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Would anyone here be interested in a weekly short story discussion group here?

Back when I blogged, I had a weekly review on a or short story. It was great at finding new authors without taking too much time from my other reading, and there really is a huge amount of material available for free online. I think it'd be fun to try with a group of others on Mastodon.

If anyone is interested, let me know! We could start with something like this year's Hugo or Locus nominees.

πŸ“š einahpets πŸ“š @Einahpets

Anyone have a suggestion on a hashtag for this new Mastodon weekly short story club? I'm generally terrible at thinking these up, but once we have something I'll definitely start using it, heh.

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@Sailorplutoid @Einahpets @naga I second these suggestions, with the caveat (of course) that only be used if it is only going to be sf / fantasy shorts. otherwise the or seem nice...

or ? I guess it depends what one wants to do. Read all over? Branch out?

@Einahpets Also question, regarding this. How easy to access would the pieces be. Not that I could necessarily always participate anyway (w/ school and all) but are we talking online mags or offline? and offline is it really popular magazines which my library had last I checked?

@lapis I'm thinking online magazines, for ease of access to whoever would like to join.

@lapis @Sailorplutoid @naga how do people feel about these two hashtags:

My idea is that I'd use both for any of the toots I'd do, but folks can then branch out if short stories in other genres (or novella length) are more their jam. Or if they don't want to do the club but just want to promote a sci-fi or fantasy short story with .

@lapis @Sailorplutoid @naga actually now I'm liking plus whatever genre the short story is in hashtags.

Thanks guys -- I'll get the first pick out today. I'm thinking of following up with a few discussion questions throughout the week.

@Einahpets @lapis @Sailorplutoid I'd suggest picking just one of the two. If people start using them singly, then it will take two pinned columns to track all the conversation.

#shortfiction #storyclub

@naga @lapis @Sailorplutoid did I mention I was terrible at hashtags? I think it is worth mentioning again, lol.

My vote would be to continue with at a minimum, because I plan on continuing to make obscure rules ala Fight Club. But that isn't a very good reason?