Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 15
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Still wavering between winter dry and spring blooming.)
SSCS 04: Installment 15 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 15 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Then, because they were watching for it, Ki and Du saw what happened next, even if most of the crowd saw only the blind-seeming Queen turn and…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 14
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which has firmly declared spring!)
SSCS 04: Installment 14 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 14 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… When all that could be learned had been learned, the conscript stood and walked away, breathing easily, knowing that they did not need to come to this…
Getting Good Use out of Bad Writing – Part II
Once again, I’d like to explore a little more of the idea that encountering an example of bad writing by someone else can actually provide an excellent opportunity to improve your own writing. (My previous discussion about this is here.) As a writer, it’s always important to read plenty, both for enjoyment (of course!) and to have a lot of examples to draw from of what sort of writing is to your taste. But when you come across something that…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 13
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where we are in the season of petals everywhere!)
SSCS 04: Installment 13 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 13 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… “The lady does,” Lot answered, and accepted the black token, tucking it into her bodice. “Draw a card.” The Great Hunger, and The Mercenary were again placed…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 12
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where half of the flowering trees are already off and running (peach, crab-apple, plum).)
SSCS 04: Installment 12 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 12 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Below was…perhaps a ceremony, perhaps something else, but either way it seemed they had found the Moth Queen. Like the Gull Queen, she was not as expected. …
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 11
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which is doggedly soldiering on through the whiplash of hot-and-dry and cold-and-frozen.)