Inspired by all the discussions happening around community, conflict, world building and writing I would like to suggest some of the above.
Probably best short and with generous time to not overwhelm anyone’s schedule, but maybe a monthly thing to start with, would anyone else enjoy trying that?
Yes, based on a recent topic here I thought it would be interesting to write a Solarpunk story from the perspective of an “anti-hero” sort of narcissist or so. Something that doesn’t villify these mental health issues but shows how a Solarpunk society sort of manages their deficiencies.
That sounds interesting and I’ll want to read it!
The story I’m trying to put together tries to include all the imperfect and awful people that just happen to exist already, given the chance to sort themselves out after given the chance to do so undisturbed by central government. The global fossil fuel supply chain and telecommunications are suddenly interrupted by some disaster, and people are forced to self-organize in their local communities. The anti-hero is reluctantly sent out on a hero’s journey that then after all will not be one (the long journey short, after all, the difficult problem solved by other communities happy to share). So it’s set up to start rather dramatic and then works out to be a lot more slice-of-life. A lot of it is about getting along with a range of annoying people - from the full-blown armed militarist invader to the bullshit artist narcissist (and how exactly the getting along works is to be worked out, and a lot of the stuff we discuss here helps the writing along).