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Indie writer seeks audience with an audience. Paying customers welcome. [pronouns: ze/hir] Daily free stories happen because it is an excellent counter to Writers' Block.

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Wednesday, Overdue Offerings and Rant

Since I have just about finished reading the Sharing Knife series, I think I should probably go on a bit of a rant and rave about that one.

I'm collating chapters for Book 5 one folder at a time and I'll be posting my owed Patreon content very, very soon.

The PLN for to day is do a little bit of one thing, work on another, then go back to the thing. Until the thing is done. Until all my things are done.

I also PLN on making some shorts for TubeTube in the near future. So I'll be recording a few of those and see how many can fit in the 1-2 minute time window and how many parts for one story I might need.

THEN I try to figure out a video editor or two. Fun times ahead.

Best to get on with getting on with it.

Challenge #04510-L126: Not So Helpless

I may be in a wheelchair, but I can still kick your tail before you raise that blade. I'm limited, not helpless. -- Fighting Fit

[AN: Tempted to use Kosh's all-terrain wheelchair with caterpillar treads for this one, but nah. Should aim for the normal model]

The streets are paved well, and for that I am grateful. I've seen the perambulatory chair favoured by a noble or two, but that thing is frighteningly complicated. My main wheels are from a velocipede, and

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Tuesday, Patreon, Deliveries, Shopping, etc.

I owe some stuff to Patreon. I owe some offerings to y'all today. I should be recording five more chapters and that should be going up on Patreon too. I should be focussing on all of that but the allure of relax time is calling me.

I can resist. I hope.

On the plus side, Mum has her seasonal chocolate and a half-dozen eggs, a fix to her tech, and refreshes supplies. Yay.

I have no idea what I'm going to doodle

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Challenge #04509-L125: The Terror Within

The researchers startled from their tents to hear screaming from the tent belonging to the humans. They see two humans trying to calm the third, who looked terrified. They explained, gently, their friend dealt with night-terrors sometimes, the past was not a gentle one. -- The New Guy

Of all possible rude awakenings, one of the worst has to be waking up to witness your roommate being killed. Leading slightly above that is doing the same with another individual readying their weapon

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Monday, Backup Reads and Back to Work

First week of not "working" during the weekend. This, in my case, means not working on the novel or any of my side projects for two days. Which, in turn, means encouraging myself to get back on to doing the thing. IF I can focus on doing half a chapter a day through the week, I can plausibly write up to two and a half chapters a week.

Which is likely to fall over tomorrow, because Mission to MeMum's. We'll see how

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Challenge #04508-L124: Just Open the Door

They're shy, terrified of talking to others about how they feel, and still suffering, mentally, from all they endured from the polity they were rescued from. The therapist, suggests writing out their feelings instead, since talking about it is so difficult for them. When they admit they are unable to read or write, They are given a diary, a few pencils, and a lesson book, and introduced to another who'd been rescued from that polity, who was willing to teach. -- Lessons

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Sunday, Game Night and Further PLNs

I'm planning to get to sleep at 5PM today, all so I can be awake at the right time to run the VTTRPG. My keyboard is behaving itself again, but yesterday was entirely terrifying.

I will be keeping all beverage containers out of accidental knocking-down distance. Religeously.

One scare is PLENTY.

I'm listening to AMothintheArchive on Twitch as they go through some entries from last week. I know what the prompt should be for next week, but there's always room for a

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Challenge #04507-L123: Low Made High

An elderly person living alone in a hovel had but one wish. To live, if but for a little while, somewhere warm in their old age. They awoke one morning to find themselves in an enchanted wizard's tower, that was also part retirement home, that moved through the lands. And the kind wizard helping them, and other elderly, find solace and companionship in their twilight years. -- Lessons

For the longest time, the only care for the elderly was their younger family

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Saturday, Parkrun and Technical Difficulties

Parkrun was a huge success for me. I repeated my experiment of walking without my cane to the halfway point, and then walking with support on the way back. I now have confirmation of the end of Volume Five of ADT so now all I need to do is fill in all the chapters between where I am and the two chapters I wrote for the very, very end.

Seventy-four chapters to go.

Meanwhile, I spilled a teeny tiny drop of beverage

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Challenge #04506-L122: A Very Special Exemption

One would think the CRC would stomp on a workplace making their people work 50 hour weeks and weekends. But the employees knew this would happen, they're told clearly about it up front before they agree to be hired, for only about 3 months out every year before going back to normal work hours. And honestly? The overtime pay was VERY much worth it! -- Anon Guest

It took some significant effort to come up with Galactic Standard Time, the Galactic Standard

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Friday, Trying and Very Trying

I cannot comprehend the extant set of instructions for getting new instruments into Zrythm. I'm going to try some video tutorials and see how I go.

If it gets incredibly desperate, I'll sign on to the Discord and find someone who knows this shit to help.

I feel like a true thickie, trying to do all these things and failing at it.

On the other hand, I am teaching myself how to art all over again. With constant practice, I will get

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Challenge #04505-L121: Utility of Blades

Why do you have so many knives, surely you don't need more than one? -- She Who Knits

"Oh I need all of them," said Human Mar, "and don't call me Shirley." Currently in the midst of sharpening one, he checked the blade's sharpness against his thumbnail.

"Pardon?" said Companion Gij, her feathers half-fluffed in anxiety. "I did not do that."

"Ancient Terran joke. Never mind." The knife passed its odd inspection and returned to its sheath, then to its place on

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Thursday, An Attempt Was Made

I just wrote and published yesterday's Weird Writer Wednesday. Just so I can keep the feed and reputation going. It's still Wednesday somewhere.

I'm using that justification and nobody can stop me.

Today, my PLNs are to figure out how to import instruments into Zrythm and try doing that. So the daily doodle will likely be a diary cartoon. I can do those in less than a minute and the Zrythm-related stress will be enough.

I tried figuring out figure drawing yesterday

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Challenge #04504-L120: Unarmed? Unlikely

The pirates corner the human space-trucker and grabs the human's pup as a hostage The human's pup doesn't fight back with teeth, but the odor that soon incapacitates the pirates is one all dog owners know all too well. -- Anon Guest

[AN: For a handful of seconds, I thought you were talking about a Human infant]

Trucking is a boring job, so it's no shock that truckers in any environment find things to do during their work hours. For life on

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Wednesday, Rant Due and Accelerating PLNs

I am spending this morning going through my archives for my most popular stories. All so I can read them to TubeTube at some point. My metric? Anything with 100 or more likes gets into the system.

There's more popular stories than I thought.

I have five years to sift through. That's going to be... interesting.

I'm still freaking out over it a little bit.

I can do this though. I know I can do this. Figuring out how to add video

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