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Today, my daughter says that we’re playing a game called “The Mermaid and her Swimming Cat.” I get to be the cat. She’s the mermaid.

I tallied it up, and I’ve written 100,000 words of fiction in the last year. Yet, somehow, I still feel like I’m not writing enough…

Reading the wiki page on raccoons completely changed the short story I just started. Fortunately, it made it better.

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I love it when research involves watching videos of baby raccoons. Continue reading “Important Racoon Research”

By the end of Rainfurrest: I met all kinds of amazing people and had the most fun I’ve ever had at a con! I got to be on panels with Alan Dean Foster; I had a chance to pitch my latest novel to a publisher; “Otters In Space” and the Rainfurrest anthology both sold out; and, I had to keep a pen clipped to my badge so that I could keep up with all the requests to sign things!

So far at Rainfurrest: I have two stories in “Stories from Camp RainFurrest,” the charity anthology which looks beautiful; both that and “Otters In Space” are available at the FurPlanet table in the Dealer’s Den; and, I was on a really fun and lively panel about Overcoming Writer’s Block. Continue reading “Panelist at Rainfurrest”

Gravity is a problem. Especially if it only exists (or stops existing) if I remember to have it do so.

So, in conclusion, when the Dictator of Gravity position comes up for election, in the best interests of everyone, I will not be running.

Apparently, when I get stuck — as in, make negligible progress for most of a year stuck — on “Otters In Space,” my solution ends up being to stick the main character in a box. Maybe when I’m writing OiS3 and get stuck around the 30,000 word mark, instead of banging my head uselessly against it for a year, I can skip straight to having Kipper hide in a box and keep writing.

I love furry cons. Where else will a big black dragon come up to you, take your hand, and pantomime how happy he is to meet you?

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Just watching fursuits walk by and writing the next SPACE HOUNDS! at FurCon.

I’m a werewolf wearing a long white dress and black top hat.

I tried to go to bed but had to get up and read the wiki page on pandas instead.