(running a day late)
Disease was what persuaded my colonists to ask the Elves for help; it turned out Elves didn't know what a fever was. They're good on injuries, though. The colonists are muddling along on herbs that might help, and lots of blankets, for a nasty illness they don't understand.

Yes, I recommend that people read Dr. Olsavsky's book: lsupress.org/978080717730... - I learned so much from it.

A practical question for #WritingCommunity

If you have a Patreon account or other self-publishing site, how often do you badger your parasocials about its existence? I'm sure there's some sort of etiquette here but don't know what it is.

Visited some old friends in the forest today. They’ve grown a bit since last time and showed up in new outfits. Good-looking bunch, and always a joy to photograph.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Fungi #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #Texas #EastTexas #BigThicket #ForestFriday #MacroPhotography

I'm currently working on how Jarek and Hogarth think about the future. Both want their people to have a future; Jarek is too busy doing all the things to guarantee a near future to think much about a distant one or the ethics of it. Hogarth has lost a child and his ethics are now questionable...

The level of tech in my world depends somewhat on where you're standing. On the Old World continent, they're teetering on Early Modern. There are machines and guns (not especially good ones), somewhat effective medicine, mills that run on water power, and the like.

The continent with the colonists?

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This week, a tale of the Feline Distribution System. Please share with your cat lovers. #WriteSky #CatSky #Fae

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There are several of The People who make healing potions of varying efficacy. The blacksmith is probably going to have to figure out how to make gunpowder and explosives, since the connection to the supply on the mainland is tenuous.

The Dwarves, when they make it into the story, are developing...

Taking a break from traumatizing my characters. How's everyone else doing?

Delighted to have my poem featured on the Front Page of Open Arts Forum

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In this world I'm writing, it's not so much that scientific research is reserved for elites as that research requires time and materials. For most of my characters, the observations and hypotheses are in the vein of "Can we eat that? If yes, how can we get more of it? If no, what's it good for?"

Sugarplum, the Christmas Pit Bull.

She really wants something other than the humdrum warm-fuzzy lost-dog-found schmaltz. I'm not sure what, yet.

“He is a child of four parents. He is mine, for my wife could not have a baby without her husband and he is hers. And he is yours, for clearly you made some of his body, and so he is your wife’s son because you are married to her, and because she cared for him....

My characters are in a world that just figured out gunpowder, so this is a fun question.

Jarek is absolutely going to look up medicinal potions and how-to videos for support. Everyone in town assumes she knows every practical thing, and she'd love the help.

Hogarth would probably end up on X.

I put in dog-headed Kobolds for no reason other than wanting some small potential spies and they seemed neglected. And then I decided that someone in my set of beings needed to be strongly in favor of recreational sex. My husband, when I told him about this, promptly dubbed them "the leg-humpers."

The first post is posted! I will try to have a new short story every week. As I get used to Patreon, things like newsletters might happen, too, but it looks as though I may have to give it a dish of milk now and then for full cooperation.

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Hello! I'm getting back to writing and, I hope, publishing. It has been a wee little while for all sorts of reasons.

I have a Lulu page with a freebie here:

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