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Friday, Money Enough so Shopping

Ah, the sweet relief of payday. Oh, the bitter sorrow of an overflowing shopping list. It's always the way. You get stuff queuing up to spend your money before you get it.

Bleh.

The good news is that I have the first very rough form-generated query letters for all of the five books I'm plotting to pitch.

15 minutes in the morning on ADT gets me a little ahead by degrees. I should be finished with a chapter before Monday, all being well.

Given the hunger of my spawn, I have to get two platters of eggs. Which is going to be interesting to juggle with four loaves of fresh, homemade bread.

I've got about three hours before all the shops are open so I can go place and get thing.

Let's have a go at making a story happen.

Challenge #04757-M008: To Join Her Cause

"Oh great Mistress Dark, hear me please. I wish to follow your will."/ ~And what will do you seek to follow?~

"To give solace and comfort to the dying, to let them know you wait to be their guide."/ ~Where do I guide them?~

"To the next life, to Rebirth, to what their lives have earned, or lessons they need to learn, with you, they never walk in darkness alone."/ ~You are a wise one, young human, I will grant you my

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Thursday, Pay???

The economy is up to shit. Last I heard of things, Beloved is job hunting with no other news to this day.

I am hoping to have income today. I have enough to cover the bills should things be that dire. I doubt they will be, but I have it there.

I know Beloved. She has a knack of finding a way to make things work. She'll either have a fantastic idea and go like a rocket, or find a golden deal

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Challenge #04756-M007: Waifs and Strays

"Okay, what happened?"/ "I tried to sneak off with one of the large cheese-baskets."

"Da, I see that, I mean the bruises."/ "The big goat butted me, and wouldn't let me leave my corner until you showed up."

"Come, let's get you cleaned up, fed, then you can learn skills so you don't need to try to steal from an old devil's wife. My husband's having a nap, he can meet you when he wakes." -- Anon Guest

Delia sighed as she

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Wednesday, First Rant of the Year

I think I shall do a New Year's Boast. Mix in the things I aim to accomplish with 10000% horseshit that nobody can possibly get away with. The neat thing about a boast is nobody expects any of it to happen.

Which is a concept I'll have to explain in my OpEd Blog for the slow of mind. In excruciating detail.

Because some of my readers have failed reading comprehension and take everything I say literally, or figure that The Killer could

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Challenge #04755-M006: Two Dogs Cold

The ship had to land, fortunately it wasn't cheese grater, but there was damage. The place they landed was freezing, locked in the dead of winter. The human protected the ship with an igloo, but what really saved the captain and the two small crew members besides the human? A big, fluffy newfoundland dog, and an equally fluffy, if a bit wriggly, husky. Who, for once, wasn't constantly complaining. -- Anon Guest

[AN: They might be lucky that one of them wasn't

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Tuesday, Patreon and Bread

We're down to our last loaf of bread so I shall be informing Miss Chaos that she's making the next batch. That will be happening later in the day. When she's conscious.

Meanwhile, I have Patreon stuff to post, a story to write, and an ankle to ice every two freaking hours.

And thanks to Trackbear, I now know that I've written almost 13K words for various creative works in less than a firkin week. I had NO IDEA I was that

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Challenge #04754-M005: The Better Decision

King Kormwind, tenth of that name. Looked upon the kid that had tried to drive a blade into him.

"What lord sent you?"

The kid shook their head, eyes wide with terror, their thin hands still grasping at a blade long since removed from them.

"Alright, first food, then medical care, then a bath and rest. Then I find out what idiot needs correcting this time." -- Lessons

His dad had warned him about shit like this. He told it as the

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Monday, Writer's Group Shenanigans

The Promptcast is racing toward one million communal words this year. We're already at two percent and the first week of January hasn't even passed.

We're a loquacious bunch, it seems.

And competitive.

We're racing each other to put words into works and it's astonishingly fun. Keeping an eye on the Archive just in case they decide to meet, too.

I may also plug the idea of a year's goal to the Archive and see if we can get some friendly competition

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Challenge #04753-M004: Enough of a Difference

Always so many this time of year. They were but infants, some with horns and tails, some with halos and wings. Some ordinary human, but born abnormal, some from other races. Left out on snowbanks, frozen middens, on game trails, or just sitting in frigid confusion, too cold and tired to cry anymore.

With magic and love, she brought them into her traveling tower. She was a harvest maiden, and she harvested the discarded and unwanted. Her family, formerly discarded, helped her

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Sunday, Streams and Stuff

I had to beg off doing a query letter because backache, headache, and what eventually revealed itself to be a fever.

I'm making myself some super lazy ginger garlic chicken soup, just in case I have full-on Lurgi. The super lazy part is that I am using things I already have at home, and doing as little as possible in the prep department.

Hello slow cooker, my old friend.

An absolute blessing when you're out of spoons.

I'll get that going after

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Challenge #04752-M003: A Bigger Slice

At a highly, abundantly, productive farm planet designated Kestino 12, though humans called it Always Full, was a huge feast where anyone who wanted to come, Alliance member or not, could come had have a good meal.

Sadly, dereggers, who seem to be he universe's designated party-poopers, seem to have a problem with the idea of a bunch of people getting together to hire out a planet to give everyone a FREE meal. -- Anon Guest

[AN: Problematic words in this prompt

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Saturday, Query Draft 3

I spent two hours prawning over my laptop and writing fanfic in the wee small hours, and for some reason my back hurts. Correlation is not causation. I need more data on this.

I have no idea how to log in to my KDP account and withdraw Free Baby so that's a pain in the arse for me.

I'll unriddle this in the fullness of time.

There has to be a way to find the account associated with the publication. Or figure

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Challenge #04751-M002: Frozen Battlefield

They take a couple of class 1 and class 2 deathworlder friends to a human hockey game. The galactics are rather shocked at how violence features into what the humans call, a friendly exhibition match. -- The New Guy

[AN: I know bloody well present-day hockey has rules and procedures to prevent or de-escalate aggression. It's almost adorable]

There's entire comedy routines about Deathworlder sports, and how they symbolically boil down to various hunting activities. Kill the ball, kill the person with

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Friday, I Sense a Cyclone

There's a low pressure system somewhere within a 500km radius of my location and my face is feeling it. I've taken my painkillers and hoping that they actually work this time. If they don't, I have another timer running so I can get a safe, second dose.

Meanwhile, I get going on other stuff. Today's story, cleaning catboxes, creating a VERY rough query letter for Beauties and the Beastly. That sort of thing.

Then I go back around and refine the things

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