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Yesterday was Sept. 22, which is Bilbo and Frodo Baggin's birthday and the day that Frodo set out with the Ring, leaving the Shire. It's now OFFICIALLY fall. My room is decorated with pumpkins thrown everywhere with abandon. I am slooooooowing started to outline for NaNoWriMo (once it's October I'll probably start panicking and hurling … Continue reading Hobbit Day and Fall and Quotes
YO HO ME HEARTIES It is Talk Like a Pirate Day and also *drum roll* But me promise I will not be talk'in yar ear off about me voyages and the time I was marooned. NaNoWriMo is fast approaching (can you tell I'm excited because I've mentioned it like at least once every blog for … Continue reading Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 31
If you've been keeping tab on your calendar, then you should be quite aware that September 19th is THIS WEEKEND. In other words: it's my birthday. (I'm not using "that gif" yet though because there will be a Saturday Morning Post on my ACTUAL birthday.) This is a cause for MOMENTOUS celebration as should be … Continue reading 9 BOOKISH Things You Didn’t Ask to Know (p.s it’s my birthday. Well, almost)
You know what I just remembered? Fall is almost here. PUMPKIN PANCAKES. While I'll miss summer, and am not quite excited to see what winter is like in a pandemic (cabin fever anyone????) I'm just sort of here like FALL FALL FALL FALL, if you haven't been able to tell. Fall makes me feel CREATIVE … Continue reading Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 30
So...you may have seen that blog circulating around with a title saying that if you want to be a fantasy writer you have to travel. Ahem. *climbs onto platform and gets notes into order* First off, I want to say that the title is deceptive, as the author never actually says those words in the … Continue reading Sorry, We’re Broke (do writers have to travel?)
So I have realized it is two months till NaNoWrimMo, and I need to start outlining but I'm also deep into edits and I don't want to stop and I'm querying and I'm really busy and I just????? It's been very odd, but throughout this whole pandemic, even during lockdown, I've always felt super busy. … Continue reading Saturday Morning Post Vol. 29
Not, gonna lie, I kinda don't want to see August go. Summer is ending??? What??? We barely got any of it!!! And also all the months were turning into mush, so it feels weird that were actually moving in fall, instead of staying in this weird stalemate which the past few months have felt like. … Continue reading Goodbye August HULLO SEPTEMBER
Is anyone else getting so used to wearing a mask that you just start forgetting to wear one? Like you walk up to a store, stop, and are just like, "This isn't right." And you head back to yourself because you don't have a mask? Because yeah, that's happening to me. And now our sponsor … Continue reading Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 28
Watched Edge of Tomorrow the other night and it was...interesting (it also sparked space-time-continuum debates which always seem to happen at 11:30 pm). But the biggest thing I noticed? I'm a little bit sick of the ambiguous big amorphous spaghetti-legged creature from outer space. (I'm looking at you Arrival and just about every other movie … Continue reading Giant Space Monsters (featuring Edge of Tomorrow)
They say August is a very slow month for "traffic" (internet traffic) (I'm not sure who the ominous "they" are), probably because after weeks of summer heat (at least here the Midwest) our brains are just mushy-mush. At least mine is feeling like that at this very moment as I sit on the floor in … Continue reading Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 27
