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January 17, 2022
Books, Art, Varied Diversions
I have a couple of books to commend to you all, dear readers. By some of my favorite living authors, they are fresh off the press. Smell those toasty electrons! mmmm new books… Dave Freer’s Cloud-Castles is a space opera with his usual intense world-building based in sound science, peopled by all-too-human characters and delightfully …
January 16, 2022
Tethered
Was thinking about this the other night. I ran out on a little trip by myself. Now, since the First Reader joined me in Texas, we’ve been going everywhere together if at all possible. Walking hand-in-hand over to the mailbox. Driving to the grocery, even if it’s curbside pickup… we were apart for too long …
January 14, 2022
Spicy HotPot
Since I mentioned this, in detail, on today’s livestream, I thought I’d put up my photo of it. That’s a lot of chili oil adrift on that yummy, yummy broth! I will one hundred percent go back to Yin Tang for lunch, but next time I’m ordering a mild. Or… what’s less than a mild?
January 13, 2022
Encouraging Myself
Well, that took less than two weeks. I started out the year trying to set up some new routines, hoping to get more productive and work on health stuff. Tonight, I’m sitting here staring at the computer willing myself to come up with story so I can write… And feeling like crying because I’m not …
January 12, 2022
Curiosity Food
You know the saying. Well, I say that it’s because of starvation. Obviously, the way to keep alive is to feed the impulse. So! Can I embed a funny story prompt? https://wuxiaphoenix.tumblr.com/post/... Or perhaps something that made me giggle out loud? https://wuxiaphoenix.tumblr.com/post/...
January 11, 2022
Odd Prompts: What Train?
A snippet from the ongoing WIP. I’m only putting the bits with the prompt responses up here, as I am not entirely sure what this thing is going to be, or where it will be published when complete. *** “I don’t know what you have against Dmitri.” Branch didn’t speak until we were in the …
January 10, 2022
Good Stewardship
On the gripping hand from my earlier post today, there’s this: I really believe in true charity. The word can be translated as love, and sometimes the best way you can love and help someone is cold hard cash. Sometimes good people get into bad situations. Also, I am a woman of faith, and part …
The Wrong Way
I was accosted by a panhandler today while shopping. I’ve not had this particular experience before today, being confronted while inside a store – the man walked up, asked if he could ask me a question, and launched into his spiel. I have to give him this, he did a few things right: as a …
January 7, 2022
One Meatball
I should be prepping for tonight’s livestream, but frankly I’m run dry on ideas. Which is a little strange because usually I’m full of them. Right up until I sit down to write, that is. I sat here for the last ten minutes messing around with an art program trying to come up with something …
January 6, 2022
The Soals of His Feet, Which Had Some Passions
The title for this one was a tossup between the line I used, and: The Unexpected Zaniness of Bacon I’m reading for research, and to flavor a story I’m planning to write soon. It will be set on Malta, and it will involve an alchemist, a cat, and possibly Roger Bacon. Not really sure. What …
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