I won’t be doing a year-end recap. I don’t particularly enjoy spewing negativity into the world and can’t put a positive spin on another terrible year in a long line of terrible years[efn_note]I think this is year seven of this particularly grim phase. If we blame it on Saturn’s quarter cycle, we can say there
Between a workshop I’m running anonymously for a writer who doesn’t write, Reddit writing subs, and a nepotism hire at my soulless corporate writing gig, I’m being besieged from all sides by mistreatment of supporting characters. I’m doing what I can to address specific abuses, but I’ll collect my general thoughts on the subject here.
Sold two lamps, my signed hardback book collection, and a set of dishes, convinced people to prepay for their holiday baking, and am living without frivolities such as dental floss and medication for the foreseeable future. Added to the few dollars I was saving up for Not This, I was able to scrape together enough
A couple months ago, I made a double batch of orange cinnamon rolls, wrapped up one pan, and threw it in the freezer. I took it out to thaw today because I’ve earned no-effort sugar and gluten. That’s right, kiddies. This round of revision is done! 🥳 *arthritic twerking*
I missed the first 20 minutes of John Wick 2 the only time I had an opportunity to watch it and had no idea what it was supposed to be about, so I headcanoned that Keanu was at odds with Common for being unworthy of Queen Latifah in a different movie.[efn_note]Just Wright. (Also currently on
Look, I worked in healthcare for 20 years. I have a body of knowledge and first-hand anecdotes that are terrifying before applying imagination. This is incredibly useful for maintaining my social obligations at a tolerable level.
I bought a dozen composition notebooks in different colors for Project Notebooks rather than my habitual Compost Heap of Ideas, which eventually requires a full day to organize before it reaches critical mass. I cleaned my “desk” (the dining room table), which involved organizing and culling the latest Compost Heap of Ideas, kept a scratch
I ordered myself a $50 treat (a year’s supply of tea) with my “sorry we got caught ripping you off for years, here’s a sliver of your money back” class action settlement. It was delivered somewhere else, which I know because I was doing yardwork that whole day, had my eye out for the truck
A Duolingo lesson was suspiciously insistent that rabbits aren’t dangerous, to which I forcefully responded, “Only rabbits can eat you!” When I googled that to see where it came from, there were ZERO results on the entire wide worldly web—not a near match, not a did-you-mean, nothing. I’m wondering if it was a pre-internet garage
I am having a saga surrounding a publishing project unrelated to this one. The store I expected to be delayed because my account wasn’t approved until 2 days after I’d uploaded everywhere else had the book live 2 hours after I was able to log in[efn_note]And an hour of that was me having to reformat