Notes

    Finished reading: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang ๐Ÿ“š

    A lovely romance novel with an autistic heroine. I highlighted a lot.

    Finished reading: Matilda by Roald Dahl ๐Ÿ“š

    We went to see Matilda the Musical and I loved it. I’d watched the Netflix movie of the musical and years ago the movie with Mara Wilson, but I’d never actually read the book. It’s a lovely book but I think the musical is even better.

    Finished reading: MacRieve by Kresley Cole ๐Ÿ“š

    This one is beautifully done as always. There’s a traumatic backstory of childhood sexual abuse for the hero and the way it impacts his relationship with the protagonist broke my heart. But of course there’s a happy ending because romance. โ™ฅ๏ธ

    ๐Ÿ”– Read Why I Celebrate The Spring Equinox As The Real โ€œNew Yearโ€.

    I really love this. I want to live more in line with the seasons. Spring is a great time to make the changes so many people want to make in the new year: eat more produce, move around more.

    Finished reading: Lothaire by Kresley Cole ๐Ÿ“š

    Of course if you’re reading Immortals After Dark you must read this one. You simply must.

    ๐Ÿฟ Watched Yes Day.

    This is a super fun family movie! I love it in no small part because of Jennifer Garner and Jenna Ortega but also it’s just super fun.

    I’m celebrating (?) the Ides of March a day late with an Italian Night Club sandwich from Jimmy John’s and Roman Raspberry Talenti Sorbetto.

    (True facts: the Ides falls on the 15th only in March, May, July, and October. The rest of the year it’s on the 13th.)

    Finished reading: Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre ๐Ÿ“š

    Read this billionaire romance because it’s the next Fated Mates read along. It’s very well done & deflates the billionaire fantasy without taking all of the fun out of it. Definitely check the content warnings before reading.

    I know there are things to do in life besides play Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, but I don’t care to do them. ๐ŸŽฎ

    Finished reading: Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole ๐Ÿ“š

    This one took me a little while to get into but once I was in, I couldn’t put it down.

    To quote @cheribaker@writing.exchange:

    Don’t wish us Happy International Women’s Day. Instead, help to vote out the ghouls who deny women’s agency and treat us like walking wombs. Ask your male friends to do the same.

    That would make me a happy international woman indeed. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

    Finished reading: Demon From the Dark by Kresley Cole ๐Ÿ“š

    I really enjoyed this one and tore through it. Give me a sad, traumatized couple of people who find a new family in each other and I’m happy. ๐Ÿ˜

    New glasses, same as the old glasses except they actually fit.

    A white woman with dark hair wears black half-time glasses.

    Finished reading: Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole ๐Ÿ“š

    I really liked, maybe even loved this one. The back half is all adventure, super cinematic.

    ๐Ÿ”– Read The โ€œDisney adultโ€ industrial complex by Amelia Tait (The New Statesman via The Rec Center)

    The grown-up Disney superfan has become a much-mocked phenomenon online. But creating these consumers was always part of the corporationโ€™s plan.

    I’m a second-generation Disney adult deliberately mixing other culture into my kid’s life. I appreciate this critique written by a fellow Disney adult.

    Finished reading: “Untouchable” in Deep Kiss of Winter by Kresley Cole ๐Ÿ“š

    ๐Ÿ”– Blogging is the medium of incomplete stories

    I love this. I often feel that blogging is the most natural medium for my writing, which makes sense as I’ve been doing it for over 20 years. Maybe this incompleteness is part of why.

    Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop by John Scalzi ๐Ÿ“š

    This was a re-read. A bit of a time capsule from the web of 2005-2007, a web I greatly miss.

    ๐ŸŽฎ Okay people of the Internet. I’m about to start Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. See you in a couple hundred hours.

    ๐Ÿ”– Read The Memex Method

    Virtually every sentence that contains the word โ€œbrandโ€ is [BS]…

    Cory Doctorow on the value of a blog as a commonplace book.

    ๐ŸŽฎ Finished Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, and Super Mario Bros. 3. Classics all, only accessible for me due to the rewind feature in Nintendo Switch Online’s NES software. With my limited hand-eye coordination, age, and time constraints, this is the only way I was ever going to play these.

    “Books always heal the hands they come through.” Leonie Dawson, 40 Days to a Finished Book (If you purchase the course through this link, I will receive a commission.)

    ๐Ÿ“ I’m doing a writing project currently and I set a goal of 10000 words but ran out of planned stuff to say at 5000, so today I added this to the document:

    Because Iโ€™m not sure how to get the next 5000 words of this book out of me and because I donโ€™t want to read anything Iโ€™ve written until I hit my 10000 words, my goal now is to just freewrite 250 words about [the project’s topic] every day. Then maybe in that 5000 words there will be something that fits with the other 5000 words that I can use when all 10000 words are outside of me and Iโ€™ve stepped away for a bit and can come back with an editorโ€™s eye.

    ๐Ÿ”– Read What Is Mental Load? (And Why Is It Important?) by Randi Donahue (The Good Trade).

    It feels a propos that I read this sitting in the dentist’s office a couple yards away from where my kid is getting sealant on his 6-year molars.

    I’m lucky to have a partner who carries a lot of this load, but list-making and note-taking also help me immensely.

    ๐Ÿ“ I wanted to respond to Lars-Christian’s post asking what the point of daily writing is. Here’s what I said:

    I wanted to let you know you’re not alone. With big creative projects, so many of us hit a point where it stops feeling worthwhile.

    As Austin Kleon says, problems of output are problems of input. If you feel stuck, maybe reading something new would help.

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