It's reading of a short story from William Gibson's Burning Chrome.

I really should have put more work into filtering the audio, but meh. The reading it out loud part was the part I felt the need to do.

So a long-time and dear friend of mine wrote something and it's a beautiful story that I have to share with as many people as possible.

It's a Darkest Dungeon story, and it's graphically violent. I encourage readers to use their own judgement and discretion about reading it, but for those who can bear it, the ending is worth every brutal word.

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Just "Tassel" is fine, thank you. And please read this as a message in a bottle:

I grew up on the old Internet where the last thing anybody was online was themselves. (and we were all better for it oldmanyellsatcloud.jpeg) So it has never been my inclination to say anything with more than a vague allusion to anything ever going on in my personal life.

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Recently read Neuromancer. What follows are some loosely-connected thoughts about it. More of a ramble than anything else, I just needed a place to write some of this out while I digest the story.

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I'm gonna speak a bit more personally in this blog than I normally do. This is mostly for my own benefit, as writing things out like this will—I think hope—help me organize and focus my efforts so I can get back to working on not just my AI Misadventures story, but also the other story ideas I've had kicking around the back of my head for well over a year now. However, for the couple dozen of you who have Starlight and Sunburst's

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I had to let this one sit for a while. Now that the sci-fi contest results are in, I think I'm ready to do this. My process on how I wrote The Button and my retrospective after the break.

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It's not a lie yet.

Yet.

I did say no promises!

It still might happen. I've been under a lot of stress for a long time. Today I finally felt it start to release.

I can actually put my attention into the story now. I feel confident.

Still no promises. I've barely started writing, and even then it still has to go through editing.

I also have other ideas I've been wanting to work on and I can't control which one the muse deigns to fancy on any timeframe.

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I am a painfully slow writer. But I haven't given up, and the next chapter for Starlight and Sunburst's Misadventures in Creating Artificial Intelligence is on its way. I have it outlined and details are starting to percolate up from the depths of my imagination. The biggest thing slowing me down has honestly been my job. I've been teetering on the brink of burnout for years, and over the last few months there have been some shakeups at the

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Another story I didn't write, but I edited for.

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I finished a short story. I feel good about it.

But I want to take a minute to go over what I set out to do versus the final product to sort through my method and identify what I think worked, what didn't, and what I can try to do different next time. This is a fairly long blog post, and it's mostly for my own benefit, but for anyone who's interested, all the juicy behind-the-scenes stuff is behind the break. There's also a sneak peek at what I have planned to work on next at the end.

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