Actually let’s just get this out of the way now, because if I sign out of tumblr who knows when I’ll be back. So have an oddball list of updates:

1. Borrowing this idea from a good friend: please tell us something that made you happy this week. There’s so much ugliness right now, let’s find the bright spots where we can. Pet a happy dog at the park? Great! Read a book you wanna rec? Also good! Heard a song you haven’t heard in ages & remembered how much you liked it? Perfect. Just something that made you smile.

1b. In regards to the ugliness: I am trying–for now–to keep politics off of this tumblr. Please do not take its absence here as apathy or ignorance. It’s just that tumblr is not my preferred social network by a long shot — I come here to take a breather and sanity break when I’ve exhausted myself screaming and raging elsewhere.

2. Finished the latest draft of Elysium & bribed asked two people to read it. Will spend the better part of the week going through their notes and tweaking things. Then the fun part happens where I have to print it all out and give it yet more line edits before appealing to reader #3.

3. Speaking of fun, my younger sister – who has recently joined us here in Portland – asked me the other day if writing was fun. She’s finishing up a really intense grad program in fine arts, so maybe the question was born from that exhausted & stressed part of her. I told her No, but I remember when it was. My goal for 2017 is to recapture that feeling.

4. One of my BFFs is going to self-publish a book soon! I’m hella excited for her, and I’ll probably talk your ears off about it once she’s got more info out.

Jan. 30 2017
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  1. not-used-to-being-normal reblogged this from korakos
  2. inthereellife said: A nice thing is that my kitten’s favorite place to sleep is on/directly beside my face. -Okay actually a little sad because apparently it’s so she can smell my breath and know I’ve eaten because she was starving when we rescued her off the road. BUT it’s sweet that she knows the only way she’ll ever go hungry again is if I’m already starving first right? That’s sweet. Ish.
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