DeAnna Knippling

Writing where your heroes have written…who is mine? Huh. I’m not sure how to express this. I wrote the scene I’d been dreading in the big WIP. It went well.–First I had to do some massive journal-y pre-writing, cried a bit, laughed a bunch, exhaled. Wrote the Goob’s scene. He came to a place I […]

Struggles with reading fiction…picking apart a “block” against something you love and repairing the connection This is a long post about my struggles with reading fiction lately. If you’re struggling to read stuff–or to do things you like in general–it might be useful. But it’s long and I’m working out my thoughts as I go,

Adventures in self talk…refusing to pre-fail The last thing I want to do this morning is write about my adventures: nothing bad happened, I’m just in a terrible mood. And I don’t wanna. They don’t seem very adventurous. But. As soon as the thought of writing this down crossed my mind, I knew I needed

Things I Need to Do…insecurity versus vulnerability…a sacrament of threads So I have things I’m supposed to be doing today, but I’ve run into one of the Things I Need to Do, and I’m going to let it take precedence, because I can. Most people can’t; I know doing this is a luxury. The Things

Tools for happiness I’ve been brainstorming “tools for happiness” to put in The Therapy Book (that is, the fiction WIP) over the last week or two. Not that I’m sure how to define happiness. It’s sort of a chicken-and-the-egg situation, where I have to make this list in order to define what I’m making the

Friend visit…photography…ADHD/attention management Mostly today I’m just clearing out some ongoing thoughts so I have room for new thoughts. A friend and her spouse (who I’m going to declare as a friend at this point; I just think he’s cool) came over! I made them food! We talked! Ray hung out with us the whole

Got a couch!…Struggling with sadness…feeling the multiverse…meditation heuristic Adventures du jour! A friend from Colorado is coming over today! So I’m doing this now because I know I’ll forget things if I do it later. We got a couch! I went to Ikea and got one, performing a minor magic ritual where I invoked my

Your April 1st tarot reading! Today’s adventure: a Tarot reading, using the Pulp Tarot Deck, by Todd Alcott. Today’s card, the Fool: cautioned by instinct, driven by idealism, moving the wrong way, right off the end of the fucking cliff. (I pulled this one; it wasn’t by chance.) Yesterday’s card: Three of Wands, upright. Two

Tampa Pride parade… A couple of things that hit me big from the last few days: the Tampa Pride parade, and getting consumed by a new creative work. The Tampa Pride parade happens early, in March. I’m not sure why and couldn’t find any easy answers, but I suspect that a) having it NOT in

Last of the Savannah trip…advanced learning…sometimes you kill the zombies, sometimes they eat you. This one’s mostly going to be about Thursday and Friday last week in Savannah. But I have to brag. A friend of mine’s in Savannah right now and DID successfully get googly-eye pix in the same place. More on that below.