I don't want to jinx it, but these have been some hella productive days, and I think I know what I owe it to: reading. I'm more inspired than ever to finish Vacancy, and it's got to be because I'm into someone else's book right now. The genre is totally different than what I'm writing,… Continue reading Productive Days
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I’ve Got A New Idol
I'm embarrassed to say I have only just read my first book by Diana Wynne Jones. First of all, this: Diana Wynne Jones is a genius, a goddess, a fucking gift to this earth, none of us were worthy of her while she was here, and why her name hasn't been on a lot of… Continue reading I’ve Got A New Idol
When Muses Attack
I don't mean to get all pedantic right away, but I've just had a transformative experience. I know nothing happens in a vacuum, and in all fairness I have slowly been making my way through Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic, so it was inevitable I'd start seeing the things I was reading about happen to me… Continue reading When Muses Attack
Character Mood Board – Lorelei Fischer
Lorelei Fischer from The Vacancy Series
Camp NaNoWriMo: 40K Words And The Finish Line Is In Sight
10K Post 20K Post 30K Post As excited as I am about hitting this mark and having less than 10,000 words left to write to meet my NaNo goal, it's become abundantly clear to me that this book will be well over 50k words. That's pretty typical for fantasy quests, and I'm not surprised (in… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo: 40K Words And The Finish Line Is In Sight
Success Is A Fuckboi
I mused on success recently, and while doing so I had a thought. Success is often personified as a woman, fickle and choosy, mysterious and aloof, other feminine words and synonyms, but I don't know about all that. Women are only "mysterious" because when we don't want the thing that men think we should want,… Continue reading Success Is A Fuckboi
The Need To Be Liked
I talked about the freedom of being phone-less recently, and since I've replaced my sad cracked-screen with a much more expensive but narrowly different model, I've been trying to limit my use of it. I could do better (damn you, Hogwarts Mystery!), and admittedly it hurts to drop a few hundred dollars on something just… Continue reading The Need To Be Liked
This OnE WeIrD TrIcK Got My Motivation Back
Ew. I am SO SORRY about that title. That's awful. But it's true, there is one kinda odd thing I started doing maybe a week and a half ago that got me motivated to write more, and I'm going to share that with you now. But seriously, sorry. So I have been on a slow… Continue reading This OnE WeIrD TrIcK Got My Motivation Back
Millennial Motivation
One of the many things that my FitBit does that I love (#notsponsored by the way, as if I needed to clarify) is offers "Sleep Insights." When you look at your sleeping pattern on the app, there's a little box that usually says something generic about getting better sleep or offers an average data point… Continue reading Millennial Motivation
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