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Witch’s Daughter – Installment 4

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*For the previous chapters, please go here. These are posted first draft, as the brain dictates to the fingers which are remarkably stupid. Eventually it will be cleaned up and fixed just before page is made secret/taken down and the book is published. At that time I will take lists of typos or volunteers to proof read. For now, its written in a hurry, usually an hour before it goes up. And, let me remind you, its free SAH*

Witchs Daughter by Sarah A. Hoyt Installment 4

 

Shadow

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The Paths Ahead — Pie In The Sky

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In this series of posts, Im going to sketch what I view as four probable futures coming from this.  Mind you, Im a fiction writer, not a prophet. These futures would probably all have bits of each other in it. Because people are mixed up and messy.

Only one of them this one is unalloyed good (as much as anything is in the real world) and I start with it, partly because I dont want to send you into the weekend depressed. Also because Im doing my best to avoid bottoming out on depression,...

Burning Down the Social Networks – by CrossoverChaos

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If youre feeling the tension singing in the air and over the Internet, and wondering why are people cracking now, instead of last week, or the week before that? I suspect the reason has to do with how the brain works. Or doesnt. Theres some really neat stuff on how outside environments affect the brain for depression in this book.

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari.

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Twilight

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Im not often baffled by the insanity of crowds, but Im genuinely baffled by the insanity over the entire Winnie the Flu episode.

I mean, Im used to the idea that people will smell the fear of others and be infected. Ive seen it happen. As Ive told you before (I think) if mom hadnt reached into a crowd and slammed me against a wall so the panicked crowd went by, Id have been one of the people trampled when the rushing human stampede got to the steps of the underground passage. You see, I was...

On Losing Respectability

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Yesterday, as I was finishing my epic kitchen clean up, I started getting phone calls.  The first one was from a friend who confused me with my husband (seriously. He doesnt even have an accent!) and because my phone doesnt tell me the name of the person calling, I assumed it was a telemarketer.  When things cleared up I found out Rush Limbaugh had read substantial portions of my article on PJMedia.

Because Im lazy which for Sarah-speak means I actually have other stuff I need to do/finish....

Restoring Order

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When I was going insane in 08, (because whenever communism or its slower, but just as lethal sister, socialism, with or without happy fun hats threatens, my PTSD rises up, and the back of my brain starts spinning so that I cant write) Jerry Pournelle gave me as advice If you cant do anything else, make things very clean.  It wont hurt, and in the long run might help, because when you get off the panic mode, its one less thing to worry about.

So I did.  I spent what must have been months...

I Cooked Too Much And Had Too Much Food

BUT Im still alive.

Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it.

Post up at PJM

This one is VIP.  My code is HOYT. If you decide to sign for it, use it, please will give you a discount (and pay me a bounty.)

https://pjmedia.com/blog/the-covid-19-phony-war/

Ill update this post as the others go up.

UPDATE, not VIP: https://pjmedia.com/blog/the-green-new-nose-under-the-tent/

Probably No Witch’s Daughter Chapter Today

I might try to do a chapter of the current free novel later, but no promises, as I woke up and wrote four posts now cued at PJM to go up at their convenience.

This thing isnt exactly under my control, but at least some stuff is getting written.

And I want to work on the interrupted novels.  Normally I do the chapter in the morning before I clean, but I cleaned yesterday. So today Id like to work on other stuff thats been hanging while there was a wall preventing me from working.

Of course I...