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Goals: July releases, CONvergence panels, and editing blues

I’m still putting in the edits from the final review of Tales from the Inhabited Worlds, whose release is being moved into July. And I’ve come down with a cold, not such a a big deal except that CONvergence impends. And I’m going … Continue reading

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Goals: getting my edit on!

Several weeks ago, I carved rough-draft stories out of the character interviews for Inside the Jump, and shared them with several of my regular beta-readers. Over the last week, I’ve been doing large-scale structural editing. In the last 48 hours, I’ve entered … Continue reading

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Flash Fiction: Rising of the Phoenix (1000 words)

Human voices wake us, and we drown. Blue waters shimmer around me, above and below and to the side, and somehow I’m still breathing. I don’t remember. “Yasmin,” says my sister’s voice. “Yasmin, can you hear me?” I’m underwater, swimming in … Continue reading

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Flash fiction (Random Title): Crown of Bastards

“So is it true that your parents aren’t married to each other?” Yasmin made a face, as Jehen watched the Karis cadets. Six of them ranged in a ragged half-circle in front of them, eyes avid. “Is it true that your … Continue reading

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Flash Fiction: Forbidden (100 words)

On Sarronny, we do not step on living plants. Long ago, the Academy at Karis built walkways over the ground. Their glass and silvery metal gleamed in the moons’-light. Martisset sprawled among the living plants, until she learned that was … Continue reading

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Flash Fiction: Abacus Music

The one eyed high priest of the Temple of Mammon plays the invisible music of money on an abacus made of the bones of miscarried messiahs. The messiah was born in 1800. In 1812, she died of dehydration in the … Continue reading

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Goals: Beyond Perfectionism (Upcoming Story Releases!)

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, a job application asked me: What is your greatest strength? What is your greatest weakness? To the first question, I replied, “I’m willing to work extra hard for creative control.” … Continue reading

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Goals: And Things Change, Yet Again

Last night I came home from a satisfying day of running writing bouts with my colleagues, and decided to just chill and lift a glass in celebration of all the things I got done this week. Some of them — … Continue reading

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Flash Fiction: Poetics

“Now is the time to crush the fruit / And brew the wine of memory.” Six years old, she stands before me, my doppelganger. She has recited the seventeen stanzas of the Poem on Deep Space better than I could have … Continue reading

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Goals: Getting the Groove Back (Part 3) and the Positives of Form 1040A

As mentioned on yesterday’s blog post, this is the second year I filed my taxes after everybody else, and because this was the year I poured a lot of time and money into my writing business, putting together the spreadsheet … Continue reading

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