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Jencel PanicThe road I walk is new. It's made not of stone, but dirt. There are no road signs yet. And no bridges to cover the rivers.The road I walk is new, so people think that it is hard. "How do swim?" "Don't you get dirty?" "How do you cope with all that uncertainty?"But actually, I am not concerned with all that. I am not in a rush, I am not lazy I am prepared to go wherever my road takes me.There is only one kind of obstacle that puts me off: having to go through other people's highways. <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/personal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#personal</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/iamwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iamwriting</a>

aboutgrauin the past i often had difficulties figuring out in what context an annotation from a book was situated, how it was meant to be read. currently i’m creating quick ai summaries of every chapter i read just to have a grid, an overall structure to place my notes and annotations in<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iamwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iamwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pkm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pkm</a>

Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏My spel chequer flagged decile as an error. WTF?<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a>

Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️Well, I got my 2000+ words in this morning before 9 AM. (I just hope I didn't open myself up to too many trolls.) <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blogging</a>Now I can do what I really NEED to get done today: packing my truck for 10 days working on the boat, mostly in dry dock. There is so much to do by month-end. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/boating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boating</a>

Catching Shadows<a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/62335/lord-of-the-black-mountain/chapter/2157128/eleven" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/62335/lord-of-the-black-mountain/chapter/2157128/eleven</a> Chapter 11 of Lord of the Black Mountain is out, and I've finished chapter twelve (which needs editing.) I am hoping for a monthly update schedule. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iamwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iamwriting</a>

Lisa<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@stevencudahy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@stevencudahy</a> Art, in all its forms, is more important than ever in times of crisis. It speaks to people on a level that oppressors cannot comprehend. <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/iamwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iamwriting</a>

rdmI looked across at my partner as the latest ad for some soapy ran on the TV. "How do they really expect people to buy into those stories? I mean the whole skeeviness of that thing with that guy and the woman he was dating being his adopted out daughter? And his son running the local chip shop as a front for a drug ring? Beth, why are you looking at me like that?" Beth sighed. "Dearest, you really don't get out much do you? The house next door? You remember those sirens last week?" "Sort of. I was working on the new server deployment." "That was the police arresting Joe from Joe's Fish and Chips. For trafficking. And then the arresting sargent recognised Emma - or rather Chloe as it turned out - and Joe's father, Harry - from old family photos." I stared at her. "You know I write, don't you?" "Well, yes, I mean we did meet at a book signing." "Books don't bring in the money. TV scripts, on the other hand... And this street has always got some sort of drama." ""What about the aliens?" "Oh, number 8. They do make a lovely fruit salad, don't they?"<a href="https://aus.social/tags/SFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SFF</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TV</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DayTimeSoap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DayTimeSoap</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciFi</a>

Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️3,500 words so far today. That was in less than 3 hours. Again, a lot of what I "wrote" had already been written in my blog. I edited yesterday's new content and inserted more. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a> The last thing I wrote about was our day trip to St Louis, MO. I managed to include both of these photos from Gateway Arch. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tourism</a>

rdmReturning to the present, and Tannis.After Londry left, Tannis reflected on what she'd just been told. It had been less than 24 hours since she was what? Captured? That describes things best. In that time the Varans had uncovered a planet-wide conspiracy, and lost a brave young man - probably the first ground military to have died in this conflict if everything matched up.So what about the Varan Intelligence? Who were they. She looked at the console. "Well, they said I had free use of it..." Turning it back on, and locating the search facility, her fingers tapped in 'Military Intelligence History'. Her eyes widened when an extensive article came up, and then started to read.After a couple of hours, Tannis sat back. So Intel had originally been ship-board security. That was interesting. They morphed into Intel after a separate group took on the job on-planet after the plagues. Reading between the lines, the group had tried to become the main military force, but were knocked back for being too valuable as they were. Unfortunately the records had little about the history of ShipSec prior to departure from the failed colony. Which was also interesting. Clearly their history had been carefully managed. The Cerian Intel group was very tight-knit as well. And - when had they been established? Thinking back, Tannis was certain that had never come up. She could say when the Biological Survey was set up, or the Space Command, or any one of a dozen other bodies, but not Intel. And somehow everyone just overlooked it. "If they followed the same path as the Varan group, they had been shipboard security, with access to all areas of the ship." Saying it out loud somehow made it all the more real. "And that would include engineering." One more step. "So it is likely that they caused the ship to crash!" She picked up the communicator. "Madam Londry?" "Speaking." "It is Tannis. I was looking at some history, and I think Intel caused both our ships to crash." "Ah. How did you do that?" "Looking at the history of Intel. There are some gaps that fit the theory." "We came to the same conclusion shortly after you left us. A family history was our guide." "It goes further." "Indeed?" "I think they were behind the failure of the original colony." "That also seemed likely to us." "Madam, who are these people?" "I don't know. Yet. But it is likely the group originated on Old Earth." "I wonder what became of the other colonies. We can't have been the only one, were we?" "No, I don't think we were. As for what became of the others, I suppose we'll have to come up with a way to find out. And for that to happen, we need this ridiculous war to end."<a href="https://aus.social/tags/CerianAndVaranWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CerianAndVaranWar</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Milsf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Milsf</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SF</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a> The full work in progress: <a href="https://rdmasters.lympago.com/p/cerian-and-varan-war-story-in.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://rdmasters.lympago.com/p/cerian-and-varan-war-story-in.html</a>

