Vivian Roth
#scifi and #horror writer, sometimes together | aerospace engineer | she/her | #writingcommunity #horrorwriters #scifiwriters #sff #sffh
Editing: NEON DREAM IN A VENDING MACHINE (hopepunk scifi)
WIP: IN THE LIGHT OF THE SAME SUN (scifi horror)
- Hopepunk Cyberpunk 2077 x Mike Chen Jaqs dreams of spacewalking, but illnesses keep her grounded. Joining the mob may be the answer, until she has to decide what she’s willing to give up: her friends, her morals, or her dream—even in a utopia, nothing comes without a price. #QuestPit #A #SFF #Q
- This sounds awesome! I would love to read this!
- Thank you, Kelly!
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- Every time I see your cover I think, "fucking sick". It's amazing.
- I love giving people their flowers while they're still alive. It's hard to remember to do it in the chaos of life, but people should hear they're doing a good job, or have done something kind, while they are still around to hear it.
- How do you actually get yourself to write? Do you have a set time that you work? Do you turn on white noise or an album? Etc. #WritingPrompt
- It’s…difficult. I find myself wondering about the why of it all and then I don’t write. Why am I doing this? Sure, I enjoy it. But it all seems like a popularity/networking contest and that’s demoralizing. Don’t know person X and Y, don’t expect to sell.
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- Heh. We were talking about this recently at work due to having to shield our space observatory. It’s a PITA 😂
- Ocean just a soup of decaying matter.
- I read in a writing group about how readers treat books like dinners. You're not always in the mood for a heavy, complicated dish. Sometimes you want Girl Dinner (TM). And, in this group, authors have found their Girl Dinner books sell better than their Beef Wellington. Much to think about
- used the word stars, an essential thing for this book to work. #writingprompt #writingsnippet #writingcommunity
- Well, fuck.
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- Ugh. Yes. Forever chasing the high of reading House of Leaves for the first time.
- At a certain point, writing for yourself is not enough. External validation lets you know someone sees you. Notices you. And points out to the universe, "this here, this is a writer".
- I realized that edits for #NDIAVM are going slow because I am terrified no one will care that it's done. I can deal with it not selling and getting zero reviews, but for the book to be completed and form a void where it once was, where no word from an outside source is utter about it? Depressing
- I realized that edits for #NDIAVM are going slow because I am terrified no one will care that it's done. I can deal with it not selling and getting zero reviews, but for the book to be completed and form a void where it once was, where no word from an outside source is utter about it? Depressing
- Here is the mockup I did when I began my edits. I'm not sure I'll keep it, but it captures the book fairly well. #writingprompt #ndiavm
- I mutter to myself, "do a hobby you're bad at they say", as I once again get my queen taken in chess
- Have more Az, who is arguably the best character. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
- I have got to stop checking the news before work. ruins my whole day
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- 😍(respectfully)
- I, a person with a special interest in science jargon, have had to learn too much legal jargon due to countries being UTTER TRASH FIRES AND I AM SICK OF IT. I ONLY WANT TO READ ABOUT BLACK HOLES, SPACE GAS, AND INSTRUMENT JARGON. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER COUNTRIES.
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- Definitely read that as pakcatgirls
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- Hopefully it still has life (if that is what it is). 120ly is far/long gaze into the past.
- Clicked for the laugh that this caused, stayed for the life advice in the thread.
- Just gonna lean into this harder.
- Me: This chapter really isn't working with how I wrote it. *tinkers with wording and adds awkwardness to MC* Me: Ah, perfect
- When in doubt, make MC more awkward and play into it to add a dash of humanity to the writing is the takeaway here.
- The worst lie I’ve told myself while writing this book is that I know what the color chartreuse is. It is not the purple I thought. #writesky #writingcommunity
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- IT COMPLETELY DOES
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- This book has a lot of bright colors, but I didn’t mean to turn my MC into a crayon by having her show up in a chartreuse dress with electric green hair to this banquet.
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- 1. Nuun is amazing 2. I first read that as nun. I may have been watching too much Warrior Nun.
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- Dang not a great day.
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- Yeah...they're a beast and a half.
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- If you ever want/need a positivity pass I am here. I will make time.
- It's incredibly difficult to get back into it, usually because the energy that goes towards writing has gone to something else. Trying to wrangle that energy back to writing is like redirecting a river. Possible, but difficult. #SpoonieAuthChat
- Them: Viv, please describe your MCs nicely Me: hmm, no. "She’s jaw-dropping gorgeous, and a far cry better than my bagged skeleton cloaked in a chartreuse sequined number" #writingsnippet #writesky #writingcommunity
- Lemme tell you. Real hard to read my space science stuff when space science may not exist next year. Real fucking hard.
- lmao, it just keeps going.
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- I almost tagged you in this, lol. Seemed very Ladzcore
- FUCKING THIS
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- ooo, I love that last line.
- Az is Jaqs' personal robot and companion. He's one of my favorite characters to write because in his different forms I had to figure out how he would communicate. This shows one way. #wipsnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
- My whole book takes place in autumn and winter, so unfortunately all I have is this bit from the opening pages. #writingprompt #writesky
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- oh I am called out
- buy my friend's book
- In a book about feeling frozen in a body that no longer works the same way, this is my only passage with the word chill. #WIPSNIPS #writesky #writingprompts #writingcommunity
- My favorite thing is to send people memes at 3am (no timezone).
- Moby Dick Ch. 2: Is Ishmael's special interest just ship types and collecting them like Pokemon?
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- to have them contribute it to our mission. They then get data and science in response as well as being a part of something cool! Using only American parts destroys that and increases our costs to the point that NASA can't fund us.
