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Updates on Gas Giant Gambit, Rare, short stories, and the web series I've been working on!

https://esraye.com/2025/04/23/general-writing-update/

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Just did an author interview for "The Stuff Legends are Made of" and RARE: A Dark Anthology of Unusual Secrets, coming out next month!
I'm not sure when or where it will be made public, but I'm sure I'll get that info before it does 😅

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Whew! Did it! Just under 2400 words total with some notes to add details as I edit later.
I don't know if this will be good enough to get me to the next round, but I'm proud of it.
Romance is wildly outside my wheelhouse, but I think I did okay.

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Ugh. Got a sore throat, a loud dryer 10 feet away, and a later start than I wanted.
But I've also got developmental edits for "The Stuff Legends are Made of" tomorrow, and only 4 days left to write 950 more words and edit the crap out of this short story.
Time to get to work.

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It feels like an appropriate time to mention that my upcoming debut novel 𝘎𝘢𝘴 𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘵: 𝘈 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘺𝘨𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘙𝘪𝘧𝘵, coming Sept. 2025, is about how greed corrupts and leads to atrocities.
And that I'm working on a follow up novel I'm tentatively calling 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴, 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘴 about how xenophobia and hatred divide us.

These subjects feel especially topical right now.

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Even distracted by the Bruins on Hockey Day in Canada, I've managed to get my rough outline to the midpoint.
After Boston puts the Senators away (🤞) I need to do some research on the Third Battle of Ypres, but it's been a good day.

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My project to promote local writers and writing communities, Moved By Words, will be tabling at Northwest Folklife @nwfolklife every day from 12pm to 6pm at the The Vera Project @veraproject and @KEXP Makerspace. Watch MovedByWords.org for details.

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Help a poor writer out, #writerstodon—is there a collective noun for 'hands', as there is for 'fish' and for 'crows' etc? If not, what could be a collective noun for hands?

Really looking forward to when this #writing dread goes away or else I manage to smash it into a thousand pieces.

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