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Synchronicity of the Day

There’s a local author (Gary Wietgrefe) who has a booth at the farmer’s market. It occurred to me that he might know of a local copy editor. Sure, I can find one on fiver, but I’m happy to support someone local. I went on Saturday, primarily to talk with him. He writes historical fiction. HeContinue reading “Synchronicity of the Day”

Prompt Skillz – I have them not

Since I’m generating another 1000 potential cover pictures, I thought I’d play with the prompt. The last one: orange eyes, two distinct people (large black wolf:1.1) AND (muscular man:1.1) jeans, [dick bulge], tight white t-shirt, boots, axe, outside, dry hills, moonlight, fantasy style, low angle It’s very important to put “dick bulge” in brackets, whichContinue reading “Prompt Skillz – I have them not”

ESFY?

I’ve been trying to figure out how to protect Earth from the greater multiverse. We’re the n00bs. There are civilizations out there that have been doing this for literal billions of years. I’ve written the post about “multiverses are really big” and “there is no such thing as ‘no one cares’” because in population ofContinue reading “ESFY?”

Totally Stealing This

The week after the meeting had actually gone incredibly well. What a way to start a chapter! Bam! A week has passed. I hate both documenting every day and blithely jumping forward. That’s a bit of a conundrum. Right now, I’ve got 39 days in 26 chapters, which is pretty much every day. A lot,Continue reading “Totally Stealing This”

Structure Two

There’s always a two. The “one” is way back in January. I had good thoughts. I’ve made some decisions, since. At least book two is going to be continuing chapter numbers. The so-far unnamed and unranked army guy arriving in the first snowfall is going to end book one. Book two will pick up immediately.Continue reading “Structure Two”

What I Wanted To Be

When I was in high school, I wanted to be a scientist. I didn’t have any particular field in mind, but Tom Swift Jr and Tom Corbett were my ideal, so more physics/engineering than chemistry/biology. As it turned out, I’m smart, but not that smart. It might have been possible, but it would have beenContinue reading “What I Wanted To Be”

Chapter 19 Has Fallen Before Me

Finally. What used to be the problematic Chapter 18 is now chapters 18, 19, and 20 – and they are all done. 21 and 22 were mostly done, already. A new chapter 23 got injected. It’s not done. Looking up the link, that took almost four months. Tempus has fugitted. I’m not in any particularContinue reading “Chapter 19 Has Fallen Before Me”

Yeah, No Quests

Another book with System quests (called “tasks” here). I do not like them. They are too directly manipulative or too trivial. Our intrepid hero (from Proving Grounds: Annals of the Runeguard Book 1) is being targeted by a group of thieves. After some escalation, they kill the blacksmith (Gorman) making him armor and steal it.Continue reading “Yeah, No Quests”