Category Archives: Writing

Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 November 2013 (Inside the Jump)

“By the Fourth Prime,” the Ship’s Voice said, “that is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. Implosively weird. A walking hull-breach.” Jehen startled at Yasmin’s profanities. Not her usual style at all. And yes, it was weird. Genubi would make … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 27 October 2013 (Character interview: Martisset from Inside the Jump)

And that time I was not consciously eavesdropping, but watching — on a sunrise flight with my aunt Tethys, who pointed out when we were approaching the long, broad Valley of Settlement, where the first colony on Karis had been … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 13 October 2013 (Character interview: Jehen from Inside the Jump)

My name is Jehen, and I’m in charge here–so they say, anyway. The truth of the matter is something more complicated, but then the ones planet-side don’t have the faintest idea of what happens out in space. They have the … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 6 October 2013 (Character interview: Sophie from Shape-shifter’s Tale)

My father called himself Irish but there was something else as well—something in the tilt of the cheekbones, the breadth of the nose, the wave of the hair. No one dared say it to his face, for those were fighting … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: NaNoWriMo goes live for 2013; cover reveal

The National Novel Writing Month website has reset for the 2013 season. So it’s time to reveal the cover for this year’s project. Here’s the small version that appears with my novel profile on the NaNoWriMo site: A larger version … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 29 September (Character interview: Sophie from Shape-shifter’s Tale)

I liked to run about and to climb trees and to dance. The dancing became rather more formal, of course, and some of it we learned from vaudeville and from films, and some from the people that papa knew.  Papa … Continue reading

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Goals: The Annual Autumn New Year’s Resolution Post

It’s been a much too eventful year on the Real Life front, which I haven’t written about here because it’s been enough to do to just keep my head above water in the ongoing weather. To wit: Devin Harnois and … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 22 September (Character interview: Sophie from Shape-shifter’s Tale)

I live in many worlds. There is a version of me who lives in the autonomous commune of Minneapolis and St. Paul (they never did change the old names), and another who lives in the America that never entered the … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 15 September (Character interview: Sophie from Shape-shifter’s Tale)

My name is Sophie. In all of the worlds I know, I am one of three children. There is me, and there is Helen, and then Francis Patrick. We were all born in the teens of the century, … the … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 8 September (Character interview: Trevor from Shape-shifter’s Tale)

What shocked me was that my father raised his hand to my mother. I saw that, and I saw as well that she suddenly wasn’t there, but across the room, and she said that she would not live like that. … Continue reading

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