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That snuggling by the little warm body is indeed great: puppy, kitten, toddler.

Hit up a used book sale today. Promised myself I'd only buy 10 books max. More than a hour later I left giddy with a bin full of books that will sit on my beside table for the next several months. No regrets.

What Not Reading Does to Your Writing More thoughts on "TV brain prose" and why reading is, yes, useful for your writing.

Just encountered this substack and realized how many of my recent DNF readings show this same camera experience instead of the book-style that is why I read.

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Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a knife to a vault containing many wheels of cheese in a brutalized postapocalyptic society where knives are only a legend. You are now Knifebringer, Divider of the Cheese. Raise your knife and rule the clans.

There's a fine line between comfort clutter and depression squalor and boy do I walk that line like Johnny everloving Cash

Hastings looking very special today.
This is the view looking towards Rye/Dungeness.

Well done earth.

I've been a professional scientist for most of my adult life.

Thus, while writing a novel is new for me, writing for publication is not.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5

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Full marks for trying to sell me on your services

However, my first professional piece of writing turns 30 years old next year

Consequently, if I need editorial services for fiction, then I'm sure I can find them if that becomes necessary.

I think we should all start blogs again. Or online journals, even. That was a nice time. Just writing a few paragraphs about your day (don't forget to list the sad song you're listening to!) and maybe your friends will leave a comment. Then you go and read theirs and comment. It was fun.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: scene from the movie Aliens; Ripley is in a mech suit and delivers her iconic line: “get away from her, you bitch!” Panel 2: the xenomorph queen lunges at Ripley in the robotic suit and they engage in a fight. Panel 3: later, the xenomorph queen is standing in the shower, mid wash. She says, “‘it takes one to know one, honey.’ That’s what I should have said.”

Youuuuu, shall not… PASSSSS!!!
Gandalf the Gray, painted for a massive diorama piece where he’s fighting a Balrog.
There’s a tutorial on his grey clothes on my Patreon.
I hope you enjoy!
Have a great day.
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I did some research to try and figure out when my death date would be if there had been no treatment for my cancer. I don't know why I assumed it would be some date in the future, but, in fact, I passed the middle of the "no treatment survival" bell curve more than a year ago. Thanks chemo.

Does anybody remember when teen pregnancy was a huge boogeyman of the right? They had all these purity dances and whatnot?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

I'm writing this novel at a friend as mostly a bit taken too far since he said everyone should write a novel.

That made our friend who is a professional author laugh so we're all in on the joke together.

Those friends will tell me whether it's worth paying an editor and will have recommendations.

They are in a separate git repo. Accessible if I ever need them, but out of the way in what I'm calling the oubliette.

I read the first draft and saw problems including pacing.

I will keep working the drafts until I'm satisfied.

Then, I will send it to the people I have lined up whose opinions I trust.

I will pay money for a good editor, but that's much later.

Dunno. This is my first go and there're good reasons I have replaced those chapters.

Agree with "don't kill momentum".

Strong disagree that chronological is more important than getting the story nailed down.

I write what needs to be written next and then shift the scenes around to most effectively tell the story.

Yep. Working on one of those again today and added four todo tasks to the list yesterday.

My total words in the manuscript sometimes decrements as scenes are consigned to the oubliette and something better replaces them.

No one is waiting for this novel.

I prioritize based more on what I want to know by doing the writing and what logically needs to be nailed down before I can tackle other parts.

Short answer: yes

Longer answer: my day job includes ticketing systems and tracking issues so I've carried that mindset over to my fiction writing. I'm tracking everything via HTML and YAML files.

I identified gaps and open questions in my first draft.

Every day, I pick a remaining question or gap and write to it.

Sometimes, that is replacing scenes with new.

sometimes, it is augmenting early scenes to better set up for later scenes.

Mostly, it is adding a scene to fill a gap.

The point is to fill in gaps left in the first draft.

Once I get a next complete draft, then I'm sending it to my beta readers.

Since I'm writing non-linearly this month, beta readers aren't helpful yet.

I've been doing a 1600 words per day writing challenge to get the second draft of my novel into shape.

So far, so good.

#amwriting

The Stygian Blades - YouTube Katherine Tarlton is a traveling player on the lam, wanted for the murder of a nobleman’s son, with a five-pound bounty on her head and a habit of pinching t...

I'm not usually one for audiobooks, but Stygian Blades is so good!

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Doors to the Stars: She Who Dares, Wins Doors to the Stars is a YA Space Opera about choosing what you’ll lose to save worlds that never gave a damn about you. For readers who loved Ship Breaker’s survival grit with Becky Chambers’ found-fa...

I'm excited for #DoorsToTheStars that releases in September!

Written for the author's daughters, this #YASciFi book has action, adventure, and just that hint of romance.

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“Junk Rat” Preview YouTube video by R.A. Williamson

Looking for good #YASciFi?

Free Junk Rat novella available in May.

Set in the Doors to the Stars universe.

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