections on a Semester with “AI Tracks” and Rethinking Student AI Agency https://emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/off-the-rails-reflections-on-a-semester (interesting instructor reflections on giving students choice of 2 tracks, AI free or AI friendly) #AI #education #writing
Jane’s best friend lost her husband. This was just the other day, the day before yesterday. Jane is my wife. One minute, the husband was fine, or so everyone thought, and the next he was gone. Collapsed in his own house. Lights out. A snap of your fingers.
#Writing #Medium #Death #Memoir #Philosophy https://medium.com/ellemeno/what-to-do-with-whats-left-781e9afaf392
Ellemeno · What To Do With What’s Left - Ellemeno - Medium