Lena Brassard

WordWeavers January 2024

I’m not officially on social media, but I do peek at non-civilization-destroying venues from time to time. I see a lot of writer games, of which WordWeavers seems the most fun. Per the official Google Doc: WordWeavers is a writing game on Mastodon created by Branwen OShea and Alina Leonova. The hosts post daily questions […]

The Beauty and Wonder of Coconut

I took a moment this morning to appreciate the beauty and wonder of nature. And then I got down to the beauty and wonder of sweeping/shoveling paths to lessen the chance that the resident elderly people and delivery drivers will break their necks.

WordWeavers December 2023

I’m not officially on social media, but I do peek at non-civilization-destroying venues from time to time. I see a lot of writer games, of which WordWeavers seems the most fun. Per the official Google Doc: WordWeavers is a writing game on Mastodon created by Branwen OShea and Alina Leonova. The hosts post daily questions

KotSQ: Second Revision #25

By the time this posts, Editor Angie will be in possession of a far-too-ugly version of the manuscript. Since my work is nowhere near done, however, the revision update show must go on. In fact, I might do another draft before I even look at her feedback. “I KNOW THAT, I WASN’T FINISHED YET!” is

WordWeavers November 2023

I’m not officially on social media, but I do peek at non-civilization-destroying venues from time to time. I see a lot of writer games, of which WordWeavers seems the most fun. Per the official Google Doc: WordWeavers is a writing game on Mastodon created by Branwen OShea and Alina Leonova. The hosts post daily questions

Cleaning, Rowing, and Beating

Periodic reminder that keyboards with sticking keys, more often than not, need cleaning rather than tossing. I never eat at the keyboard lest I summon the ghost of my sixth grade touch typing teacher, and yet there are definite crumbs in addition to the dust, cat hair, people hair, yarn fibers (so… much… alpaca), bits

KotSQ: Second Revision #24

In this round of revision, we’ve reached the Hate Mail scene, in which people who don’t deserve to die do. I have repeatedly interrogated the necessity of this scene because I know it’s difficult. Intentionally! Can’t trauma-bond without trauma, and this is the trauma the situation provided. It works structurally. I’ve barely altered it since

KotSQ: Second Revision #23

It’s crunch season at my soulless corporate writing gig, so personal revision is proceeding at a creep. Since the last update, the revision has reached the point at which I’d left myself a note that Heroine didn’t have to participate so much in Hero spilling his guts. He wants to tell her. He’s not lying.

WordWeavers October 2023

I’m not officially on social media, but I do peek at non-civilization-destroying venues from time to time. I see a lot of writer games, of which WordWeavers seems the most fun. Per the official Google Doc: WordWeavers is a writing game on Mastodon created by Branwen OShea and Alina Leonova. The hosts post daily questions

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