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Ballad of the Splash

In honor of National Poetry Month, & also in honor of breakup (which is Alaskan for the time of year we’re now in, when the ice & snow melts & everyone’s car is splashed with mud) — here’s a poem … Continue reading

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Reset 2

S10 test. Chugach Mountains, 10x zoom. The reset continues, with a little help from my PFD. This pic represents part of that: a new camera, a Nikon Coolpix S10, that arrived yesterday — still learning my way around it, obviously, … Continue reading

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Spiritus Mundi

This is the poem, written in 1995, mentioned in the previous post. Spiritus Mundi From the hot core of the planet come these rocks I bend to pick up near the railroad tracks and mud flats, green with algae at … Continue reading

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Terraforming notes

A few notes about what terraforming is. A terraforming project on an extrasolar planet is the context of my SF novel-in-progress “Cold.”

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Cold, the blog

In which I set up the private membership-only blog cold-brrr.blogspot.com for the writing of my 2007 NaNoWriMo SF novel “Cold.”

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About "Cold"

“Cold,” my NaNoWriMo project for 2007, will be a science fiction novel featuring two young women who live on a planet in the late stages of terraformation.

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NaNoWrimoLesbo

NaNoWrimoLesboOriginally uploaded by yksin I did this icon, based on the main NaNoWriMo icon, for a Facebook group for lesbians/dykes who are writing novels during NaNoWriMo this November, and/or who have lesbian/dyke characters in the novel they’re going to be … Continue reading

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NaNoWriMo 2007: What I'm gonna write & how I'm gonna write it (the origin of "Cold")

On a cold-arse night in 2005 the question came into my head: “What does cold feel like?” Thus was born the science fiction novel-in-progress “Cold.”

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NaNoWriMo 2007: What it is

National Novel Writing Month: what it is and why I decided to give it a try this year.

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Breaking through on Ophelia

The last couple of days have been very productive with writing. Not so much with direct writing, as in breaking through a problem so that I can write. No offense, Ophelia, but that problem has been you: needing just a … Continue reading

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