• Fun With Chapter Titles

    Question 12.20 of the mastodon #WritersCoffeeClub tag is: Do you name or number your chapters? If you name them, how do you decide on a name? Since the question is something I am particularly enthusiastic about, (I love chapter title themes, they can be fun) I decided I’d do another longer post to answer the…

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    • New Clinic Intake

      As previously mentioned, I have been attempting to get a transfer to a new SMI (seriously mentally ill) clinic. With a great deal of extreme exasperation, constant failures of communication and intermittent anxiety I was finally able to get the transfer through, and get an intake scheduled with the new clinic. (It has a similar…

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      • A Clever Title About the Author Being Undead

        Another fun question from the Writer’s Coffee Club tag that I couldn’t answer in three hundred or so words on Mastodon: Writer’s Coffee Club 12.6 Is it the reader’s/critic’s interpretation or the author’s? Would you fight an author’s opinion?  My answer: I have no idea of what “fight” means in this context. The canon of…

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        • Sometimes the Name Fairy Repeats Itself

          On Mastodon there is a writing prompt hash tag called #WritersCoffeeClub one of the questions for November was: 11.15 If you find you’ve used a name from a famous novel, do you change it? My answer was: Okay so, very different books can have the same title. Likewise, sometimes you are going to find out…

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          • Book Review: Redsight by Meridith Mooring

            Redsight is a book that hovers somewhere between fantasy and science fiction. It takes place in a setting where magic and technology are one and the same, in a universe created by three goddesses, Radiosa, Vermicula, and Furia. The priestesses and priests of these goddesses are directly descended from them and share their powers, which…

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