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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 4-2

5/28/2021

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    Another week down and oh... oh no... only another month and then we're half way though 2021?! I was – apparently – not prepared for time to go so fast this year. (It's not like I'm ever really prepared for how quickly the calendar pages turn, but things seem accelerated right now.)
    Flip side, the acceleration appears to be mostly for good happenings at this moment in time. So... I suppose the feeling of daily lacking hours despite mountains of tasks being completed and mentally riding the line of being overwhelmed by my anxiety monsters is... good? Sort of?
    I know I've told you that we'd purchased a freeze dryer and it was delivered a couple of weeks ago. It had a designated place before arriving, and since then has been happily running almost constantly. However, throughout the past couple of weeks we've been developing labels, designating / setting up house space for working and for product storage (ie: moving furniture and shuffling stuff, which now requires a garage sale once life is less restricted again), making up orders and getting sales, creating a website (freeze dried food! FliedersFoods.ca), and all the other tasks that go along with having an in-home small business (ie: side hustle). While at the same time the kids were online learning. And my husband works full time.
    Shit's been busy, y'all lol.

    With everything else going on, writing seems to just not be a priority. Again. And it sucks so much. The online communities I'm part of prove I'm not the only Independent Author in this predicament right now, and while that does give a solidarity between acquaintances and friends, it doesn't make it easier. The stories are all stuck in my head with no time to let them out, and my hands are barely working at the needed level at this point anyway.
Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
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    Logic dictates now is when I throw in the towel and focus on things other than writing, because all the signs in life are pointing away from publishing. Which is cool and makes logical sense, I guess. For logical people.
    But, friends, I write Science Fiction and Fantasy and snippets of Horror, with Romance twisted into most of it. A lot of my brain lives in magical realms, places where interdimensional travel is mundane, love beating the odds can happen, or traveling between stars is just the daily commute for work. 
    All I'm saying is dreams can change, get delayed, and even get cut short. Doesn't mean we have to believe that's the end of them. Logic is overrated and I've got so many more stories to tell. Abandon all hope because of a few monsters? Nah. May your weekend be good and your time be well spent!

4-2

        A collective whimper shuddered through the crowd of crew members as the deck hummed under their feet. The over distance engines powered up for the usual two second count and then Dockland smoothly transitioned to full speed for inter-stellar travel.

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 4-1

5/21/2021

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    This week has been so busy! I have no update to give. Words in order aren't working in my brain today.
    I guess... writing was a "no" all week. So far it looks like the kids go back to in-person learning next week. The new freeze dryer provides happiness in the form of rescuing fruits and veggies from certain death in the bottom of our fridge and making them into long-term stored tasty snacks. And did I mention the kids go back to in-person learning next week?! We've also been freeze drying candies, and salt water taffy turns into little cotton candy style flavor bursts.
    Oh yeah, and the kids go back to in-person learning next week. :D I hope you get to have a good weekend!

Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
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4-1

        “There would have been no way to pass a commissioning inspection with weapon panels, though,” Leo said quietly.

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 3-5

5/14/2021

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    Another week of unexpected online learning complete! Hopefully next week is the final online week, and then back to in-person to close out the year. That all depends on if the general population can get this current spike under control... and so far people in our province haven't shown that overall level of social consciousness. (Most people here really are trying to mind the needed restrictions. Unfortunately, "most" isn't enough lately.)
    Springtime is super hard to stay focused on school under the best conditions, and at home with a backyard beckoning and the sun pouring through the windows is definitely not best conditions lol. It'll likely be harder next week once the kids are free of quarantine restrictions from being close contacts and we're able to go for walks and bike rides again. Friends, I am not strong enough to resist skipping an afternoon class session in favor of taking a bag of spinach over to the duck pond to bribe fuzzy ducklings closer. I remember Springtime in elementary school and, if I'd had the choice, the duck pond would have been my choice, too.
    No writing this week for me, but I did get to edit a little bit of the writing my kids are doing. It's very cool to see voice so strongly developed in my 9-year-old's writing, especially because her style is very consistent across her research projects and creative writing. She knows what she wants to say and the presentation is lovely to read. (Yes, of course there's parental bias, but her teachers praise her as well so I'm going to mom-brag a little.)
    As for my 6-year-old, she 100% understood her research project's instruction that adults are there to help but kids are the ones researching and writing. Her budding sentence structure and developing vocabulary already give peeks at the voice which will shine through soon, and I rather adore how succinctly I've been told "Mom, this is my project" both times she felt I overstepped the 'helping' line. (I now know the 'helping' line is to answer the very specific thing she's asked me, with zero further explanation unless a follow up question is asked. I stay on my side of the line easily now.) I'm definitely looking forward to what else she plans to say in her project, because so far she's been putting together some darn good sentences.
    If you were celebrating this week, I hope your Eid was a happy one. Happy Friday and happy weekend reading! 

Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
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3-5

        “Oh, hey, look at this,” Trevor called, grinning at Leo and pointing at the panel she’d just turned on. He came over for a quick glance on his way back to the handheld and stopped to stare.

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 3-4

5/7/2021

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    This week I've been sick (negative result on my covid test), my youngest got the extremely mild version of whatever knocked me on my butt for three days, and both kids started off the week home from school. My oldest was in online learning due to a close contact in her classroom (her covid test was negative), and I kept my youngest home because she's a snuggler; if one of us gets sick the other will too.
    Our school closed early due to a flood of confirmed covid cases. The province planned to close all schools starting today, but we closed Wednesday night. Now the kids are online learning at least until the last week of May.
    Hopefully the latest provincial restrictions are enough to ge
t cases under control... but it seems like so many people are being irresponsible as warmer weather rolls in. The numbers here in Alberta are not good.
Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
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    No writing for me this week, but lots of bleach-filled house cleaning planned for my today lol. With an added hope of making time for my physio exercises... I have no idea if my arms are going to hold out for the cleaning I need to do or if I'll have to break it out piecemeal over the weekend. (Because scrubbing bathrooms and extra laundry are super-fun day off activities, said no-one ever lol.)
    I hope your week was less hectic and tiring than mine, and that you get to have a very lovely May weekend. :) 

3-4

        “I’m just making sure you remember,” Captain said, a grin pulling up the corner of her mouth.
        “Oh please, Tallishen.” The image of the reports flicked away and Public Face’s holo was again standing in Captain’s private. “Do you really think it was a coincidence Dockland, with its antiquated and incorruptible connections to functioning pre-InsterStel satellites, was included in the exploration group for Daion worlds?”

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