Drafting is the Worst
A little stream of consciousness… I feel like I am running out of time to write sometimes. I was just marveling at the arrival of October, and now we are almost done with it! Have I made much progress on Eclipse? It often fees like I haven’t, but being kind to yourself while writing is…
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Library Haul: Writing Books
I had a bad habit of not reading enough books about writing. There are so many online references that give good advice, but with the homogenization of the internet, it’s interesting to find more colorful resources from before algorithms and learning language models were mainstream. I used to scoff a bit at books about writing…
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Recipe: Teapot Chai
I love to wake up on quiet weekend mornings and brew chai in my nana’s teapot. I dislike the store provided tea bags because they taste artificial—like overly spiced sugar cookies. It takes a little more patience to brew it at home, but I found a way to make a cheat version that is easy…
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Strand Bookstore Haul
Recently, Hubby and I went to New York City to visit friends, family, and old school stomping grounds. One of them is the Strand Bookstore, a historic bookstore known for its “18 Miles Of Books” in Book Row—a six-block ribbon of used and antiquarian book shops from 1890 to the present. Strand will be a…
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When Worldbuilding Takes You Down The Rabbit Hole of Astrophysics
My favorite teapot chai and a bagel with cream cheese in tow, I expected to spend my Sunday afternoon shredding through my story with some new plot developments. Only one problem: there was an extensive hole in my worldbuilding that I had not yet fully solved: the rotational axis of my world. Worldbuilding is the…
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I Should Have Thrifted Tech Sooner!
My current laptop is on life support. I think I bought it over ten years ago when technology was still of moderate quality. I cut old credit cards into squares to replace keyboard and mouse keys, had the hard drive replaced twice, and the screen has blacked out, so I use an external monitor to…
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Inspiration in No Kings
Happy No Kings Day! If you live in the United States, you know the chaos and turmoil our current administration is putting the world through (war, public executions, concentration camps, lack of due process, funding for genocides, voter suppression, and eradication of intellectualism just to name a few). Things are looking quite familiar. It’s quite…
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