This morning, I want to take a moment to bless pleasant dreams and undisturbed sleep. I have always dreamed vividly, playing out elaborate fantasies through the night. There’s a dream about red and blue kingdoms I had when I was nine I still remember (and a coincidental precursor to my adult obsession with all things red and blue).
Writing Update: Setting Deadlines
Writing Update Tuesday! This week I’ve spent the bulk of my writing efforts transferring my story from google docs to Scrivener and organizing scenes and […]
No Such Thing As Guilty Pleasures
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. The phrase means that you should feel bad or ashamed for deriving joy from something that brings you joy. Bizarre. People throw it around when they talk about reality TV or eating chocolate. I find pleasure in a lot of things that would fall into this category, mainly tropey fanfiction.
A Letter to Sunday Morning Rainstorms
My favorite way to wake up is to thunder in the early hours. Rain patters on the bedroom window on a Sunday morning. I have […]
Cheating, A Little, But Still
I have a confession to make, I’ve been skipping my morning gym time. Now I’ve been substituting it with a modified weight routine at home and have kept up my evening exercise classes. It’s been over two months since I haven’t gotten at least 10,000 steps in a day.
An Anxiety of Loving Fictional Things
On the way back from my friends’ weekend, on Tuesday morning, while I was on my flight to Austin, Avengers: Endgame tickets went on sale. […]
How Are You? Really?
My friends and I have gotten in the habit of intentional “how are you doing?” check-ins.
50 Books
I’ve read 50 books so far this year. 30 were physical books; 20 I listened to the audio versions. I haven’t read at this pace since high school (though really all I’ve done is replace fanfiction hours with published works). A few books have been bad, most of them average and entertaining, a few amazing.
Writing Update: New Tools
Writing Update Tuesday. Spending the last few days in a cabin in the woods sent my friends and me down a myriad of rabbit hole topics. As one of these friends, Lin, is also my writing accountability partner we also talked a lot about writing, our writing, others writing, publishing, and the works.
One Version of Someday
More advice from my father: it’s better to make a plan and deviate from it than to have no plan at all.