Day 11: wet
Day 10: Waterloo train station, Lower Hutt
Day 9: wet, cold, and miserable!
Day 8: a non-cat photo. 😅 The view from the kitchen window!
Day 7: I don’t mean to only post pictures of cats, but they don’t complain, are relatively photogenic, and regularly position themselves dorkily.
Day 6 — morning pages. Always with pencil, it feels sketchier that way.
Day 5 - whoops, weekend, and nearly forgot to post today!
Jesus saves at the BNZ bank, apparently.
Day 4: the desperation is real
Day 3–chaotic lines
Pōhutukawa in sunlight…spring is in the air even though it’s still July!
Going to try and finally get my micro.blog badge for photo posting…waiting for the school bus this morning!
Idea for a photography project: places where my cat was standing right before I tried to take his photo…
Just discovered the nicest place in the internet. Hugs!
Really enjoying Hot Stove League right now! On netflix… 📺
Is everybody else watching the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet courtesy of Austin Kleon’s newsletter? :)
Currently reading: Sunshine by Robin McKinley 📚 — so great so far!
Finally published a novella that I’ve been sitting on for a long time. Magic, cats, kids, old ladies, a guy named Falco and his seagull familiar, flux witches, and sorcerers on holiday in a chaotic all-ages story set in New Zealand. Free for Micro.blog besties here. No sign-ups to get it :) Enjoy!
Can anyone recommend a good online newspaper or journal that is not UK-or US-centric? (Or for that matter Australian, Canadian or Kiwi.) Am feeling a bit weary of “the guardian in my inbox every day” and want to change it up. Bonus if it includes interesting social/cultural commentary.
Really enjoying: Writing to Meet You: Letters For Secluded Times. I don’t know anything more about this initiative but it’s really rather lovely.
Blackberry foraging at Korokoro yesterday!
I signed up for a draft-a-week challenge this year, hoping to get back into the swing of quick idea generation and also as a way of not putting off writing stories until the idea was “just right.” But it’s looking like all I’m doing is writing scenes and then scrawling notes to future me on how I might finish something, then having run out of time, I barrel on to the next idea. Both are unsatisfying ways to work…I guess that “discovery” is worth something.
Utopia Science Fiction magazine (which I’m an assistant editor for) is currently running a kickstarter to help fund our fifth volume. If you enjoy sci-fi with a positive spin on it, please take a look!
Took a cool workshop with Harry Lien yesterday (via Cat Rambo): Author Branding for Introverts. Made some pertinent discoveries! Apparently “my things” are underdogs & reluctant heroes, chaos, and a rollicking good time! Have thusly updated my author bio 🙃
Also: lately I’m finding I just hate the internet. 😞