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This new personal project of ours has grown as complex as any I've dealt with in my career.

My August in writing, wherein I face rewriting an arguably broken draft.

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It's a good sign when I tear up while planning a side character's arc.

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xray image of a hammerhead sharks head. real creepy lookin

X-Ray image of a Hammerhead shark

Quick July in Writing blog post, where I received my developmental edit and continued planning my draft 6.

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Still trying to get this first one to the point where I'm ready to query.

Maybe I'll get to 11 someday :)

Epic fantasy. This is my first book, and I'm sitting on the fifth draft, itching to get started on the sixth.

Based on beta reader feedback, I've started to completely refactor my 1st POV outline again. But I'm close!

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I blogged about finishing my #FifthDraft, submitting the manuscript for a #DevelopmentalEdit, and fleshing out future books in the series.

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Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception - PubMed We present six experiments that tested whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception, which we define as the identification of a coherent and meaningful interrelationship among a set o...

"Participants who lacked control were more likely to perceive a variety of illusory patterns, including seeing images in noise, forming illusory correlations in stock market information, perceiving conspiracies, and developing superstitions."

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Reads: an old dog dreams I image you Whispering That I was good

A wee bit of fridge poetry 🐶

I blogged about my April in Writing, in which I found a #DevelopmentalEditor to send my manuscript out to :)

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GitHub - prosegrinder/pandoc-templates: An opinionated set of Pandoc templates and scripts for converting markdown to DOCX manuscripts that adhere to William Shunn's Proper Manuscript Format guideline... An opinionated set of Pandoc templates and scripts for converting markdown to DOCX manuscripts that adhere to William Shunn's Proper Manuscript Format guidelines using Pandoc. - prosegrinder/pa...

github.com/prosegrinder... is a godsend, doing all the heavy lifting converting markdown chapters into editor submission-format docx.

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I blogged about my fourth draft progress, tooling, and developmental editing.

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Can we just not do April Fool's tomorrow? We're already dealing with enough. Reality is the joke at this point. 😩

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

YouTube video by Jack Harbid Nine Inch Nails - just like you imagined (Studio rehearsal)

Coming up with the live parts to Just Like You Imagined from The Fragile.

youtu.be/qPvs73OQTAU

Of course. I'm currently reading _Immersion and Emotion_ and wishing I had read this months ago.

"[M]aybe we should be thinking in terms of the quality of our reading rather than the quantity."

adding or deleting pages in the pdf seems to garbage collect or something. As long as it's not losing any of my annotations, I'll take it.

I was severely sleep deprived yesterday, so I worked on one of my websites and started converting my ad-hoc scripts into a real python tool.

(Reinforces my belief that I need less focus and headspace to work on tech than creativity.)

Handwritten notes on pdfs take a lot of disk. I had to split my wip into chunks to avoid Github's 100mb limit.

I blogged about my February in Writing, where I:

- finished my third draft,
- began reading the book in chapter order for the first time, and
- did a lot of research on developmental editing services.

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Pushed hard to finish the initial 3rd draft pass yesterday, and today I'm drained. I think I'll work on technical things today: document conversion and formatting, website work.

Thank you!

Finished the initial rough 3rd draft pass of the 2nd POV. 18 more scenes to go.
I want to fix a number of issues and polish before I declare the 3rd draft done, but if I hit a scene per day, I'll have all of March for that.

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Photo shows the cover of the Dragonlance Chronicles 40th Anniversary Edition omnibus.

Happy U.S. release day to the Dragonlance Chronicles 40th Anniversary Edition omnibus!

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Rye, a yellow husky/pyrenees mix, curled up at the end of the couch, and Maple, a red husky puppy, poking her head up behind the pillows.

I published my January in Writing blog post, in which I introduce you to our new puppy, Maple.

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