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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.

Burpengary East http://www.cmweller.com 11645 posts

Tuesday, Big Day About

I may not have the time to post Patreon stuff today. It's almost 5PM and I just now sat down to do my work. I mean, I technically did finish a chapter of A Devil's Tale while I was roaming, but that's background work y'all don't see. Not until after it's done.

Here's my day:

  • 3-4AM awaken and pry self from bed, get dressed
  • Make sure I know where MeMum's seasonal chocolate is, so I don't forget it
  • Get dressed and take meds
  • Feed cats [most important! Ask the cats]
  • Secure laptop, checking MeMum's chocolate and reminding myself to take it along
  • Check household supplies, ask spawn for input on stuff
  • Hat, phone, bag, headphones. Spare caffeine tube packed in car
  • Email MeMum and take off
  • Get there, realise that I forgot her seasonal chocolate. FUCK!
  • Proceed with tech support & gasbag
  • Get breakfast & gasbag
  • Help Mum's shopping quests & gasbag
  • Aquire family seasonal chocolate and head home
  • Shopping on the way, for limited definitions of 'on the way'
  • Finally home

So now I do story.

Challenge #04495-L111: Fated Family

The caravan they came upon was destroyed, the family was dead. In the wreckage, Bribrid, a silvery eternal dragon in the guise of a gnome, finds a baby still alive and crying. Wraithvine, Bribrid, and their fluffy cat now have a child to raise. -- Anon Guest

They found the caravan too late to save it from the bandits. All that remained to do was inter the bodies and organise what salvage they could. At least until Bibrid heard the weak cry.

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Monday, Backup Reads

I got read on stream, so my goal is to get the group to fix what went wrong with my story for that week. I frequently describe my writing process of, "Chronicling what the voices in my head are doing." Learning how to make a better second draft might be a start on improving myself.

There is still chocolate so I am technically off the Keto wagon. Yum num num num :D

I shall be researching how to add instruments and loops

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Challenge #04494-L110: Agreement on Amends

Beneath the glow of the full moon, Count [REDACTED] gazed longingly into his lover's eyes. “My darling, my eternal flame, my heart’s joy taken human form. I’m begging you to drink more water your blood tastes like shit.” -- Anon Guest

[AN: This prompt has been altered to skip merrily around other people's IP. I try to avoid copyrighted material around here]

Compte Dragomyr couldn't keep it to himself any longer. He had to tell her. Yet he could not

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Sunday, Egg-shaped Chocolate Day

Happy Easter to those who celebrate, Erastide for those in the northern hemisphere, and Samhain in those here with me in the south. I am taking my time with business today. But as a plus point, I have successfully made something work in Zrythm. Now all I need do is find and add a whole bunch of instruments and loops to play with.

I will get this thing to work. Bit by excruciating bit.

I shall get on with my offerings, add

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Challenge #04493-L109: Purity Flaw

They wanted their population sick enough to be too tired to fight back, but strong enough to work. Then someone introduced the immunoflu and when they tried desperately to stop the spread, their secret came out. -- Anon Guest

Any time a polity's leader starts going on about 'purity' and the strength derived from it, you know that polity is in for a bad time. And so are its people. Not just the ones who are deemed imperfect or impure.

Worse still

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Saturday, Parkrun and Holy Days

I set out with the PLN to walk 2.5 kilometers without the use of my cane. Alas, my food quit somewhere along the 1.25-2 K mark, and I spent the rest of it limping along with support.

Better that than paying for it tomorrow.

Today marks the second week that I've been attempting to fix my messed up shoulder on my only. Heat and Deep Heat hasn't worked, possibly because nobody's available to do a good job on the dingdang

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Challenge #04492-L108: Undying Love

"Please try to understand. I do not own you, you're not a hobby to me, you're not my pet. You're my friend. First one I've had in a very long time. I do not invite you to join me because I do not know if you could endure this life, and I only wish for your happiness."

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04176-k158-safe-in-a-dangerous-place -- Anon Guest

Vampires, even vampire spawn, can technically live forever. It's understandable that they exist in lonely circumstances.

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Friday, Erastide Commence

It's Good Friday today, and I have vague PLNs to get fish and chips at some point. Before that, though, I shall render my offerings for all of you, my dear readers.

The weather looks nice enough to maybe finally make the repairs to the catio. Fingers crossed that Beloved is able to be whisked away for the process. Powers only know if there's going to be clusterfucks on her end to put the kybosh on those PLNs.

There will be parkrun

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Challenge #04491-L107: Important Safety Measures

All HUMANS agreed, after this incident, Stabbies were forbidden, well mostly. At least all the intelligent ones who cared about others. People loved their Stabbies, but now, the "blades" were soft rubber or foam with harmless, to as many as possible, red dye.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04182-k164-death-by-stabby -- Anon Guest

The news spread fast. The regulations were debated for a lot longer. Obviously, the Ships' or Stations' Humans needed enrichment and Stabbies were the lowest cost version of that. You

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Challenge #04490-L106: For Love, Not Reward

She was willing to die to save the world carrying her god within. The team, and the god, however, were not willing to let her fade so easily, but, when it was over, what was left would need a lot of healing for her to be fully restored, a lot of rest to regain what was lost, and she'll never be quite the same again. Once you have harbored divinity within, even when recovered, you never escape being changed.

https://peakd.com/

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Wednesday, Unfuckening in Progress

I went and fetched Adorable before I even had my coffee this morrow. As I write, she's currently trying to unriddle the Wacom screen tablet. Task one of four:

  1. Unriddle the Wacom
  2. Whack OBS so the cam behaves its-fucking-self when I'm streaming
  3. Get Zrythm to play some GD sound
  4. Attach basket and rack to Chaos' bike

And because only one of us can fart around on my compy at a time, I'm doing my offerings from the Lappy. Yay.

I shall do

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Challenge #04489-L105: Deep Down Farming

I'm a half-human with an unusual gift. Who am I? Oh just a simple farmer. What do I raise? Cattle? Oh no, too many monsters, though I can hunt those for food, giant boars and huge deer taste good. I raise Dire Spiders. The silk ensures clothing, money, and my gift? I can understand their feelings so I know how to ensure they have a comfortable home. -- Anon Guest

People up on the surface always make the same mistake about the

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Tuesday, Technical Nonsense Ahoy

I have parcels to pick up, Adorable to fetch, and an interesting day ahead because unriddling whatever the fuck is going on with my software and hardware.

Adorable has tradies coming, so juggling the minutes promises to be some degree of fun.

I'm going to finish this blog entry, don some clothings, and then launch to get the stuff and then get Adorable.

Offerings when and if I can manage to do them. Maybe even including Patreon.

Update:

The Tradies turned into

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