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Lent

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Lent is finished. 103565 words as of now, sent it out to beta readers, waiting for response. Kind of done, yay!

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I’m home

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This has been a truly epic trip. I’m home to Emmet and my rice cooker and my Damascus steel kitchen knife and my bathrobe and drawers full of clothes I’d forgotten I owned, as I’ve been wearing the same nine…

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Posted in Life as it blossoms out in a jar or a face

Petrarch and Laura

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I see I have become a legend, my life, my love, And her life and death, a legend. In time it will all be remembered In time it will all be forgotten And remembered again, the wrack and refuse Of…

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My Worldcon Schedule

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Creating Rules of Enchantment Wednesday 17:00 – 18:00, 207 (Messukeskus) Magical worlds are wonderful places for readers to inhabit; however, they can be devilishly tricky places for writers to create. The magic must be powerful enough to be instrumental to…

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In Florence, Thessaly proof, poison, and a rant about sources

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I am in Florence. in my beautiful and carefully chosen apartment, where I will be until early July, sometimes on my own and more often with visiting friends. The plan is that I will immerse myself in Lent, which is…

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Posted in Lent, Thessaly, Writing

In Nimes

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…The so-called temple of Diana was an Augusteum, the niches in the cella also suggest some library use… I’m in the South of France. Far off, a flute is playing Vivaldi’s measured Summer And all around unmeasured profligate summer Is…

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Posted in Human culture, Life as it blossoms out in a jar or a face, Poetry

Dance!

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With your made-up eyes and your grown up gown And the glitter on your cheek When the pink balloons come tumbling down You’ve been waiting for all week… Dance little girl,  dance with delight Let nobody tell you that it…

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So full of a number of things

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1) Poor Relations has a cover. I have not in fact written an ineluctably masculine seventies SF novel, but it makes me happy to have a cover as if I had. Nothing represents anything specific in the book — there…

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Posted in Life as it blossoms out in a jar or a face, Poor Relations

A Burden Shared

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I have a new short story up on Tor.com today, A Burden Shared. It’s about familial love and the future of disability. Well, actually, it’s about pain. I had the idea for this one in conversation with Doug Palmer at…

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Thud: Lent

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Words: 2070 Total words: 15817 Files: 2 Tea: Jin Die bio with hand added ginseng Music: only power up music New beginning. So I have been doing a ton of research for Lent, and now I am ready to really…

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