This new personal project of ours has grown as complex as any I've dealt with in my career.
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This new personal project of ours has grown as complex as any I've dealt with in my career.
09.10.2025 17:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My August in writing, wherein I face rewriting an arguably broken draft.
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18.08.2025 22:05 β π 292 π 108 π¬ 27 π 29It'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
05.08.2025 06:02 β π 49 π 9 π¬ 8 π 2Quick 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.
03.07.2025 04:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Maybe I'll get to 11 someday :)
03.07.2025 00:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Epic fantasy. This is my first book, and I'm sitting on the fifth draft, itching to get started on the sixth.
01.07.2025 19:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Based 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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"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."
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18832647/
Reads: an old dog dreams I image you Whispering That I was good
A wee bit of fridge poetry πΆ
19.05.2025 11:49 β π 62 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0I blogged about my April in Writing, in which I found a #DevelopmentalEditor to send my manuscript out to :)
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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. π©
31.03.2025 21:37 β π 542 π 118 π¬ 11 π 14Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
28.03.2025 18:28 β π 17034 π 2614 π¬ 143 π 113Coming 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.
28.03.2025 15:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"[M]aybe we should be thinking in terms of the quality of our reading rather than the quantity."
28.03.2025 12:51 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0adding 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.
04.03.2025 22:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I 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.
03.03.2025 00:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I 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.
24.02.2025 17:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!
11.02.2025 22:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Finished 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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