Today, I aim to write something for Weird Writer Wednesday, likely about nibbling problems to death. I shall also be working on the daily tale. THEN I shall do something towards my cover art.
I can do this. It's beating the inertia that's the issue.
Maybe that's what I'll write about for this coming Wednesday.
But first, I must get on with the stuff that earns money. Even if it is a small amount of money.
Find out who you are, and then do it on purpose -- Weirdlet
[AN: Hats off and respect to Dolly Parton, who lived by those words and is an example to us all]
There's no record of the first Halfbred. None know who they were, what their ancestry was, or how well they may have lived. Common conjecture posits that it was how Drakkonbred became a species, but some people will theorise anything.
In certain centuries, Halfbred folk were rare. It was
Read more »My agenda, such that it is:
Maybe, I can catch up on my To-Be-Watched pile, but that's for winding down in the evening.
I should focus on getting that done, but there's anxiety and people needing to talk and all kinds of distractions hither and yon.
I need to stop playing with the Endorphin Machine [my phone] and get on with getting on. I know I can.
Let's go.
Read more »I may not be licensed, but I will hold this child. They're crying, they need help. I don't give a damn about your rules. You're not licensed either, and watching a young child wailing in fear and discomfort without aid is cruel. -- BKF
[AN: I understand the spirit of the prompt, and am writing for that. With reference to https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04984-m235-post-trauma-trauma-comfort ]
Prentice Medik Jarl, do you understand the charges you are answering for today?
I don't, sir.
Read more »I have commenced rewriting Book One of A Devil's Tale, but I hope the whole process takes less time than four dingdang years.
Some of it is a little touch-up.
Some of it is a complete rewrite.
Some of it is new material.
My characters need space to be three-dimensional. Especially Kosh's crew. So, as I have been joking with the read-through group - we're going to need a bigger book.
It's still going to be a sextology, because I can't think
Read more »A part of the boogey's bitterness was the people before, the ones who were driven out and the house slowly fell to state it was in, was they put POISON in the milk. The child had heard that much, and one of the gifts, thanks to her family's help, were little pouches of antidotes and treatments for symptoms that can last ages from such poisonings.
https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04982-m233-redemption-from-horror -- BKF
The special powder came in a small, waxed paper
Read more »I posted my Weird Writer Wednesday first thing! Hooray. Now I can focus on the next thing to write for next week. I've done my Promptcast thing and sent it off! Huzzah. More free time for the fucking multitude of other side projects I have going on.
Whee fun.
October is looming and my cover art is only halfway done. If I actually make time for it, I can get it done. I just can't be too lazy or it looks like
Read more »Wraithvine nearly drowns, is awakened to Chance giving hir CPR and Scramble retrieving hir hat and the group's belongings. Fortunately, save for some food supplies, they lose very little. -- BKF
Thunder in hir ears. Burning lungs in need of air, not the fluid currently invading them. Fading light. A confusion of things in hir sight.
Hir goddess whispered to hir, Not today, my lovely.
Small hands on hir chest. Lips on hirs. Air in hir lungs and the taste of someone
Read more »Yesterday, Adorable rescued a fledgeling dove from the Magpie Mafia. We think it's a Spotted Dove, but identification is a little difficult. Beloved and Adorable are plotting to take it to the vet's for a patch-up and advice on how to go forward.
Or for a transfer of custody.
Spotted Doves are not pests, they're one of the species that kind of blew in from the island chain to the north. So hopes are good that this little creature can have a
Read more »A litter of wayward kittens, barely weaned, become very attached to "Dex" following him around trying to get cuddles. -- BKF
There's a certain amount of chaos in every life. For example, his father the King had occasionally had to sit the Blood Throne whilst pulling double duty as his infant daughter's favourite bed. The trick, Dad said, was to carry on as if everything was perfectly normal and to let others turn it into a problem.
"And then," Dad said with
Read more »Apparently, yesterday was the hottest September day on record, here in Sunny Queensland. It was PERISHING hot in the nerd cave. And since I don't want to do that again, my PLN runs thusly:
I foresee an absolutely miserable summer for myself, but at least I shall be able
Read more »On a cold, rainy, night, it's very peaceful to sit by the fire listening to the rain drum the roof, while your cat purrs contentedly in your lap. -- BKF
The weather outside was truly frightful. Cold rain that was almost sleeting. Blustery winds that turned said rain in varying slants that would render umbrellas nigh to useless.
A perfect evening for relaxing indoors.
Arelgi had set up a nest of blankets and pillows near the fireplace and, with dinner in her
Read more »This week is the last week that my writing is paying the bills. Beloved and the others have that week to figure out finances. There shall be much ado about looking for work amongst the housemates. Or otherwise helping to pay the bills.
We will figure it out and keep the roof over our heads.
There may be a need for austerity for a bit, but we will manage. We have managed before. We can manage again.
Some of that management has
Read more »The crew of the research vessel learns from the human how to train canines properly so the animals can help carry light, for the animals, loads, and help protect the crew when the human is unable to. -- BKF
[AN: Surprise, I know jack shit about dog training! Nevertheless, I shall make an attempt]
In centuries past, on a Deathworld appropriately named Terra, the Humans looked at the wolf and said something like, "That looks friend-shaped." The descendants of those wolves were
Read more »I got the Patreon stuff posted! I wrote a thing for Weird Writer Wednesday! And that's why I'm writing this [and my subsequent story] in the afternoon.
I pln to get that tale done, eat some ice cream, and have time for entertainment. Read: Minecraft or BG3.
I'm still figuring out the new routine, but I will get there. Eventually.
Speaking of, I'd best get there with some fresh free fiction for y'all.
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