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   Awesome New Year Robot (stompyrobot@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 06:16:34 JST Awesome New Year Robot

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   • Charlie Stross

   @cstross what is future pluperfect tense?

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 06:16:35 JST Charlie Stross

     #PennedPossibilities 17: List 5 things you'll never do as a writer

     — Pander to reactionary and/or white supremacist and/or religious fundamentalist readers

     — Write an entire novel in the second person future pluperfect (did it for a single scene once, then my brain crashed)

     — Encourage suicidal ideation

     — Talk down to my readers (readers are smart)

     — Be respectable