Got a good chunk more of How To Operate Your Body formatted. Hopefully only a day or two more needed!
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I know it's time to break out of the writing groove when a story is flowing so well that asterisks abound. Eventually repeating "CharacterName**" and "HerBoss'sName**" will break the momentum when I have to keep putting them over and over again, rather than stop and figure them out. This story is now set in "ShitCityFlorida**." Yeah, time for a pause before I get too far into the world building.

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Took (hopefully) the last round of pictures for How To Operate Your Body and got a few more sections formatted. Getting closer!
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Got a little more done on How To Operate Your Body today. Will hopefully get a few more pictures to round things out this weekend.
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These callout boxes work much better for How To Operate Your Body. I feel like the final product is coming together nicely!
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Working on the last pass of pictures and callout boxes for How To Operate Your Body. It's always fun moving pictures around in word...
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This is definitely the start of a newsletter well worth following! An excellent piece by Carolyn Jones

https://open.substack.com/pub/wordblooms/p/rain-after-a-drought?r=20d0vv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Got all the big edits done on How To Operate Your Body! I've got to target a few sections for cleanup and maybe add a couple more pictures, but it's largely finished! #editing #amwritingfiction

Just drove back from dropping off son. About an hour and a half of trying to figure out a plot. It's nice to feel my mind working in writing mode again. #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction #AmPlotting

Did the beginning of the month finances for Space Wizard (fun!) along with assembling most of Lofty Mountains! Just a few more bits and pieces and it will be ready to go.
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Drove back from DragonCon today and got a bunch of edits on How To Operate Your Body done! Hoping to tidy this one up this week, and get on to some Biomass writing!
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The joy and absorption of writing counts for fiction as well as scholarship. It's my happy place. It's "the zone." It's hard work and it's joy.

No reason. Just sharing.

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WordWeavers Day 4:
Does your antagonist(s) have a chance to become a better person?

Who are you asking?

Elyssia would say everyone has a chance of becoming a better person

Joshua would say he has no idea

Me? No chance. Dominic Brewster is rotten through and through, unredeemable (for the purposes of the story 😜 )

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Writing novels

One conclusion I’m coming to is that it takes an army of good guys to undo the damage done by one bad guy

Fortunately, most of the time, there are armies of good guys

So, keep up the good work, you guys

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And my latest story is out in the world. "Caliban's Cameras" is a #Cyberpunk #dystopic look into the ramifications of education legislation in #Florida.

This is an impressive table of contents to be in. AND YOU CAN READ IT ALL FOR JUST $3.99!!

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https://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2023/09/stupefying-stories-25-its-alive.html

Got a bunch of edits on How To Operate Your Body done on the drive down to DragonCon, then saw lots of friends and went to 80's prom. My wife won prom queen!
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Officially started on edits to How To Operate Your Body today! Tomorrow I hope to see new friends and old at DragonCon!
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WritingWonders Day 30
Have you ever planned to kill a character and not done it?

The other way round
I planned not to let a character die but she did 😢

Daniella Forrester in my first novel

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Another developmental edit complete! Which means I get to work on How To Operate Your Body while traveling to DragonCon this weekend!
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It's been years in the making, but today our debut novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY finally hits the shelves. It's a dream come true for both @rachelcleves and @aram. We've fantasized about being novelists since we were kids, and today that fantasy becomes reality.

We hope you love Nev, Airin, Jim Bone, and all the people we dreamed into this book.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Second-Chance-for-Yesterday/R-A-Sinn/9781786188274

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