Adventures du Jour!

Please note, I’m in the mood for horror stuff, so the Midjourney prompts from now until, well, November may be a bit gory! The Ooze Test. This is a report on a thought experiment I was working on earlier, that is, how to handle people who kind of just “oozed” into my life and tried […]

Turning borrowed time into time worth living. Side quest. Me: I haven’t weighed myself in a couple of months, I know I shouldn’t base my self-image on my weight but come on, I’ve been dancing hard and working on situps and shit… Also me: Back up seven pounds. Also also me: It HAS to be

USF Botanic Gardens and a prayer to bees…masking versus translation I mostly just need to clear out my brain. Stuff built up. I woke up this morning to another house dream.–One of the reasons I like haunted house stories is that I’ve been having house dreams for a while now. Decades? About the time that

And a thought experiment about “nonlinear autism” I’m writing this as I’m working on formatting a novel that I had backlogged from [cough] 2016, YOUR SOUFFLE MUST DIE. I have a number of pain in the ass tasks to accomplish, but if I only focus on those things today, I’ll lose my mind. I probably

And a new novel that came out, YOUR SOUFFLE MUST DIE! First, here’s the link to my new novel, YOUR SOUFFLE MUST DIE: https://books2read.com/your-souffle-must-die It’s a cooking cozy mystery, very cute, that goes more than a little off the rails. Don’t read if you dislike weird food. … Side Quest: August 25 – “You’re crazy.”

The gift of time…executive dysfunction…narrative voice…what makes for safe spaces? So I’m not going to spend all weekend working my ass off on writing class homework as planned, and I don’t know what to do. (The assignment is to just destroy a beloved writer’s voice after typing in a passage of their work; I’ve done

Getting unstuck on a plot point when you don’t plot ahead of time…butter cookies and excess Note: I’m going to start putting more info in subject lines, because I can’t find my own freaking essays when I want them!!!! … Side quest (Aug 17) I figured out later I was documenting how I handle plot

Unpicking negative self-talk in writing, an example…What is a safe place? (August 10) – Unpicking negative self-talk in writing, an example.Side quest. Harrumph. Ran into a critical voice thing to unpick. From the latest writing class homework email response, from Dean: “So well done giving this a shot. Just by doing so, you have learned

New hair!…tentative thoughts on building characters with memorable appearances…video/audio about writing getting easy again Sunday, Ray and I went out for new hair with our fabulous hairdresser Katelyn. It’s not really about the hair, I suppose, more about the bonding time, although it is ALSO about the hair. “Wanting to look good” isn’t really a

Happy Harvest! Or Day that the Gods Can’t See You…Kennedy Space Center & Cocoa Beach…thoughts on safeness/stability Several posts incoming. I got a sinus/ear infection and lost track of time for a few days, on top of regular ADHD stuff.… Post-Day-Where-The-Gods-Can’t-See-Me! I don’t have the brain cells to write a whole ass, proper, in-depth, told-as-a-narrative