Finished (my first?) marathon. I'm sore yet feel amazing! For peace

Note to myself: if you write a note to yourself, please write it so you can make sense of it later

@selvibby so hard isn't it

some moods you get out of only by writing something good

goal for next 4 years: to successfully dodge puke-inducing articles about certain people's wardrobes and style

Write a poem using only the day's spelling bee words and articles! pompadour odor a proud dour dodo drama

Northern lights in Lapland, Finland. Pic by my son

I love everything Matthew Salesses says about rethinking popular assumptions about fiction writing can only hope that everyone gets the memo

I commit to never letting my characters sigh or frown

am doing this the thing I've seen some do of posting the same thing on bluesky and here and hating myself for it. I'm just a fence-sitter

more cheesy inspirational thoughts--do a little thing for someone to get out of a spiral? took my dog for a long walk and we both felt better. I guess it's a little selfish--though don't tell

cheesy inspirational thought: sometimes it helps to think about what you have that cannot be taken away

mostly interested in mutual following here, so if I'm not followed back in a few days I assume you're not active and unfollow, because what other reason would you have for not following me

@Gabino_Iglesias Eddie Redmayne's very wooden face in day of the jackal

Please let me know if you are interesting, I mistype often

@authorsudha thanks sudha!

At least no ads -- and tbh I get weird dms on the other place

Do not like the check mark but am tired of screaming into the void -- will it be any different? I had listeners once