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10/26/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.

The essential tastelessness of humanity!

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At least the three of us were properly camouflaged; business suits, lanyards, a couple of buttons that had no-doubt clever or humorous slogans. Nobody gave us a second look as we moved through the crush of bodies — and smells. I’m not fond of crowds. Everybody here washed, but they still smelled like humans. Which isn’t really bad, one-on-one, but when you put them all together their reek is so incredibly bland.

I know that a lot of humans have come up with this really elaborate mythology where my kind supposedly prey on them. I think they got that idea from garbled stories about Blasphemous Tomes, so they’re not completely wrong — but, really, they’ve got nothing to worry about from me. Even if I was cleared for feeding on them… uggh. I like my meals with a little flavor.

Oh, and it would bother Jack. He thinks it’s wicked to eat humans. Which, fine, he isn’t wrong about that but it still seems weird to make it an entire thing.

Check out a free story from the Kickstarter!

It's called "A Bargain With Yig," and you can find it here. It's going to be one of the stories in the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter, which is even now active and ready to take YOUR pledge! There's also a Tom Vargas novelette prequel of sorts to my first novel Frozen Dreams, so check it out!

Tweet of the Day, Well, Tolkien DID Leave Copious Drafts Behind edition.

It seems reasonable to look at them.

So, for various reasons, I'm rereading the HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH books about the writing of Lord of the Rings. They're fascinating (for certain values of fascinating); what I'm going to do this time try to extract writing advice (thread)

— Gareth Hanrahan (@mytholder) October 26, 2020

Via @KevinKulp.

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PS: My biographers are going to hate me. Every part of my writing process is electronic! They’re going to guess as to a lot of this stuff.

PPS: No, I won’t start writing it down. If they have to guess, then one answer will be as good as the others when it comes to graduate theses. I’m not a monster.

‘The Irish Ballad.’

The Irish Ballad, Tom Lehrer

10/25/20 Update, TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter.

Looks like it’s going to be the first goose egg of the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter, which is of course the most horrible thing in the multiverse that has or will ever happen to myself or my innumerable Shadows. Alas. Alack.

More seriously, Kickstarters have a 38% success rate, so there’s somebody out there right now who’d probably be kind of ticked off to see me complaining about how it may take a few days to finish off the current set of stretch goals. I admit this, freely. It’s just that the planned $2,500 stretch goal might be a little tempting, if I do say so myself. Anyway: don’t forget to take a look at the free short story! And/or, say, pass that last link around. Every little bit helps.

Tom Lehrer puts his lyrics into the public domain.

Well, lyrics and some of the sheet music; Tom Lehrer’s actual songs (as in, the audio and video) aren’t covered by this. It’s still a cool gesture, although knowing Lehrer it’s probably some sort of slightly too-clever comment on global capitalism or something like that. If I sound slightly eye-rolling about that, it’s because… I pretty much am. I love Tom Lehrer’s music, which he would probably find annoying if he ever happened to read this.

And I don’t feel bad about it, either. I mean, the dude once told everybody he was dead, just to cut down on his fan mail. He’s kind of earned my annoyingly indulgent fandom.

Sample from the Kickstarter: A BARGAIN WITH YIG.

A free short story (A BARGAIN WITH YIG) from the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter is now available for your perusal. Feel absolutely free to pass those links around. Or read it yourself; if you’re on my Patreon, you’ve already read a version of it, but I feel I improved it considerably.

Patreon Microfiction: Villains Of His Story.

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“Villains of His Story” is based on a concept that I might some day pitch to a gaming company. I’m not pitching it now because, honestly, I don’t have the time to do it. But I still want to.

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‘Suddenly, Seymour.’

…I’ve NEVER done this one?

Suddenly Seymour, Little Shop of Horrors

10/24/20 Update, The TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter.

Steady as she goes; the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter continues on its merry way. I am seriously considering picking one of the stories and making it available for everybody to read, as a sort of encouragement. The trick is picking which one. Possibly ‘A Bargain With Yig?’ People seem to like that one a bunch.