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Input Update 4/27/2023

Reading: Walkable City Rules by Jeff Speck Still reading: A Princess of Mars, The City We Became, The Face in the Frost Listening to: Gnoll’s ode to Joe Dever and Gary Chalk’s Lone Wolf RPG Adventure books Also listening to: Know Your Enemy podcast Drinking: French roast coffee

Listening to Starlight

Been listening to a lot of synth from HDK, an Italian record label that specializes in, as they call it, “ambient punk, minimal-synth, dungeon-drone, wartime music and post-nuclear wave.” I’ve written before about how I discovered the dungeon synth genre and then eventually found out that some of the artists have disgusting Nazi/fascist leanings. Not […]

Swamps of Sadness

My husband and I were discussing which movies to watch with our kids for our family movie nights, and I thought it was time to show them some of the old fantasy movies from the 1970s and 80s like Rankin and Bass’s The Hobbit and Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. We both mentioned The Neverending Story, but […]

Killing Silverfish

There’s one on the wall of my office right now. I hate trying to kill these gross insects because they’re so flipping fast when they move, and then when you do kill them, they basically disintegrate into a weird silvery smudge. It’s gliding along the wall, going back and forth, trying to shimmy its way […]

Pretending to be Prolific

Been thinking a lot today about my fears and the critical voice that constantly tries to stop me from writing. I wrote quite a bit in my WNB this morning, trying to figure out what my fears really are and brainstorming ways to combat them. I’ve always admired prolific writers. Ray Bradbury. Neil Gaiman. All […]

Blahs

Kids were sick, so we stayed home and watched a lot of Hilda. I tried to read a couple of books but was too tired and ended up taking a nap. Tried to write in my notebook but only managed a page. Tried to find the will to do something — anything! — but found […]

Early Morning Writer

I’ve been trying to start this habit for AGES. Everyone who works and has kids seems to swear by waking up in the wee hours of the morning and getting their writing done before anyone else is up. They make the sacrifice to go to bed earlier, or simply give up some of their sleep, […]

Input Update 4/20/2023

Reading: A Princess of Mars by Burroughs Also reading: The City We Became by Jemisin Also reading: The Face in the Frost by Bellairs Listening to: The hum of the dehumidifier Drinking: Lemon water

500 Max

I’ve noticed these past few days, as I’ve tried to trust my writing process and get words done for my current work in progress, that after cycling back through the manuscript and adding new words and continuing the story, I can only manage a maximum of approximately 500 words before I stall out. Sometimes I […]

Keeping the Streak Alive

The title of this post is not referring to my blogging challenge. This is only my third (?) day of consecutive blogging, so it’s hardly a streak at this point. The streak I’m referring to is my fiction writing streak. I’m now at 46 consecutive days of writing at least one sentence of fiction every […]