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Close to finishing Scattered Tribes #2. Sitting at 70k right now and targeting 85 give or take. Couple bits to wrap up, then on to the next chunk. Not entirely wound up this morning, but that’s just the day.
I have a thingee on Bluesky that notifies me when things happen in the background. Added to lists. Blocked. That sort of thing. Somebody randomly blocked me yesterday. Dude I interact with occasionally. No clue what set him off. Might just be a punk. Not like my politics are that opaque. I even usually tone things down, because I have strong opinions most of you don’t encounter anywhere but my writing. (Trust me, most of you never get anywhere close to the truth.)
So scratching my head this morning, shrugging, and making some more coffee. Fuck-wits will fuck-wit.
Shadowdark campaign yesterday. D&D variant with a LOT less rules, but we’ve been exploring some house rules that bring in a few feats (the game has none) to let people build characters that are a little less two-dimensional. (Fast rules. Clean combat. The cost is a lot of possibility gutted out to limit you to a handful of classes and no multi-classing.)
Conversation last night over text about building new characters. Dunno why, but writer brain got involved and suggested archer-first ranger as a playtest of those new rules.
Why?
Shrike.
Oh.
So I dug out Rebels last night and reread it before bed. I have two of three novels written and moldering in the trunk for several years. Kept meaning to circle back and finish that trilogy. This is obviously the cue, so I need to reread those and remember how the series ends. Then go write it.
Not immediately. Next Red Branch coming. Then possibly Heather 4. Then probably Shrike 4 so I can drop a full trilogy after Rebels. Dunno. That’s out a couple of months, and a lot of things happen between here and there.
Might finish Scattered Tribes this week. Probably will, depending. Then on to something. Still need to write a chunk of short fiction. Pretty much monthly, because I have so many projects requiring it these days.
We’ll see.
shade and sweet water,
b
West of the Mountains, WA
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