Patterns in Chaos - Sci-Fi Short Story
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Poshing it up on twitter... my favorite place to have a good old fashioned tweet. #posh brought to you courtesy of @ocdb @ocd @acidyo promoting steem outside steem :)
https://twitter.com/rowanj808/status/1233467500362371073?s=20
Retweeted! With an excerpt: "I felt myself stretched over a wide space. All of me infused with every water molecule in each cloud" #loveit! Still reading....
I wouldn't hyphenate morph-able, but it's ok that you do. :)
Thank you Carol @carolkean
You have inspired me to write another sci-fi story this weekend, this time to be submitted to paying online magazines/journals. I need to think about building up my writers CV and building some recognition in the mainstream.
Your help editing inspired me to realise I can do this with a little more focus on what will be best for my career as a writer!
Much love xx
P.s. I remember what you said about Google Doc next time
Woot!!! Good luck!!!!
I'd love to see your stories in anthologies, ezines, magazines, books -
I'll do whatever I can to help make it happen!
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STOPLooking for a way to message you without having to use Discord... may have to go there after all!
Just a few trivial nits - I'm still only partway in, and the story is awesome, as always! One habit a lot of writers have is repeating the same word in one sentence or one paragraph (or a hundred times too many in one novel). It's very minor, but some readers notice the "echo" in places like this:
It seems to me that the average sentient organic’s perception of meaning is shaped by the time and place that existence takes place.
Trivial. I know.
You can message me on twitter if you'd prefer carol :)
I looked for that option - and due to format changes there too, I didn't see the Messaging option. Oy ve. I'm worse at tech than you can imagine.
Stephen Hawking would have applauded the conclusion, insofar as it reinforces his dire warnings about AI. :)
An artificial intelligence created by a species descended from monkeys, subsumed by a silica based hive life form...
Murphy. Trent. The AI. The tentacles. Visceral and very visual.
Disturbing and thought provoking.
You are officially a science fiction writer in addition to fantasy and poetry - and as Matt Haig said, "There is only one genre, and it is book," you show how elegantly the lines between genres can be crossed.
Thanks for your always inspiring words Carol, and for helping me with a fine-tooth-comb edit :)
I love writing in various genres of speculative fiction. I have to be honest, much more than attempting literary fiction. Crime, fantasy, scifi or even occasionally comedy writing seems to flow easier than the serious stuff. I guess it's because I've always been a dreamer and a lover of escapism in my choice of reading material.
I'm glad you enjoyed the visceral, and brutal chaos of this sub-creation that afflicted my mind until I exorcised into words 😆
#Pulp-Rev with Ben Kit Chea has been on Steemit longer than I have.
You might love their mission - pulp fiction with merit and substance!
I tagged this to pulprev
I'm afraid in not a fan of Chea only for his lack of interest in anything on steem other than his own work.
I have no time for people on here who spend zero time engaging with others. Having said that I have read his stories and they're very well written.
ah, is that why Pulp Rev is such an isolated community....
I haven't checked in there ever since I gave up on Discord.
I've cut back on so many things. Like a hundred DIscord channels where I spent all my waking hours engaging with others - dialogues that poof into the wind. My attention span is shorter than ever now that grandchild #3 was born this week - spent the day meeting her yesterday - and our daughter looks worn out. Steemit. Why am I even here at this moment when I could be occupying the grandkids...
Science Fiction hive you might cross-post to:
https://beta.steemit.com/created/hive-122598
Web Novels is another - you likely already know this:
https://beta.steemit.com/trending/hive-153503
Cross posting your own work is frowned upon and I understand why. It's essentially reposting your own post. Potentially abusing the reward pool.
The concensus seems to be that when other people cross post your work it's acceptable but not your own.
Lol, who makes these rules eh?😉
I'm totally lost in these rules.
We're supposed to resteem our own post for it to show up in our blog -right?
I don't even know how to cross post, or I'd do it for you.
Ready to take a vacation from Steemit until the complicated new stuff gets simplified. "New and Improved" all too often is New and Inscrutable.
Thanks for hanging in there Raj and making the best of it!
Hi Carol.
Awwww, don't leave!
forget about the cross posting for now.
That's right. To keep it super simple for you:
Just following those two simple steps means you've published the post in the community and your blog :)
I hope that encourages you to keep sharing your awesome writing on steem.
I'll keep doing so and I'm only doing all this community stuff so that there is a place for creative writers once/if this technology really takes off.
P.s. if you really need a break from steem no worries. You know my moto... no drama, no expectations... no worries. Lol, I should have been born in Australia ;-)
If you
Thanks Raj - if Australia is the place to escape politics and tricky regulations, I'd be there in a flash!
I think I get it now: to create a post, I must first locate the community it goes in, by hashtag, by clicking on it, yada yada... and finding that POST icon on the community's page, rather than .... eh.
Ok.
I'm gonna find my feet!
Wow! You sure have a skill for quality writing!
Thanks @goldstreet
It's really nice when someone appreciates my stories. I write fiction to earn part of my income and sometimes pop something up on steem.
I'm looking to put more short stories up here like this as I've started a creative writing community called the Ink Well which is a great place to check out if you like short stories like this, or poetry as well.
Have a look if ya like that sort of thing :)
The Ink Well
I think this story was brilliant, but even more brilliant the formatting of the story. It was very visually appealing to read.
Thank you @vmmouchas
It's music to my ears as a writer when I see that someone enjoyed reading one of my stories 🙂
Yeah, there are some interesting techniques using markdown on steem that can add visual elements to indicate the narrator (AI at the beginning) speaking etc