Just in case anyone’s a fan of this book and wasn’t aware, there’s also a short story kind of prequel to this book called The Day Before The Revolution that’s free to read here.

Yeah I do that too! I’m here for cozy literature talk, not whatever is going on in the rest of Lemmy lol.

For the new year, I’m going to try a thing based on a Ray Bradbury quote:

The best hygiene for beginning writers or intermediate writers is to write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you can write one short story a week—it doesn’t matter what the quality is to start, but at least you’re practicing, and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones. Can’t be done. At the end of 30 weeks or 40 weeks or at the end of the year, all of a sudden a story will come that’s just wonderful.

So far I’ve only got half of one 'cause it’s the first week of January, but I’m going to see how far I can get with it.

No, not really. They’re all in kind of different states of completeness, if that makes any sense. Some don’t have names or faces yet, that sort of thing. But I tend to just leave them alone until I need them, then they start to become more concrete depending on the story.

I definitely do that! I have several characters floating around in my head right now that don’t have a story to go into yet.

I can appreciate that they’re in a somewhat difficult position, with the law on one side and what’s morally right on the other side, but also this is exactly the sort of scenario where everyone needs to band together to demonstrate that an unjust law won’t fly, and IMO trying to weasel out of it with a half-measure is just appeasing the wrong side.

In an ideal world all the libraries, schools and publishing companies would just ignore this and carry whatever books they see fit, and give the legislators a choice to either back off or go after them all at the same time.