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Progrep 43: Earthquake!
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Tagged earthquake, Eyes on the Mountain, fantasy, Mt. Shasta, science fiction, Shasta, writing
Progrep 42: Pinochle and Parakeets
At the pinochle party in the aviary, Leaves Turning Copper fends off parakeets but loses the round to Raghida. Copper agrees to enter the VR park . . . . where Bad Things await.
Posted in Writing
Tagged Eyes on the Mountain, fantasy, Mt. Shasta, science fiction, Shasta, virtual reality, writing
Progrep 40: Cultural Appropriation
Flows All Ways has smeared chokecherry juice on Hisham’s face and is telling him a story about how Mt. Shasta was made.
Posted in Writing
Tagged cultural appropriation, Eyes on the Mountain, fantasy, Mt. Shasta, Native American folklore, science fiction, Shasta, writing
Progrep 39: Goings-Wrong
Reached 38,000 words and finished chapter eleven this morning, answering major questions about the mysterious goings-on.
Further revelations await, and further questions will arise. Meanwhile, two of the characters have just realized that Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong.
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Tagged Eyes on the Mountain, fantasy, Mt. Shasta, science fiction, Shasta, writing
Progrep 38: That’s the Trouble Right There
Today, Leaves Turning Copper said, “I dreamt it.” To which, Hisham replied, “See, that’s the trouble right there.”
Posted in Writing
Tagged dialogue, Eyes on the Mountain, fantasy, Mt. Shasta, science fiction, Shasta, writing
Progrep 37: Slow But Steady
Every day, a few more pages. Oddly, two of the characters insist on calling one another stupid.
More significantly, world-merging works even better than I’d hoped.
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Tagged combining novels, Eyes on the Mountain, fantasy, Mt. Shasta, science fiction, Shasta, world building, writing
Progrep 36: Arrow Woman Photo
I found a folder of articles and images I clipped from magazines in 1990, 1991, and 1992. One of the images speaks so strongly to me in 2014, as I write this first draft, that I’ve pinned it to the corkboard on my desk.
Posted in Cool stuff, Writing
Tagged archery, eye on target, Eyes on the Mountain, fantasy, Mt. Shasta, science fiction, Shasta, writing
Progrep 35: Brain Drop
I found a weird typo in the manuscript today. The sentence was supposed to say that “she dropped her braid.” Instead, it said that “she dropped her brains.”
I kinda wish I was writing a story where a brain could be dropped.
Not my brain, though. That’s already dropped.
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Tagged Eyes on the Mountain, fantasy, Mt. Shasta, science fiction, Shasta, typo, writing
Prorep 34: Fiddling
I’m turning sentences this like:
A small stippled fish darted forth from the fool’s gold to nibble at the tree’s roots.
into sentences like this:
A small stippled fish nibbled the tree’s roots.
I may turn them back again. Because fiddling.
Posted in Writing
Tagged concision, editing, Eyes on the Mountain, fantasy, Mt. Shasta, science fiction, Shasta, writing
Progrep 33: Sensory Misperception
One of the characters is having difficulty with her senses as a result of contact with Something Mysterious.
Kitty litter carousel. Cherry cola trampoline. Tolling buttered skunk.
Can you tell she’s feeling nauseous?
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Tagged Eyes on the Mountain, fantasy, Mt. Shasta, science fiction, sensory perception, Shasta, synethesia, writing