I have the geographic location of my academic mystery's fictional college set on my phone's weather app. It & the people may all be imaginary but I like to keep tabs on them. 🙂

I also have weather & moon phase reports for the years of my story. I want to be sure things are accurate on the ground, as it were. Love that a Canadian polar vortex swept over my campus during the exact 2 weeks I needed. 😁

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Finally received my beta readers' reports! They are encouraging & useful. 📖

I learned I can trust my inner editor instincts. (3 of 4 readers each saw when something didn't quite work at the very points I was worried about.)💪

I also learned that the best betas are from your target audience. The 1 that wasn't (much younger, a newish writer, & perhaps not as well read) missed a lot.🤔

Oh and I write great sex scenes.😉

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Today's reading! I want to get 2 new characters into Bk 2 & realized that they were invisibly there in Bk 1: my fictional college's ravenmaster & his husband. So now I must research ravens & their keeping! Have 4 books & a list of articles, mostly about the corvids but I'll be able to get some people info too.

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Am reviewing some essays & papers I wrote in college (as part of some character backstory research). It's huge fun to read them. I seem to have been something of an erudite smarta$$. 😄

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