The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.
Kolya woke with a start. For a second he was lost, then he remembered the bed. Mari was gone, though. He sat up fast, and saw across a narrow aisle Jadzia lay sleeping. At his feet a girl was sitting, a small girl, younger than he was. “I thought you’d never wake up,” she...
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Oh great cats and wandering humans of the intertubes, what shall I do? Though I plan to make a Great and Thoughtful post with an Official Announcement at some point, I’m pretty sure I’ve already mentioned once or twice that I have decided to self-publish Taro and see what happens. You may imagine this...
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Cloth covered Kolya’s eyes. Wet cloth. Not a blindfold. He lay in–in a hard bed or maybe a couch. Someone was singing. “In a canyon, in a cavern, excavating for a mine,” He didn’t know the voice. Even when he realized it should be Jadzia, not Emmie, he didn’t recognize the woman’s voice. But...
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Recently I raved here about Save the Cat! Some friends wanted to hear more, so I thought I’d break down possibly the most valuable page in any writing book I own–with the clear caution that this alone isn’t enough (unless you are far better at taking a thought and running with it than I...
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It always amuses me when people talk of their One True Way, because I am more like Chuck Wendig (on whose blog this post started)–I have none. While that book had to be planned to get anywhere at all, this one will shrivel and die, staring with betrayed eyes as it does, if I...
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