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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And that, my friends, is what we call a first draft.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i'm very happy but also WHY WONT THIS STORY END

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

70,000. Still a little more drafting to do to wrap up the final chapter(s), but this month's goal has been achieved! I never posted exactly what the word count was at the start of the month, but I'm pretty sure it was like 37k or 38k. Definitely a significant effort. Excited to tie things up soon!

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would, in fact, PREFER to write books without the need to work for my own finances lol

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But he could have been burned out by the industry, gotten sick of working in the otaku media space, etc. It's just that the phrase "retired as a novelist" strikes me as odd since I think I often think of people in creative professions as doing them for life.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's kind of easy to look at his works and, if you think of them as disposable nonsense, think ungenerously something like, "Guess he was never into making art in the first place; it was just a job." But that is perhaps somewhat cynical.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading this article has provoked quite the interesting reaction in me. The author's retiring not because of burnout because he's financially independent enough to retire early. Being an LN author is a real grind, but I wonder if he's going to continue writing or going to give it up entirely.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

60,000 (or 61,000, to be precise) and fully back on track for 1,000 words a day to take us to the end of the story. Assuming, of course, that 9,000 words is all that's need to wrap things up, which isn't a bet I'd make against myself. Still, we remain very much on track. The end is in sight!

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

great way to get real world experience to write a fencing light novel series with a bang-up tournament arc

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"My memory of this chapter is that it wasn't quiiiiiite this much of a mess"

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh true! I can't math 😩 I wish you all the best in this cutting; that's a lot, but I believe in you!

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

50,000. That's +15,000 (approximately) since the start of the month with a several day break; and less than 1000 words off the pace to complete the draft by the end of the month. Tsundere project continues apace!

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Been a while since I posted one of these. We're well and truly back in drafting life.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

hand crafted additions, wow!

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

huh! i didn't know you could add books from streaming sites to the apple books app like that. neat.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"After all," he thought. "Why shouldn't I manage to reach 40,000 words on the second day of the month?"

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆 facts— • Length: Just under 6000 words • Genre: Fantasy/sci-fi/mecha • Sickos content: Giant robots, politicking, fighting princess, sentimental maid memories Written for the Crown & Consequence monthly at HF, the cover features art by @/zurukoo.bsky.social.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆 follows a princess of an unnamed kingdom named Gossamé, who has just escaped death. Accompanied by her otherworldly mech, Apolonique, as she returns to the home where her execution was ordered, uncertain of what it means to love her country.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

◤SHORT STORY RELEASE◢ Excited to announce that a new short story of mine is out today! It's titled: 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆 A story of royalty, loyalty, and a little bit of mecha action, it's the reflective tale of a certain princess. Read it on Honeyfeed☀️❇️➡️: tinyurl.com/EvSuPa

Image of a white-haired anime woman with her right hand in front of her face, ringed fingers splayed. The title reads: "This is the Everlasting Sunlight Parade: A Short Story."

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Day 1: Not so scary after all. Turns out that spending two months refining two character voices and plot gives you a pretty good platform for continuing on a story!

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The first half of the tsundere project is now re-written. For the first time in what feels like forever, it's time to draft new stuff. Scary!

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am, quite frankly, in awe of the character-full brevity and wit (and I despair at my own long-winded writerly bravado). In another world this is the opening to a hugely acclaimed memoir, I am quite sure.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sometimes you find a spot of terrific writing is the most unexpected place, like a 12-year-old blog post written by a tea-loving presumed retiree from Wisconsin. I have not been able to stop thinking about this delightful piece since I read it earlier today. deathbytea.blogspot.com/2014/08/firs...

deathbytea.blogspot.com

First, and Last Thoughts

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

meanwhile i'm out here breaking new ground with "is a scone a pastry, a cake, or a bread?"

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In unrelated news, I've been on a short vacation the last couple days, going to museums and so, and I feel like I've suddenly understood the value of small notebooks. Typing stuff into the phone notes app is just not the right fit.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The art I commissioned for the cover image for the short story I'm putting out this month is so good that I'm feeling guilty about not having given the story more editing attention... I feel like I have a responsibility to make the story even better having seen the art WIP.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

true! all that matters now is putting together the best story we can!

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thank you 😌 The only problem I have now is that not managing to get to the finals with something high efforts will be really disappointing orz

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So, what's next? First, later this month I'll have a new short story coming out for a different Honeyfeed contest. And, meanwhile, I'll be thrashing away at the tsundere project with an eye toward having a first draft done in another month or two.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Of course you'd rather win than not, but managing to become a finalist in the first two writing contests I've entered is either outrageous good luck or a sign that I'm doing something right. Hopefully more the latter than the former. 😅

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Sad to report that 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘔𝘺 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘔𝘦! did not manage to win the MAL x Honeyfeed NOVELOUS Worlds contest. Without being too self-deprecating, this really was not a shock. 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 was a 3-month side project that surprised me with its success.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A friend recently sent me this quote from Vladamir Nabokov to one of his editors. Have to confess, although I won't claim to be as good a writer as Nabokov, as a long-sentence enjoyer, this resonated. 😅 (To Katharine A. White, 10th November 1947; V. N., Selected Letters 1940-1977, p. 77.)

Quote from Vladamir Nabokov: "I shall be very grateful to you if you help me to weed out bad grammar but I do not think I would like my longish sentences clipped too close, or those drawbridges lowered which I have taken such pains to lift. In other words, I would like to discriminate between awkward construction (which is bad) and a certain special - how shall I put it - sinuosity, which is my own and which only at first glance may seem awkward or obscure. Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him."

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Today was a 3500 word re-write day. A shame that an out-of-town work trip that will inevitably wreck my flow is bearing down on me later this week. 😔

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Save them for the end-of-volume authors note imo, I love reading those things

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

they will never recapture the simple transcendence of keqing imo

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/08/2026

The August issue of Clarkesworld is now online and features stories by Ravn J. Silver, Eilis O’Neal, Jordan Alexander, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, E.N. Auslender, Y.M. Pang, and H.H. Pak. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_239 Subscribe today at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

The August issue of Clarkesworld features cover art by Thomas Brissot. A young woman flanked by two robots with large swords aimed straight down appear to be conversing with a tall water bird on the edge of a leafy area. The title is "A Visit To The Oracle" and the bird's beak is open as if speaking. The background fades shows a palace of sorts behind the bird but only whiteness behind the other figures.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Maybe I'm the one who's wrong for this, but amateur authors switching between tenses willy-nilly—either from chapter to chapter or, worse, paragraph to paragraph—is one of the things that I just can't tolerate.

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Thanks to Prufock on Honeyfeed (www.honeyfeed.fm/u/27458/novels), I now have a shiny new slide deck for promoting 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘔𝘺 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘔𝘦! You can still vote for one more week! Voting link➡️: novelous.go.link/cyPPT Read the web novel ➡️: tinyurl.com/spacepri

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If I was a responsible author, I probably should have been posting about this more regularly but, *shrugs* the ennui of self-promotion, you know?

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marble〇 @marblemystar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If you'd like to help 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘔𝘺 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘔𝘦! advance to finalist to winner, you can still vote for it on Novelous for 9 more days! You get a new vote daily until July 27! 🌏💖 Voting link➡️: novelous.go.link/cyPPT Read the web novel ➡️: tinyurl.com/spacepri

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