This year’s October fiction project is a short middle-grade horror novel. The working title is “Turning Leaves,” but that will probably change. Here are the rules (which I am making up as I go along!): Write every day. Write about a thousand words every day. Write words the same day the characters would be writing […]
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This year’s October fiction project is a short middle-grade horror novel. The working title is “Turning Leaves,” but that will probably change. Here are the rules (which I am making up as I go along!): Write every day. Write about a thousand words every day. Write words the same day the characters would be writing
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This year’s October fiction project is a short middle-grade horror novel. The working title is “Turning Leaves,” but that will probably change. Here are the rules (which I am making up as I go along!): Write every day. Write about a thousand words every day. Write words the same day the characters would be writing
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This year’s October fiction project is a short middle-grade horror novel. The working title is “Turning Leaves,” but that will probably change. Here are the rules (which I am making up as I go along!): Write every day. Write about a thousand words every day. Write words the same day the characters would be writing
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This year’s October fiction project is a short middle-grade horror novel. The working title is “Turning Leaves,” but that will probably change. Here are the rules (which I am making up as I go along!): Write every day. Write about a thousand words every day. Write words the same day the characters would be writing
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This year’s October fiction project is a short middle-grade horror novel. The working title is “Turning Leaves,” but that will probably change. Here are the rules (which I am making up as I go along!): Write every day. Write about a thousand words every day. Write words the same day the characters would be writing
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Perhaps foolishly, I have decided at the last minute to do a daily fiction project this year. I’ve done them before but I wrote flash fiction stories. This year, I started with my (relatively newfound) tradition of rereading Roger Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October and went, “I am…totally jealous of that.” So. I
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The sin of gluttony comes calling for Dr. Hope Sze at Montreal’s first Dragon Boat Festival, as she volunteers for an unusual eating contest. Hope Sze is a creation of a friend of mine, emergency physician Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes, also known as Melissa Yi. Something you should know about Melissa: she is fast. She thinks
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Please note, I’m in the mood for horror stuff, so the Midjourney prompts from now until, well, November may be a bit gory! The Ooze Test. This is a report on a thought experiment I was working on earlier, that is, how to handle people who kind of just “oozed” into my life and tried
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Home Fires by Gene Wolfe is a…Gene Wolfe book. I’m not sure how to describe either the book or my experience of reading it in any other way. (Long-time Gene Wolfe readers, please note that this is my first time through.) Inability to describe a Gene Wolfe book is par for the course, though. Gene Wolfe
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