Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.”
― Julia Cameron
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Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Thoughts on March 31, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, genre fiction, inspiration, Thoughts, writing on March 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »
We’re out and about today, and I’m finding inspiration in both natural and human worlds. I don’t have time to get started right now, but I’ve got two story ideas competing for space in my head. I look forward to chasing them down soon.
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, Thoughts on March 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“The more you are focused on time- past and future–the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” — Eckhart Tolle
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, quoteandaprettypicture, Thoughts on March 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
— Muhammad Ali
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Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, cat herding, cats, health, Thoughts on March 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Chewbacca, Prince of Cats, continues to be lovely. He also continues to weigh almost exactly what he did when we got him, despite a year of weight loss efforts. (To be fair, he lost almost a kilo. Then he gained it back.)
Now, his weight would not be a particular issue except that the vet insists on regaling us with a long (long) list of health-related problems that extra weight will bring, so we’re doing our best.
Which brings me to today’s charming bit of ephemera, a handy chart of weights in outer space.
Bad news: the cat weighs over 16 pounds on Earth.
Good news: That’s not nearly as much as he would weigh on Jupiter, where he’d clock in around 42 pounds.
And the Lunar economy must be swimming in Moonzempic because Chewie would weigh a sparse two and a half pounds there. (Kidding! It’s a gravity thing, not a weight-loss tourism thing.)
Sadly, until we pack up and decamp for the Moon, our kitty weight odyssey continues!
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, genre fiction, productivity, reading, Thoughts, Writers, writing on March 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »
This isn’t something I would normally say, but I think I’m reading a little too much.
I’ve been on a bit of a tear, rereading some of my favorite stories. I’ve just finished to the tenth book plus spinoffs in one series, and I think I need to slow down after this.
It’s cutting into my writing time.
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, Thoughts on March 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
— Madonna Ciccone
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Thoughts on March 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”
— Isaac Asimov
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #messyfeels, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on March 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Procrastination can get in anyone’s way but I’ve also noticed creative people in particular can get all caught up in their messy feelings about their work and whether or not the conditions are right for them to channel their muse. If working in journalism has taught me anything it’s that there is no “right” time and there are no “right” conditions; there is the time you have. You use the materials you’ve got. And the first precondition of getting anything done at all is trying to do it.
— Stephanie Convery
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