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Another Struggle day.

I spent way too much of it watching A Very Potter Musical. Warning: it is literally two hours long. This is a fact which I did not realize until I was ensnared (ensnared, I tell you!) by its awesome.

Then I spent way too much of it angsting about having to write.

Upsides: I got a thousand words done, eventually; I queried about a short story submission that's been out for a while; I made a new submissions spreadsheet which will keep everything much more organized than before, if I can figure out just a few more tricks in Excel.

Also, I learned that Cicada magazine is now accepting electronic submissions. I have had it in the back of my mind as a good market for a while now, but the whole process of printing it out and mailing it in and waiting for a while never seemed worth it enough. (I know, arduous.) In fact, it's sort of amazing that they survived this long without e-submissions, seeing as how they actively want teen submissions. But hey, their bailiwick.

This whole day, I was itching to work on short stories, not the novel. I plan to follow that impulse this evening, starting now.
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Our Heroes keep getting evenings off from fighting evil in this part of the novel. (Another thing to be fixed in the next draft.) I've always stuck in a little bit about what happens that evening that isn't fighting evil, because they have so much extra time, but sometimes my stock of other conflict runs out.

I was thinking about this last night, wondering what they do when they aren't, well, fighting evil, and went, "I bet they play cards."

So now? I'm pretty sure that they're playing bridge in the evenings.

The sad part is, I could totally write those scenes. Maybe not who wins--I don't know all that much about bridge--but how they interact with the game.
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Go here and vote for the name of the new ISS node and then come back and tell me if you were surprised at what was winning.

You won't be, but it amuses me anyway.

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