Author: marylowd

If a panda was really small and trying to hide, it could pretend to be a soccer ball. Save the pandas, stop playing soccer!

Well, I’ve done a lot of writing tonight. None of it was on the stories I planned to work on. I wrote about butterflies and bears instead of squirrels and cats.

Every video confirms it. Otters sound like squeaky toys. I wish I’d known that ten years ago before I’d written two books about otters.

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Research: watching videos of squirrels and looking at pictures of submarines.

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Baking a vegetable casserole from the Redwall Cookbook, randomly in the middle of the night.

Ch. 1 – Dinosaurs
Ch. 2 – Dogs and Cavemen
Ch. 3 – Cats and Pyramids
Ch. 4 – Knights and Dragons
Ch. 5 – Ben Franklin and a Mouse
Ch. 6 – Dancing Hamsters and the Internet

Playing twenty questions with Elaine — the answer turns out to be a Rapunzel cat, which she just made up. Yep, she’s my daughter.

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And now the answer to twenty questions is Dazzle Drop –a magical gumdrop that unicorns eat. Elaine is just like me.

Research: watching videos of Venus fly traps.

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Being an editor is weird. It feels like the world has been turned upside down. Continue reading “Writing and Parenting Tidbits”

Big news: I’m the new editor for ROAR, FurPlanet’s in-house general audience furry anthology!!!

1) I have not been eaten by a snake.

2) Daniel.

3) No matter what happens in the next two years, I got to move home to Oregon, live in Eugene for six years, lead the Wordos for four years, and be in the same town as my mom and sister. Continue reading “Five Things I’m Grateful For, Day Five (the Final Day)”

1) My favorite Christmas ornament — the cookie mouse — which had been lost for years showed up in the back of a drawer last night.

2) I’m now more than halfway done watching Enterprise. Continue reading “Five Things I’m Grateful For, Day Four”

1) There are some excellent stories in Lightspeed’s “Women Destroy Science Fiction” issue. They explore some of the very ideas that I’ve wanted to write about but couldn’t figure out how. Maybe reading them will help me figure it out.

2) Both of my children are healthy. Continue reading “Five Things I’m Grateful For, Day Three”