DeAnna Knippling

Adventures du jour! The plans for today were derailed by a big Midjourney AI update that I’d been waiting for (v4). I spent most of my brain space today working with the new AI. What I observed about the AI is one thing; what I observed about what I felt and thought about switching versions […]

Adventures du jour! Yesterday was a moving the chess pieces sort of day, where it felt like I wasn’t really getting anything done per se, although all of it was important. I spent an absurdly long time writing an email in pursuit of a cool opportunity, trying to second-guess myself out of it, even AFTER

Adventures du jour! I had to write the scene where Goth Girl runs into her abusive ex for the first time since she got out of the relationship. It snuck up on me.–It went better than I had been dreading, if still too close for comfort. My ex and hers aren’t the same person, not

Adventures du jour! Last night was the beginning of NaNoWriMo. It went pretty smoothly on my end, if somewhat sadly; I finally hit the point where I needed to write out a past scene that the characters had been mentioning throughout the book and it was a wallop. Mr. Assassin had been completely convinced that

Adventures du Jour: I was hoping for restful sleep but instead woke up early and miserable. In retrospect it makes sense; I wrote down some taboo things yesterday about religion and being controlled. So I was feeling down and my right hip was in a state of OWFUCK this morning. Yoga: working on reading Yoga

Adventures du jour! As per usual after a big trauma barf, stuff shook out. This was a very thinky day. Yesterday: Talked to a friend with a black sense of humor. I think she was worried about unleashing it on me; it’s been a while since we talked. By the time we were done talking

Adventures du jour! To sum up: rough patch but it got better. Yesterday I got what felt like inextricably stuck on the book and decided to write a letter to a friend instead, about Bad Ex Stuff to someone it felt okay to tell it to and who’d said okay. (Thank you!) It took a

Adventures du jour! Ugh, last night was the kind of restless night that used to drive me outside for long walks that went on for miles.–In Vemillion (South Dakota) I used to walk out to the river in all weather, or rollerblade; in Iowa I used to take this defunct set of train tracks out

Adventures du jour! It feels like my brain’s gonna melt early today, so I’m gonna jot some things down before they’re gone, then call a friend and go read books. If the hormones give me a break I’ll write; otherwise I’ll just weather it. Last night I tried to listen to a friend’s video and

Adventures du jour! I’m in a mood. The bright lime flavor of my soul has slid over to red wine vinegar. Acerbic. It’s probably hormonal, although I’m at the stage of life where my period is so chaotic that who knows. I always go into a minor panic mode when I catch on that my