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AFTERWAR Hangover

Last night I typed “finis” at the end of the Afterwar zero draft. It weighs in at 94K words and will only get longer because most of it is so, so lean. Some scenes are full of dialogue that needs trimming and plenty of physical and action tags put in so the reader can see […]

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Run, Write, Knit

Rain, and rain, and more rain. With a side of rain, and rain sauce, and a dessert of rain, too. I love it. I’m at my most productive when there’s water falling from the sky. I’ve often said that the PNW specializes in caffeine, writers, and serial killers for one reason: the weather. I’m playing […]

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AFTERWAR Proceeds Apace

Getting together tax stuff and four scenes to write. It’s kind of cheating to put “two scenes in X book, two scenes in Y book” on my Three Things list to get done today, but I have them, they’re burning in my head, so why not? Afterwar is taking turns I didn’t expect, which is […]

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Snow, Work, Spring

It was snowing this morning, but too warm for it to stick. I’m thinking the hyacinths, daffodils, and crocuses are glad about the last. I’m trying to plant enough favas to outpace the squirrels digging them up, but I suspect it’s a lost cause. If the squirrels were grateful, it might be different, but they […]

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Fuzzy Fuzzy

I think we may all need a moment of remembering belly skritches are good, dogs are goofy, and even a fuzzy picture of Miss B’s happy grin is enough to brighten an entire day.

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SHE WOLF AND CUB Preorders!

GUESS WHAT. NO, GO ON, GUESS. Oh, I can’t stand the suspense. I’ll tell you. She Wolf and Cub, re-edited, is now a book you can preorder! Ever since they gave her a new cyborg body and a steady stream of murderous work, she’s known the rules. Keep your head down, do your job, don’t […]

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Don’t Fucking Mansplain Wagner, Thanks

Everyone around us is saying “snow! snow!” We have not a flake, not a trickle. It’s not even cold enough. I’m not complaining. The last incidence of snow-n-ice was more than enough for me, thanks. The weekend was full of many things, not the least of which was trying to get some housecleaning done. I […]

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The Menstrual Fury Hat

BEHOLD, the Menstrual Fury Hat. It’s a Pussyhat Project hat off this pattern. I had a slight problem though: I loathe pink. I just…do. So I did a couple practice hats in a very dark red, almost burgundy acrylic–I called it “clotted menstrual blood color” on Facebook and was surprised when nobody unfriended me. The […]

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Time to Run

It’s not a monsoon. It’s steady, penetrating sheets of small drops, coming in waves, tiptapping the roof. It’s a warm rain, as things go. Not jungle-warm, but it’s not coating everything with ice and it has no particles of sleet in its many beating hearts. Mud’s collecting in every corner, grass is a sludge with […]

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On Don Giovanni

This morning, for some reason, I woke up wondering about a scene in Mozart’s Don Giovanni—Act 1, Scene 5, in particular. Zerlina’s lines include, “I am ruined!” I wondered if Mozart made it explicit that she’d been raped, or if the assault had been interrupted. I do love opera, but it’s hardly kind to women […]

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