Stephanie A. Cain

Snarky, independent women, queer characters, and found families on irreverent but hopeful journeys through vividly-drawn magical worlds
 
Stephanie A. Cain

Poema

This is a poem that was printed and left behind by a patron.  I like it, so I present it here for you.  Um. It’s in Spanish.  So hopefully some of you can appreciate it anyway. Poema Moises Villavicencio Barras I. La tarde colores de vuelo entra en nuestra tumba. …

Gales of November

The storm last night was incredible. It knocked our power out just a few minutes after I made my NaNo post, and the power stayed out until about 7:30 this morning. In fact the winds were so strong that Mom insisted I stay downstairs until the worst was over. This …

NaNo Day 4

Total WC: 4119 Today’s: 1341 4,119 / 85,000 (4.8%) This scene was stubborn.  What happened was…unexpected.  Thanks to slightlyjillian for encouragement and keeping me awake. Oh, yeah, and I used the Dictionary.com word of the day in this scene. Go me.

NaNo Procrastination techniques

My number one procrastination technique for anything is cleaning up my desk.  I did that already.  Last night I went through iTunes and deleted every song name that had been disconnected from the file. Because OMG I HAD TO DO IT RIGHT THEN OR THE WORLD WOULD EXPLODE!!!  Tonight I …