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July 4th, 2006

Subject: Content! Time: 09:37 am

Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans. Happy Good Riddance Day to the Brits. Happy Who Cares Day to the rest of the world. I solemnly swear that I will update this journal more often. I've sold a couple of reprints and one story since last we spoke, and also, One Million Years B.F.E. went live at Escape Pod. (It will also come live at The Town Drunk sometime in the next few months as a reprint--I got the page proofs and the check recently.) It would be proper now to display my first attempt at "BFE" as a serious tale, but I apparently didn't save such a ridiculous effort. So, I give you instead the (happily) lost wizard scene from "Huntswoman," of which I sold the reprint to Aoife's Kiss earlier this year. The story initially opened with the wizard asking the huntswoman what she'd like to dream about, the night before the story now opens, which he apparently does every night; this scene took place on the second night of the story. It has a couple of good lines in it that I probably should have incorporated into the rewrite, but. Hindsight. ( Wizards. What was I thinking? )

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April 19th, 2006

Subject: Favorite Paragraph I'll Never Use Time: 10:44 pm

"Beatrice bought a ploughman's lunch from an automated steward and immediately regretted it, but a similar mistake on the young man's part was a conversational opening that caused Beatrice to send a small prayer of thanksgiving for the improperly programmed 'bot. By hour three of the trip, while the Express hurtled across the Canadian Shield, Beatrice had rolled the dice of seduction and won, securing an agreement from the harbormaster-in-training to spend a few days in copper country." This is because I decided to cover those three hours a little more directly. From "Alloy of Optimism"--which I may actually finish.

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January 25th, 2006

Subject: A Deleted Scene Manifesto Time: 09:07 pm

I'm working through a short story that I think is going to be a long-time favorite of mine, and since it's already not a short story but a novelette, I'm going in with scalpels and forceps and purging unnecessary paragraphs. Naturally, I'm so very in love with my work that each tonsil, appendix and spleen is being placed immediately in a specimen jar, so that later I may lavish it with languishing glances and deep sighs over what might have been. Okay. Not really. I am chucking those paragraphs into an outtakes file, however. And when this story is published, I will put here those deleted scenes. And thus may we all learn and grow, and perhaps chuckle over the feverish love an author may possess for her little darlings. (Hm. Almost wrote "little darklings." I rather like that better.) Long before this story is published, though, I will put up the deleted Wizard Scenes from "Huntswoman"--probably in celebration of when "One Million Years B.F.E." goes live. Not because they are related, but because I don't have any outtakes from "One Million Years B.F.E." (though I do have a false beginning, which is equally ridiculous as the Wizard Scenes of "Huntswoman"). And, also because I didn't come up with the idea of a DVD journal until about four months ago or something. Right. Is that a manifesto? Nah, I didn't think so either.

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