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Nichelle Seely · @Nichelle
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New episode snippet:

I jog across the parking lot to keep awake, with an eye peeled for the building entrance, but the place is uninhabited as a desert island. Nothing moving except the bugs mobbing the street lamps.

But then, the lights go out.

Available on Kindle Vella.

amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/

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Nichelle Seely · @Nichelle
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Flickering shadows moved in the treetops. Now that the humans had gone, monkeys dropped boldly onto the grounds, scavenging beneath the tables for scraps. A band of warthogs ambled in, a mated pair with a cluster of tiny piglets. They snuffled in the grass. A stately nyala stepped out of the brush to nibble the buds of the trees, until the raucous squeal of baboons split the silence.


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CharmedLassie · @charmedlassie
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Published my seventh novel. Sheesh, how did that happen?

Anyway, if complex reads with a bit of a accent are your thing, you might enjoy Spiked!

books2read.com/spiked

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Katherine Pickett, Editor · @KPED
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@3goodthings

1. This weekend I narrowly escaped being hit by a car while on my bike. I crashed but wasn't hit.

2. I finally got to use a promo code for IngramSpark. I've been a member of IBPA for 8 years and this is the first time I remembered to use it.

3. It's Monday. Happy to be back at work.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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And yes, cleaned up another chapter of Watermyth tonight.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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Got a lovely blurb from one of my! favourite! authors!!! for Watermyth.

But I am going to be a very patient person and only share it when the book is in press.

But you know I VERY! BADLY! want to share it. 😅

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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Well, I've finished doing the major work that needed to be done on this chapter -- removing the pluperfects from an entire scene, rewriting various other scenes. Going to do another pass tomorrow evening before I move on to the next chapter of Watermyth.

But for now, I shall sleep and dream of making sticky date pudding (hopefully next weekend's culinary adventure, though I will need to acquire more dates).

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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I may be bummed but working on Watermyth today I'm reflecting that the extra time is exactly what Watermyth needs.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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Guys, I'm okay. I just think it's best for my novel that I just STFU about when it comes out and let it be the book it deserves to be. I'm just really frustrated because I've been struggling for 13 years with this book, but I never really lost faith in it so I just have to struggle a bit longer and keep the faith. I'm quite fed up that I got slammed with more academic work but it's unavoidable.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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I'm still working on the Watermyth and will keep doing so this weekend but I'm factoring in any additional editing time I will need, some new work that my dayjob threw at me, my overall health and the learning curve involved in formatting the novel and preparing it for press.

If I'd any sense at all I would have just shut up about it until the book was in press. Well, now I know what to do for the next book. 😛

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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Hi everyone. Between the various conflicts, challenges and curveballs life has been throwing at me the past few weeks, I think a March 31 publication date is an impossibility at this point, and I really regret setting that date. I'll keep you all posted once the book is in press and ready for pre-orders. This was a very difficult decision to make but unavoidable.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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The perils and dubious privileges of self-publishing: One week before promised publication date I have an epiphany about one of my MCs and how her backstory doesn't quite "fit". Imagine how many deletions and edits that's going to take.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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Managed to fix that one scene and remove all the pluperfect tenses by reworking the narrative. Made the dialogue more natural and plausible too.

I pass out now. I even did laundry while half-ded.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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I'm extremely tired and sleepy but fighting for some time to continue with Watermyth copy-edits. Been a looong day at work etc.

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 · @caye_marsh
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I got a peek at the draft cover for my upcoming book this weekend and I'm getting excited!

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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Pluperfect/past perfect can be an annoying tense both to write and to read. Wherever I can flatten time but show difference between two temporal points in the narration's past, I try to do it to ease that transition for the eyes that read. But sometimes, there's just no fix. Argh. Glaring at this chapter right now.

(fair disclaimer: I studied stylistics with a focus on narration, voice and POV back in my MA days)

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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I'm supposed to be hoping for my debut novel making great sales, having good reviews and all the wonderful things but to be honest at this stage my biggest wish is "God, please don't let there be any embarrassing typos, plot or thematic inconsistencies or temporal shifts and tenses I have not corrected yet." 🙏 🤲

I'm also having kittens about formatting, chapter headers and copyright info pages.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan · @mythopoetica
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Pretty exhausted today but plugging away at Part III of Watermyth. Had a nightmare (actual!) earlier of Watermyth getting slammed with bad reviews of the malicious kinds. Had to calm myself down when I woke up with a "forget about it, even if they happen, they don't define you or your book". Well, anyway, I guess good motivation for even more careful copy-edits.

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