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summer is miles and miles away (new fic) + notes
Modern AU. Half a year after graduating from Harvard, Lorenz returns to campus for a bit of a reunion-and runs into the last classmate he’d expect.
aka, Lorenz and Claude get third & fourth wheeled together & it’s all very awkward
~8k words.
Here at AO3.
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some books i read lately (april edition, fiction)
splitting this into fiction vs nonfiction this month, since uh, historically my nonfiction reviews tend to run long. expect the nonfiction books sometime this weekend.
Crazy Weather by Charles L. McNichols
Why have I never heard of this book before?! THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING.
I picked it up on a recommendation from Ursula K. Le Guin-she wrote the ( Read more... ) -
The Signet of His Lords (new fic) + notes
There are a hundred lessons the queen wants to teach her son before he leaves her.
Pre-game, Almyra. ~3k words.
(aka I wrote some self-indulgent pregame fic with Claude and his mom, come join the ride)
Here at AO3.
( spoiler-y author's notes ) -
preparing for the last war
did you know that, in Switzerland, there's a legal requirement that all housing includes a large enough bomb shelter for everybody?!it's one of those Cold War relics that is, for whatever reason, still on the books, and apparently still followed ( Read more... ) -
writing about writing blah blah
lately, i've been trying to be a little more systematic with how i approach my writing.
not in terms of writing schedule, or wordcount goals (though there is a bit of that), more like-i'm keeping a little log of the problems/decisions/tradeoffs i encounter while i'm writing any particular piece, and i'm trying to figure out how i make those ( Read more... ) -
a lowkey recommendation
if you've got anything ranging from a passing interesting in tech news, to, y'know, deep in the thick of it all day errday-you should probably be reading Normcore Techit's a newsletter written by an east-coast data scientist, about "issues in tech that I’m not seeing covered in the media or blogs and want to read about." it turns out i also want ( Read more... ) -
Where the River Meets the Sea (new fic) + notes
Hilda meets Claude’s parents. They’re not who she suspects.
Postgame, Verdant Wind. ~12k words.
Here at AO3.
idk if people really do "making-of" or fun notes on fics anymore? but i'm doing it today, because, fuck it whatever, and i'm feeling self-indulgent
under the cut because spoilers
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how Ken Liu rebooted his career
from an old interview, emphasis mine:
Luc Reid: Back around 2002-2003, you won the Phobos contest (may it rest in peace) and were a published finalist in the venerable Writers of the Future contest. Then things were pretty quiet until 2011, at which point your fiction, in the words of Aliette de Bodard, "was basically everywhere." What happened in ( Read more... )