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Wim 🅾I created ebook versions of my story Running AMOC, and designed a cover for it.epub: <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/ebooks/Running-AMOC--Wim-Vanderbauwhede.epub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://selfedge.org.uk/ebooks/Running-AMOC--Wim-Vanderbauwhede.epub</a> pdf: <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/ebooks/Running-AMOC--Wim-Vanderbauwhede.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://selfedge.org.uk/ebooks/Running-AMOC--Wim-Vanderbauwhede.pdf</a><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/hopePunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hopePunk</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a>

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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)So uh. How do negotiations for a peace treaty or ceasefire work.Usually in negotiations, i.e. about the price on eBay or trying to tickle a raise out of your boss, you demand more than you actually want so that the other party can "talk you down" to what you actually want, right?Does that apply to peace talks too?Assume Nation A and allies B, C, and D have been at war. A started it, but is at some point somewhat with their back to the wall, things are not looking good, but they still have enough bang left to take B, C, and D with them in case of defeat. Nukes or something, idk, enough for a scorched earth campaign that takes all four countries down.Then A offers to negotiate for a ceasefire, and they really just want to freeze the status quo: no reparations, no return of conquered territory, etc. B–D of course, sensing that A is in a weak position (if they were winning, they wouldn't offer to negotiate), basically demand a surrender.If A just makes their offer – a ceasefire and nothing else – there's no demands they can give up to appease the other parties. So what do they do? It's not like A, who started the war and is losing it, can demand reparations from B–D, even if A intends to give up that demand later so B–D can feel like they achieved something.How does this work? Has any such situation ever happened in real history? I'm writing fiction rn and I'm stuck.<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AskFedi</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Negotiations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Negotiations</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/FictionWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FictionWriting</a>

Wim 🅾And with that, the serialisation of my story "Running AMOC" is done. I hope you enjoyed it.<a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/hopePunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hopePunk</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

Wim 🅾Final chapter of Running AMOCThis is where I’m staying/this is my home (Björk,”The Anchor Song”)Glasgow, October 2028<blockquote>With the project completed and the results finally out, our lives returned to some approximation of normality. I went back to my flat, and realised that I actually missed living with other people, if only a little. There was still much to do because, of course, academically speaking, there was no final peer reviewed publication yet, and considering how momentous this work was, the reviewers were unprecedentedly critical. It took many rounds of reviews, edits and rebuttals to appease them.</blockquote><ul><li>Read <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/chapter-9-underneath-all-currents.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chapter 9. Underneath all currents</a> in full</li></ul><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/hopePunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hopePunk</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

Wim 🅾Last-but-on chapter of Running AMOCOn the day, the storm has just begun/I will still hope that there are better days to come (VNV Nation, “Sentinel”)Glasgow, September 2028<blockquote>On a late morning in September, with the sun starting to burn away the mists and the thin layer of cloud, and the promise of a beautiful day, I was walking to my office from Hyndland station instead of Partick. It was a slightly longer route, but I was now randomly picking either station and several routes to the department to make it harder to be followed. It was also a much nicer route, with more trees, so I didn’t really mind. The leaves on the lindens and horse chestnuts were just starting to turn. I savoured the feeling of autumn in the warming air and the slanting rays of the brightening sun.At the same time, I was thinking over the state of the project. I was feeling very upbeat. Many good things had happened since the early spring, when we had decided to go into hiding.</blockquote><ul><li>Read <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/chapter-8-celebrate-the-day-a-better-world-was-won.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chapter 8. Celebrate the day a better world was won</a> in full</li></ul><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/hopePunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hopePunk</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

Wim 🅾I've now published all ten instalments of my novella "Running AMOC", a hopeful climate story . Please have a read: <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/</a><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/ClimateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a>

Wim 🅾Almost there, two more chapters to go to the end of Running AMOCIt’s obvious you hate me, though, I’ve done nothing wrong (Depeche Mode, “People Are People”)Helensburgh, September 2027<blockquote>And so the summer rains passed, and the autumn rains began. As I had expected, Li-Zhen had a rough time with the chemo but somehow, much to my surprise, she still managed to keep her research going. To what extent this was thanks to Mirza I never knew. I for my part shepherded the paper on the first phase of the research through the publication process, and so by early October, the official, peer-reviewed version was published in Nature Communications. Although the scientific community had for the most part accepted our results based on the preprint, the publication did not go unnoticed. There was a lot of media interest and even mainstream politicians started to pay attention, as some reporters would quiz them about the contingency planning for the AMOC collapse. Which of course they deflected, but it raised the project profile so much that even the tabloids started running AMOC articles.</blockquote><ul><li>Read <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/chapter-7--im-relying-on-your-common-decency.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chapter 7. I’m relying on your common decency</a> in full</li></ul><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/hopePunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hopePunk</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

