2024 wasn’t the best year. Normally, I don’t make a lot of New Year’s resolutions. I’d much rather change things over time, implement a new way of doing things when the time is appropriate, and not just save it all up. However, given the nature of the previous year, tagging things to be changed for […]
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I’ve been writing for a while. I’m currently writing my seventy-second (72) novel. I have some opinions about writing, the process and the craft. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize that there’s very little advice about writing that works for every writer. You really, REALLY need to listen to what your own writer brain tells
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2024 wasn’t the best year for me. I was more productive by the end of the year than I thought was possible. That still doesn’t make it a good year. Overall, I wrote over 360K words. Considering that I was only planning on 400K, and given how the year turned out, that isn’t bad. It’s
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I was fairly emotional the couple of weeks before Christmas. There was the anniversary of my kitty’s death, which made me feel mournful. There was my birthday, which made me feel a bit older. There was a meeting with members of my family, which wasn’t as stressful as it could have been, mainly because I’ve
I’ve been trying to play fewer games on my phone, do other things in the evening instead of staring at it. My goal is also to have my place a little darker at night. I’m experimenting with less light at night, to see if that will help with my sleep. Plus brighter light in the
Actually, two things. Kind of. In March of 2023 I started a knitting project, basically, a blanket. The pattern is kind of like a quilt. (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/modular-knit-quilt) I finished it recently. However, I didn’t make it exactly like the pattern. The original has all six squares sewn together for one blanket. Instead, I did two blankets,
I wrote 50K words during the month of October 2024. YAY! GO ME! The last time I managed that was October 2023. That was also the only month in 2023 that I wrote that much. The last year that I consistently wrote 50K per month was 2019. I’d really like to get back to that.
I have a friend who’s considering getting a pellet grill. As I’ve had mine for over a year now, and I use it at least once a week (if not more) I figured that I had some opinions on the matter that I could let y’all know about. A pellet grill is basically an oven
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I haven’t talked about my writing much lately. (Then again, I haven’t been blogging regularly at all. I’m trying to change that, to start chatting with y’all again. Not going to guarantee a weekly basis, but that’s kind of what I’m shooting for.) I am still writing! Have been for much of the year. My
To recap: March 2023 I had cataract surgery done, replacing the lenses in both eyes. My eyes were naturally monofocal, before the surgery. My left eye needed no correction in terms of seeing things close up, and my right eye needed very little correction to see far. So I have monofocal lenses as well, now.
Let’s Talk About the Eyes. Again. Read More »