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October 15, 2017
My Bullet Journal presentation from the 2017 Moonlight & Magnolias -- part 1
Hi, all! I did my presentation on Bullet Journals at this year's Moonlight & Magnolias (thanks very much to Ryder Carroll for permission) and it went over really well!
Several GRW members who were unable to attend expressed an interest in learning more about Bullet Journals, so I'll be blogging my presentation over the next few weeks. Welcome to part one of "Bullet Journals: Getting Control of Your Life and Your Writing with B. Snow."
follow along with the handy-dandy outline
First off, the...
Several GRW members who were unable to attend expressed an interest in learning more about Bullet Journals, so I'll be blogging my presentation over the next few weeks. Welcome to part one of "Bullet Journals: Getting Control of Your Life and Your Writing with B. Snow."
follow along with the handy-dandy outlineFirst off, the...
September 24, 2017
Bullet Journal: habit tracker tries and fails
I finally did something I should have done a long time ago: allot time to my Dailies page.
"Dailies" is what I call my habit tracker. I've seen beautifully colored habit trackers on other people's BuJo blogs and wanted to have that, so I created a version that fits in my journal.
The try: create a habit tracker in my journal.
The success: fitting two weeks of habits onto a page of the journal.
The fail: not getting my colored pens/pencils so I end up with a bunch of one-color boxes (and a bunch o...
"Dailies" is what I call my habit tracker. I've seen beautifully colored habit trackers on other people's BuJo blogs and wanted to have that, so I created a version that fits in my journal.
The try: create a habit tracker in my journal.
The success: fitting two weeks of habits onto a page of the journal.
The fail: not getting my colored pens/pencils so I end up with a bunch of one-color boxes (and a bunch o...
January 26, 2016
Piper and Xara's Project Fierce Chicago story
Project Fierce Chicago was released about a year and a half ago. Plenty of time to read all the stories in it, right?
Not if you're a master procrastinator.
Anyway, I'm FINALLY getting around to reading Piper Vaughn and Xara X. Xanakas' story "Finding Home". They've painted their homeless character so realistically, with all the little details we don't think about when we have a home, or even just a place of residence. It's giving me slightly traumatic flashbacks to writing my own Project Fierc...
Not if you're a master procrastinator.
Anyway, I'm FINALLY getting around to reading Piper Vaughn and Xara X. Xanakas' story "Finding Home". They've painted their homeless character so realistically, with all the little details we don't think about when we have a home, or even just a place of residence. It's giving me slightly traumatic flashbacks to writing my own Project Fierc...
November 22, 2015
In search of concentration, and the Zeigarnik Effect
I heard about the Zeigarnik Effect for the first time today, from an article about earworms.
"In psychology, the Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks....The Zeigarnik effect suggests that students who suspend their study, during which they do unrelated activities (such as studying unrelated subjects or playing games), will remember material better than students who complete study sessions without a break." (from Wikipedi...
"In psychology, the Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks....The Zeigarnik effect suggests that students who suspend their study, during which they do unrelated activities (such as studying unrelated subjects or playing games), will remember material better than students who complete study sessions without a break." (from Wikipedi...
August 19, 2015
The Atlanta Beltline
A fantastic article on the Atlanta Beltline and the positve changes it has already made to the city. Scroll to read.
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afterJuly 30, 2015
rant: why would anyone kill a lion that wasn't attacking them?
Just now catching up on the news, specifically, about Cecil the lion. If you're as upset about it as I am now, just skip this post.
Oddly enough, since I became a vegetarian, I am LESS opposed to legal hunting of deer, for example, because at least the animal probably had a good life in the wild before being killed (fairly quickly by a bullet and not a pack of wolves or coyotes) vs. animals living their whole lives in horrible conditions in some factory farms.
But WTF, man. What kind of p...
Oddly enough, since I became a vegetarian, I am LESS opposed to legal hunting of deer, for example, because at least the animal probably had a good life in the wild before being killed (fairly quickly by a bullet and not a pack of wolves or coyotes) vs. animals living their whole lives in horrible conditions in some factory farms.
But WTF, man. What kind of p...
July 22, 2015
Emily's Magical Bejeweled Codpiece
Thank you to the bloggers who have let me promote my new book at their blogs when I can't even remember to update my own blog..... >.<
Emily's Magical Bejeweled Codpiece came out on June 24, when I was out of the country. That seems to keep happening....
The story is a short novella, about 16,000 words, contemporary and time travel and general crackfic, but it is also my ode to odor. I will do a blog post about that shortly.
The story is about Tom, who is kind of a jerk and wants what he c...
Emily's Magical Bejeweled Codpiece came out on June 24, when I was out of the country. That seems to keep happening....
The story is a short novella, about 16,000 words, contemporary and time travel and general crackfic, but it is also my ode to odor. I will do a blog post about that shortly.
The story is about Tom, who is kind of a jerk and wants what he c...
July 10, 2015
a thought on Obergefell decision holdouts in KY, AL and elsewhere
I'm so impressed with all those counties where the clerks are refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because of the clerks' religious beliefs. Just think about it -- up until now, absolutely no sinners have requested marriage licenses there. It must have been paradise.
May 23, 2015
How I understand RFRAs (Religious Freedom Restoration Acts)
I started writing this post when lots of states were trying to pass Religious Freedom Restoration Acts. Then Indiana got smacked down and the issue seemed to go away...for awhile. It's back, in Louisiana, so I'm dusting off this blog post. Yet another chance to offend readers, yay.....
Proponents of RFRAs use the example of a kosher deli being required to sell a ham sandwich. This example is not accurate.
Kosher delis don't sell ham sandwiches. To ANYONE. And if they DID sell a ham sandwich to...
Proponents of RFRAs use the example of a kosher deli being required to sell a ham sandwich. This example is not accurate.
Kosher delis don't sell ham sandwiches. To ANYONE. And if they DID sell a ham sandwich to...
How I understand Religious Freedom Restoration Acts
I started writing this post when lots of states were trying to pass Religious Freedom Restoration Acts. Then Indiana got smacked down and the issue seemed to go away...for awhile. It's back, in Louisiana, so I'm dusting off this blog post. Yet another chance to offend readers, yay.....
Proponents of RFRAs use the example of a kosher deli being required to sell a ham sandwich. This example is not accurate.
Kosher delis don't sell ham sandwiches. To ANYONE. And if they DID sell a ham sandwich to...
Proponents of RFRAs use the example of a kosher deli being required to sell a ham sandwich. This example is not accurate.
Kosher delis don't sell ham sandwiches. To ANYONE. And if they DID sell a ham sandwich to...
