A month-long novel-writing experiment over on RoyalRoad, where I'll be releasing a chapter a day at https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/45388/hustling-through-the-dark .

Come read about a vlog by a gal named Dee;
Poor cryonicist, just another nobody.
Then one day she managed to die;
Woke a bit later and learned how to fly.
(Pilot, that is. Spaceships. Lunar landers.)

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There are some downsides to being a data pack-rat, as well as the obvious up-sides.

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I like the idea of Second Life, of being able to build 3D environments, and walk around and interact with them. What I don't like is that if one particular company goes bust, all the content in SL will vanish with it.

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It's said that cutting down on the amount of blue light your eyes see before you try to fall asleep can help you get to sleep faster. I've been using an RGB light bulb set to 'red' ( http://www.dx.com/p/marsing-r3-e27-3w-200lm-cob-led-rgb-bulb-w-remote-control-white-90-260v-331312 ) and the Redshift app on my computer ( http://jonls.dk/redshift/ ); and just today in the mail, I received my brand-new pair of prescription glasses with reddish-tinted lenses (

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November has come and gone, and while I've written 57,000 words for "Extracts" ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jPU6QKEohcrw6l6O3SxorIxf2Tnq54h36LtQO6Qv86w/edit ), I haven't finished writing the story. I had a bit of a hiatus due to yet another bout of depression, but I wrote a couple of hundred words two days ago, around eight hundred yesterday, and I think I'm close to being in full form for

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jPU6QKEohcrw6l6O3SxorIxf2Tnq54h36LtQO6Qv86w/edit

Main goal: Resume habit of writing narrative daily. Secondary goal: Explore a future I wouldn't want to live in. Have managed three days of meeting word-count goal. Am making much up as I go, with a few particular points I'd like to hit. Comments/ideas/suggestions appreciated.

Long story short, after some build-up, about a week ago I was in the hospital, with ambulance ride and IV drip and everything; and I've spent most of the week since then recovering through sleeping. (Best guess: virus, complicated by not being able to keep any calories down.)

Plan for this week: Catch up on what I've been letting slide. Odds of success: moderate. If you're waiting for any responses from me on anything, now's a good time to refresh my memory.

I'm taking a short break from creating "S.I.", and am trying a somewhat different writing exercise: building up an entire story before I start writing any of it, as opposed to the web-serial model I've been trying with S.I.

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Punk Rock Girl, aka Punkers, was at least 16 years old. After many years of being a typical crazy cat - waking up and yelling out meows until someone reassured her she wasn't dreaming, being delighted with the windowbox we set up for her, and so on - the last few days she started being tired.

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I've been writing.

Last May, I took a piece of advice: "Just start writing".

I'm now over 222,222 words into a novel, and counting. You can see my first chapter in my account at DeviantArt at http://datapacrat.deviantart.com/art/S-I-Book-One-Chapter-One-Re-Awakening-489185968 , or at the story's eventual permanent future home at http://www.datapacrat.com/SI/ . (Note: The sample chapter there is NSFW due to containing an image of tasteful female nudity.)

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