rdmIt had been sixteen long years since Joyful Finder had been home. Given the changes she'd seen even while growing up, she imagined it would have changed even more in the time she'd been away. Dives Swiftly watched her hands move over the controls as her little ship emerged back into normal space about a day out from her home, and then pecked the radio scanner speaker control.There was a burst of static, and then words - in her own language! A weather report for the jungle regions of the north-west. They must have succeeded in building satellite launchers. That at least would give raiders a little bit of pause.Her little ship would not count for much in a fight, but what Joy carried was far more important. Twelve of those sixteen years away had been spent doing postal runs. Living almost constantly in a ship that had, really, only two components - a FTL engine, and massive computer stores. Such a life featured many long periods of doing nothing. And so she'd filled it with study - learning everything she could about kickstarting industry.Her people had made great strides in the years since her ancestors had made a family, but there were two things that would allow them to fight effectively. The first was fusion power. Small, portable, and powerful fusion power. The second was gravitic control. With those two it was possible to build defence ships that could fight on equal terms with most raiders.This was what she was bringing home. Dives Swiftly pecked another control and whistled. That sounded like air traffic control. She'd call in soon. As a teenager, Joy had looked back at her ancestor's journals. Lorn had been surprised at the depth of scientific knowledge that her adopted world had, given its largely agrarian appearance. In the two hundred years since the elders had decided to implement much of that knowledge. Now Joy would be adding to it. Picking up the mic, she transmitted "Shaman's Home ATC, this is Scout Ship Lorndottire, Joyful Finder commanding. I am on approach to the planet, ETA to low orbit is twenty three hours."It would be a good five to ten minutes before a reply came in."We'll be home soon. And you'll have a chance to hunt proper food!"She got a whistle, and a strong sense of focus formed in her mind.The radio crackled to life. "Shaman's Home ATC, this is Scout Ship Chorus, Charlie Fischer commanding. I am on approach to the planet, ETA to low orbit 24 hours." There was a pause. "Hello there, Lorndottire! Fancy meeting you here."There was a sudden sense of humour coming from Dives Swiftly.Glaring at her companion "Charlie? What are you doing here?""Did you think I was going to let you disappear off without me? I've been chasing you for the last fifteen systems!"Joy smiled, and then looked back at the bird busily preening. "You knew, didn't you?" Dives looked up as if to say "Who me?", and went back to preening.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/SFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SFF</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SF</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ScoutAndShaman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScoutAndShaman</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tootfic</a>

Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️Back at work on my book this morning. I managed to get 4,200 words into the manuscript, but a lot of that was edited text I'd taken from existing blog posts. I suspect that the manuscript is going very long and I'll have to go back and edit some of the darlings out. But for now, the main thing is filling in the outline to get the first draft done.<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a>… (1/2)

Catching ShadowsLord of the Black Mountain <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/62335/lord-of-the-black-mountain" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/62335/lord-of-the-black-mountain</a> Nemar Jhan, Lord Warden and Speaker for the Assembly of Five Cities agrees to a marriage alliance with Teren Kelfin, the princess of the Kingdom of Sewen. Unfortunately, she doesn't want to be wedded to *him.* <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iamwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iamwriting</a>This has been on hiatus for a while, because I've been doing some extensive overhauling. There will be a new chapter up on the 28th!

Sophia Jane Hayden, AuthorThrough March 8 the ebook of Flicka's LOVERS is offered for FREE on Smashwords. <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/iamwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iamwriting</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/wordweavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordweavers</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/wordweavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordweavers</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a>

Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️I got another 1700 words written this evening. I'm now finished with the first pass of the Prologue. The boat is in Chicago, my companion is on board, and we're ready to start. I'll get started on Chapter 1 tomorrow.Photo shows my boat being lowered into the Calumet River in south Chicago on October 11, 2022.<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/boating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boating</a>

Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️Coming up for air. I feel a little burned out from today's <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> session and think I should take a break. I might get back to it later. I was shooting for 3,000 words and only managed 2,766. Close enough? Maybe.Today I wrote about my shakedown cruises in Sept 2022 and the arrangements to get the boat shipped to Chicago with a marine hauler in Oct. I think 1500 words will cover the last part part of this prologue and get my readers to Chicago with us. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a>… (1/2)

Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️Got a ton of small chores done, got the cat off the deck, got my water glass full. I'm ready to get some work done. If I can work uninterrupted until noon, I will probably get as much written as I did the other day, which was over 6,000 words. Tuning out for a while. See you at lunchtime!<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a>

Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️If you plan on selling your books for $2.99 each, you can't afford better quality work. But if that's the case, you also don't have the right to complain about the quality you're getting. You get what you pay for.My books will cost more than that just to print. But I think the level of professionalism I put into my work should also be reflected in the level of professionalism put into the printing. I don't expect to hear any complaints about print quality. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> (2/2)

Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️I just knocked out another 1500 words. I'm really enjoying the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a>, especially the challenge of shortening up a story that spans more than two years. I think I'm doing a decent job, too. It'll be interesting to see what the reviewers have to say. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a>

Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️I think 5300 words is a respectible amount progress for a half day of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a>. The Introduction is done and I'm about 2/3 done with the Prelude, which covers everything before I start my trip. I'm enjoying this a lot more than I thought I would. In a way, it's like writing a really, really long blog post. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a>

Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️The new two-monitor setup is working out well for writing. I put my manuscript on one screen and windows for my research materials on the other. Those materials include blog posts that will be partially incorporated in the book, a list of my stops along the way, a web browser window for looking things up, and my photo library for pulling out photos I may include. As long as I can stay focused, I can be productive. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a>… (2/3)

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