Wim 🅾Chapter 6 of "Running AMOC", I hope you'll like it.I will surprise you sometime, I’ll come around, when you’re down (Interpol, “Untitled”)Stockholm, March 2035<blockquote>When I had finished the kitchen chores I went out for my usual constitutional along the harbour. It was cold but clear and pleasant. I ambled without purpose, and ended up at the famous “God our father on the rainbow” fountain. There I stood for a while, staring blankly at the place where the sun had set, hours before — and thinking. I still couldn’t understand how it had all worked out in the end. It had been quite a rollercoaster ride.</blockquote>Glasgow, March 2027<blockquote>That illustrious first viral fundraising action was nearly three years ago. The media and the public had mostly forgotten about the project; but not entirely. Luzmila and Elías had managed to keep the network of supporters and organisations alive. We had made sure that the preliminary results got press releases, so that there’d been a small but continuous trickle of posts, articles, podcasts, videos, interviews and local fundraisers that ensured we were not totally forgotten. Elías called it the background hum.</blockquote><ul><li>Read <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/chapter-6-surprise-sometimes-will-come-around.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chapter 6. Surprise, sometimes, will come around</a> in full</li></ul><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/hopePunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hopePunk</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

Wim 🅾Chapter 5 of my hopeful climate fiction story "Running AMOC".*Your hair looks beautiful, tonight (Blondie, “Atomic”) *Stockholm, March 2035<blockquote>I was born in Kalimantan, in Indonesia. My father was Indo, my mother Iban. For as long as I could remember, my parents had been set on moving to the Netherlands as soon as they could afford it, and they named me Sigrid, a name that was then common over there, so that I would fit in. I liked to think the choice was prophetic, and that I was destined to end up in Sweden because of my name. I know it wasn’t like that though: my mum told me much later that she’d named me after her favourite Dutch actress. We finally moved to the Netherlands when I was eleven; when I was seventeen we moved to Sweden and my father Swedified his name from Bloem to Blohm.It was a move born from desperation: the Netherlands had turned out to be a very different place than my parents had imagined.</blockquote>Read <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/chapter-5-atomic.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chapter 5. Atomic</a> in full<a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/hopePunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hopePunk</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

Wim 🅾Here is Chapter 4 of my story "Running AMOC".an observer’s refrain (The Cure, “Accuracy”)Stockholm, March 2035<blockquote>Nur was an excellent cook, even though she was only fifteen. She certainly hadn’t learned it from Eza, who didn’t enjoy preparing food and usually went for quick and easy meals. But Norman, Eza’s husband, simply loved cooking. I liked Norman a lot. He was a civil engineer specialising in urban regeneration projects in Malaysia and so he was still over there, planning to move when his major projects had finished. He was a Malay Chinese from Butterworth in Penang. They had met early in her PhD, when he was doing a postdoc at Strathclyde. They’d married soon after. I had gotten to know him quite well when I helped them looking after baby Nur. He was a rather atypical husband as he did his share and more of the housework and childcare; and he was a fantastic cook and a dedicated teacher. He had even taught little Nur to speak Penang Hokkien. I knew she missed him a lot.</blockquote><ul><li>Read <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/chapter-4-accuracy.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chapter 4. Accuracy</a> in full</li></ul><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

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Wim 🅾Here is the next instalment, Chapter 3 of my story "Running AMOC".We’re not sleeping at the wheel (Ladytron, “Soft Power”)Glasgow, April 2024<blockquote>Even after all these years, the commute by train from Helensburgh to Glasgow is still one of my favourite journeys. The views over the Clyde estuary are fabulous: the wide water, the rolling hills on the far side topped with wind turbines; the Dumbarton rock, the old dilapidated harbour at Bowling with the carcasses of old boats slowly degenerating. Even the Erskine bridge, that monument to car culture, is an impressive and arguably even elegant structure. The scenery and wildlife change every day with the tide, the weather and the seasons. On the return trip, the views towards Bute are amazing too. And in winter, the sunsets are often spectacular.But that day, I had no eye for all that beauty. I was busy writing a short article for my long-neglected blog, explaining the need for action on AMOC.</blockquote><ul><li>Read <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/chapter-3-the-wheel-is-turning.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chapter 3. The wheel is turning</a> in full.</li></ul><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

Wim 🅾Here is the next instalment, Chapter 2 of my story "Running AMOC".*If there aren’t, you can make them (Pet Shop Boys, “Opportunities”) *Helensburgh, March 2024<blockquote>It was a day very similar to today, cold early spring weather — or late winter; in Scotland, winter has a long arm. It was my habit to set a morning aside every week for reading papers, a very enjoyable activity: easy chair at the window, nice cup of coffee, looking out over the rain-swept Gareloch. That morning, I didn’t get very far. The Ditlevsen paper shook me. Not that it was a new notion, the possibility of collapse of the thermohaline circulation had been raised already in the late nineties. But the confidence levels on the estimates in this latest work were really high, and I trusted the authors. It was a wake-up call.And yet, it would not be enough to move the world into action. Politicians were bound to assume the best possible case, which was 2095. The public would have forgotten the news tomorrow.</blockquote><ul><li> Read <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/chapter-2-theres-a-lot-of-opportunities.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chapter 2. There’s a lot of opportunities</a> in full.</li></ul><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

