Do you have a word you use as a stand-in, like “blah blah blah” but for writing instead of speaking? In computer science, people often use “foo” and “bar” but I’m not a big fan of those because there’s no natural way of distinguishing them from each other. At some point in the past couple months I have started exclusively using “horse” and “cow” for this purpose. So you can be certain that at some point the following stories were titled something like “horse cow horse” before I got around to titling them properly.

1. The Brass Nerve, Part 3
2. The Brass Nerve, Part 4
3. Appendix C
4. Value

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My schedule shifted pretty significantly this month, from writing mid-week to almost exclusively on Saturdays. I think this is mainly because it feels strange to come home from programming all day just to start doing more typing. It seems the stories are longer when I write them on days off, which led to my first multi-part story. I leave it to the reader to decide whether this is a good thing.

1. The Merge
2. Jon Met a Tabby
3. The Brass Nerve, Part 1
4. The Brass Nerve, Part 2

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