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Blog postHopepunk as a genre is still struggling to be born. It’s popping up in books like Becky Chambers’ Psalm for the Wild-Built, TV series like the third season of Star Trek: Discovery, and movies like Free Guy.
In retrospect, I’ve been writing hopepunk for many years, but it was only in 2017 that I started writing it in an intentional way. In 2020, as I dove into writing my most explicitly hopepunk series yet (a futuristic climate fiction, Nothing is Promised), I blogged my way through th -
Blog postDo I start now or wait until the apocalypse is over?
You know what makes me laugh?
And by “laugh” I mean “chuckle knowingly but shake my head.”
The idea that being hopeful is naive, childish, starry-eyed, PollyAnn-ish, or whatever disparaging term you use to tear down someone who dares to do something you’re too afraid to do. This makes me chuckle or perhaps snort in a knowing way, like, buddy, you think this is easy? You think I don’t know exactly how fucked we are? -
Blog postWe have a very tangled relationship with hope.
It’s like hot ex-lover we can’t quit. We deny we have it or even want it—we’re too cool for that! But we desperately, ardently do, and when there’s even a flicker of it, we leap up, hearts aflame, ready to tumble into love again because it just feels so good. Then we think we’re chumps for falling for the dopamine once again.
If we can step back from the emotional chaos for a moment, it’s easy to see that hope is a good and ne -
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Blog postOh, how vulnerability terrifies us.
And writing something called “hopepunk” opens you up wide to all the criticisms society lobs to keep us from hoping for better, daring to change, and worst of all, organizing collectively to make a difference in the world.
“That will never change.”
“It’s hopeless.”
“You’re silly/foolish/naive to think anything like that could work.”
“Work together? Have you met people?”
I have, in fact. And not only are we capable o -
Blog postIt’s a testament to the hard reality of the last couple years that you could write a blog post titled, Writing in the Time of Insanity, and literally not know WHICH YEAR you were referring to. 2020, when SARS-COVID-19 shook the world to a standstill? 2021, when we had an armed insurrection at the Capitol? And a vaccine for the virus, only not everyone wanted to take it? Or 2022, when we entered the first petrostate war as Russia invaded Ukraine?
War, Death, and Plague, together aga -
Blog postThe more I learn about this Anthropocene we’re living through and how we’re changing our world—how our soils are depleting, how our oceans are overfished and filling with plastic, how the “forever chemicals” are truly forever, in both the body of our planet, and our own bodies—the more I see in granular detail the reality that we’re intimately connected to everything. But we keep telling a story, a fiction, that we’re separate, that we can actually achieve separation in any meaningful way. T<
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Blog postNot Just the Hero’s Journey But With a Girl
Since I first discovered Gail Carriger’s Heroine’s Journey in 2020, I’ve written exclusively Heroine’s-Journey-structured stories… I can’t promise I’ll never write another Hero’s-Journey-structured novel, but given that I’ve pretty thoroughly found a genre-home in hopepunk (and climate fiction), and my penname writes romance (which is all Heroine’s Journey), I don’t really see a lot of “heroic” fiction in my future.
Read on to see wh -
Blog postHopepunk: collectivism in storytelling
We live in a hyper-individualist world, especially in America. This extreme focus on individualism has many costs—an epidemic of loneliness, the fracturing of the social fabric, the breakdown of communities—and yet we’re still convinced that “rugged individualism” is the pinnacle of American virtue (rather than, say, working together, organizing for a larger cause, compassion for the less fortunate). That’s the narrative, the cultural story we te -
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Blog postIt all comes down to the purpose of violence.
There are so many aspects to our world that we simply take for granted, until the world is turned upside down and nothing makes sense anymore. A worldwide pandemic sweeps through, halting everything for a few breathless moments, and suddenly people rethink their lives and decide to go back to school, start that business, move back home… write that novel.
In 2019, I took a retreat and dove into the history of science fiction, se -
Blog postWriting has always centered me.
Writing hopepunk* is saving me in a whole different way.
*”A Brief History of Hopepunk is the first in this ongoing series of blog posts about hopepunk as I write it.
Disruptive compassion.
I don’t know about you, but these two words ignite something inside me. It sets alight the rebellion I have against the cruelty of the world while giving me a pathway that respects my core need for a just and compassionate world. Radical doesn’t have to
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The Future Chronicles
Sep 18, 2015
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Samuel Peralta,
Hugh Howey,
Susan Kaye Quinn,
Jennifer Foehner Wells,
Nick Webb,
Peter Cawdron,
David Adams,
Sam Best,
Angela Cavanaugh,
Ann Christy,
Nina Croft,
Patrice Fitzgerald,
Deirdre Gould,
Moira Katson,
A.K. Meek,
Vincent Trigili,
Nicolas Wilson
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