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Category: writing
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Help a writer out!
So! A chance to contribute your ideas for a survival on a hostile planet. The protagonist is being dropped in, has a fair amount of cargo space, is being offered more. What should she stuff into this new space? She is potentially going to be alone for years, and can farm/garden once she had…
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Neutral Good Elf Ranger
Last night, because couldn’t sleep, I wound up ploughing through a very long personality quiz to determine what kind of character I’d be if I played Dungeons & Dragons. Which I don’t, although I’ve always wanted to. I was amused at the end result, and I thought I’d share. Let me just say here there’s…
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In my Garden
I haven’t taken the time… no, scratch that. I haven’t had the time to get out in my garden and go bug-hunting this summer. I’ll regret that this winter when I am longing for green, and crawly things, and the ability to be out of doors for any length of time. Still, I just…
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Publishing schedule and stuff
So I was sitting here looking at what I’ve gotten done this year, what’s coming next, and that sort of got me thinking… I kicked off my year with a story for Valentine’s Day in Hearts’ Enchantment. The was followed by a sword-and-sorcery tale in When Valor Must Hold in March 2020 Release of…
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Dialog
You don’t realize how much your characters talk until you have to verbally affirm all the necessary punctuation. My characters talk, like, a lot. Chatty blokes. I’m seriously wondering if I can get away with a lot more description of setting, or something because man! I’m dictating on my commute for the bulk of…
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Ad Abstractum
I’d apologize for being busy, but I’m not gonna. I’m not sorry. Busy is good, for me. There’s a fine balance between too busy, and just busy enough. I’m wandering back and forth across that line. Sometimes multiple times on any given day. There’s a line in one of the Avengers movies where Bruce Banner…
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A Muddy Plot
I’m starting first-round edits on The East Witch. That should eat my entire attention for the next… a while. It’s going to take a while. So today I thought I’d share a blast of the past, originally published on Mad Genius Club in 2016. An exercise in plotting a story, via real life events.…
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Porch Musing
The First Reader and I were sitting on the front porch sipping coffee and waking up, when I started quizzing him on military colloquialisms. He rubbed a hand over his face, standing his hair on end, blinked at me, and pointed out he’d only technically been in S4. See, this is why I need…
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An Emotional Artifact
This is the stillness after the storm. My mind is both very full of thoughts and feelings, and oddly empty. I’m supposed to be doing a half-dozen things right now, but instead I sat down to… write some more? There’s a hole in my brain at the moment. It’s vaguely book-shaped. When they say…
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Writing Marathon
Ready, set, go! I have a week(ish) of vacation. Other than possibly a couple of days down to visit my mother and sister with all the kids (during which I plan to get no writing done other than daily minimums, and that because Mom will encourage me into it), I have a full seven…