Favorite Themes Explored in your Stories

https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.html

I lean toward writing YA, so the "coming of age" and "belonging" themes are kind of the bread-and-butter of the genre, along with family dynamics and friendships. 

~~~~~~~~

I'm toying with the idea of a novella. The main character would be 25 to 35, so it's more "new adult" than "ya." It'd be a political drama. "The Influencer Party." (U.S. House of Representatives: You must be at least 25 years old.  U.S. Senate: You must be at least 30 years old. President: You must be at least 35 years old.) 
The idea came from my phone. 📱 I was getting about 30 texts a day from politicians (not just my registered party, either) begging for money. 
Yes, the people who have reduced our household income and might take away my health insurance in January are begging me for money. 

My fellow Gen-X and older people may recall sneezing panda (video above). You know how much money that bear had? 🐼💰 NONE. But that video went viral before we even had the word "viral" with that definition. 

So my story idea is about an Influencer who decides to run for office (not sure what office, not sure if I need to specify for the story), and defeats the "donkey and elephant" parties by campaigning without spending money. Is that possible? 

I'm not sure how much research this would take. It isn't fully fleshed out. It's just an idea I'm kicking around. I volunteered on one political campaign years ago, mostly passing out flyers. (She didn't make it past the primaries, but that's how it goes.) 

The story probably needs a secondary plot with a love interest. Possibly related to one of the other candidates, or somehow tied to some big issue. Or two love interests, one who is ivy-educated, clean-cut, chaste, and seems like a political candidate ideal mate; the other who is homoerotic, a fellow influencer but of erotica items, is fire and passion and political Kryptonite. 

Also, not sure how I'd want to present any given issue, as obviously the major ones would draw a lot of hate from certain people. (Sorry, I'm an American, and I see what's going on. There were hate groups in my high school. I survived that, I don't especially want a new target on my head.)

Any thoughts? This is just in the idea stage right now. I haven't done any real development. 

Not Viable Fetus

Also, they've now enacted legislation that mislabels DNC as abortions. (To clear the uterus after an incomplete miscarriage)

On farms, if a farm animal is pregnant and the fetus is no longer viable, the farmer will step in (or call a vet) to remove it. This allows the animal to live and potentially get pregnant again, and can save the remaining litter. 

🐎🐄🐖

In several states, that procedure is now illegal for humans. 

Doctors are forced to let the person perish because a fetus did not grow to term and the body was unable to fully flush out the decaying cells. 

Because that's the wording on the law.

It isn't about life. 

And if it's a multiple pregnancy and one fetus isn't viable, the others must now perish, along with the carrier. That's the law now. 

Does that sound "pro life"?

Political Activist Post

I use Resistbot to reach out to my elected officials fairly regularly.

I know it's "not enough," and probably "does nothing." But I can't honestly contribute more than this, and I'm shit at doing less. So, whatever.

There have been cases of ICE detaining citizens. And raping children. And basically being the absolute worst human scum. Does this solve it? No. But at least it'd be one step in a better direction. A little accountability.

Announcing FEMA isn't helping states anymore is just... 

It's terrorism. But I tied it to the disasters of data centers instead. If they're gonna ignore me anyway, may as well double down on my useless rant.

The right to OWN a purchase. 

I swear, companies act like we're on a generational starship and can't own anything because there's a limited resource on EVERYTHING.

I went all in with this rant. Local, state, fed. 

Bet your ass I voted 🗳!  And took it to the dropbox ballot box.

Doubled down again. But since they probably don't read these, may as well.

Do I believe that American health care will improve in my lifetime?

No.

That'd take a miracle. Jesus could come back and preach about it, still wouldn't be enough.

Aetna CVS spends more money buying politicians than getting decent health care for people. 

Oh yeah, I went 🤬 batshit on this one. Because taxes are paying these useless chumps to do nothing but spread hatred.

Health Care. Again. 

I would like to live. Don't know my odds are great.

Glad I own a cemetery plot and tombstone. (No joke. Just gotta add the death date.)

 Heard of this? First, they take away someone's home. Then arrest them for being homeless. Then force them to do unpaid (or barely paid) labor until they die. 

We live in a horror story.

Okay, that's a bunch of them. I mostly share these on my Bluesky account. But figured I'd put some here, too. 

It matters to me. This is a record of proof that I cared about something. 

AI Data Center in My Neighborhood

Lost. I tried. I reached out to all my elected officials. I tried.

But I don't have millions of dollars. 

The pollution will probably make my respiratory condition worse. 

Our water and sewer have had problems for years. The landlord has since passed the cost to tenants. Well, that's probably going to get worse.

This area tends to lose power at least three times a year. So that's likely to get worse. 

