I have this story I'm working on, called Collateral Damage, which is basically about Shift and the Database when the Database's ability finally is hitting terminal. And major spoiler: she's not going to die, and I've got to keep her alive. Oh, joy ( Read more... )

You know exactly what you want to write, you have the right mindset and could drop in the scene just the way you want to get good words out of it.

And it's not G-rated and you're at work. :headdesk:

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On looking into my email inbox...

Oh, hello, poem! I forgot I'd submitted you.

I submitted a 346 line SFF poem to Strange Horizons (apparently I can be very long-winded; who's surprised?), and they thought about it, bumped it back, and suggested I submit it to a different market because reasons they outlined ( Read more... )

So there’s something to be said for this writing by numbers game, though sometimes I wish it was easier to make cooperate. Let’s talk muses, those silly parts of ourself that define which aspects of our minds are actually in use.

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Resolutions! I finally made some-today. In order to make a living at writing, I have to sell 1600 words a day, five days a week, at five cents a word. So:

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