Hello! I'm new around here

Hi, Margaret! Welcome! I'm Kat.

I think you'll find plenty of sci-fi writers here; the speculative boards are hopping. (At least the Show Your Work section is . . . it's like workshopping, but online.)

I write contemporary, but not sci-fi. I like tangling up characters in difficult relationships and making them run hamster wheels trying to untangle themselves. Yes, this is the cynical way of describing it. I throw in bratty children when I'm bored with the angst.

What do you enjoy best about writing sci-fi/thrillers/contemporary?

Looking forward to seeing you around!

margaret.pearson said:

If you want a cat to fly to another universe and start an army of martians to attack Earth, you can, goddammit!
Are you working on anything currently? Doing any challenges for July?

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I would so read this! Though that's one determined cat. Have you written a similar scenario or was it a fun example?

Just before you got here we did this sitewide thing called the Beta Project, so a bunch of us are critiquing excerpts of each others' work and requesting/swapping beta reads if the spirit moves us. So I'm juggling critiquing others' work with tweaking my completed WIP so it's ready for betas. When I've finished that I'm going to try (again) to write a new WIP set in the traditional fiddling community.

How about you? What do you have simmering?

Oh yes! We have plenty of places.

If you're looking for a critique partner for a whole work, or longterm, we have this forum.

If you want feedback on just your first chapter, we have this forum.

Now, the thing about both of those forums is you need to have 50 substantive posts to start a thread. We like to make sure that people who get substantial volunteer help from this site are going to be the sort of folks to stick around, pay things back or forward, and generally be a part of our community. The good news is, there are lots of ways to make 50. You can critique other peoples' work, which is a great way to learn. There are lots of threads where we just chat about writing or non-writing subjects and you can post on those and make friends that way. And if you have a question that doesn't involve a specific critique, you can ask that question and get a discussion going.

So far the Beta Project has been annual or semi-annual. Since I don't run it, I can't guarantee it will stick around, but don't lose hope! You may well be able to enter next year.

Oops! I spaced on giving you the password. It's "vista" (no quotes). We have passwords on some forums so that it's harder for bots to find.

I hope you enjoy your time here!