Writing can go through seasons—some seasons are hot and fast, filled with fireworks, while others are cold and sluggish, like a Sunday morning in December. After one of those cold, unproductive seasons, getting back to our computers to do some fiction writing can feel like a sun-kissed reward for having survived all those lost gloves […]
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Breaking Through the Gloom
Back in September, when we thought we were living through the worst of the pandemic (I’ll pause here while you get that hysterical laughter under control), I’d had it with humanity. Sure, there are a lot of individual humans that I like—love, really—but by September, humanity as a whole had reached a whole new level […]
Creative Energy Meets Unsuspecting Computer
by Kelley Lindberg Last year, on January 11, my computer died. I spent a couple of days trying in vain to revive it, then another couple of days buying a new one, and several more days getting everything reinstalled and restored. This year, on January 11, my computer’s USB and SD card ports all died. […]