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SFFChat
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Home of the hashtag game #SFFChat! Join us every Thursday for a new set of questions, comment on other authors' posts, and make some friends!

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#SFFChat Outro: Thanks so much for participating and thanks for thinking about trans people with me today! If you don’t know about the Trans Day of Remembrance, I recommend taking a moment today to look it up, along with Rita Hester & Chanelle Pickett!

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November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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#SFFChat Q4: Share an excerpt featuring your trans* characters, or that relates to your answer from one of the questions!

NOTE: GOING TO HAVE TO ANSWER EVERYONE'S RESPONSES IN ABOUT 45 MINUTES. I'LL POST THE OUTRO NOW AS WELL--PLEASE CONTINUE!
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November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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#SFFChat Q3: Shout out a trans writer or artist whose work you admire (or a trans character from a trans author's work!).
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November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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#SFFChat Q2: What is the status of trans and gender nonconforming people in your world? If you haven’t thought about it yet, use this moment to reflect!
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November 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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#SFFChat Q1: For the Trans Day of Remembrance, share a trans* (including nonbinary, Two-Spirit, or otherwise gender nonconforming) character from your work, OR, if you have none, share how one of your characters engages with gender!
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November 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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#SFFChat is here!

Intro: Tell us about yourself & share a videogame that’s influenced you! Or, if no games have influenced you, share a less-discussed form of inspiration!
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November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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#SFFChat Outro: Thanks for participating!! Sorry I wasn't super active tonight (though it did reinforce the knowledge that I don't know how time works, ahaha).

Comment on someone else's excerpt, then comment here with something you'd like shared!
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November 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#SFFChat Q4: Share an excerpt that features time, day, night, or any related concept!
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November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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#SFFChat Q3: How is time kept or measured in your world? If time is the same way as for us, how does magic or technology influence it?
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November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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#SFFChat Q2: When you write, do you tend to have a clear picture of the time of day for particularly intense scenes?
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November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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#SFFChat Q1: What unique features of day, night, or time exist in your world? OR, how do people in your world think about these concepts (maybe they're sacred, etc)?
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November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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#SFFChat Intro: Introduce yourself and share your favourite time of day (night, day, evening, morning--lunch!). Be as general or specific as you like. (:
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November 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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#SFFChat Outro: Comment on someone else's excerpt, then comment here with something you'd like shared!

Spread the love--try and find someone whose work doesn't yet have a comment!

Thanks as always for answering, everyone!!
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November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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#SFFChat Q4: Share an excerpt featuring a key memory of one of your characters, or that features national mythmaking, or commemoration!
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November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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#SFFChat Q3: What aspects of your work would you most like to stick with readers?

This was poorly phrased! Sort of, "what would you most like readers to take away" but in a less immediate sense.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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#SFFChat Q2: What's an SFF work that plays with memory/history/mythmaking very successfully? What do you think makes it successful?
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November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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#SFFChat Q1: What roles do myth, history, memory, or remembrance/commemoration play in your work?
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November 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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#SFFChat is here!

Intro: Introduce yourself and share a fond memory you have of the SFF community, or of writing/reading SFF.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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#SFFChat Outro:

Thanks for being so patient while I defended! Next week's Chat will take place on Thursday morning EST! (:

In the meantime, comment on someone's excerpt, then comment here with something you'd like shared!
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October 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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#SFFChat Q4: Share an excerpt that involves a monster or creature or some kind (or a villain, if you have neither!). Any use of the word "monster" is also good! (:
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October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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#SFFChat Q3: What kinds of monsters/creatures exist in your work? OR, how would your characters respond if a monster suddenly appeared?
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October 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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#SFFChat Q2: What kinds of monster stories do you prefer (or maybe you don't like them at all! Share what does or doesn't appeal)?

e.g. sympathetic monster stories, traditional monster stories, monster romance, maybe a specific type of monster, etc.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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#SFFChat Q1: What is the role of the monster in SFF? Doesn't have to be a traditional monster--interpret as you like (including moral monstrosity, etc)! Maybe you like friendly monsters, sympathetic monsters, sexy monsters!
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October 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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#SFFChat Intro!: Introduce yourself and share something spooky (maybe something you find spooky, a spooky fact, something spooky that happened to you, or something your characters find spooky)!

Also, we're back! Looking forward to chatting tonight. (:
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October 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Apologies that the October prompt list for #SFFChat is so late! When I wasn't able to get it done for the first I wasn't sure if I should do it, but in the end I made one.

Hope the continuation of the spooky theme isn't a bother--interpret the prompts as broadly as you need to (including snippets)
1. Introduce yourself! 2. First Costume you ever wore 3. Share something positive 4. Snippet: Haunting 5. Character fear 6. Favourite spooky or horror book! 7. Snippet: Orange 8. What are you reading? 9. Have you ever scared yourself reading or writing? 10. What are your characters dressing up as for Hallowe’en? 11. What would your mc do if their doppelganger showed up at the door? 12. Snippet: Blood 13. Share something visual (character art, moodboard, cover, etc) 14. Snippet: Night 15. Does your world have any spooky holidays or traditions? 16. Do ghosts exist in your world? 17. Character most likely to survive a horror movie 18. TBR Check-in! 19. What’s your opinion on Bigfoot? 20. Is space inherently spooky? 21. Snippet: Hunt 22. Favourite monster 23. Reimagine your book as a horror story (or, as another genre if alreadu horror) 24. Ask a question of your own to #sff participants! 25. Share some writing advice 26. A story you hope to write but haven’t 27. What’s the value of horror? 28. Snippet: monster/creature 29. Friendship(s) in your story 30. Reading plans for November 31. Snippet: Share a scary scene!
October 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM