#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 17 How do you write about ecstasy, in a spiritual, artistic, or sensual context?
I try to keep the prose breathless.
Sean Patrick
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Sean Patrick
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 14, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 14 Share a short (3-5 sentence) paragraph of raw prose: the more unpolished, the better.
Her hand went to her neck, feeling a trail of caked blood where the demon’s sharp stone knife had pressed against it. She rubbed it absently, thinking of the demon and its strange movements. She recalled the beautiful mask it had pulled from the crucifix, and for a brief, heretical moment, wondered what it might be like to wear such a thing.
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Sean Patrick
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Sean Patrick
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Feb 10, 2026
beneath a snowbank
a violet pushes upward
unborn, undaunted
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Sean Patrick
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Sean Patrick
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 10, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 10 Talk about a work which subverted your expectations in a good way.
I'm having a hard time thinking of one. I generally try to go into media without strong expectations.
I feel like a lot of anime tries to subvert expectations with varying degrees of success. For example Death Note or Madoka Magica come to mind.
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Feb 09, 2026
A microcosm:
lanterns calling to the sun.
Warm wind, flickering.
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 07, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 7 Share a pair of consecutive lines of a current or recent project. (Everyone:) What does the first line promise? Does the second line fulfill that promise?
"To you, perhaps, the vagaries of cosmic chance are little more than noise; to me, they are the boundaries within which I must live."
"That is the beauty of a human life."
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Sean Patrick
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 06, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 6 From start to finish, how much time elapses in your current WIP?
Well, TSS is not finished yet, as it's a WIP. But probably it will come in at roughly a year of time. BOTNW took place over roughly the same time frame.
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 05, 2026
huddling closer
the warmth of a burning world
on a frozen sea
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 05, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 5 What's a trait of other written works you admire, but don't seek to incorporate in your own works?
Honestly, anything I admire I am going to try to imitate.
I admire when authors do a ton of research and it comes through in their writing. Like knowing what fixtures a 1920's aristocrat would have in their bathroom, that kind of thing. I purposely avoid writing historical fiction so I can bypass the requirement for historical research + verisimilitude.
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Sean Patrick
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Sean Patrick
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 04, 2026
humble barleycorns
not much to look at, alone,
but lovely to drink
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Sean Patrick
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 04, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 4 How much detail do you use to describe your settings?
It depends on the situation. Usually I try to reveal setting details through indirect means or in service of something else; like for example there's a bit in BOTNW where one of the characters gushes over the technology they see in the streets of the capital city. But I'm not above a setting infodump.
Ideally I think settings should be left a little vague to leave some mystery for the reader.
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Sean Patrick
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Sean Patrick
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 04, 2026
#ScribesAndMakers Feb 4 Our next featured creator is a comic artist. Tell us about a comic strip or web comic you enjoy.
Surprised I haven't seen Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal mentioned, it's one of my favorites https://www.smbc-comics.com/
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Sean Patrick
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" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Sean Patrick
@seanpatrickphd@wandering.shop
" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 03, 2026
Few enough, the groves
isolated from the world;
their secrets remain
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Sean Patrick
@seanpatrickphd@wandering.shop
" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Sean Patrick
@seanpatrickphd@wandering.shop
" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 03, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 3 What signature marks your work as definitively and effectively yours?
Hmm, I don't know if I have one. People have described my writing style as "archaic", but I'm not the only one who writes in an outdated way. Maybe it's the combination of that with more modern sci fi themes. I think I might be the only one writing blank verse about robots, or sonnets about a singularity.
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Sean Patrick
@seanpatrickphd@wandering.shop
" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Sean Patrick
@seanpatrickphd@wandering.shop
" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 02, 2026
dissolved, coalesced
the world returns to itself;
that memory, rain
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Sean Patrick
@seanpatrickphd@wandering.shop
" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Sean Patrick
@seanpatrickphd@wandering.shop
" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 02, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 2 How satisfied are you with the rhythm of your works?
It's something that can always be improved. I don't think I'm particularly good at it, so I'd say I'm dissatisfied with it. I've gotten to a point with poetry that I can hear and plan meter well, so in terms of micro-rhythm, I've got that going for me. But in terms of slower rhythms like pacing and themes, I think it's something I still need to work on.
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Sean Patrick
@seanpatrickphd@wandering.shop
" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Sean Patrick
@seanpatrickphd@wandering.shop
" # Scientist , # scribe and # sonnet aficionado" # DataScientist , # poet and SF/F # writer . # Neuroscience PhD, electrical # engineering B.S. Please call me Dr. or they/them. 🏳️🌈 Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.
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Feb 01, 2026
a winter morning
the silence of the blue sky
absent twittering
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