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I cannot be trusted to navigate a city on my own

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it is 11pm; we have been in line for almost 3 hours 😪

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badge pickup line so long I finished embroidering the patch for 6yo’s Mabel sweater it’s ok considering I made it in one day and have never embroidered in my life until now

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an hour and a half later, we’re still in line 6yo is going mad from boredom; she found a staple on the floor and started drawing on my skin with it

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Sakura-Con badge pickup line is INSANE this year. Last year, there was hardly any line. This year, the line just to get into line snakes all the way out of the massive registration room.

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stopped at a rest stop and found an onion in the grass

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not me about to spend the entire drive up to Seattle embroidering the Mabel Pines shooting star logo for my 6yo’s cosplay sweater

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#WIPSnips “dear” that feel when you return from your escapist beach weekend with your boyfriend and find a stupid letter from your stupid psycho stalker/attempted murderer ex(?) in your bedroom

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It’s release day!! Dorian, Tai, and the others join a secret organization and fight to prevent the floating lands from crashing to the ground. 😈 a teen addicted to demon magic 🐉 a bookworm dragon 🕵️‍♀️ spies and secrets 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 the most dysfunctional families you’ve ever seen books2read.com/u/4ArKaN

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April 16: something in the shed we opted to go spooky with this prompt lmao

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this feels like such a crazy time to be promoting a book release (sorry I have a book coming out soon; I planned the release to fall on my 30th birthday before the downfall of society seemed inevitable, and it’s too late to turn back now bc I only turn 30 once)

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taking history into consideration, “autism destroys families” and “these are children who should not be suffering” feels like a slippery slope leading to “perhaps these children simply shouldn’t be alive so as to not be a burden on their families and society as a whole”

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Half the time when I post my art without leaving commentary, it’s me practicing “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. 😅

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A few teachers in middle & high school asked to keep a copy of an essay I wrote to use as a positive example paper for future classes. It’s really no wonder that I thought my badly written first 2 drafts of Sidetracked were hot shit. (Writing essays & writing fiction are two different skillsets.)

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don’t ever lose sight of what’s important in life (the two fictional characters in your mind that keep you going)

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I wish my art was marketable enough for me to live on, so I could write and draw and paint all all day. I just want to make art, but nooooo I gotta “live in a society”, which means I need to “work a day job” and “earn money to pay bills”. It’s not fair 😩

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April 15: mountain

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when you’re trying to paint and the paper just

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The stakes in Sidetracked aren’t that high to begin with (they feel higher to the MCs, as a few are in danger of injury/death, but the stakes are super low in the grand scheme of the world 💀), so I guess I’d make it a normal college slice of life or (actual) romcom (no guns & knives). #Writewich

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The ebook is now available for preorder on several platforms (Kobo, Apple Books, Kindle, etc) as well! books2read.com/STpart4

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The ethereal music and recurring imagery of a supermassive black hole instill a primal, existential fear deep within me. A fear of the vastness of space. A fear of the unknown. A fear of the dark—the expansive, inky nothingness of the awful place I visited in my sleep. A fear of death. #WIPSnips

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Ice: some kind of desert cactus (he’s a prick & would probably die if he lived in a wet climate) James: dandelion (he’s pretty & surprisingly competent despite feeling like he’s a boring, useless weed that no one likes) idk what Jayde would be… bleeding heart flower, maybe lol #QueerPrompts

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living in A Society Finding time to write as a parent is nothing compared to finding time to write while working a full-time job. Something’s gotta give, and (considering the way I am) it usually results in my writing time cutting into my family time & sleeping time. #WritingLifeMonthly

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April 14: fabric not feeling 100% today, so I tested a technique I saw on YouTube (smooshing crinkled plastic wrap onto wet paint & letting it dry to get a texture that I thought kind of looks like bunched up fabric)

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I did nothing productive today, but it’s ok; I need to rest every once in a while 😪

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I got a bingo :^) I started making OCs back in elementary school, and I was an anime fan in 2006-2012, so there has been some major cringe over the years. Never really got into making legit fandom OCs, though, bc I was far too obsessed with my original work(s). 😅

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Language/style wise, Sidetracked is easy to read. But the series is ~600,000 words (not counting the epilogue “novella”), and there are a lot of story threads/subplots that stretch across all 4 books and/or are never explicitly explained by the end (with “answers” only alluded to). #Writewich

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I am so tired, I just want to lie on the floor for the rest of the day

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it’s such a nice, sunny day today

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#WIPSnips “chill” A chill crashes over me, some primal reaction to the look on his face or the tone of his voice. I feel my jaw set. Teeth click together. "No." He looks up with wide eyes. “No?" "I didn't want you to die. I don't regret dropping the gun." (from Resignation)

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April 13: butterfly

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Resignation’s physical preorder form is open! 💚 signed copy + free bookmark 💚 add green page edges for $4 💚 option to buy discounted copies of books 1-3 💚 potential bonus goodies?? 👉 forms.gle/fbPoP7AYEjCAhnm16 (US only bc international shipping is insane 😔)

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#WIPSnips “comply” As I comply, [Smoke] takes a long drink from his porcelain teacup. He seems calm and unperturbed. It's strange considering Night's reaction. "Is she okay?" I ask. He shrugs. "Sure. She always finds a way to be okay. Someone has to be an adult around here, you know?"

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I’m not making a big official announcement bc I’m busy atm, but Resignation’s (US only) paperback/hardcover preorder form is now open. Copies come signed with a character art bookmark (& possible other goodies 👀). Green sprayed edges are available + options to buy discounted copies of books 1-3. 👇

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April 12: lake

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physical interior file & epub for Resignation are both ready paperback/hardcover preorder form will go live after I wake up in the morning :) haven’t submitted the epub to KDP or D2D yet, but I’ll get around to it tomorrow too

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