u/LAcuber — reddlx

[Complete] [114k] [Speculative Literary] Eloquence

Hi all! Looking for some honest reader reactions to my third novel, a speculative literary work that I've recently finished developmentally editing.

Blurb: A first-person account of a world where humanity loses language and much of its associated cognition, causing a truly global aphasia. We follow a stubborn, lone linguist crossing the Americas in search of a solution, even as silence may be growing in his own mind.

Excerpt: As an engineer, I have created my own online tools for writing and beta-sharing this novel. Here is a link to the beta-reading platform on my personal website, with the password 'sneakpeek' you'll be able to read the first three chapters. If you'd like to keep going, I'll set you up with a proper account where you can view and comment on the whole manuscript!

Feedback: I would want to have my whole manuscript read, unless you truly find it terribly dull. However, there's no need for in-depth (especially not line-level) feedback; I have yet to do a proper line editing pass. Instead, I have a 10 min questionnaire I'm sharing with people at the end. The aforementioned beta reading software also has two short optional questions at the end of each chapter that it would be nice to have answered, plus the ability to freely select and comment wherever you might desire.

I can also provide the book straight up via PDF or ePub form.

Timeline: I'm looking for a roughly one-month turnaround! (Nov 1st)

Content Warnings: pandemic / mass death (largely off-page, not graphic), cognitive decline and language loss, guns and threatened violence, captivity / forced labor, childbirth, an autism 'cure' storyline and some dated language.

Swaps: I have (limited) availability to critique swap, but if you're interested in just reading that works too! I'm happy to swap with the following content: sci-fi (esp. civilizational), thriller, speculative, historical, low fantasy. No horror, gore, or adult-focused content please!

u/LAcuber — 11 days ago

▲ 8 r/Cornell

CHEM 2070/2090 CASE writeup

Just took the CHEM CASE, the school doesn’t provide much info so here’s some more:

8 questions, equal weight. 70% to pass. Partial credit given. Credit awarded for both lab and lecture components; questions were only on lecture content. Generally worked problems you have to do. Some constants (about 15-20) and a periodic table provided.

Questions covered: solubility rules, periodic table trends, balancing chemical equations, Lewis structures and MO diagrams, stoichiometry, working with gases, orbitals / quantum, Aufbau principle, hybridization, bonding, formula derivation, valence energy / Bohr and Rydberg…

Many things I studied for such as color theory, heat and state, nuclear, practicals, atomic models, etc were not covered but I imagine they’re fair game.

I studied with Anki (~450 cards) for three weeks and did a couple practice exams (generated with Claude based on syllabus and class content), and passed. (You get results within 24 hours). The exam felt a bit tight on time and I’m not sure how much leeway I had, but it generally felt fair. I came to school early for the exam (it’s before school starts in fall semesters); I later learned that they offered a makeup CASE exam first week of school.

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u/LAcuber — 2 months ago

▲ 155 r/writers

BOOM! Now the editing begins :D

Published a thousand-page fantasy series in middle school, and now after a too-long 6.5 year hiatus I am back with a much more serious and mature story!

It has been an incredible ride, and I can't wait to go print this out into a binder and start going over & improving it.

u/LAcuber — 4 months ago

▲ 28 r/neography

Watershed Script: Rivers as Nonlinear Syntax Carriers

Experimental script I made for a linguistics class I'm in. Seven-page write-up detailing motivation, how to decode, further thoughts and styles, etc. available here!

u/LAcuber — 5 months ago