Sigh. I know i'm an underwriter, but I had hoped my first draft would have included giving Niv more agency than my evil content editor is detecting.

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I'm certain I write a reaction paragraph to this development, and yet it's not there in this version.

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I also have a fresh bale of hay for the bunnies

I managed to fill up the tank at 1.529 a litre!

I'm going to try again today. One big advantage to driving a hybrid is the extra range I get from a tank. Monday's are just a good day for regular top ups for me.

When you're afraid to follow an interesting account on a social media platform because the person might start to DM you with leading questions.

Okay. This scene definitely needed a proper leadin. As written it gave no idea of how much time had passed or the preparations my MCs were making for what's about to happen.

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Wow. I just made my regular Monday gas run to the cheap area outside of town and the lineups were so long I calculate the time lost waiting would more than erasethe advantage of sticking around so I turned around and headed to my 2nd most favourite teashop to write.

The weather has warmed enough for us to activate power saving mode on drying the laundry.

For the record, its called hanging the washing to dry on a line in the back yard.

I'm so glad I've never used cloud storage to save my photos. This means the only ones the AI scrappers have access to are the ones I chose to put out there in a public fashion. Though really I'd prefer it if those weren't scraped either.

Here are ten settings you must changd now and the 100 steps you must go through to change them?

Dear tech gurus, stop telling me about all the ways W11 is defaulting to bad settings without giving me the tools to do anything about it that doesn't require Poirot level sleuthing skills.

I stuck in a mental gymnastics loop. I was offered a chsncd to purchase a GUIDE to fo a thing but when I went to the website I discovered they were actually offering a PLANNER. In my mind these are not the same thing, and yet I can see how the latter can incorporate the former with a little work.

Dear potential new web browser, I don't want to go through an extended get to know you and please login process before I can even try seeing if I like the way you operate.

Even back home the level of tech he has on his person will raise a few eyebrows on the grounds he shouldn't have access to what they'll find given his rating.

That depends a lot on where they are, but it is definitely sensitive to the nth degree if anyone figures out what it can do.

Hmm. Niv probably have to explain his medkit and an assortment of small maintenance tools he keeps on him. Should they uncover any of the security tech gear he has secreted about his person thought all bets are off.

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When you're worried the lunch you pulled out of the freezer last night was that overly spiced up dish, and that turns out to be true. Looks like I need to find a lunch I can eat.

Not unexpected, but with Persephone she's done this act funny and not eat thing a few times over the year so we started hoping this was another low period.

After acting strange all day our bunny Persephone had a seizure last night and passed away around 11. Like all the bunnies that have come to our home she will be missed.

What's the deal with the latest generation of reels that have a watch this title in which nothing of any consequence happens? Pure click bait.

June has been known to laugh at the faces he makes when trying a food he considers too spicy.

Niv has no idea what a pizza is so this would take a lot of experimention. Once again he's probably leave it up to June. The question then becomes will she try to sneak something hot into the mix to catch the look on his face after that first bite.

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My schedule and energy is so all over the place I don't dare set finish dates until I've finished.

Another issue I have with newsletters is the perceived wisdom that assumes the author is capable of a quick turn around for the next work. Slow writers like me get left in the cold trying to figure out how to even keep subscribers engaged during the long periods between stories.

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So many people tout the newsletter as being the best way of marketing our books, but few talk about just how much marketing is necessary to grow a subscriber base big enough for the newsletter to do its job.

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Nivpul Exavent found it so easy to live within the bubble his grandfather had created to dull the pain of inescapable loss, the one place where he could almost escape the weight of being an outsider in his peer group.

#scifi #adventure

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Wait. I'm supposed to have a favourite dinosaur now? The memo must have gone straight to the spam folder...

Anyone have any idea where I put the notes I wrote out while speaking about my books at Vancouver Fan Expo? I do hope they didn't get shuffled into the recycle bin during the big Easter cleanup.

No. In addition to putting a lot of work into my characters, I put a lot of work into the universe in which they live and have no interest in breaking that dynamic.

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