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 Sometimes my job is weird. I'm sitting here adding heart emojis to a photo of Ursula Le Guin. For work. For my job. Where I am an astronomer. 
 #WritersCoffeeClub 1st Oct: Shameless self-promotion. What's your WIP? What's it about?

My active WIP is about two women: a fallen hero who failed to save her dying world thirty years ago, and a bitter and overlooked librarian who is determined to succeed where the other failed. They are set at odds when the body of a dead god is unearthed and both wish to use its vast malevolent power, yet the true danger comes from someone they both underestimated. 
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 @2307797a Same! And yeah, it really is, especially when you're in an entirely different country and don't speak the language, which adds another level of scary. Thanks for your input 😊 
 Hmmm. We're being taken by bus 45 minutes to the conference dinner and the return time to be driven back is unfixed (between 10pm and 11pm) and rather late. 

Fellow #neurodivergent folk: would this bother you?