#JulyWorldbuilders Every culture has a different special food for Emergence Day, the day the sun peeks out from behind the planetary rings. Most of these are yellow, seasoned with carrot, turmeric or (for those who can afford it) saffron.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

#JulyWorldbuilders My world hasn't invented synthetic fabrics yet. As for jewelry, the most valuable gemstone is archstone, found in meteorites that fall from the arch of heaven. The trick is to wear just enough to be tasteful and lucky, not so much as to be tacky and insane.

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#JulyWorldbuilders Zochei has a kind of sumptuary law. Their castes are called "silkwearers," "cottonwearers," "woolwearers" and "hempwearers." Linen is universal. Some cultures have gendered clothing expectations…

#WIPSnips He was sure each and every one of them had joined this rebellion thinking he was going to turn out to be something special, perhaps the chosen hero that would rise above all others and set their people free. All those boys had thought the world would know their names.

#TimeTravelAuthors Lock is tall and lanky for his age, with auburn hair.

#JulyWorldbuilders The kīnen is a metal ear stud given to Zocheian boys, usually between 10 and 13, to mark some accomplishment. Lonotun's is mostly made of iron from a meteorite he found when he was nine. Few know that it has a tiny fragment of archstone embedded in it.

#WIPSnips It was about two in the afternoon when the knock came. Murenzi, feeling much better now, put down his book and went to answer it. The man at the door was in the uniform of the Tanula Police Department. He was in his thirties, and his expression was as unreadable as his ethnicity.

#TimeTravelAuthors A portal has opened… "Any kind of talking animal? I'm out of here." …to a world… …without war… …without poverty… …without PEOPLE… "This is the future, and from the looks of things, there's nobody in it." To save the world… "We can stop it from happening." LOCKSMITH'S CLOSET

#TimeTravelAuthors “He was your father — he could have been a coward and you’d have loved him anyway. But… weren’t you proud of him? At least, at one time? Knowing how brave and selfless he was?”

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#TimeTravelAuthors Yes. How much space depends on the positions of the two ends of the portal. In Book 2 they moved the past end to the spot where they found the future end, just to try and make it a stable time loop. Then the unexpected happened…

#TimeTravelAuthors The effect of going back and forth in time a lot makes Lock feel like he's going nuts, but he's holding together better than he thinks. Mr. Hance turns out to have a Messiah complex. Rikki's mental health gets put under a LOT of strain in Book 3, but she perseveres.

#WIPSnips But the Kuvras were huge. Ulahan was nearly six hundred leagues north-northeast of Vormarn by flight, never mind by road. Their musical northern brogue was quite different from the clipped staccato of the southeast.

#JuneWorldbuilders As it happens, my MC is a composer. His works are well-received, if sometimes misunderstood. His first musical composition was inspired by his own losses and the destruction he'd seen in the Northern Marches War.

#JuneWorldbuilders Some of my characters learn a lot about the nation of Kuvra by reading the Song of Amvora, a 4000-year-old epic about the hero Amvora who defeated the river goddess Wahal with the help of his army.

#TimeTravelAuthors I thought the answer would be yes. Then I remembered that their world (and themselves) only came into existence as a result of multiple rounds of time-tampering.

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#WIPSnips One night while Charkun was studying, the door to his room opened, someone threw a carpet of waterproofed canvas onto his floor, and they shoved a man backward through the doorway to land on his back. The man’s wrists were bound behind his back, and his ankles were tied together.

#TimeTravelAuthors In the future… it's a jungle out there. And somewhere in the jungle is the secret that will save the world. The problem is finding it. www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3315STN

So, #backrooms. An endlessly expanding THING that no one asked for, serves no purpose, drives people insane, siphons off electricity, acts like it has a mind of its own but only ever copies and recopies the human world, and authority figures tell us it's the most important thing ever.

"Could you describe the killer? What did his eyes look like? And his hair? Were there any flaming giraffes standing behind him?" Salvador Dali's career as a police sketch artist was rather short-lived.

#MayWorldbuilders The biggest defining experience of Lonotun's life was the Battle of the Kamichogo, in which he lost a loved one, was nearly killed, and lost his left arm. That was how he learned that lucky charms only provide so much protection.

