A Possibly Timely Haiku from the Haiku Robot

Haiku2 for akirlu
of a vast right wing conspiracy now she was sitting at the end
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Unexpected Epiphany

I was hunting through files on my USB key this morning, and opened an unfamiliar-sounding one to see what was in it. It's the opening of my beanstalk terrorist story. (The one I started for the "The Sea and the Sky" prompt, for those who were following along in Deathless Pose -- it's meant to be an Analog-style story. Techy and crunchy and based on a technological idea.) I was surprised to discover that it reads well after sitting fallow for so long. Usually things go clunky and awkward when I'm not looking. But no, this hasn't. This is a good story. I should finish it. I think I need to borrow a tame physicist. Pestilence. All my tame scientists have gone on to having careers.

Baseline

The things you find when you're rooting around on your keyfob. For the curious, here's a picture of what our living room looked like back before we bought the house, to get some idea of how far it has come along.

( I'll stick it behind a tag, cause I'm using the bigger size )

On Finding the Right Beta Readers

Largely so that I can find it again later, here's a link to this piece by Elizabeth Moon on how to chose, and how to coach, your feedback readers in order to get more useful feedback. But if you're also a writer who wants to find the right people to provide feedback on their work, I commend it to you. It seems like pretty solid advice.

Pointer thanks to hank.