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<p>The bell on the door clanged when

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 10:04

The bell on the door clanged when the stout greybeard pushed into the store. He looked around at all the old technology junk. His eyes lighted first on a teletype with a paper tape reader. He smiled. He hadn't seen one of those since he was a kid. (1/4)

<p>Elon Musk wants to do the same thing

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 08:46

Elon Musk wants to do the same thing to the United States that he did to Twitter (ie, make it lose 71% of its value.)

<p>With corporations becoming compliant

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 08:45

With corporations becoming compliant to the government, you might want to maintain some skepticism that when you visit a website, your DNS look-ups aren't directing you to some look-a-like site that impersonates the site you meant to visit. I'm not saying this is happening or will happen. But it *could* happen and you should periodically be aware that it might be happening.

<p>I can just see in a couple of years,

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 08:42

I can just see in a couple of years, people will be saying, "Remember when you used to be able to check and see what the weather was going to be like?"

<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 07:31

Shameless self-promotion. What writing project are you working on?

I'm currently spending most of my writing time working on a third novella sequel to *Revin's Heart*. I plan to publish all three together in a collected volume. The first two, *Devishire!* and *Campshire!*, are done. It only has the working title "After Campshire" at the moment. I think readers will find it eye-opening.

My other current project, *The Ground Never Lies* is on the back burner at the moment.

<p>I guess by taking the T out of LGBT,

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 00:26

I guess by taking the T out of LGBT, they're saying that trans women are just women.

<p>I always said Obama should have shut

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 22:38

I always said Obama should have shut down the Guantanamo Bay naval base and given it back to Cuba. The US should never have been there in the first place. And as long as the US has it, it will remain a temptation for the government to use it for extrajudicial action.

<p>Feeling like a grumpy old man… <a

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 20:54

Feeling like a grumpy old man… https://stevendbrewer.com/grumpy-old-men/

As usual.

<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 07:51

How’s your writing progress so far this year? What are you working on?

To be honest, my writing progress has been only middling. There's (waves hands) all this going on. I've been working on the third novella sequel to *Revin's Heart*, which is shaping up to be an exciting ride. And I don't worry too much about uneven productivity. As I've said elsewhere, my creative output has always been uneven. Having fun with it is more important that hitting some arbitrary word count.

<p>*Lady Cecelia&#39;s Flowers* is Part

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 07:46

*Lady Cecelia's Flowers* is Part 1 of *Lady Cecelia's Journey*, a sapphic romantasy road story. It has not yet been scheduled for release, but if you subscribe to my monthly mailing list, you can receive updates when it appears. https://author-sdbrewer.micro.blog/subscribe/

<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 07:46

from *Lady Cecelia's Flowers*.

<p>I found some Ektachrome slides of

Thu, 01/30/2025 - 18:58

I found some Ektachrome slides of Sunny, my family's boxer dog, from December 1982.

<p>&quot;So whadaya wanna <a href=

Thu, 01/30/2025 - 08:25

"So whadaya wanna t'day?" she asked.
"Pirates," her little brother said.
"Do you want to be the captain and I'll be the first mate?"
He looked down and mumbled something.
"What did you say?"
"Prisoner."
"What? You want me to be your prisoner?
"You, captain," he said. "Me, prisoner."
"Didn't we do that last time?"
He mumbled again and looked down.
"Avast, ye lubber!" she cried striking a pose. "Are ye ready to walk the plank?"
The little boy looked up shyly and smiled.

<p>Another secondary character, Lady

Thu, 01/30/2025 - 07:01

Another secondary character, Lady Cecelia, has become the protagonist of her own sapphic, romantasy, road-story series, *Lady Cecelia's Journey*, which I hope will be released this year.

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Thu, 01/30/2025 - 07:01

Do secondary characters sometimes get promoted to main characters?

In *Revin's Heart*, I wrote "side quests" that provide back story for some of the secondary characters. The first, *Where There's a Will* describes how the pirate captain and his first mate meet and fall in love. The second, *Curtains Rise*, describes how the pirate captain, as a young man, met the first mate's father. It was fun exploring the history of the characters. Readers have told me they enjoy them.

<p>On Laugh-in in 1969: <br />Henry

Wed, 01/29/2025 - 18:55

On Laugh-in in 1969:
Henry Gibson says, "Hey, Goldy! I've become a writer!"
"Have you sold anything?"
"Yeah! My hat. And my watch…"

<p>I made feijoada for lunch today. It

Wed, 01/29/2025 - 16:08

I made feijoada for lunch today. It turned out really well.

<p>*Lady Cecelia&#39;s Knowledge* is

Wed, 01/29/2025 - 08:58

*Lady Cecelia's Knowledge* is Part 4 of *Lady Cecelia's Journey*, a sapphic romantasy road story. It has not yet been scheduled for release, but if you subscribe to my monthly mailing list, you can receive updates when it appears. https://author-sdbrewer.micro.blog/subscribe/

<p>She could hear Kelli sobbing in the

Wed, 01/29/2025 - 08:58

She could hear Kelli sobbing in the dark beyond a chicken coop at the far corner of the barnyard.
Cecelia found her crouching in the grass, crying her eyes out. She crouched down with her and put a hand on her back.
"I hate him," Kelli sobbed. "I hate him so much."
"What he said was cruel," Cecelia said.
"But… What if it's true?" Kelli groaned.
Cecelia was silent while she tried to think of what to say. Finally, she said, "If it's true, then you need to be honest with yourself."

<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags

Wed, 01/29/2025 - 06:31

How do you format your drafts? Is it the same as the final manuscript?

For manuscripts, I tend to use Shunn classic https://www.shunn.net/format/classic/ Unless the submission guidelines say to do something different. Manuscripts don't look right to me unless they're in a non-proportionally-spaced font.

I do a lot of my early drafting using a text editor (I use Pulsar) which looks similar but is functionally unformatted. As I tell my students, write the words first and format later.

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