About the Chimney
This is not an advice blog, or a commercial blog. It may be somewhat of a personal blog, in the sense that I will address issues of personal interest. But I want other people to be interested, too. If I wanted a personal journal, I would keep a diary.
As a writer, I have an enormous spectrum of interests, so just because you don’t see me talking about something on the Chimney, don’t assume it isn’t welcome here.
That said, topics I am likely to address often (and in no particular order):
Lingusitics
Anime
Manga
Conlanging
Con-worlding/world-building
Fantasy fiction
Poetry
Science fiction
Writing
YA Fiction
Any combination or sub-genre of the above
Whatever the hell I feel like
Chimneys
Punks
Chimney-punk
The occasional book review
But please feel free to suggest anything else you might be interested in.
Nicole Grotepas
July 26, 2010 at 11:27 PM
What is Chimney-punk? It sounds awesome.
atsiko
July 27, 2010 at 4:07 AM
“Chimney-punk” was a faux-genre I invented to use in a series of stories as a send-off to a lot of the newer sub-genres today, which often raise their heads only to be decapitated by larger and more well-known genres from the past. New Weird died off pretty fast, and we’ve already got ourselves “post-cyberpunk”. Most new sub-genres are either specific subets of older, larger genres–cyberpunk as part of near-future science fiction–or else some form of cross-over, like steampunk.
I wrote a rough description of chimney-punk for reference in the story:
“Chimney-punk, is a micro-genre of speculative fiction, dealing with combinations of magic and science in modern or near-future urban environments. It explores the effects of class distinctions, digitization, and industrialization, with moderate environmentalist leanings. Urban warfare and unrest are common tropes, along with the interaction of the human psyche and it’s environment. It borrows from steam-punk and cyber-punk, and tends towards dark, dystopian grittiness.”
It’s intended to sound a bit ridiculous, though I based most of the ideas in it on elements of my own stories at the time of its creation.