Conlanging

Started cracking the code of my old script for Kalyeshur / Vas'hehr. I've figured out about five or six glyphs.

Lexember Word for the Day

tonga • / to ŋa / • letter or glyph in a writing system
noun without finalized declension forms, so I can't offer example sentences or constructions at this time
Language: Akachenti

Work

Possible breakthrough on a testing issue that we'd deferred for major feature development/rework/refactoring and here! A lead that may result in a fix without having to wait for the pre-Easter development cycle.

Tonight more smoke testing. I may be up all night, considering the last deploy.

Reading

Good Articles I Read:

It's Thursday, so it's time to go read the Business Rusch.

• Business Musings: Diving To Freedom by Kristine Kathryn Rusch




• Belief and Artistic Choice by Dean Wesley Smith




• Friendship by Juliette Wade

Books I Want:

• Women of Futures Past: Classic Stories, edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch - I mean, look at that cover, it's gorgeous! And I adore women and girls in my science fiction. 'Nuff said.
  Meet the Women of Futures Past: from Grand Master Andre Norton and the beloved Anne McCaffrey to some of the most popular SF writers today, such as Lois McMaster Bujold and CJ Cherryh. The most influential writers of multiple generations are found in these pages, delivering lost classics and foundational touchstones that shaped the field.
  
  You'll find Northwest Smith, C.L. Moore’s famous smuggler who predates (and maybe inspired) Han Solo by four decades. Read Leigh Brackett’s fiction and see why George Lucas chose her to write The Empire Strikes Back. Adventure tales, post‑apocalyptic visions, space opera, aliens‑among‑us, time travel—these women have delivered all this and more, some of the best science fiction ever written!
  
  
  

Writing

Didn't have a lot of actual time for that today, but I got a poem done anyway. Not a very good one, but it exists.

Strait

There's the fast way,
then there's the easy way,
the last way we did,
and the right way.

There's the quality way
and the quantity way,
the way things are done,
and the right way.

I've worked hard and fast,
I've worked smarter, not harder,
what we've always done,
and non-starters.

I've tried all the methods
and done all the tests:
when all's said and done,
the right way is best.

And a somewhat better haiku

if joy comes with morn
then still as snow, I will wait
through ungentle night

1. I realized I'm still out of habit of posting to my regular blog. Oops.


2. I'm a third of the way through my beta and trying not to panic because waaaaay down to the wire on my exchange fic.


3. My two jobs have gone crazy hectic and I'm exhausted because of overtime.


4. Nevertheless, accidentally wrote a poem today:

Walk gently into the woods
Don’t startle the deer
Their antlers are green and growing—
Pointed, sharp
Be careful under the trees
Don't startle the birds
With their talons and black feathers
And bright eyes

Come with me by the path
That wends its way
Through thickets, thorny hedges
Over the stream
Be careful over the bridge
It has been years
Since boots that walked here once
Now walk again

I took a break for the holiday, but here's some basics.

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Original Fiction — 2216 words completed

1. Kingdoms and Thorn: "My Couch is Open," 1936 words
2. Seven Days: "Memory of Love," 280 words

Original Fiction — 56 words | 12 lines completed

1. Kingdoms and Thorn: "Home Sweet," 56 words | 12 lines

Fanfiction — 402 words completed

1. MCU: An Untimely Interruption, 214 words
2. MCU: Not Again, 188 words

Friday, July 4, 2014

Original Poetry — 298 words | 40 lines completed

1. Kingdoms and Thorn: "Of Rainy Mornings," 298 words | 40 lines

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Fanfiction — 157 words completed

1. MCU: Avenging Angel, 157 words

July 2014 Totals

• Original Fiction: 2 short stories, 5 ficlets — 4755 words
• Original Poetry: 2 poems — 354 words | 52 lines
• Fanfiction: 18 ficlets — 3058 words

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

At the end of each month, I usually compile the statistics for the month, provided I tracked my writing for the entire month.

