HI FRIENDS.
As of last night, I've successfully brought the catalyst in Project Death down from ~18,000 words to 11,084 words!!! (This is close enough to my 10K goal that I'm okay moving onto...
2023-09-20 17:18:21 +0000 UTC View Post"All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made." - Virginia Woolf (or so the internet tells me, I couldn't find where she'd written ... 2023-09-04 17:20:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends!
Popping up out of my introvert hidey hole (less cute than a hobbit hole, though a writer can dream) to bring you the vlog for weeks 5, 6, & 7 of my experiment!! We're ne...
2023-08-20 14:28:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends, hello!!
First off, can I just say that YouTube picks the absolutely BEST thumbnails? Bahaha. That moment in time perfectly encapsulates how I've felt the past few weeks.
To ...
2023-07-28 15:03:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all! Sorry for the late notice. I caught a bug yesterday and thought I'd be fine by today....I am not.
Hope to see you Monday at 2pm CDT!
If you still want some sprints today, the...
2023-07-08 13:12:54 +0000 UTC View Post
HI FRIENDS.
Hope the start of your July / Camp NaNoWriMo / we're-halfway-through-the-year-freakout is going well!
First, I wanted to share Week 1 of my Summer ...
2023-07-05 14:49:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis Saturday marks the start of the second, and final, Camp NaNoWriMo of 2023 and I've just now created my project:
2023-06-26 17:46:22 +0000 UTC
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It's three days post-#24hrnovel and I feel like I've finally recovered.
(Spoiler: I did not last for 24 straight hours. I spent most of Sunday and a smidge of Monday finishing the experiment....
2023-06-22 21:15:24 +0000 UTC View Post
OMG OMG OMG EVERYONE. It's almost time.
I feel like I've been gearing up for this #24hrnovel challenge for forever (even though I've only known about it since April). IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THI...
2023-06-16 15:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post
So I tried to make a GIF of my timeline, all pretty and rainbow and complete, in order to celebrate but I'd say the quality is a liiiiiiiiiiiiiittle lower than expected bahaha.
BUT IT'S THERE...
2023-06-08 14:57:54 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not sure if it's zeitgeist-y or Big Magic-y or what, but one of my favorite things is when several people have a similar idea all at the same time.
Even better when it happens here on Pat...
2023-05-26 16:37:11 +0000 UTC View PostHelloooooo writer friends. Long time, no talk, so sorry about that! I feel like I blinked and the entire past week upon coming home flashed and now I'm here and it's Monday bahaha.
Before I g...
2023-05-22 20:24:30 +0000 UTC View PostHelloooooo everyone!
We're nearing the end of Camp NaNoWriMo and I am VERY EXCITED.
Partially because I've accepted my fate in not yet finishing Project Death (again, lol) and tak...
2023-04-27 15:18:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all!
Coming to you today with what could be a bit of a downer? I don't mean it to be! I'm hoping that, by sharing our concerns and internal battles, we'll feel less alone.
(Do I h...
2023-04-23 19:38:38 +0000 UTC View Post
My best laid plans met my cat Vin last night.
Picture me, in bed at 9:00pm, ready to awake at 3:00am for this ridiculous ChatGPT routine, only for Vin to decide it was time to activate Devil ...
2023-04-10 20:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, hey! Today I present to you potentially the craziest experiment I've attempted since the 24-hour write-a-thon.
With Camp NaNoWriMo, Escapril, and the general insanity of trying to ...
2023-04-06 16:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostHellooooooo friends!
Once upon a time, I'd said that we'd have a final March write-in, to celebrate me finishing Project Death (loooool, now hopefully at the end of April) and to kick-off Cam...
2023-03-31 18:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, heyyyyy!
I can't believe we're in the back third of March. Like, excuse me, where has the time gone? Why so fast? WHATISHAPPENING?
Before I dive into the purpose of this post...
2023-03-21 19:23:03 +0000 UTC View PostSomeone (read: me) might have forgotten to move the drafted Double Stream Days post to "publish" and was confused why they were alone on a stream last night.
I'm not proud to say it ...
2023-03-14 16:23:20 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Monday (or Tuesday, for those much farther east than me bahaha)!
So last week I was scrolling through IG and happened upon "Escapril," an event that takes place during National Poetry M...
2023-03-06 19:17:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, hey!
Perhaps a surprise to no one, as cruises are simply floating Petri dishes in the middle of the ocean, but I got sick! With the flu! (Not COVID, thankfully.) I'm feeling a litt...
2023-02-28 19:43:11 +0000 UTC View PostCrawling out of my rewriting hole to come hang with y'all for a moment!
Project Death ☠️☠️ is in full swing once again and I AM SO EXCITED. Things are going super well. (Too well?...
2023-02-18 03:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, hey everyone!
The first in the "forcing one of y'all to do a crazy, silly writing experiment alongside me" is COMPLETED!
The incredible 2023-01-26 17:27:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the late notice, I just realized that I'll actually be out of town for the rest of January!
My brothers and I decided we hadn't done a "sibling trip" in a while, so I'll be venturin...
2023-01-24 18:08:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, hi, hi. Back again with another questionnaire lolol. A couple weeks ago, I got this comment:
Happy Clean Off Your Desk Day, word nerds!
(It is also Word Nerd Day....and Static Electricity Day, but celebrate that how you will. Safely!)
2023-01-09 20:53:53 +0000 UTC
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Hello hellooooooo, everyone!
First off, it's time for our Double Stream Day slash End Of Year Party! Let's hangout and get some final words in 2022-12-27 23:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I cannot believe it's almost the end of 2022. December's passed by in a flash -- lots of birthdays, lots of holiday parties, feeling like I can't quite catch my breath bahaha -- and we're staring d...
2022-12-19 16:28:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, hello everyone! I've got to save all my words for my NaNo project, so I'll keep this short and sweet:
AHHHHHHhHHHH WE'RE ALMOST AT THE END OF THE MONTH!
My graph is looking like ...
2022-11-29 15:22:09 +0000 UTC View Post
So sorry for the late notice y'all! I thought I'd scheduled this to go live, but apparently not, silly me. 🙃
We did Day 10 sprints and now it's time for a Day 20 writing stream! We'll have...
2022-11-19 23:40:22 +0000 UTC View Post