As I mentioned last week, I signed up for a subscription box called ArtSnacks, which sends you some art supplies (and a snack) every month. Art supplies are horrible and addicting, so here we are. Anyway. My plan is to
There is Not Enough Time in the World
Earlier in the year, we talked about how there was Too Much Free Stuff. How companies stuck all sorts of things online for us poor quarantined people, and how so many of them seemed like good opportunities, and how hard
Ignorance IS Bliss
Last night I finished reading my July writing book, called How to Write a Page Turner: Craft a Story Your Readers Can’t Put Down by Jordan Rosenfeld. It was one of those books that delivers a ton of information, way
Characters, Characters, and Not a Drop to Drink
We continue working through the dreaded middle of the changeling story. And it goes okay! Not amazingly, not like the words are pouring out of my fingers, but not where I’m staring at the screen wondering what I’m doing with
We’re Back and it’s the End of the Month
Oh, hey, we’re back in our house, and we’ve put most of the furniture back, so, you know, progress. Also, all the houseplants got stuck in the office while the ceiling/walls were being redone, and I kind of like it.
Stupid June (and Butterfly Update)
Well, squiders, yesterday morning, the other butterfly hatched. And it did exactly what you would expect it to–it climbed all the way out of its cocoon, hung there with its wings nice and straight until they dried out, and has
What Happened to June?
Other than giving everybody whiplash and churning out new things every three seconds. I mean, we’re a week out from the end of the month, and I’m not even sure what I’ve done for the past few weeks. Not writing,
Stupid Middles
Well, squiders, if you’d asked me yesterday, I would have said my changeling story was going great! I figured out a potential title, writing was going good, I’d gotten my main characters into the same place. Things were lovely. Today
2020 is Lasting Forever and Yet…
…and yet, nothing is getting done. Well, not nothing. But I think it feels like nothing, for a lot of people, because of the distortion in how time is passing. Since it feels like a hugely long time period, it
Cycles of Creativity
I realized last week that at some point in the recent past I’d entered a new phase of my creative life. Also, I realized that I had phases. So that was a thing. I’ve been writing for most of my
