JackieFoxWrites

So, my latest concept which I've started writing but haven't shared here is really starting to feel like a post-apocalyptic Harvest Moon fanfic XD  I'm not even a little bit mad at that though it's unintentional.
          
          It's set in my shared universe during the Food Wars following the Great Quietude (a combination of attacks of orbital satellites and EMP attack on major global cities that killed the modern age) and exists in the same timeframe as Nodetalkers #2 but on a slightly different timeline (because of the Wildflower series) and indirectly picks up the story of Wren and Kyoto from Wildflowers, while introducing a new protagonist that's trying to her her grandmother's farm in Oregon survive as America falls apart around it.
          
          It also serves to bridge the gap between how majic is used in Nodetalkers (as an extension of technology) and Marsha (as a ceremonial folk practice unmediated by tech) but focusing specifically on the majic involved in farming (which will be crucial to later terraforming efforts).
          
          LMK if you like those vibes, I might start posting it.

That makes it even more interesting. I like that it's not a simple good-or-bad situation. Btw I’m a paid artist, your story really inspired me  and I’ve got some comic ideas for your story. Can I share them with you?

Continuing the previous post--
          I think thats a big part of why I stopped writing in the modern Era after writing Black Sun.
          In that story my time travelling protagonists come to realize that humanity needs the reset of the apocalypse and that without it we'll follow this evolutionary dead end all the way to our own extinction.
          Over ten books later i only agree with that position more emphatically.
          I wouldnt want to write a book in a screen addicted world and neither do most of you. We factor out screens in our writing, realism be damned because we genuinely want to at least imagine we have better things to do.

Im currently writing about a world largely without screens and in some ways i find it hard to imagine when i think about how we actually live.
          
          We are so fundamentally addicted we're practically enslaved. Give it ten years and we'll fall asleep with the machine from A Clockwork Orange holding our eyes open so that we can finally make the jump from 16 hours of screens a day to 24.
          
          It makes me not want to live on this planet anymore.  We barely even interact with each other anymore in way not mediated by screens and big tech. They've colonized what it means to be human! 
          
          'Wake up sheeple' vibes thanks to sleeplessness.

          Congratulations on the Pride Awards! You can dm me on discord (same username) to collect your winners sticker ❤️ 
          
          We're also having a live reading event of all the winning books on our server! It will be on July 26 at 5pm GMT. There's a link in my bio to join the discord so that you can tune in :)
          
          

Because I can't go like three days after finishing a draft of a book without conceptulaizing a new one, I want to explore 2040 in my Universe in the Midwest.
          
          This would place it a little before Black Sun and During Nodetalkers #2.
          In the last decade a collection of nations launched a coordinated 3 day assault to ruin the united states by clusterbombing the East coast.  
          This triggers the US defense, blowing up everyone's satalites (which fully mediate the internet, plunging the world into  a pre information age that's almost global.  This also causes Kessler Syndrome which makes space (and the idea of sending up more satalites) impossible to reach for years.
          
          Against this backdrop, a woman studying a black hole that formed in California in '97 is called back home to her grandmothers farm when her brother dies.
          
          The midwest has limited infrastructure and localized fusion power. It's almost normal. If normal involved raiders trying to kill you as you drive tomatoes to the farmers market.
          
          Anyone hype for this?

Marsha has been shortlisted for The Pride Awards!  Wish me luck!

Orphan Moon Writing update: Act one is posting, I'm actively writing in Act Six, which is an extended shot of a single day on Themisto two years in, which heavily focuses on relaxing at the bar and the aftermath of drinking in world cocktail Samsara (mk II) which is, in stages, depressant, empathogen, and hallucinogen.  
          So, currently I'm writing Dwarves tripping balls after a hard day at the forge.

Happy Juneteenth!

I talked @peonytealeaf09 into publishing something more serial.
          She's been working on it for awhile, and she started it before anything published here. It was fairly rough, but she's using what she's learned to smooth the story out, so I' hope you'll give if a follow and offer some helpful feedback
          https://www.wattpad.com/1636627559-the-marked-part-one-the-useful-tool-sarah%27s-story