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    By Valkyrie

    Now that the poetry anthology is behind us, it's time to look forward to what's next.  Last week, Cia announced the forbidden secret author contest.   No, it's not forbidden to participate - just to announce that you're participating     We also have our annual anthology, with two themes this year, Horizons and Unspoken.   We'll round off the year with our annual Prompt Team event - details will be revealed later this year.   Should we make it a contest to see w
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By Design piece

Right, I know I should be working on the last chapter of Yankee (and the first few chapters of its sequel) but I've been distracted by work and other stuff. This has been sticking in my head too -- I guess I shouldn't ever say "I wish I could write like that, but I can't" since then my brain will nag at me until I do.   I think I'm calling this one By Design, but I'm not sure. It actually involves a lot of landscape architecture, though you'd not know it from this bit.   Anyway, this is on
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Stories I wish I'd written

I've got a houseful of sick people (including me, though not nearly as badly as everyone else) so I've been up weird hours and bored to death, though not actually competent to do anything useful like write. Trolling the shub-internet's a dodgy thing at the best of times, but at 3 AM, well...   Anyway, courtesy of the top site list, I found Wizard and Warrior. And some other stuff that was pretty darned good, but that's for another time.   It's a Michael Moorcock riff, and a damned good one.
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A story in scenes of dialog, part 1

This one's been kicking around for ages. Yes, before you mention it, I write far too much dialog -- with Yankee (and some of the other stories I've got in progress) you see the third draft. The first draft's generally 80% dialog, the second has all the intervening bits added, and the third's the cleaned up version after getting a twice-over from an editor.   This story, for reasons I never did figure out but accept anyway, takes place entirely inside an apartment. That's not to say that the ch
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The substitute

Well, OK, there's a remote possibility this one'll get touched, but I'm not betting on it. Again, it's got characters and a setting, but no plot. Pesky things, plots -- they go missing when you need them most. (Maybe I should check between the couch cushions)   The substitute I know it's pretty normal for kids to have imaginary friends when they're little. Someone to play with and talk to when things get really bad, someone to confide those secrets that you just can't tell anyone e
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Begining of Pride Weekend in Asbury

Well it's the begining of pride in asbury park this weekend and so far it's been a blast!   I met Tara Sanchez tonight of RuPauls drag race and she was fierce/ her performance was spot on and she worked the crowd.   I hung out with my friends as well tonight and got a bit drunk off the cheap drinks lol (Kelly knows how to get me drunk and on a budget haha).   I made some new friends tonight, and some of them are staff at Paradise lol. It's nice walking into a bar where everyone knows you a
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That's perfect.

Well... This weekend was interesting... I got a lot of work done and managed to not go insane mainly because my mother was out of the state.   Unfortunatly I was met with tragedy. My netbook of 1.5 years died on Saturday with a watery fate. I was by my friends pool working on some things for work when my friend came by and knocked my netbook into the pool. Thankfully I'm an avid backer upper because I didn't loose anything vital, just a movie or two. So needless to say I was horrified and dove
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