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Daily life: Final days of this season's research

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( Background to my entries )

( Simplicity: Internet time this month )

( Simplicity and Writing: Gathering and burying nuts for the winter; plus, Eastern Shore memories )

( Home: Money )

( Mentoring: Lunch with a slave )

( Simplicity: My ideal wardrobe )

( Simplicity: Scanning my winter reading )

( Writing: Prison City research - countdown to the finish )

( Writing: Prison City research - almost finished with the Chesapeake research )

( Mentoring: My apprentice's health )

( Mentoring: An exchange between me and my apprentice )

Life of Simplicity: My 2008-2009 Resolutions, Part 3/4

( Third Priority Resolutions: Stuff Taking Up a Lot of Space )

Writing life: Prison City research trip to Rock Hall and Dorchester County

On September 11, Doug and I visited Rock Hall in Kent County, just north of Tilghman Island on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It's an old watermen's community, and though the watermen have nearly been squeezed out, there are a couple of museums there that have watermen's devices. Then, two days later, we took a return trip to Dorchester County - in particular, to Hoopers Island.

( Rock Hall )

( Interlude in Lewes, Delaware )

( Hoopers Island )

( Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge )

I'd love to go back to Hoopers Island in late October, which is when my character walks across the upper island - I'd like to know what wildlife is out, and how much bird noise occurs then. (Dorchester County is part of the Atlantic Flyway for migrating birds.) But that would be pressing Doug's patience, so I'm going to have to use my imagination to fill in the gaps.

Now I just have to convince him to take that much-delayed trip to Southern Maryland. "We just got back from Hoopers Island!" he said when I tentatively pointed out on Wednesday that I had only ten days left before the research portion of my year ended.

Annual fiction roundup: 2008-9 stories

Here's a full list of the stories I've posted/reposted/published in the past year. As the boilerplate warning for all my stories puts it, "All of the stories feature love or respect, though sometimes it takes a while to get there."

With one exception (marked below), all of these stories are available free online. If you'd like to buy an HTML e-book containing all of my writings as of April 2009 (700,000 words of fiction and 28 collections of fiction recommendations and nonfiction), visit Love in Dark Settings Omnibus. If there are any topics you prefer not to read about, be sure to read the warnings.

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