Hora Fugit

How do you memorialize a person like Kit? I don't know how to start. They were so vibrant, so full of life. They were the person who got me into tabletop, one of the people who got me to write again, one of the people I could spend hours upon hours talking with, even if it was just about the trainwreck anime they were watching on Crunchyroll. I have known them for seventeen years. That's a long time to know someone, to love someone. It wasn't enough. To quote Jim Croce, there never seems to be enough time to do the things that you wanna do once you find them. There was so much I wanted to do, so much I wanted to see, so much I wanted to share with them.

I knew in my heart that Kit was one of the people I wanted to go through time with. I love them. I miss them. I will never stop missing them. There will always be an empty space where they should be.

Two highlighted selections from the referenced book. They read:

To understand the difference between a good adverb and a bad adverb, consider these two sentences: “She smiled happily” and She smiled sadly". Which one works best? The first seems weak because “smiled” contains the meaning of “happily”. On the other hand, “sadly” changes the meaning.

Remember the song “Killing Me Softly”? Good adverb. How about “Killing Me Fiercely”? Bad adverb.

Look also for weak verb-adverb combinations that you can revise with stronger verbs: “She went quickly down the stairs” can become “she dashed down the stairs.” “He listened surreptitiously” can become “He eavesdropped.” Give yourself a choice.

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Food: Cuban-style black beans

And they haven't even gathered significant information on native women living in URBAN areas. It could be much higher.

Food stamps renew on the first, so not a ton of help needed.

I have a few needs completely out of wack now that rent is paid.

I've been on one and two meals this month.

Cash and pay are both agenderdread.

My full final piece for the Blood & Brocade IWTV zine by the incredible @thevelvetcompote! Thank you so much for having me 🖤🩸