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R.S.A. Garcia

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R.S.A. is a Nebula Award winning writer of speculative fiction. She is also the winner of the Machine Intelligence Foundation for Rights and Ethics' 2023 Media Award, and a Sturgeon, Locus, Ignyte and Eugie Foster Award finalist.

Her Amazon Bestselling science fiction mystery, Lex Talionis, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and the Silver Medal for Best Scifi/Fantasy/Horror Ebook from the Independent Publishers Awards (2015).

She has published short fiction in venues such as Clarkesworld Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons and Internazionale Magazine. Her stories have been long-listed for the British Science Fiction Awards, translated into several languages, and included in a number of anthologies, includ
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R.S.A. Garcia I chip at it with a chisel until it goes away.

Okay, seriously? I let myself rest for a while. A block for me is an indication my brain wants some pla…more
I chip at it with a chisel until it goes away.

Okay, seriously? I let myself rest for a while. A block for me is an indication my brain wants some planning time. The hard part is getting restarted, but I try as much as possible to set a 'get back to work' date and stick to it. Nowadays, I tell myself I'll do three lines and that's it.

You can do three lines, regardless of block, right?

She came. She saw. She conquered.

See? Three lines. Sometimes I can only manage that. But most times I end up breaking the block--because once you start, it's hard to stop--and I actually write more than the three lines.

Or I'll spend the time re-writing them so they have more than six words and something to to do with the actual story I'm writing. Whichever way you go, you've written and you've broken your block and you're now free to booze up on the bottle of wine you have chilling in the fridge.

And if you do have an actual bottle in the fridge, feel free send me a virtual glass. This breaking up blocks thing is thirsty work.(less)
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“Death is the breath between one Life and the Next.
—Message of the Will
Book of the Seven Holies
Ancient Dak Scripture”
R.S.A. Garcia, Lex Talionis

“He wanted to be inside, away from the possibility of social contact. He was not entirely comfortable out here. Getting too close to the everyday dance of the world overloaded his acute senses in a way that he could not explain to anyone. So he did not try. He simply kept to himself and lived his life in a way that would ease his discomfort as much as possible. He no longer cared what others thought of his ways; the few friends he had understood him. Everything else was unimportant. Except his job. The one thing he could excel at just by being himself.”
R.S.A. Garcia, Lex Talionis

“Violence begets violence and every Harvest delivers more death to the Harvested.

- The Anchorite Wakes, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143”
R.S.A. Garcia, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143, August 2018

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