Ok so, what is Pentober? Promptober? It's a writing tradition that's been around the web for a while where you write up a short story every day in October based on prompts. Some go for pen and paper, some digital; everyone has their own style. I'll be posting here, and I'll be using the prompts from https://www.topinfiction.com/p/pentober-2026 House rules are that I vomit-write the story; no planning, just taka taka taka on the keys. I get ONE edit at the end of the draft (if I even have time, l

Should novels have a purpose? Immodest aims for modest books. How humanity made a world it did not choose. The enduring gift of John Galsworthy’s, “The Forsyte Saga.”

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗱𝘆𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽—𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆? As the first storms of the year inundate the UK with rain, and as the government advises the population to prepare for a possible national ...

In my upcoming near-future novel “A Diary in the Age of Water”, a Gwich’in colleague of the main character discovers that her entire community, shilakut, perished in a sudden flood in Fort McPherso…

Join us this Green Libraries Week! How can we communicate climate change in a way that inspires joyful action rather than climate anxiety?

The sleepy village of Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Ocean, NWT (photos by Nina Munteanu) . A few years ago, I travelled to the village Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories on the Arctic Sea. I was …

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