October 2013

New Words

• Fiction & Poetry: 39,410 words
• Blog: 9,831 words
• Nonfiction: 362 words

January 2014

New Words

• Fiction: 17,392 words
• Poetry: 102 lines | 498 words
• Blog: 8030 words

Finalized Words

• Fanfic: 1397 words
• Poetry:104 lines | 496 words

February 2014

New Words

• Fiction: 12,260 words
• Poetry: 111 lines | 626 words
• Blog: 4979 words

Finalized Words

• Fanfic: 3443 words
• Poetry: 98 lines | 612 words

March 2014

New Words

• Fiction: 14,718 words
• Poetry: 584 lines | 2858 words
• Blog: 1127 words

Finalized Words

• Fanfic: 6861 words
• Poetry: 317 lines | 2270 words

2014 Completed Pieces

1. Poem: "Before My Eyes," 220 words | 47 lines.
2. Fanfic: "Mistakes," 1397 words.
3. Poem: "Writer's Social Therapy," 32 words | 4 lines.
4. Poem: "Blanket Statements," 8 lines| 48 words.
5. Poem: "Friends Like These," 24 lines | 121 words.
6. Poem: “Empty Spaces,” 7 lines | 20 words.
7. Poem: “The Soundless Scream,” 5 lines | 22 words.
8. Poem: “Like a Light,” 9 lines | 43 words.
9. Fanfic: “Wholeness of Self,” 783 words.
10. Poem: "Tell Me," 8 lines | 37 words.
11. Poem: "Mother," 8 lines | 22 words.
12. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 269 words.
13. Poem: "Native," 31 lines | 232 words.
14. Poem: "Moderation," 6 lines | 20 words.
15. Poem: "I Should Think," 20 lines| 140 words.
16. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 2391 words.
17. Poem: "Cursor," 7 lines | 54 words.
18. Poem: "Unrequited Pain," 8 lines | 29 words.
19. Poem: "Is Snow," 6 lines | 42 words.
20. Poem: "Buttercups," 4 lines | 36 words.
21. Poem: "Open Hands," 12 lines | 63 words.
22. Fanfic: “God Help the World,” 205 words.
23. Poem: "Everything's Blood and All is Well," 16 lines | 97 words.
24. Fanfic: “Perfection,” 688 words.
25. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Assignment, 1267 words.
26. Poem: "Wonder," 4 lines | 29 words.
27. Prose Poem: “the bringing of light,” 485 words.
28. Poem: “Rothnen,” 24 lines | 102 words.
29. Poem: “This is the universe…” 12 lines | 80 words.
30. Poem: “For Sister,” 4 lines | 36 words.
31. Fanfic: "Demoralized," 204 words.
32. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 198 words.
33. Poem: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 8 lines | 66 words.
34. Poem: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 3 lines | 7 words.
35. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 125 words.
36. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 201 words.
37. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 2376 words.
38. Poem: “Name You,” 136 lines | 795 words.
39. Poem: “Tale of Domestic Life in a Series of Coffee Cups,” 19 lines | 110 words.
40. Poem: “What Happened,” 44 lines | 191 words.
41. Poem: “The Wild Balloon,” 9 lines | 71 words.
42. Poem: “With the Tide,” 8 lines | 43 words.
43. Poem: “Apologies,” 4 lines | 17 words.
44. Poem: “Daughter Kiss.X Wife,” 6 lines | 27 words.
45. Fanfic: “Thin Walls of Stone,” 1397 words.
46. Poem: “Walls of Stone,” 8 lines | 51 words

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

March 13, 2014

So I wrote a couple poems: "Rothnen" in my head on the way to work and one for a friend because when I started to reply it came out in verse. Go figure. I edited and expanded the opening of "Justice," which added 162 words, and I pulled together the first draft of the opening of "Blank Verse" in 35 lines of 252 words. I'm double-formatting it, lineated and non-lineated. It helps me see the flaws more clearly while meeting the ridiculously exacting standards I just set for myself. :makes face:

Word Counts:

• Fiction: 162 words
• Poetry: 71 lines | 434 words
• Blog: 108 words

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Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

February 28, 2014

This morning, I wrote 156 words puttering in my head from last night on Lovemark the Seasons, including another in-story poem. Rachelle is well-read.

So the trade paperback of Dowse and Bleed is available on Amazon. I still have to get all the other formats up: mass market and ebook to the various retailers. :grimaces: Later. I'm saving the whole book announcement post until then.

I'd like to get some good words on collab and on my actual assignment. I keep getting bogged down in author's notes and meta. And music. It's thecatisacritic's fault. She sent me "Poison and Wine" and I looked it up online the other day and have lost so many good hours since. I can't say wasted because seriously, the creative fire! Love their work.

Having a fandom moment:

See all of the covers here.

March 1, 2014

Sabbath and unexpected late-night family time. Wrote a poem in my head and didn't get it written down, just memorized.

March 2, 2014

I owe y'all an end of the month post and challenge check-in. Tomorrow! Today, I helped my aunt move and still need to plunk in 2 hours on packing my own things, plus got back my beta for invisible treats (which resulted in 6 words worth of edits, wow), plus submitted the edited cover for the mass market of Dowse and Bleed. Oh, and finally wrote down that poem.

I owe a bunch of collaboration material. I owe my Invisible assignment. I owe posts about indie community and fandom. I owe a lot of stuff, 'kay?

I have also been failing miserably at the 7-sentence challenge so went back last night and wrote 257 words on, unexpectedly, a very late fandom gift separate from challenges.

Word Counts:

• Fiction: 419 words
• Poetry: 16 lines | 99 words
• Blog: 270 words

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Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

85/365: A Pairing of Convenience

Rogue has an offer that Gambit’s not so sure he ought to take.

86/365: When the Coffee Does Not Work, Drink More Tea

When the coffee doesn't work, drink more tea. / If you don't drink coffee, then drink more tea.

87–88/365: Snow Day

Ashen wondered briefly if perhaps he was no regular-type human as Pieter had professed but if he were instead a naturally gifted with the ability to charm half-asleep girlfriends who did not wish to be awake.

89/365: Five Reasons I Love You

There are five reasons I love you / (And none of them are the ones you want to hear)

90–91/365: Acceptable Cost

Some things are worth it.

Alaine Shaever is a healer by nature, and she’s studying to become a medic by trade. It’s her first emergency call out in the field. Nobody ever told her it’d be like this.

92/365: Without a Reason

It’s one thing to not understand Rachelle’s messed up team relationships; it’s another to ask whether she loves a man she’s never even considered loving.

93–94/365: Its Own Absolution

Shift’s team was brutal. They had to be. Storm’s team was bloody. They were a strike team. They had to be. Storm had a conscience. Shift didn’t. The only thing they all have in common is the will to survive.

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

Poetry is Spilling Blood

Peeling back the icy skin / We wrap like armor around our hearts

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

In the last few months, I've posted the following because of the 365 Challenge:

Words: 32,849
Lines: 388

This doesn't count the thousands of words or hundreds of lines of poetry I've written that was not for the challenge or that hasn't been posted.

The scribbler is happy.

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.