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Category Archives: Writing
NaNoFeed: Live from the Northern Tour! Now with Excerpts!
I’m happily pitter-patting along on the Northern Tour, finally getting acceptable word-counts as I sink into the world of my characters and their various dilemmas (oh yes, and caffeine helps). This year, all new works started in November go into … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: Romance with Rayguns (untitled WIP – excerpt!)
So here’s a hot-off-the-press excerpt. POV is Hernan, 22, coming to the end of his training at the starship Academy. His guardian is having a corrective conversation with him about his career plans. “Your parents’ wishes, in accordance with our … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: Traveling Shovel of Death for the win (embracing the spirit of destruction)
Back in September 2008, I heard about National Novel Writing Month. I had just turned in my letter of resignation at the toxic ex-day-job (the earlier one, not the one I just left). I started reading the forums, and rapidly … Continue reading
NaNoFeed: the little things
My buddies are definitely ahead of me for word count, and oddly I am finding this very satisfying. I know that I have this to look forward when I recover from this energy-sucking, probably infected tooth. Meanwhile, I’m doing plot … Continue reading
NaNoFeed: The first Monday of the rest of my life
This is the first year I’m doing National Novel Writing Month as a full-time writer. Unfortunately, it’s also the year I’m doing it as a part-time sick person. So I’m timing work bouts around the schedule for taking pain meds, … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors, Sunday 2 November 2014 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)
Martisset stared at the black screen. The game could be restarted from the beginning, all her folly erased. No. It was dishonest to pretend that hadn’t happened. The story had been cut off mid-play, but in real life, behind the … Continue reading
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Tagged Excerpt, Science Fiction, Ship's Heart, Weekend Writing Warriors, Work in progress
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NaNoFeed: Workaholism, sustainability, and toxic standards
For the last few weeks, I have been doing a lot of sleeping. During the day I’ve had very little energy, and have been spending quality time on my couch, reading novels and exploring new reaches on Twitter. I have … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors, Sunday 26 October 2014 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)
The winter evening had grown blue, and the threatened snow-squall now wrapped the island in its embrace. Veils of snow caught the faint illumination from the banquet-room as the Saiph patronage, from Martisset the Elder and Tethys down to Naime-Yasmin’s … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors, Sunday 26 October 2014 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)
Martisset knew the story, as did every child on Karis. One journey-ship among many had found the Original Jump; no one knew what had happened to the others. One of all the ships that set out from the Original World, after … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors, Sunday 19 October 2014 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)
Martisset’s ninth name-day was observed in the dark of the moon following the Feast of Landfall. She and her namesake did the devotions in the enclosure of Martis-Mortis. He instructed her parents to take her to the Shipwrights’ Chapel in … Continue reading
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