Happy National Science Fiction Day! If you’d like to celebrate with my work, here is a free story to read, the one that kicked off my Jump Space universe stories: http://maryannemohanraj.com/science-fiction…/jump-space/
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Waves go in, waves go out. 23 seconds. My in-laws were very concerned when they heard we’d gone down to the beach, because apparently it was all over the news yesterday that there were giant ‘sneaker’ waves at Santa Cruz beach, very dangerous. We didn’t know! But I think we must have been there during
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Thinking about translation, and I realized I don’t know how writers navigate this situation. So, Bodies in Motion was published in 2005 by HarperCollins, right? And they sold various translation rights, including Spanish, which came out from Grijalbo in 2007 as Las voces del Monzón. If I wanted to issue an edition of that myself,
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Day two of the writing retreat. I feel so lucky, that I have a writer friend who can offer a serene retreat where I can put everything down for a day or two and just focus on writing in the midst of beauty. It makes a difference. Also, I got to try a Russian treat,
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I managed to squeeze out a day-and-a-half to come early to the Bay Area so I could do a writing retreat (or writing boot camp, as Alex Gurevich calls it), between the end of semester and the holidays. It was wildly productive — I drafted an entire story on the first day (with a consultation
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And I started drafting a little solstice story today. Didn’t get that far into it, and I’m not really sure where it’s going. 🙂. But here’s a few paragraphs, just to get you in a (science-fictional) solstice mood. ***** Solstice on Kriti Narita swore under her breath as she wrestled with the tangled light strings.
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I didn’t write this as a solstice poem, but somehow, it feels appropriate and came to mind, so here you go, a little love sonnet about a candle-tree, light against the dark. ***** Spinning Down It’s dark again, and we have searched for quite some time for that still center, that space where you and
Jeez, the curse continues. Although I think this one may just be tiredness. Maybe travelling on 4 hours of sleep wasn’t the best idea — at age 52, I don’t bounce back nearly as fast as I used to. So what happened? Well, as I said earlier, I had a nicely productive stretch on the
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I’ve been thinking a lot about why I find myself eager to go make art, and reluctant to start writing. (It’s the starting that’s the problem — once I start, I’m usually fine and happy.) I think a lot of it has to do with anxiety, but also with the idea of being a professional.
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Weirdly mopey for most of today. I think it’s end-of-semester blues. You’d think that would make me happy, to turn in grades and be on vacation, but there’s something about finishing a big project, even one you desperately want to finish — it leaves a gap. At least I got to send off some sweets
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