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For once, I’m finishing work at 2 a.m. instead of starting. And nearly eighteen hundred words tonight, no less, in two work sessions. And I even had some fun. When in doubt, throw in a walking...
View ArticleWhat is *wrong* with me?
These days I tend not to set an alarm for myself, which means I get to wake up gradually and naturally, rather than being catapulted out of sleep. During this process, my brain randomly wanders along...
View Articlethe avalanche has started
Word count: 110,810 LBR census: Ladies and gentlemen, THE BLOOD HAS ARRIVED. Authorial sadism: I’ve been looking forward to writing this bit for four months now. I’m pretty sure that makes me a Bad...
View Articleadding to the list of reasons the FBI is watching me
Tonight, for writing purposes, I have been googling information on what happens when you smoke opium. This goes onto a list including items like “once looked up how to transport firearms to Hungary”...
View Articlea philosophical question
Am I a bad person for thinking up new mean things to do to Galen — a hundred years after he’s dead? Yes, I rather think I am.
View Articleapologies I only sort of mean
Dear Dead Rick, I’m sorry I’m a horrible person. Tomorrow morning kurayami_hime will read this and say, “You’re not sorry at all,” and she’ll kind of be right — but I have to say it anyway. Because one...
View Articlewriters are messed-up people, yo
Within fifteen seconds of being kicked in the head during karate tonight, a part of me was thinking, “I should pay attention to what this feels like, in case I need it for a story.” For the curious:...
View ArticleAngsty Fun Times
alecaustin and I had a long conversation today about how fiction sometimes needs to have depiction of horrible things, and the fine line between “necessary horrible” and “voyeuristic horrible,” and the...
View Articlewhen in doubt
I have this tag for posts, “when in doubt.” It refers to the old writer’s axiom, “when in doubt, send in a man with a gun.” Not literally a guy with a gun, necessarily, but something to shake up the...
View Article‘Tis the season of good news, after all . . . .
I’ve been scarce around here because I’m head-down in the third book of the Memoirs, but I do feel compelled to brag a little bit more. :-) The big thing is the Sword and Laser podcast (also posted...
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for the edification of others
The other day at the dojo, our sensei had us punching bare-handed against bags (the flat pad type that another person holds onto). I wound up punching mine a few more times with a little more force...
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for the edification of others
The other day at the dojo, our sensei had us punching bare-handed against bags (the flat pad type that another person holds onto). I wound up punching mine a few more times with a little more force...
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