It's been forever since I updated this thing. I guess I needed to sort things out in my personal life, and you know what? I have ( Read more... )

I've been looking into my own religious beliefs, writing, and taking some time to rest. I've also rediscovered the fact that I am a person with a body, meaning there is this thing called 'style'. It has to do with clothing or, in my case, deriving an insane amount of contentment from having a pin or vest. I'm finding contentment in little things ( Read more... )

Going to just try to do nothing but write for today. Maybe then I'll make significant progress. I don't even know which idea to pick, I just don't want to put up with my dad telling me I do nothing but sit around anymore. Ever since I was little he always told me that he wanted me to make him money. 'You can do anything you want so long as it ( Read more... )

Been working on making a recipe notebook full of recipes from different parts of my heritage. So far the internet has been a great resource, but I'm not sure I'll be able to get ahold of any Blackfoot or Cherokee recipes. That may take some doing. Still, I'd like to have this done. This has always been one of my ideas, alongside learning more ( Read more... )

So today my Mom had friends over for dinner because hey, why not. And of course my Dad decided to laugh loudly when I mentioned to them I was working on a novel. He thinks the fact I said its' word count and not page numbers in MS Word means that I clearly don't actually have anything. He waited until we were all at the table to make me sound like ( Read more... )

The back of my mouth hurts, by the backest of my back teeth. It's made eating impossible and it's keeping me awake. I don't know if I can keep any degree of sanity going right now. All I want to do is curl up somewhere and sleep. My mom has a friend over for a few days, which is adding to my headache, and then you throw in Easter and all the foods ( Read more... )

My dad told me my novel wouldn't sell because the protagonist is Latino and therefore unrelatable. And that I should make her and her friends white ( Read more... )

I really should be working on my own original work, but I keep getting distracted by fanfiction plot bunnies. But that's not the real problem right now. Every now and again I look at the uncreative, unoriginal tripe being produced and snapped up and think of how gratingly hard it is for something original to get any recognition, and it just sends ( Read more... )