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Kalshann

Dr. Nnmandi Bello was far from home. If one could ever consider home a place and not the memories? He idly wondered if he'd ever travel far enough to lose the memories.

“This is it. The old Reva ranch.” The driver drew his attention back to the here and now.

Nnmandi had to work to get anyone to remember where the ranch was. Now, after a quarter century of rain, sun, and wind turned it to just another stretch of Mexican scrub lands.

Another place that was just memories.

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Ajay

Hooked by Les Edgerton - an excellent read that covers key factors towards writing openings to hook your readers. Placing it in the same league as Stephen King's On Writing. Edgerton focuses on book openings and includes advice from some prominent Agents/Publishers. Highly recommended read.
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Stevenson

By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. It is not only in finished undertakings that we ought to honour useful labour.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-04), “Æs Triplex,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.04 — Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down? CW: self-analysis

Oddly enough, this devolves to gender roles and the confusion an autistic can discover in any social illogic. As a child, I quickly evolved into a listener, observer, and a pleaser with my shyness providing me an escape route from any confrontative situation—things I worked on (had to!) as I became an adult. Wanting to be an author is not entirely compatible with these personality traits regardless of gender—there is a definite forwardness and egoist nuance to insisting on communicating one's ideas—and I couldn't rely on others to meditate for me.

I got praise growing up, especially when doing well in school. Then again, my mother had me convinced I'd die if I didn't bring home top marks. I mostly got to hide from praise. It's not that I don't, didn't, like it, but I could better process it unobserved and generally make it appropriately and comfortably undeserved. A pleaser can't accept being pleased well!

Yeah, I got help. If you've heard of EST, I did that.

Now my reaction to praise is a Venn diagram of who, what, and where. If it is online, where nobody has to see me physically react, I'm a lot more copacetic with it. In person, it can be uncomfortable. I can still find ways to minimize the input but as I get older I'm better at fairly assessing my abilities. I do remember having this one fan at conventions that would greet me. She really wanted a sequel. Maybe she sensed I was shy, I don't know. But I grew to like her reminder.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

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Kirsten Menger-Anderson

Are you in Chicago or Cincinnati? Tomorrow (April 5th) at 11am, the Under Cover Book Club will be hiding copies of my novel THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISION around the city! Check Instagram for clues to the secret location: undercover513 for Cincinnati or undercoverbookclub312 for Chicago. Happy hunting!

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