A.B. Channing

❖ “I have rarely come so close to actually, physically dropping what I’m doing as when Ruka reappears from the open water around the island of the yellow fish.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, Sar and Makeba meet face to face for the very first time. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481295119-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022 
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, the teams’ relationship with Sanigon Inc. has graduated to corporate espionage—in both directions.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/31-alex-122318310 
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: The northern lights are caused by charged particles hitting earth’s atmosphere, and they generate power. Lots of it. Over 1 trillion watts on a single auroral display, in some cases. We can’t harvest it, though; it’s too thinly spread out.

❖ “This isn’t just about gathering a thousand Kels. It’s grown far past that. But he keeps falling back on the number.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, Ande and Taiki leave the past in the past for the first time since shortly after Ande wound up in the water. It’s only uphill from here… right?
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481295010-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile on Rocks Can Dance, what Yahvi thought was a minor rock moth mystery deepens dramatically. 
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/30-yahvi-121775287
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are so large, their gravity may condense hydrogen gas into metallic form at their centers.

❖ “I talked to Yaz and Finika before leaving,” Taiki signs, proving in as many words that there’s far more to the story than I’ve been aware of. ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, Ande and Taiki finally get a chance to talk again. The result? Unexpected.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481294777-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ No Rocks Can Dance chapter this week—I’ve hit an edit hurdle in the next chapter that might take a couple days to work through. Updates will resume next Friday.
          
          ❖ Looking over my own schedule and the prompts for this year's Open Novella Contest (ONC), it looks like I won't be joining this time around. Not the official contest, at least. There's a chance I'll steal a couple prompts and write a novella offline to be posted on Patreon, but I'm trying not to commit to anything. Best of luck to those participating!
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: The yellow-bellied sea snake is adapted to complete its entire life cycle out at sea.

❖ “If Taiki wants to talk to me alone, this could either go well or very badly.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, a private chat and a power handover set the stage for a proper second branch of the Sing to the Moon alliance—and with it, another major step towards the alliance’s ultimate goal.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481294828-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, a private chat has Tobias questioning his choice of living arrangement.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/29-tobias-120904502
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: Neptune and Uranus’s blue color comes from a layer of methane in their atmospheres, which absorbs red color from the sun's light.

❖ “When you have a moment,” says Ruka, “I owe you an apology.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, the island of the yellow fish accepts its first major wave of new arrivals.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481294646-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022 
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, a breakthrough in the lab sets the teams’ biological study on a new and promising path.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/28-tobias-120296617 
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. And, in fact, at the center of almost every large galaxy in the universe that we have observed so far.

❖ “A huge shape flinches away from the island-side. I don't want to know if that one was sneaking up on us.” ❖ 
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, the clearing of the island of the yellow fish begins. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481294718-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, a scroll through correspondence between Sanigon and the Jenu government deepens the mystery of the two’s involvement.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/27-lingmei-119858273
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: The total mass of all astroids in the solar system combined is only 3% that of Earth's Moon.

❖ “There are three heartbeats of silence, then the entire room breaks out in a roar.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! Sorry for the posting delay this week; I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, the fallout of the news in Underfarrow begins.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481294596-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022 
          
          ❖ Ever wondered what my life looks like behind the screen? I’ve just relaunched my long-paused authorial Q&A for free on Patreon! Answers will post monthly, and the first one is already up. It addresses the single most common question I’ve ever received about my writing: “How the #$%& class="on-user-mention" href="/user/!">@! do you write so fast?”
          
          Read the Q&A overview (or submit a question!): https://www.patreon.com/posts/118799169 
          Read the first answer: https://www.patreon.com/posts/q1-how-do-you-so-118800057 
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: The ocean-dwelling box jelly holds the prize for the most venomous animal on earth.

Hey, sorry that I’m messaging on your message board again, but I had a question.
          
          I’m trying to write my own book currently, but I just feel like I’m not doing something right. I’ll write scenes, but even with a couple scenes per chapter, one chapter is only reaching four-five pages. Is that normal for a YA book?
          
          My draft isn’t finished yet (I’m only up to writing chapter 6) but it’s still making me nervous, I guess? It’s supposed to be a YA fantasy book (recommended 14 and up) so I don’t know if I need to add any more detail or anything.
          
          Apologies again ToT

❖ Yaz rolls her eyes. “That’s the one I warned you all about. Whoever was listening. He’s friendly.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, Taiki returns to Underfarrow to deliver a message that could do irreparable damage to the fort.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481294545-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, Yahvi gets very called out by someone on her team about a topic she would very much rather avoid.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/25-yahvi-118789578
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: Pluto’s main moon (Charon) is so big, the two should technically be considered a “double planet,” or binary dwarf planet system.

❖ "Thank you all for being here," I sign, and my hands shake a little because that emotion is genuine, and I'm already so, so glad I'm doing this. ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, Ande puts a group together for a specific purpose, and finds more support than anticipated.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481294503-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, a team meeting delivers bad news from the Jenu planetary government and Lingmei’s investigation project alike.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/24-lingmei-118381398 
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: Uranus’s axis of rotation is tilted by 98 degrees—it rolls around its orbit instead of spinning like a top. Why? It likely got hit by something very large a very long time ago.