Heading into the city proper, we came to a memorial to the soldiers who died in the Battle of Hoover Dam, and an off-duty trooper named Kowalski paying his respects. Nearby, there was a bar being operated by one of Boulder City's few remaining residents, who told us about how dead it is around here. And of course there was also the massive pile of rubble and ruins that used to be the city, even more rundown than your usual pre-war ruins.

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WHO DESIGNED THIS PLACE???

Everywhere I look, it's trash, trash, trash! And only about one out of every ten pieces of trash is useful to me! See this pencil? I turned it into a fence post! This toy car? It lives in my pistol's scope! I SHOT A BUG, IT TURNED TO GOO, AND NOW ITS GOO-BLOOD LIVES IN MY TWELVE-STORY MANSION.

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The kind and generous hawthornbunny went to the trouble of word-clouding my stories. This has led me to a most unusual discovery.

First off, here's the word cloud for all of my stories together:

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I'm back.

I've just updated Broken Symmetry, and I'll be doing more writing today and tomorrow.

Twiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiight...

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My story review system is still being carefully crafted. In the interim, I need to decide how to split myself in twain. That's where you come in.

This is my best attempt at Hasbro thing. (Yes, they're copper.)

I need your help to decide where I should put my stories if they get naughty!

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I'm working on several stories right now and none of them are pulling all my attention. I don't know how soon I'll be able to post something new.

The front burner consists of a TSJ update and several experiments.

May be related. May be, maybe.

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I'm not sure when I'm going to be adding Warning tags to Twilight's Secret Journal, even though it is in dire need of them.

The problem is any change to the story description would need to meet the new rules on Genre's three-tag limit, and "Genre" includes a mixture of two kinds of tags.

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Like I said back in my journal on the 29th of January, I wanted to post my lengthy amount of future projects. For those who aren’t aware, here is the First of these journals and the Second if you’d like to see other projects I’ve brought up before. So here’s a preview of what’s to come:

Under Their Wings

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Welcome to my reading journal. A common piece of writing advice is that to become a better writer, one should read a lot. There is truth to this, of course, depending on what one reads. Every month, I’ll run down all the books I’ve read, in about 300 words apiece. These aren’t full-blown reviews, but hopefully there’s still some useful information buried in them.

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

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Long time no blog. Been writing a lot, been busy with work. But I've still found time to read. And what better thing to blog about?

I recently finished Mistborn: The Final Empire, the first of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. I avoided it for a long time: as a fan of Sanderson's writing, and because of the sheer number of book in the series, I knew it would take up a lot of my time.

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There was a small NCR presence there, people heading to and from Vegas, traders peddling their wares, a beggar who I gave some caps to, and surprisingly enough, some refugees from Primm who fled after the Powder Gangers attacked. A few of them are even preparing to make the trip back soon, since word on the radio is that somebody single-handedly cleared the gang out and restored law and order to the town.

God, this past week has been fucking weird.

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Two cons in two weeks is hard. I'd done this a couple of times previously, but not when I was 41 years old.

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Mission of Mercy seems to have disappeared from the Popular Stories bar faster than anything else I've written.

Who was that masked short story?

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HOUSTON, Tex. (Ambit Journal) - This election season has already put individuals in the United States in heated arguments, excitement, and other emotions.

Sometimes when emotions are high, people do very unnecessary and mean things to one another, even children.

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I made a mistake today. It was a tiny mistake, but it feels like a humongous one.

Learning to put mistakes in perspective is something I'm still learning how to do, since finishing my course of electroconvulsive therapy.

This silly pony helps me in so many ways.

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In my editing career, I have met many authors who possessed...tenuous self-esteem about their work. My blunt critiquing style and frequent lack of tact have damaged many an author's self-esteem further. And I take full responsibility for that. I've often had a strained relationship with my own work as well. I recently did some editing for an IRL friend new to writing, and these topics came up multiple times in our discussion. I thought it a good thing to discuss.

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The Magician King by Lev Grossman

This is the sequel to The Magicians, which I read back in January. Spoilers for it follow.

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This is the main reason why I decided to skip over the comics a few weeks ago. I like the idea of the first card blog of 2022 using one of the oldest in-universe documents we have for source material. Let’s see what the diarchs thought of their first days on the throne.

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After some discussions with authors I have decided I need to label Twilight's Secret Journal a Tragedy. So I've just replaced the Thriller tag with Tragedy.

The inclusion of this tag does not give away the ending. Let me explain.

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I've been "productive" today. Today I fixed up about a dozen chapters of Twilight's Secret Journal.

Wheee!

Nineteen chapters still need fixin'.

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