I think the problem was that there was no ledger. So I agree you that you can’t really know that way, but when the ledger is a nothing but blank entries going back 20 years, it’s not very useful.

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Kalira - goes by Kal
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Sarahn

Hi there. I just found this, so I doubt I’ll be ready to go in a week, but do you do these often?

I realize that these words have very positive definitions and I’ve given some very dark examples. Sorry about that. lol

Hmm, I overused “ever-“ a bit in that first paragraph. lol The first chapter has been edited and wasn’t just thrown up. Shouldn’t be as repetitive.

Sorry about the image quality, it looks better on other platforms. Bluesky just doesn’t allow for good quality images apparently.

Oh… as for inspiration. It’s a world born out of the turmoil our country continues to find itself in financially and politically. Called it: “Divided Territories of America”

Thanks! Yeah it’s an interesting narrative taking place about 150 years in our future. I’ll be setting up a website for it all soon. Discord makes it tough because the links all expire after 24 hours

Thanks hun! I’ve been looking for meaningful stuff to post without giving away plot points for my series

Ever heard of WIPSnips… I’m new to the online social media thing. Or at least, new to actually trying to care to keep up with it. lol

Is there a list for these? Or is it your own creation?

Stephen King? Probably. His name is just too iconic. But I’m not sure if that’d be true of anyone who isn’t as well known.

Im not sure I’ll be doing that. I’m just going to use my real name for it all I think. That way if anyone is curious about more of my work, it’s easier to find.

an unfortunate question. 🤷‍♂️ It’s been that way for thousands of years. Just about every civilization since the dawn of time has been ruled by the rich. Unless you include more spiritual cultures and aboriginal societies, but they never get very big in the population department.

as someone who doesn’t care what side of the aisle a person is on, maybe don’t assume a group of people is lying just because their ideology is different. We need to start conversations, not screaming matches.

it depends. Without naming the title, I was gifted a copy of a book by the author themself recently at a book signing for a different book.

I really wanted it to be good, since he was a new author and had gotten further than I had. I did read a lot of it, but I just couldn’t finish it.

good question. As someone who writes a lot of different short stories I have a lot of options to pull from for book possibilities. As an author are we always going to be held to our publicly preferred genre? Is it expected that we stay in our lane?

:) I’ll try it. I’ve seen a lot of that but sometimes it’s just not a great option. For example: what about a short pause in the action where characters move ahead in time by a couple hours to keep the pacing up.

A few hours later…

Or

Later that day…

Both just fall a little flat, you know?

I feel that pain….