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Ksenia Anske

June 18, 2017

Lessons learned while editing

by Ksenia Anske


Illustration by Chia-Chi Yu

Illustration by Chia-Chi Yu

Illustration by Chia-Chi Yu

Illustration by Chia-Chi Yu

I'm editing the manuscript of my last client right now, as editing proved to me very painful because I'm such a perfectionist. I've been told I'm very good at editing, as good as a pro (which made my jaw drop, because I'm a total rookie), and I made money. I could continue making money editing, but it's not what I want to do. I want to write books and publish books and make money selling books, so I have deleted the editing page from my site, and I have only one client left (and after that zero).

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TAGS: Tags, I have to figure them out, so they're useful, maybe this should be, EDITING, in all caps, How about it?, See, I tried


September 22, 2016

Short story: Mom and Son Battle

by Ksenia Anske


Illustration by Anya Milioutina

Illustration by Anya Milioutina

Illustration by Anya Milioutina

Illustration by Anya Milioutina

We wrote a super-short story with Peter in about 15 minutes. I wrote one sentence, he wrote another. It was a battle of sentences, and the resulting story became a story of a battle in itself. You decide who wrote what. (We shall try to do it more often, it was fun.)

MOM AND SON BATTLE

An epic story by Peter Ustyugov and Ksenia Anske

They wanted to kill each other. To throw each other on a railroad to get smashed by a train and satisfyingly see their guts fall out. But then they decided that would be too messy. So then son decided to go buy a sword. And then mom decided to buy a piranha.

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TAGS: This was hysterical, to write, we laughed so hard, and Anya made an awesome illustration, don't you love it?, See, even when I'm not writing, I can't help but to write, though Peter agreed to it, grudgingly