Things Distracting Me From Writing: February 2024
I think I thoroughly underestimated our country's lunatic billionaire problem. I'm certainly not alone. I'm pretty sure a lot of people didn't see this madness coming.
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A collection of 21 posts
Things Distracting Me From Writing: January 2024
As far as mouths go, January 2025 has not been a bad one for me personally. For our country, that's a wildly different story. I have a feeling some people are going to find out the hard way that the federal government impacts their lives a whole lot more than they know.
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Things Distracting Me From Writing: End of 2024
I ghosted y'all. That's not something I like doing. I like to be a reliable narrator after all. Someone people can depend on. I predicted 2024 would be a hard year. I planned for it. In some ways, that plan succeeded. In other ways, it failed.
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I finished a story!
I wanted to share a little pre-Halloween treat with you to help you escape the onslaught of election news. I finished a queer and kinky story recently that has a somewhat awkward length, and I have no idea where or if I'm going to publish it.
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Things That Distracted Me From Writing: September 2024
September undid pretty much all the restoration and rest that August provided. This wasn't an utterly shit month but it was a struggle. It was far busier than I intended and life just continues to dump on me when it comes to big, unavoidable chaos.
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Things That Distracted Me From Writing: August 2024
August was definitely an improvement over July for me. It's still soggy and hot here in North Carolina. At least we got a lovely break in the heat that we called "False Fall Number One" where the weather was a gorgeous 70°F for most of the week.
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Things Distracting Me From Writing: July 2024
July wound up being a bit of a reset month for me. After burning myself out on event organizing, I took some much-needed vacation and found out that I really should have taken more. I had no idea how tired or exhausted I was, and that was before all the political chaos happened.
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Things Distracting Me From Writing: June 2024
June was... a lot. I was expecting it to be a challenging month. I was not expecting to juggle as many challenges as I did.
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Things Distracting Me From Writing: May 2024
This month wasn't a bad month, but it wasn't a good writing month either for reasons we'll get to down in the health stuff section. I did get a lot of good reading and audiobook listening in this month though...
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Things Distracting Me From Writing: April 2024
I'll be honest. April was an unexpectedly expensive and emotionally draining month for me. I was served up a lot of unwanted challenges while things are also starting to get busier at work.
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Things Distracting Me From Writing: March 2024
My writing and editing were so-so this month. Here are all the reasons why! The good, the not-so-good, and the ugly...
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Things Distracting Me From Writing: February 2024
Happy Leap Day! I hope you have some weird and fun to do today. After all, we're not going to see this day again for another four turns around the sun. As for me, I'm trying a new thing today.
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Why did I assume everyone has been to Philly?
You discover a lot about yourself during the editing process. The words you overuse ("but", "also", "brow"). The punctuation you're fond of (#emdashforlife). The time travel you inadvertently put your characters through even when your story has no time travel in it.
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💬 Comments + Fresh chapters!
I hope you're having a good start to 2024. And if you're not, there's no rule that says fresh starts have to happen on a particular schedule. You could choose to have a fresh start on January 29 or even December 30 if you want to. There's nothing special about January 1.
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The Devil's Whiplash: My roller coaster of a 2023
If 2023 were a roller coaster, I'd call it the Devil's Whiplash. Because the ups and downs of my year were rough AF.
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