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April 2014

April 23, 2014

Watchman for Daybreak Watch

Here's a round-up of writing-related stuff. Watchman for Daybreak is going well. I've revised most...

April 16, 2014

Riding the Rigatoni Cycle

Not much to report on the Watchman for Daybreak front, though I'm proceeding along the...

April 09, 2014

Writing Flawed Characters

I only got about a thousand words written on Watchman for Daybreak this week, but...

April 02, 2014

Watchman for Daybreak Watch

Writing continued on Watchman for Daybreak in a somewhat desultory fashion; I had the flu...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

Bleeding Delicately on the Page

Wonder of wonders, I actually got some fiction writing done this week. I've written the...

March 12, 2014

Watchman for Daybreak Watch

The latest S'Mary's World news is that work on Watchman for Daybreak is proceeding. As...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Writing the Scene

I've got a character, John St. Cloude, captain of the freezer ship Our Lady of...

February 18, 2014

Why Not Fiction?

Kelly Sedinger has some pertinent commentary on my last week's post "Why Write Fiction", which...

February 12, 2014

Why Write Fiction?

I don't have a piece about S'Mary's World today because I'm at the point in...

February 05, 2014

S’Mary’s World: Magnus Albert

Magnus Albert is the name given to the mother house of the Albertine Order on...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

The Von Neumann Survey

The so-called Von Neumann Survey was the foundation of the great wave of colonization that...

January 22, 2014

S’Mary’s World: The Wars of Irreligion

The first settlements on S'Mary's World were run along the lines of monastic communes: the...

January 15, 2014

S’Mary’s World: The Knights Particular

The colony of S'Mary's World was originally established as a number of politically independent but...

January 08, 2014

S’Mary’s World: St. Michael’s Old Peculiars

St. Michael's Old Peculiars is the name given by long custom to the Brothers of...

January 01, 2014

S’Mary’s World: The Albertines

The Albertine Order of St. Mary's-without-the-Arm grew by necessity from the logic of colonial survival....

December 2013

December 26, 2013

S’Mary’s World: Calendar

The calendar for S'Mary's World was established by the Articles of Colonization, as was usual in...

December 18, 2013

S’Mary’s World: The Prefecture

The Prefecture (more fully the Apostolic Prefecture of St. Mary's World) is the name given...

December 11, 2013

S’Mary’s World

The colony world of St. Mary's-without-the-arm, known simply as "S'Mary's" to its inhabitants, was settled...