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Cliché story

I started a second story for Scalzi’s cliché challenge. I’m a lot more enthusiastic about this one, since I get to write aliens, woohoo! Of course, the fact that I have characters and a milieu and a general situation does not mean that I have a...

Wow.

Based on the latest crit for the nightmare story, the way my system of magic works was completely unclear. Every single question my reader had was about how the magic worked. And here I was worried that I was being all sledgehammery! Apparently, I needn’t have...

Friends, Romans, Countrymen!

John Scalzi is looking for SF clichés. Oh, be still my beating heart! I can’t help it, I still love spaceflight and Amazon women on the moon; I suspect anyone who read SF of a certain period at a certain age or younger can say the same. Heh. *ponders...

Yikes. Juvenilia.

I was unpacking a box and discovered a piece of my own juvenilia. I was probably about 17 when I wrote that tale of a pompous unreliable narrator on an unsuccessful diplomatic mission. The characterization was what you’d expect from a teenager, the gender...

Fitting it all in.

Jen had some suggestions for the nightmare story that I think are really good, but I’ve been busy at work so I’m having trouble convincing myself to do the rewrite/edit. I feel guilty about that, but not guilty enough to actually write. Which may mean that...

first draft-o-rama

I finished the first draft of the nightmare story, and I really think I’m on to something. And so does the SO, one small quibble aside. I need to edit, obviously, and editing can wait until tomorrow. But I am pleased. Very pleased. I’m not sure if I need...

Maybe?

I think I’m pleased with the revisions to Dot Com; a few sections are much more readable. I think. We’ll see what the boyfriend thinks; I’ve asked him for a sanity check. Where did my three day weekend go? Oh, yeah. I slept through most of it....

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