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Particular Announcement
With all 100 drabbles written, I can finally announce that I’ll be publishing them in a slim anthology soon. What started as a way to get me thinking about writing after a long drought, turned into the main motivator in my writing life. Titled Particulates this will probably be a first volume, though I have…
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Progress Report: Dribble Drabble
I’ve been working hard on the 100-Drabbles project and while I really love the genre, I think I will wait a while before I create a sequel. Today I wrote the 71st Drabble. It’s coming along nicely. While I admit there may be more than a few vignettes instead of full-stories, I will work on…
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We go hundred!
I removed a bunch of my Instagram posts that had AI art I created to display alongside the Drabbles I’d been writing. This was my project for April’s Camp Nanowrimo. In reading more about AI art and how it uses artists work (unknown and unpaid) as its foundational palette, I removed the posts. I explain…
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I’m a Camp Nano participant – woohoo
In previous incarnations I’ve tried to be part of the Nanowrimo/Preptober crowd, posting tips and info that would be useful to writers and, more often than not, failing to do any actual writing. While I like the camaraderie and deadline of Nanowrimo, I don’t like the performative aspects of the writing community, especially around that…
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A Drabble Story, part 7
You can start the journey here, at part 1. As he stood up in the power position, one-by-one his classmates became aware of him. The thick kid from off-planet towered over his peers and while they hunched over their tests, scrawling answers that easily came out of their heads, he stood over them, a pencil…