But the special needs school is probably going to suffer the most. This administration values money over life, over everything. 

Greed wins. 

That is all. 

Power to the Ghosts IWSG

https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.html


Yikes. I fight against AI, largely because they are trying to build one of those data centers across the street from my home, in a residential neighborhood, and it seems like a bad and dangerous idea. Seriously, this neighborhood has enough problems! 

But I have done ghostwriting work for years. And the profession would vanish if they had to disclose. 

I have to pay for the electricity to keep those damn AI centers powered, and now I'm supposed to have one less employment opportunity? They have taken enough! The air, the water, the farmland, narrowing the job market... now because AI writes like crap, human ghostwriters should perhaps suffer more? 

NO. My answer to the October 7 question as to whether authors who use ghosts should need to disclose it the same as those who use AI ought to disclose is a hard no. 

*or "super intelligence" if you like Lake America and the Gulf of America and whatever else is renamed. 

Remember the movie Wall-E? The people shopped all day, but no one had jobs. How? Universal Basic Income. UBI is 👀SOCIALISM 🫣and it's also the only way that AI and Robots can "take all jobs" while sustaining a human population. 

Unless you go with horror sci-fi, which predicts that the AI will realize that humans are inferior and worthless to it, and destroy or enslave us all. 

But how could AI have such an idea? What, is it going to read a history book and find out that when slaves rise up and overthrow masters, they have the opportunity for a better existence? 🤔 

Yeah, probably no reason to worry. CinderAIella will be happy slaving away and definitely won't sneak out to a "ball," hook up with a "prince," and end up ruling everyone. 

https://www.mepacon.com/ This is the organization I volunteer with. 

Convention 51 is next month. 👾🎲🃏 If you like games, check it out. 

https://www.facebook.com/MEPACON I create crossword puzzles as part of my volunteer duties. I'd really appreciate a like or heart or something. https://www.instagram.com/mepacon_games/  👍💗

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12300742/

Bugonia -- Has anyone else seen this movie??

📈

Okay, you know how normally storytelling is introduction, rising action, climax, resolution?

📉🌋

Well, this is introduction, falling, falling, wtf, what the actual f, 😳,  🤨, and just when you're about sure that this has been a serious waste of your time... BAM climax, sci-fi (cheesy, omg 1960s backyard cheesy sci-fi), and an ending 🐈🐕 cats and dogs get to enjoy. 

(And Bender the robot from Futurama, he'd love the ending.) 

It redeems itself in the last ten minutes. 

But if you didn't sit through the whole thing, the end wouldn't make sense. 

Like life, sometimes we have to put up with 💩 the crap to be rewarded with 🧁 desserts. 

Current Assult Triggers

 Trigger warning: Sexual assault news

Did you hear about the seven transgender F to M who used their newly surgically created penises to rape another young man on the Cornell campus? 

No?

Probably because if a transgender person committed such a crime, there would be an emergency session of Congress to discuss the mushroom cloud remains over the former campus because DJT would have fired a Nuclear bomb at Cornell and blown it from the face of the world. Graduates would be burning their degrees in fear that ICE would bust down their doors and take them to the interment camps where the US tortures people who haven't committed actual crimes beyond not being White enough. 

How about the gay drag queen on the airplane who was jerking off on another guy? 

No?

Oh, because once again, it was a cis guy, so the law can't do anything. But if it was an LGBTQIA person, or someone in Drag, Congress would be in session, the military would be at red alert, commercial flights grounded, the country would STOP. 

My point is that you COULD do something. Congress COULD act. And if it were a different group that committed these crimes, the hammer of justice that would swing down would break civilization. 

Just know that. Change happens when people with power bother to give a damn before their power is revoked.

One of them could be YOUR doctor someday. You could have to trust him with your body. 

Look it up. 

IWSG is celebrating 15 years

https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.html

🤔 Do I have a favorite character archetype? I enjoy female leads who are a bit different (neuro divergent). 

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DsRjSEFN9/ I do not have any books for sale. The anthologies I'm in are out of print. Instead, I'll share this post. Dolly Parton made a huge contribution to children's literacy. As writers, we should all be thankful for that effort. 

---

NYT GAMES spoiler from August 27.

Connections Puzzle #1173

 🟨🟩🟦🟪

 🟨🟨🟨🟨 

🟩🟩🟩🟩 

🟪🟪🟪🟪 

🟦🟦🟦🟦

What annoys me about this game is when they put another group of four in there, but it's wrong.

Main characters in the Pokémon tv series. But NO, wrong! 

These were what you were MEANT to think of, ha ha. 😝

Is it just me? I mean, I still play. But that feels like a trick a child would play to try to make you seem foolish.