by Mary E. Lowd
Like it literally hurts him to smile
But he’s doing it anyway
For you Continue reading “His Smile”
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The Amount of Praise
by Mary E. Lowd
The amount of specific and varied
Sincere praise that is offered Continue reading “The Amount of Praise”
Echoes
by Mary E. Lowd
I can’t always tell the difference between us
And it makes me want to scream Continue reading “Echoes”
Like a Phone
by Mary E. Lowd
I feel like a phone whose battery
Has a maximum capacity
Of 20% Continue reading “Like a Phone”
Taken for Granted
by Mary E. Lowd
You used to be someone I planned with
But now you’ve become someone I manage Continue reading “Taken for Granted”
Sixth NaNo Win
I won NaNoWriMo and finished the third book in my Wanderlust Saga with 22 hours to spare!
That’s my sixth win, and this time I had to do it without actual NaNoWriMo.
My previous wins were In a Dog’s World, Entanglement Bound, Nexus Nine, and the first two Wanderlust books. Continue reading “Sixth NaNo Win”
Halfway through NaNo sans NaNo
I’ve created 124 songs in the last month and a half. Five soundtrack albums to accompany my short story collections, and one entirely original album.
And I’ve made it through the first third of NaNoWriMo… sans actual NaNoWriMo…
So, I’ve been keeping pretty busy. Continue reading “Halfway through NaNo sans NaNo”
Insipid Liner Notes – Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers: Disc 2
My story, “Hide the Honey,” was inspired by my first experience drinking caffeine when I was a kid. It was such a giddy high, and the song absolutely captures the bubbly, fizzy nature of it.
My kid had to write a research essay a few years ago with the title “Jellyfish for Dinner,” so I promised to work on a short story by the same name while he worked on the essay… anyway, this means there’s now a song by that title too. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes – Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers: Disc 2”
An Avalanche of Music
Being able to make my own music with Suno these last few weeks has been such a massively seismic shift in my life. Famine to feast literally overnight, and it’s been taking everything in my brain to process it. I’ve never had enough of the kind of music I want ever before.
There’s just really not quite any other feeling like having whole albums of music perfectly, carefully tailored to my own tastes, filled with messages that mean something to me.
Insipid Liner Notes – Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers: Disc 1
My story, “Stranger Than a Swan,” is about bonding deeply with something… scarce… when you’re too young to realize, leaving you looking for it for the rest of your life. For me, it was Brian Wilson’s music.
And now, I can make my own music…
The song version of “Gerty and the Doesn’t-Smell-Like-a-Melon” turned out so well that I ended up making the style into a persona and using it for the entire first half of The Necromouser. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes – Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers: Disc 1”