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Growing up Green
This was my halfway prize from my municipal liaisons for passing 25K words for NaNoWriMo last night. Continue reading
Posted in Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Mars Government, NaNoWriMo 2012
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An Americano in Australia
Posted in Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Australia, coffee, long black, NaNoWriMo 2009, NaNoWriMo 2012
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Reading (& writing) spacy
Writing science fiction (as opposed to science fantasy) requires research & reading. Here’s some of the spacy stuff I read, so that I can write spacy too.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged NaNoWriMo 2012, research for writing, writing
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Hallowe’en: The night my writing is raised from the dead
In which I celebrate the imminent start of NaNoWriMo 2012 — & the resurrection of my writing life.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Cold (story), Hallowe'en, NaNoWriMo 2012, NaNoWriMoe'en, Power Lemonade (tm), Pushaway (story), skankthrax, writing
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Space travel can mess up your digestion
In which I channel my character Esti Gusev — or at least I channeled something. I.e., sometimes the hazards of space travel can come right down to Earth. (A la Neil F. Comin’s book The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist’s Guide).
“Pushaway” published in the anthology Subversion
My story “Pushaway,” which tells the story of how my character Esti Gusev grew up in a toxic religious community on Mars, has now been published in the anthology Subversion: Science Fiction & Fantasy Tales of Challenging the Norm, edited by Bart Leib.
Whatever in hell I’ve been doing…
I haven’t been writing many posts on Henkimaa lately, but I have been (1) writing on Bent Alaska; (2) organizing my writing; (3) writing; (4) thinking about writing posts on Henkimaa.
Posted in Cold, Journal, LGBTQA, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Anchorage Write Club, Bent Alaska, Scrivener, writing
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Integrity, violation, healing
This excerpt from Rachel Meikäläinen’s Whole Numbers delves into the meaning of the word integrity.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, Mistress of Woodland, No Way Way
Tagged integrity, Rachel Meikäläinen, Whole Numbers
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Jane Doe, Finnish style
How the main character of Mistress of Woodland became a philosophical forebear of my fictional Consensus society in Long Dark and Cold.
Posted in Long Dark, Mistress of Woodland
Tagged Long Dark notes, Rachel Meikäläinen, writing
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Storyminded
Two things bring on storymind tonight: a cool new blog called Science in My Fiction by my pals at Crossed Genres; & the story of murder, an interstellar spaceship, & Lord Shiva that I’m about to start working on.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark
Tagged Asura (Long Dark), Crossed Genres, science fiction, Science in My Fiction (blog), writing
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