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Her Story Arc’s Best Feminist Books of 2016

Her Story Arc’s Best Feminist Books of 2016:

interludepress:

Our thanks to Her Story Arc for naming Summer Love its Best in LGBT+ in its list of Best Feminist Books of 2016!

This collection of short stories features LGBTQ teens on journeys of romantic discovery.

“The collection is a lovely roller coaster whose only direction is up. I absorbed the book in three days, savoring the sweet romance and optimism. I can’t think of a more enjoyable summer read than happy love stories set during, well...

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The Critical Choice

fictionwritingtips:

There will come a point in your novel when your protagonist needs to make a critical choice or a crucial decision that will determine their fate for the rest of the story. The moment that leads us into the rest of the novel cannot be left up to fate or chance; it must be a decision that character makes. The critical choice should often reveal something about your character and by the point this choice occurs we should know who they are and a great deal about their personal...

caliope-the-aesthetic-lady:Solarpunk aesthetic

caliope-the-aesthetic-lady:

Solarpunk aesthetic

"But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is..."

“But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.”

- Lauren Willig

This Week: #MSWL

fictionwritingtips:

If you’re on Twitter and you haven’t checked out the #MSWL tag, give it a look!

MSWL stands for manuscript wish list and it’s where publishers and agents post what they’re looking for and their “dream projects”. If you’re currently querying or you want some story ideas to work from, this is a great resource. I’m going to try to post something about this every week because it’s been so helpful.

@JessWatterson As someone who battles severe depression, I would LOVE to find...

"Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river."

““Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.””

- Virginia Woolf

missolivialouise:All green – not solarpunk vs solarpunkI just...

missolivialouise:

All green – not solarpunk vs solarpunk
I just wanted to address some aesthetics which I guess separate solarpunk from generic green concepts.

Something that always bothers be about ‘futuristic’ designs, whether green or not, is that the designs always seems to look sterile, smooth, textureless, cold, unwelcoming, and very verywhite.

And the common concept cities! They are always so open and spread apart! And you know what that means? It is a city specifically design...

7 reasons why solarpunk is the most important speculative fiction movement in the last 20 years

kdhume:

It’s hopeful. Solarpunk doesn’t require an apocalypse. It’s a world in which humans haven’t destroyed ourselves and our environment, where we’ve pulled back just in time to stop the slow destruction of our planet. We’ve learned to use science wisely, for the betterment of ourselves and our planet. We’re no longer overlords. We’re caretakers. We’re gardeners. Scientists are heroes again. And not just physicists and astronomers. Knowledge of biology and earth sciences matter, they’re t...