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A 3655-post collection

Monday, Further Modding Nonse

I'm moderating the Promptcast Stream as I type. Keeping an eye on the chat as I work on this or that.

I finished the thing for the Promptcast and I don't need to fret about offerings to the Archive since they're on a little sabbatical this week.

So now all I need to worry about is the other four Madlib Query Letters, today's story, and maybe keeping the chat orderly.

My brain is fogging hard because stress. I had a fever in the wee small hours of last night, and I am battling something that makes the small of my back and my innards ache. Not fun. Probably related to anxiety. May be related to a need to restock my gut bacteria. I don't know.

I'll endure until I have enough moneys to deal with it well enough. It is, at least, endurable.

Onwards to the fiction.

Sunday, Stream Stuff and Bread

I have the third loaf in the incubator. I have the Promptcast revealing everyone tomorrow. Or at least everyone who feels comfortable with being revealed. I know that one writer is calling themself HashtagNineteen.

We'll winkle them out of their shell in the fullness of time.

Confidence is an elusive beast when you're a writer. You spend a majority of time inside your own head and then start wondering if other heads will even appreciate it.

And when the feedback is minimal

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Saturday, Sideways and Bravery

...and bread. Everything is sideways today. I've been forgetting a few things because they are out of the normal order.

Today, after I do my story, I shall be working on the Madlibs query letters for the books I plan to pitch. If I do it well, I might launch a simul-pitch launch. I may need my friends in Discord to play the Pitch-a-Book Dating Game.

That's happening sometime very soon because launching has become more important recently. Shit or get off

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Friday, Shopping and Smol Stress

We are still fine. We can manage. I want that out in the open. Nevertheless, a minor financial hiccough is making me anxious. I have faith. There will be a PLN. We have enough.

Today's Leyland's Tour includes Costco, Bunnings, and Aldi.

I also have bread happening today and tomorrow. Huzzah.

I've seen to a litterbox, I've measured out ingredients, I have an idea of how to sally forth and continue. Today. Tomorrow is a little bit more vague.

In contact with

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Wednesday, Rant and Fiction

I think I'll share more fanfic today. I'll go off about the CGI movie Monkey King if I still have things to get off my chest when the fanfic is done.

Having grown up on a version of Journey to the West I have issues with the film. Suffice to say that it was clearly made for Western audiences unfamiliar with the source material and missed a LOT of beats from there.

And they made Tripitaka fat, and had him already escorted

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Tuesday, Patreon and Problems

Someone left the Promptcast [as is their right] and took their wordcount with them. I read it as leaving in a huff and throwing a tanty about things they weren't allowed to say or do. Especially some of the things said about Generative AI.

I don't know what their bugbear on that is, and it's ultimately not important.

The issue is that the person who did that has moved over to the Archive. Bad habits and all.

I've warned the Archive's presenter/

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Monday, Backup Reads and More Promptcast

There's stories being read out all over the interwebs today. I'm just trying to keep ahead of all of it.

And I'm being spectacularly loquacious as I have been filling in prompts all weekend.

The Promptcast has given me mod powers so I have to pay attention to the chat. That's why today's tale would be later than normal. Well. What passes for normal with me.

In the meantime, I keep treating my dang ankle and working on things whenever I can.

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Sunday, Streaming Stuff and Nonsense

As I type, I'm listening to the Archive reading the selected entries for the prompt, Problem Child. In a few more moments, the Promptcast will be reading the anonymous entries from the assembled maniacs including my good self.

The prompt for next week is "Love Bites" so Compte Dragomyr is reappearing in the Archive. He has a type and it's looking like an Operatic Primadonna and thinking like Machiavelli.

I dunno if he's ever going to get a whole story. Time, as

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Saturday, Light Duties I Guess

I am taking a day of ease, today. Step one: do the daily tale. Step two: faff around with games. Probably working with the QPP on Hytale.

I've been learning independently on that but not nearly fast enough. Bleh.

Of course I'm still babying my ankle, but the good news is that it is only hurting on one side. Improvement? I don't freaking know.

But I only have to ice one area and I am taking that win.

Onwards to the fantastical.

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Friday, Expedition Ahoy

I have money, so I'm going on a supply run to stock up on this, that, and random stuff. As you do.

Because one of my stops is Costco, I'm working here until half-past nine, just to be certain everything's open when I go.

My right wrist has decided to hate me before coffee, so that just makes everything more complicated because wrist brace. Hooray.

And I have to chill my ankle down while the time windows allow.

Today is going to

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Wednesday, Rants, Reviews, and Randomness

I think I might have a strategy for when, like this week, I have no idea what I'm going to rant about. I have other fictions with few places to go. They can go to my rantspace with some small explanation to the fore.

When I fall in love with something or get a hair up my butt, then the entertainment is put on pause.

Whenever that happens to happen. We shall see.

And at some point in the day I must

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Monday, Backup Reads, Agendas, and Things Undone

I need to check my footnotes in the anthology. And make sure I have the cover done properly. Get the dingdang thing out before February.

The Archive is having its backup reads real soon now. I have a prompt to consider for the Promptcast.

One thing at a time. I shouldn't have too many footnotes to check this year. I'm just procrastinating like fuck about them.

Story whenever the mood sweeps me to get onto that.

Let's get rattling.

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