Not a bad week, all things considered: around 800 words on a variety of stories, but it’s all fiddly stuff so that represents more work than if it was entirely new stuff.

I’m having the most trouble with “Everything is Compounding”, which is proving to be the devil because I want the ending to be ambiguous. My attempts to fix it render the story too weak; it feels tacked-on, perhaps because it is.

On a side note, I’ve discovered the joys of having Mac OS X’s Speech service read back my text to me. The intonation is often not quite right, and sometimes terrible, but that doesn’t matter too much. It’s still handy for getting a fresh take on what I’ve written.