Artistic Integrity

[robertsloan2]

I've been sitting on an ever-growing stack of science fiction and fantasy novels since I published Raven Dance in 2000. Every year I participate in NaNoWriMo and usually the 3 Day Novel contest too, either officially or just by spending Labor Day Weekend writing a new short novel

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[robertsloan2]

I'm now in San Francisco re-adapting to some fights changing. I kept my head down on so many things and lived stealth for so long. I was too worried about whether my stories would sell to be honest with my themes - and I wussed out on them in a lot of my fiction. That's what this entry is about, having got here at last and gotten past one big part of it that could change, I'm finding a place to stand where a lot of times in my life I got knocked over, kept my head down and rolled with it, where the only thing I could do toward a future was go on breathing and wait for something to change

[robertsloan2]

Thank you! Yes, I'm 100% accepting of myself as transman. I knew every time I read anything about it even from early childhood. I didn't believe it was wrong or evil or shameful. I was in childhood scared assorted doctors and medical professionals were right and I was just crazy, would get locked up for life for not being normal. But once I got diagnosed in 1979 it put that fear to bed for good