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February 13, 2023 / Courtney / Creativity

oh BY THE WAY…i got the book pubbed

And would you believe, I’ve been too busy with the next one to post about the one I spent almost all the second half of 2022 on? That was an absolutely terrible sentence, and as a writer, I should know better. But I don’t care. I GOT THE BOOK DONE. After a title change. HA …

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December 1, 2022 / Courtney / Creativity

of scends and triads

That’s it. That’s the title. A “scend” is the surge created by a wave, which is doubly fun because this novel is set in a landlocked country. *laughs in maniacal confused* As you might already know, my current project is to take my first two Light-Walker novels, Rethana’s Surrender and Rethana’s Trial, and squoosh them …

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November 21, 2022 / Courtney / Writing

i keep saying i want to blog, but do i really?

For what I want to do, I do not do…. That’s an incomplete and out-of-context quote from a 1st-century Roman Jew named Paulus. But it fits. At the very least, it speaks to an insolvable aspect of the human condition. We so often know what good we need to do but can’t get ourselves to …

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September 25, 2022 / Courtney / Writing

status update

BRIEF: finished my Breakfast Club meets Magicians novel first draft. Clocked in at just under 50k words, which makes it more of a novella. Next draft will likely push it into novel territory, but that’s at least 6 months away while I do other stuff. OTHER STUFF: I’ve always regretted splitting Rethana’s story into two …

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August 11, 2022 / Courtney / Creativity

the one where i got a tattoo

There was a time when I loathed tattoos. This was when I was still my fearful child self, my anxiety-ridden teen self, and my superconfused young adult self. Anything different was terrifying. I know. Welcome To Humanness, right? People with tattoos intimidated the shit out of me. Remember, this was Germany in the ’80s and …

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August 5, 2022 / Courtney / Writing

writing update

A BRIEF UPDATE Remember that shiny sparkly new story I did prewriting for last week? Well, that turned into writing a shiny sparkly new story. The working title is THE PERSET PACK, in which “perset” means “breakfast.” Set in my Light-Walkers universe, the story is: THE BREAKFAST CLUB (minus the misogyny and homophobia of that …

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July 28, 2022 / Courtney / Writing

i’m a crow

Okay, so remember when I said a couple weeks back that I’m sitting on four (4) novel-length works (3 novels and 1 short story collection) that each need a relatively small amount of work before going out into the world? It would behoove me to pick one of those and finish it and get it …

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July 15, 2022 / Courtney / Writing

when last we left our writer…

Okay, so it’s currently a quarter to midnight, and I have to get up early in the morning to ride a horse. No, that’s not a euphemism. You sickos. Anyway, before I sleep, I want to say a brief thing about my WIPs. A BRIEF THING ABOUT MY WIPS: Author extraordinaire and all-around good human …

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May 18, 2021 / Courtney / Creativity

pandemics make poor fodder for 42: a brief history of All The Things since March 2020

When I last left this blog, I was in the middle of Atheism for Lent, bleeding my thoughts onto the digital page as I processed everything I was reading, watching, listening to. I remember feeling as though I were in a good place in life. My writing was going well; we had recently gotten our …

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March 7, 2020 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day ten: how the gods grow

DAY TEN’s material comes from Lectures of Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, Vol. 2. Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) was a political leader, orator, and Civil War veteran known as “the Great Agnostic.” Ingersoll contends that priests invented “blasphemy,” which (in my understanding) he defines as “the belief and statement that God doesn’t exist.” In today’s selection from …

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Courtney Cantrell writes fantasy and sci-fi, reads all manner of books, has lost all ability to watch regular network TV, and possesses vorpal unicorn morphing powers. She is made mostly of coffee and chocolate.

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