#cherry wilder

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

have you read The Nearest Fire, by Cherry Wilder (1980)?

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Voting ended onAug 24, 2024

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[hedgehogreads]

“Remember this,” he says, “you stuck it out the longest.”

“Do you mean I knew you best?”

“Possibly.”

 - Cherry Wilder, “Dreamwood”, from Isaac Asimov’s Cyberdreams

[forsoothsayer]

Legend by Cherry Wilder

Far in the north a maiden lies, Deep in the ice her flesh like pearl Burns through the still blue crevices, Binding the brittle region round With hidden warmth.

She lies asleep, And all the waste bends o'er head. Crusted with rime the frozen trees Lean down their boughs. The tortured stone Heaves up the weight of ice and snow, While gelid waters underground Pulse through the night without a sound.

But twice within a thousand years The link-mailed feet of paladins Rang through those caves of singing stone, The crisp snow churned about their heels, Their nimble blades chipped at the ice, With no man bold to speak a word, Only the ringing metal cried, Splintered upon the air and died. Then whiteness filled their purblind eyes, And out they stumbled, half-alive, The jealous waste caught at their breath, Rolled in the mighty gusts of cold, Leaving the desert to its love.

So let this endless time conspire To fold my love in its embrace.

[microtext]

Something Coming Through by Cherry Wilder

Artist: J. Michaels Interzone, #6, Winter 1983/84.

[burtfurnace]

Millennial Women ©1978

[thereeness]

Internship Stuff

So I officially did a thing for my internship: http://jimfrenkel.wix.com/james-frenkel-assoc#!Welcome-to-the-Chameln/crdc/564cc9b60cf2780ba4450fd5

I wrote a blog post!  This one is about A Princess of the Chameln, which was released in e-book for the first time on November 17th.  It’s the first of the Rulers of Hylor trilogy and this post contains my feelings towards the characterization of women in the book.

I’ll be writing more, but in the future :D  Still excited that I did a thing!

[thereeness]

More Writing/Internship Stuff

Well, first off: the re-release of Cherry Wilder’s book, A Princess of the Chameln is less than 2 weeks away!  At my internship office, we’re working hard, digging through the bowels of the internet, to find bloggers and people to read and review Cherry’s book.  Jim’s still editing my blog post about the book (which I admit is a good thing since I’m not the best when it comes to first drafts) and I can’t wait to get it up here.  There’s a lot more to releasing a book than I thought.  All of this advertising and generating buzz, it’s intense.  But it’s giving me a good look into marketing/promotion/etc in case I ever decide to go the self-publishing route.  We’ll see.

Also, Pillars is nearing completion!  I’ve only got about 6.6 chapters left to write, but my deadline is the 15th!  Granted, I do have some wiggle room, but I want to make this deadline.  It’ll be a great test to see if I can do it in the future when it comes to my writing.  Also, Professor Kuka gave me some REALLY EPIC advice on how to re-write a scene that just wasn’t flowing right and now I’m super stoked to do so.  It’s seriously like something out of a horror movie, I’m so excited, cause I’ve never written anything even remotely close to horror or anything like that so this’ll be a good test.

Hopefully once Pillars is done, I can start futzing with some artwork.  Reference images and the like.  Maybe finally finish that map.

First I have to get through my Japanese test this Friday.  *Cue screeching*

[thebigapplerp]

Accepted!

Congratulations, May! Your OC (Cherry Wilder) has been accepted. Please send in her link! We look forward to having you with us!

Name: May Time Zone: EST Activity: Will check in once per day. Notes: As discussed, I come in a pair with the lovely Missy Peregrym FC who will also be submitting tonight.

↳ Cherry Wilder → 25 → UFC Fighter → Troian Bellisario

Cherry was born in Whitestone, Queens, in a borough of New York City, constantly surrounded and reminded of all that life could offer. She has a little sister, Halley, who means the world to her. Though both of her parents were successful and busy, they both made time for Cherry. Her mother was a very accomplished woman who held a PhD in forensic psychology as well as a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a world champion of the sport even after giving birth to Cherry. As a girl, Cherry didn’t participate in BJJ initially; instead, she was encouraged to do whatever she wanted to do, both of her parents instilling in her the belief that she would do something extraordinary. Oddly, Cherry chose ballet, and her businessman father was a constant in her life, helping her along, taking her from classes to recitals and so forth, where she showed a lot of promise. Unfortunately, Cherry’s father died when she was 13, killed on Wall Street during the September 11th attacks. Cherry had never really faced death before that moment and it changed her life forever. After her father was gone, she felt… lost. She couldn’t bring herself to return to ballet, which had always been something she and her father did together. She did poorly in school, which is something her mother, even then, couldn’t abide: her mother believed in working through grief, not letting it immobilize you. To try and propel Cherry forward, her mother got her going in BJJ classes. It brought Cherry out of her rut, gave her purpose, drive, discipline. It made her feel in control and it changed her life… even in ways her mother could never have seen. Cherry clung to her new passion like it was a lifeline, because partly, it was.

She’d been struggling with depression since her father’s death and her unusual, take-no-shit, in-your-face personality left her isolated and unpopular in high school. Unwilling to play doormat and change who she was so others would like her better, Cherry threw her attention into her training and her schooling. Along the way, she found she really couldn’t tolerate sitting behind a desk. She just did better moving around. It wasn’t that she couldn’t do the work, she just hated the parameters around doing it. Her mother really wanted her to go to college—as did her new stepfather, who worked as a professor of theoretical physics—but Cherry had the sneaking suspicion that wasn’t in her future. It was a hard choice: she knew if she stayed on her mother’s path, she would be supported up through college until she’d be expected to support herself. If she deviated sooner, well, Cherry would be cut off. After her sophomore year of high school, Cherry managed to talk her mother into seeing her reasons for dropping out of school. It broke her mother’s heart, but she agreed on the condition that Cherry be sent to train with her old friend, Leticia Ribiero, a paramount of BJJ who had a school in San Diego. Cherry was absolutely broke for all of her training, waitressing to make bills since she was cut off, but it kept her hungry, kept her trying hard. By 19, she was a black belt, and to become a better striker, she added Muay Thai classes. Eventually, her hard work paid off when she moved back to New York to train with Gotham MMA at 20 for her professional career. Last year, she caught the UFC's attention and was selected to be the first female to sign on in their Atomweight division, becoming the first and reigning Atomweight Champion after beating her competitor in round 3 via TKO.

- Her professional nickname in the cage is "Cherry Bomb." She is famous in sports, having been on the cover of ESPN twice and interviewed on a number of big-name talk shows like Craig Ferguson and the View. 

- Is aware that she is gay, but is firmly closeted; no one knows. She believes being gay won’t fill seats: she has to appear available to the masses, so to the masses, she is straight. She knows that to be the best, it means making some sacrifices.

- She lives in Astoria, has a pitbull puppy named Virginia Woof, and used to drive a Chevy with the paint peeling off until her sponsors made her take a suitably 'cherry red' BMW.