#TimeTravelAuthors The artificial gemstones created in a better (now inaccessible) future in Book 1.

#WIPSnips …then to avenge the ones who’d already died trying to kill him. Or perhaps because killing him would be an accomplishment, something they could point to and say it wasn’t all for nothing. “All for nothing”—the three dumbest, deadliest words in every language beneath the arch.

A shapeshifting trickster is putting together a crew to steal the world’s largest hoard of a dangerous magical substance. #booksky

#MayWorldbuilders In Grand Harbor, you can mostly trust the local papers… as long as they're not talking about anything to do with the Grand Coalition or the United Republic of Kuvra. There they toe the line, not of the government, but of the Azure Order.

#WIPSnips To the south was a spectacular view of the arch of heaven, dominating the horizon like a grooved wall of pale light. Beneath it was… nothing. The Great Rift was a kama deep, and so wide that the other side was hidden by the curvature of the planet.

#TimeTravelAuthors The portal doesn't so much undo things as push the world onto a different track. That is definitely the goal of my characters.

#TimeTravelAuthors Words. A screen. This could be it. The secret of what had happened to the human race could be hidden on the underside of this giant stone. Lock wished there were another big vine or something that he could get his feet under, so he could lift it faster.

#TimeTravelAuthors “We’re his attorneys,” said one of them, a fat, shaved-headed man whose suit was much too small for him. He sat down on the couch, and there was a distinct sound of ripping fabric. “Yeah. Attorneys. We’re from… like… a big… D.C. law firm. Real big.”

#WIPSnips There was no substitute for water. And while it didn’t have to be drinkable, if there was more than a little dirt or salt in it, the residue would build up inside the boiler and ruin it. And in much of the Vastlands, water was at a premium.

#TimeTravelAuthors There's a short scene at the Lincoln Memorial, and a long sequence where Lock explores the Washington Monument in the future.

#MayWorldbuilders Yüttüi is the word the Wa'ao of Khür use for the slate gray nevi on the sides of their faces. Other words are, well… Nestback - domesticated flightless bird that carries its eggs on its back Archstruck - nuts Vishál, or giant rakefish - bigass filter-feeding fish And archstone.

#MayWorldbuilders The most formal greeting of the Cosmic School is "Greetings in the name of the Great Unknown."/"And of whatever gods may be." It only gets used when people are being seriously ceremonial.

#MayWorldbuilders Kuvran, Zocheian, Inamese, Aulmish, Khürish. I can't possibly conlang them all before I die—I'm trying to get their phonetic inventories done so they don't all sound the same.

#TimeTravelAuthors Search the overgrown ruins of the future. Find out what happened to humanity. Stop it from happening. www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3315STN

#TimeTravelAuthors Don't be afraid to ask for help, and don't be afraid to go it alone. (Look, I never claimed to be a fountain of wisdom.)

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#WIPSnips “So what did you do with then?” “I wanted to get a look at it in good light, but of course the lights were all out and—this was the one thing I overlooked—I didn’t have a lantern handy. So I thought, ‘What could be better than seeing the actual arch through it?‘”

#WIPSnips Arkhöa began frantically struggling, the rope chafing her skin. Murenzi stood there watching, his face invisible. “Um… do you need anything?” “Thanks, but I got this.” Her life had definitely taken a turn for the strange since a week ago last Starsday…

#ConlangApril I once got started on a conlang for a setting for a novel still in limbo. It did have a rule that syllables start with a consonant, and end with either a vowel/diphthong or one of a select group of consonants. There were 931 possible syllables.

#TimeTravelAuthors They're serious, but not always cautious. One of the first things Gary does is try to force a paradox just to see what happens.

The only people who get to say “we didn’t vote for this” are the ones who voted for Kamala … end of story

#AprilWorldbuilders Good news—Grand Harbor has sewers and street cleaners. Bad news—Grand Harbor has many draft animals of several species, few of which can be trained to hold it in until they get to a rest area. So the street cleaners are always sort of playing catch-up.

#AprilWorldbuilders To our eyes, the architecture of Grand Harbor would appear to be an eclectic mix of East, South, and Southeast Asian styles, along with a dour, high-ceilinged, obsessively symmetrical style that doesn't quite look like anything we'd recognize.