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Blogging in the name of Steampunk. Guest bloggers weekly. "In Steampunk Voices Only" |
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From May 2017 entries are entered into "The Bard's Hall Contest"  From May 2017 entries are entered into "Catharsis: Writing to Survive!" Blogging in the Name Of ... Steampunk. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Guest Bloggers by week. All steampunk, all the time.
  AS WAY OF INTRODUCTION “Steampunk is a genre and a subculture that's all about a past that wasn't. We feel free to reinvent that past however we see fit.” - Nick Ottens, Gatehouse Gazette. Blogging is an outlet for writing and self expression. Many of us blog while holding down full time jobs. Many of us blog while living full and interesting lives. Many of us blog about how boring our lives have become. Steampunk is a form of speculative fiction that deals primarily in anachronism and alternative universes. It’s roots lie in adventure, romance, and re-imaginitive technology. Blogging on Writing.com is more then the documenting of the pedantica in our everyday lives, it is about utilising our innate curiousity and ,yes, our creativity to express ourselves about our lives whether they are big or small. Blogging on WDC has become as much about the poetry and the prose as it has about the pedantica. The purpose of this blog is as simple as it is exciting: let's reimagine our lives as only those on Writing.com can. THE NITTY GRITTY To be a featured SteamPunk Blogger you MUST be a member of the SteamPunk Authors Guild and you must be prepared to blog as if you live in a Steampunk World. There will be a link in "The Steampunk Boiler Room" with more details including, importantly, a roster and any (sparse) rules or suggestions. I do suggest that Steampunk Bloggers utilise the many blog prompts and challenges here on Writing.Com as a source of inspiration.Donations are welcome and will be used to promote the blog only, and perhaps pay the authors. If I get enough donations I will set up a fund, otherwise just donate to the "Welcome to the Steampunk Authors' Guild" . THE ROSTER As the Blimp Pilot of this Incorrigible Dirrigible herein known as Blimpy McBlimpy, I will from time to time post pertinent news about all things Steampunk and all things Steampunk Authors Guild. If you have a Steampunk item, event or hankering let me know and I will endeavour to accomodate you as all good Blimp Pilot's should. Now, about manning levels. First cab off the rank is yours truly, to get the sails set as they might say. Then Kate - Writing & Reading   will be taking the wheel. And then there will be ... others. This section of the page will be a permanent record of those partaking on this wondrous flight.  [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
Featured Steam Punk Story & Author:
Slowly, the Swift picked himself up from the gravel-coated tar-paper roof where he had been forced down. He glanced quickly around for immediate danger, and seeing none, checked himself for injury. His tough gloves were scuffed but undamaged; on his right knee, just above his black Wellington boot, the thick material of his slate-gray jodhpurs was torn, but the joint itself had escaped harm. Next, he checked the slender, aluminum struts of his wings. The fact that he had folded them before impact had saved them from being snapped in the tumble, but one of the three fingers of the left wing was bent out of alignment. He gripped the incredibly expensive metal on either side of the kink and, straining, was able to straighten it to an approximation of its former position. The slick material of the membranes, at least, was untorn. Breathing a sigh of relief, he adjusted the complicated web of leather straps that held the experimental rig to his back and checked the pressure gauge mounted next to his wrist chronometer. The boiler was working perfectly. The fuel pellets he had developed should be enough to keep a steady supply of steam to power the thruster unit for another hour or so. He hoped that would be enough, because the slowly rising buzz that filled the audio enhancement cups mounted in his helmet’s earflaps warned that the drone was coming around for another run at him. A quick glance southward showed the dirigible dwindling beyond the Statue of Liberty as Professor Delirium Tremens made his escape with the Kilimanjaro Ruby. And with Harriet. --- Continue This Featured Steam Punk Story in author CeruleanSon  portfolio,
--- Editor's Note: If you'd like your STEAM PUNK story featured here (with a read more link to the item in your portfolio) then all you have to do is REVIEW a STEAM PUNK story that has been featured on this blog and post the review ID as a comment on this entry. I will then feature the STEAMPUNK story of your choice (from your portfolio). I will also be featuring (legal) snippets from published STEAMPUNK authors for your benefit. Have a favourite STEAMPUNK novel? Leave a comment here and I will feature it and then we can all have a GASBAG about it. SteamPunk Newsletter Out Now!
--- Johny Thundersbeard Editor, Mentor & Member. "The Steampunk Authors' Guild " --- WDC Author of the Month May 2012 30DBC Administrator, Judge & Rejigger 2012. Forum Master "Invalid Item" 2016. |
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