Wim 🅾Here is instalment 2 of my story "Running AMOC". You must be old, so take it easier (NFADS, “Stockholm”)Stockholm, March 2035<blockquote>I’m sitting in my new favourite rocking chair, looking over Saltsjön towards the lights on Blockhusudden on an early night late in March. The windows are still spattered with raindrops from the shower that just passed through but the sky is clear and there are even a few stars out.Eza is at work; I hear the intermittent click of her mouse and the occasional bursts of muted keystrokes, echoing the earlier sound of the raindrops hitting the glass. Nur is busy in the kitchen, frying garlic, ginger and spices. Their aromas fill the room. Soon she’ll have a delicious meal ready.</blockquote><ul><li>Read <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/chapter-1-our-travels-take-us-further-north.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chapter 1. Our travels take us further North</a> in full.</li></ul><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

Wim 🅾Here is the first instalment, the scientific context. The first chapter will follow in a few days. <blockquote>AMOC, short for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, is the system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean. It is also known as the thermohaline circulation because it is driven by differences in temperature and salinity of the ocean waters. The Gulf Stream which keeps Northern Europe warm and cools the Eastern seaboard of Northern America is part of it.With the pack ice melting due to global warming, the salinity of the Atlantic drops, and at some point AMOC will therefore collapse. This will lead to Siberian winters in Europe, and also increased aridity which will drastically reduce crop yields. Large parts of Northern Europe may become uninhabitable.</blockquote>read in full: <a href="https://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/running-AMOC/the-science.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Science</a><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

Wim 🅾My new positive climate fiction story is called "Running AMOC".It's about the impending collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, AMOC for short, which keeps Northern Europe warm in winter and North-East America cool in summer. This does not sound positive at all, but if we take action now, we could mitigate the worst effects. In my story, I imagined what it would take.It tells about an international research project that managed to move public opinion and politicians into action. The protagonist is a female scientist of Indonesian descent. Most of the story is set in Scotland, in particular in Helensburgh.I hope you will enjoy reading it.<a href="https://octodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateFiction</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/RunningAMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunningAMOC</a>

S. E. WiggetThis is the final week of my Substack, Whimsical Words. See Amazon.com (S. E. Wigget & Susan E. Wigget) & Medium. I'll keep publishing independently.Chapter 13 of Amaryllis & the Pixie: <a href="https://whimsicalwords.substack.com/p/amaryllis-and-the-pixie-chapter-13" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://whimsicalwords.substack.com/p/amaryllis-and-the-pixie-chapter-13</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fantasyfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasyfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/serializedfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#serializedfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queerfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queerfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Substack</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/talkingcats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#talkingcats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dragons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dragons</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whimsical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whimsical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pixies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pixies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fairies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fairies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FaeFolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FaeFolk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witches</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witchstories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witchstories</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feministfantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feministfantasy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feministfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feministfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

S. E. WiggetIntroducing Chapter 10 of Amaryllis & the Pixie, a fantasy novella with a good witch, a less good witch, a talkative cat, dragons, and many faeries. <a href="https://whimsicalwords.substack.com/p/amaryllis-and-the-pixie-chapter-10" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://whimsicalwords.substack.com/p/amaryllis-and-the-pixie-chapter-10</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fantasyfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasyfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/serializedfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#serializedfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queerfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queerfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Substack</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/talkingcats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#talkingcats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dragons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dragons</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whimsical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whimsical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pixies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pixies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fairies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fairies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FaeFolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FaeFolk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witches</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witchstories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witchstories</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feministfantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feministfantasy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feministfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feministfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fictionwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fictionwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

EliotI'm the new Revisionary at the Loft Literary Center's online writing community--helping people learn about & embrace revision w/new content + live sessions each week. I'm so happy to get to play! Check it out or tell people you think might be interested :)Monthly Membership: <a href="https://loft.thinkific.com/bundles/loft-lit-commons?ref=b5cc65" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://loft.thinkific.com/bundles/loft-lit-commons?ref=b5cc65</a> Annual Membership: <a href="https://loft.thinkific.com/bundles/lit-commons-annual-membership?ref=b5cc65" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://loft.thinkific.com/bundles/lit-commons-annual-membership?ref=b5cc65</a> Me: <a href="https://loft.thinkific.com/courses/lit-commons-revisionary-s2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://loft.thinkific.com/courses/lit-commons-revisionary-s2</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/edibuddies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@edibuddies</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@writers</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/AmEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmEditing</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/WritingAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingAdvice</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/WritingCraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCraft</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QueerWriters</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/FictionWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FictionWriting</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/IndieAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndieAuthors</a>

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