Deep Sky Anchor

About a year ago, I decided that I loved Star Wars enough to try watching The Clone Wars again… now I’m up to the last few episodes, and it’s hard to believe that I ever knew Star Wars without Ahsoka Tano being part of it. She’s becomes one of my absolute favorite characters.

I did a full editing pass tonight on the titular novella from my collection, “Commander Annie and Other Adventures,” upcoming from Argyll Productions, and that story is still so close to my heart.

The main character is hard-edged, prickly, & so heart-breakingly lovable.

“Commander Annie” is me when I was twelve, flaws and all, and re-reading the journey I wrote for her… it takes me down into one of the deepest wounds from my childhood, and then pulls me back up from it.

I can’t wait for people to be able to read this story.

I dreamed I was given the opportunity to write a media tie-in novel for a very successful IP I’d never heard of involving fairies, but the book had to be done in three days.

So I was trying to write 20k words/day while also researching an entire book/movie/TV show franchise. Continue reading “Pressure Leaking Into Dreams”

One of the most powerful tools I’ve learned in life is the ability to separate the feelings I have while arguing with hostile men from the feelings they like to tell me I’m having.

If you’re a woman and a hostile man arguing with you makes guesses about your feelings (a REALLY COMMON tactic) then it doesn’t matter if some of the guesses are vaguely close to right. Dude’s still guessing, and he doesn’t have any business doing so.

Out of context quote: “The best colleges will have the best knives. And the best enemies.”

I can see the gibbous moon through the bare branches of a red maple tree in my window. Squirrels run along the top of the fence behind it. The sky is a pale blue.

And the page on my computer screen in front of me, bright and white, is filled with words about a dark cave on a faraway alien world.

I’d love to see Tig Notaro & Stephanie Allyne’s “One Missippi” picked up for a third season somewhere. It’s an excellently real, off-beat little show, and it made me really care about all of the characters during the span of its two short seasons.

For now, I guess I’ll settle for checking out Notaro’s stand-up and looking forward to seeing more of her dry humor in Star Trek: Discovery season four. It is so fantastic that they’ve added her to the cast. Continue reading “Tidbits About Various Star Treks”

I love Beach Boys music so much & listen to it so little… I thought, hey, I’ll put an album on…

In that lush, complicated, 5-part harmony w/ soaring falsetto in the background, they sing “Hey, little tomboy, it’s time to turn into a girl.”

FLAMES FROM THE SIDE OF MY HEAD Continue reading “Hey Little Tomboy”

I was worrying that maybe Avery (a name I picked years ago) wasn’t the right name for the new puppy, so Daniel played a video of five minutes of Captain Sisko shouting to reassure me.‬

I grew up w/ enough privilege & predilection for disliking people that I used to be one of those “politics don’t matter, keep politics away from me” types.

But with even the slightest amount of caring about & listening to others, I’ve ended up forced into staying informed. Continue reading “Path to Being Informed”