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It seems to be really good advice. Getting serious about it. We think a book has a lot fewer stakes than a movie, when it comes to production and engaging the audience. Especially if the author isn't worried about snagging a publisher. So a book can be full of intellectuals doing the best they...

We've been writing so many stories in which the characters are opposite. They'd much rather find a rational solution than lash out (or let someone else lash out). And you know? They are tough to write well! This switch up where our MC is like, "I'm a dragon so I'm going to attack that," really...

Our current name is echoed only in Basque and ancient Scots Gaelic, so we're not likely to see it in any English fiction not written by ourselves. But, we have always loved it when we've seen one of our names used by any character, whether it's a given name, nickname, legal name, chosen name...

No. And no need to get insulting about it. Jesus fucking Christ. We looked into it. We compared the sets of standards used for empirical and the metric system, and the empirical are not as easily converted. Empirical standards are not as simple and readily found as metric standards. We did do...

In our stories about an alien civilization, the units are converted to metric to make it easier to read and understand to Earthlings. They are not the units used by that culture, but the alien culture uses units that easily convert to the metric system due to a very similar system of standards...

After nearly dying multiple times, and then finally getting all of our impossible childhood birthday wishes granted in a span of three years, we cling to our birthdays now and celebrate them as best we can. Now, our wishes are simply that we get to see our next birthday free, alive, and as...

By the time we were done reading Worm and Ward, we had a very detailed 'sona developed for a possible selves-insert fanfic, or ridiculously OP TTRPG. We're something very different, and would initially be classified as a Stranger, or set of Strangers with other powers. Or, eventually, a whole...

Impulsiveness, apparently. She does think about things a lot, but she can't consider every possible thing, and misses a lot of details, taking their explanations for granted. But, ultimately, when push comes to shove, she does a thing, following her intuition, sometimes regardless of what her...

No. Please stop being insulting.

We want to elaborate on this. Even though the book doesn't get written, the primary event that prompted Meg to write it still happens, and a bunch of stuff still goes down. Meg isn't particularly critical for that. In the first book, at least, she's not influential enough to really alter the...

For a lot of people, that's understandable and fair. We're nearly 50 years old, queer, trans, autistic, plural, and therian, and done with our family not knowing who and what we are. We want our epitaph to be Terrible. (but also we do get along with most of them so damn well despite this -...

We post a chapter once a day (seven days a week), and are currently aiming for 3k words per chapter. Our default is to write 5k to 12k words a day, when we're writing a book. We personally prefer Wildbow length chapters of 7k or more when both reading and writing. 3k feels tight and short, but...

We don't post and publish for profit. We publish to get our books read and archived by friends, family, acquaintances, and fans.

If Meg gets removed from the story of girldragongizzard, then the book doesn't even happen, because she's the narrator and author. None of the other characters are likely to write a book.

Quite a few. More than is credible, according to one of our members. But we've hand counted over 200 who've come forward. We do tend to write in groups, with one of us playing author/Game Master, and the rest roleplaying the other characters. This is why we do so well with improvised, off the...

There's probably a lot of details and subtleties. Small strengths and weaknesses. Our biggest strength is we're fantastic pansters. We can write a moderate length novel off the cuff in two weeks, and thoroughly enjoy doing it. Our biggest weakness is that we're terrible at writing any kind of...

For the Sunspot Chronicles (Systems' Out!), we've got backstory that goes from the mythical creation of the Ktletaccete homeworld through to the continued exploration of space, and the evolution of the species. There are also three conlangs and a growing document on cultural history and...

Meg has developed a bunch of odd traits since she took her true form as a dragon a couple Saturdays ago. One is that she can't exactly talk, but she can mimic words as sounds. She knows English pretty well, and can write in it just fine, and uses AAC and text to speech to communicate with...

Oh, this is such a good video. Well done!

Yeah. The Asimov Method is the goal, but it sure hasn't been working out that way.