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I turned in revisions for A Darkly Beating Heart! Unburdened at last, I slumbered for aeons and awoke to bluebirds at my window and a gentle melody of hahaha just kidding I got really drunk and played Heroes of the Storm and then started a new book because I hate myself or something.
Started drafting a middle grade novel. Guys. Middle grade is FUN. It’s short and straightforward and can be utterly absurd and holy crap I just might write this book in record time. It helps that I technically have written this book a few times before. I concocted it way back in 2004, when I first thought that writing children’s literature might be fun. Then I wrote it in 2010 as a NaNoWriMo YA novel, but it felt a little too young. Now at long last, I’ve worked up my MG nerve and I’m loving every word.
Decent progress on freelance work. See: unburdened; really drunk.
Favorite line written: My life got a whole lot more interesting after I died.
This Week in Other Stuff
Beyonce’s splendid, self-assured “Formation” set the op-ed sections on fire, but my favorite so far comes from Camryn Garrett.
Cassandra Clare is no stranger to plagiarism accusations, but this new lawsuit from adult urban fantasy writer Sherrilyn Kenyon makes me deeply concerned about the future potential for people to claim ownership of tropes, mythology, and the very pillars of certain subgenres.
Skull Poop L is smashing R-rated comic book records, and rightfully so. Husband and I immensely enjoyed ourselves and look forward to plenty more Merc-with-a-Mouth movies to come.
Can it just please be May 6th already. Me and my feels need to go writhe on the floor a bit.
Played through Firewatch, a gorgeous but weird mid-life crisis of a game, with Husband. I imagine I might have felt very differently about this game were I younger, and that makes me feel sad and old but also thankful for all that I have.
Reading Now
JUST VISITING (Dahlia Adler) was SO FREAKING GOOD. The ultimate best-friendship book with secrets, rawness, struggles, self-reinvention, and 8 different kinds of yearning. I want a million more.
. . . and beta-reading a friend’s phenomenal dark, twisty, gloriously villainous YA fantasy. Agents, lmk if you’re interested–you want this book <3
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