Right now I find it both helpful and unhelpful to look back over what I can and can’t do. Over the past 6 weeks I’ve had some kind of post viral relapse and my fatigue is becoming unworkable. Project Updates: My Fictional Life With Kids: Last month I finally got it swapped from self […]
Writing
Camp NaNo April 2022
I had plans for Camp NaNo in April. Big plans. I had a 11k romance novel that I was going to rewrite into a cozy mystery. I was reading a cozy mystery series to get a sense of style … and hit a snag. (Yes, of course I decided to rewrite it before I’d […]
May Creative Contemplations
I finally did a ton of overdue blog work. things like publishing posts, adding images to them, scheduling them in my social media tool. I’d let it go for months and felt awful. It was hanging over me. I can’t say it’s satisfying to have it done cos it is kinda boring work but it […]
Ableist Writing Advice
Ableist Writing Advice Writing is something that can be done in many ways. It can be adapted to many different disabilities. So I was (naively?) shocked when I read some ableist writing advice recently. The advice went along the lines of “creativity is hard and moving around physically helped me so therefor everyone […]
Cozy Mystery Conversion Journal 3
Setting brainstorm – one thing I learned from the cozy mystery series I read was that setting felt like a huge part of the narrative. My current thought process is to amalgamate a couple of towns, gives me the convenience of picking and choosing aspects that make the mystery better.
April Creative Contemplations
Project updates: My Fictional Life With Kids: Need to fix up hosting. It’s annoying. Totally Normal Dollhouse: Zero progress since I caught covid. Boo hiss to the plague. This month I was: Reading: All the Cassie Coburn novels. Gaming: Got obsessively into high scores on Mini Metro+ …letting it run for hours to get […]
Cozy Mystery Conversion Journal 2
Cozy Mystery Conversion Journal 2 I accidentally skipped a book in the cozy mystery series I’m reading…. and learned you can see some gaps but it doesn’t matter too much.
March Creative Contemplations
Feeling bundles of frustration and pain flares. Lots of “ugh, life: stuff to deal with. Pain flares, after effects of flood stress even though we didn’t flood. Wondering if I’ll ever have enough energy to juggle a day job and my creative projects and my business projects. Oh yeah, then, after two very successful years […]
Book Conversion
I have a romance series vaguely plotted out. Worked on it a bit during NaNoWriMo 2021. It’s sitting around 11k words. Only I realised I am not interested (which with ADHD means not able, interest driven motivation ftw I guess?) in writing a romance. But I did like what I had so far, and didn’t […]
Tendrils of Sleep
You can feel them long before they strike. Someone was missing, something in your space feels empty, and yet you know it’s lurking close by. You can go frantic looking for them, but nothing happens until you are alone and asleep. You wake up suddenly in terror. You notice the tightness of your […]