I can tell I’m aging because sometimes I don’t include emoji or exclamation points and I look at a text I’m sending and think, “yeah, that’s an appropriate tone”

Ahhhhhh I WISH I could drive 🥲 I’ll be mainly stuck to city centres I fear

Omg

Fortunately I am NOT a napper!!!

YES I am ready to get tours out the wazoo!! My greatest tragedy is that I I’m going before I can drive

I will look these up 👀

Yesssssss

…***TCD

I don’t even know what that autocorrect was

Thanks Kate !!! ✨

Looks like it might still be under construction 🥲 still open, but I guess I’ll just have to go back

So TCB for folklore was my dream school for a while and it is ON THE LIST

I did not even THINK about Oscar Wilde somehow?!?!

And we love (haunted)

That would be SO lovely David !! Thank you!

I admit that is more upsetting

This looks amazing

I really thought I was a drafter but oops turns out I’m so grumpy about drafting and just want to edit

Thanks buddy !!!!

Toronto flight times to Dublin are crazy

What you you MEAN the only nonstop flight is 9PM-3AM?!

In other news, I’m going to Ireland 🇮🇪 ☘️

A bucket list item ✨

Any travel tips? 👀

She tends to agree

She’s a philosophy major

A relaxed and happy tabby cat getting pats

Piper says: why play Pokopia when you could pet Piper?

🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

Success!! We hit 50 handwritten pages today 💪💪💪

(And I’ve earned a new spin on my writing reward wheel 🥰)

Coffee, macarons and a writing notebook sit on a wooden table

Analogue solo writing date today ft. my first taste of South Indian filtered coffee (spoiler: delicious)

The non-speculative project continues to expand greatly. I anticipate draft 0 will be 100+ pages 🥲

This exactly. You think you've avoided it but then, suddenly, you're reading a scene -- and there it is! Haunting.

Maybe my agent loves the new novel. Maybe she hates it. Maybe we sell it. Maybe we don’t. There’s a thousand other maybes, and I don’t control any of them. What I control is the work, so I worked a bit on the next one yesterday. Always be writing the next one.

By far the toughest part of writing an adult dystopian novel as a millennial that grew up in the great golden age of dystopian YA is:

Resisting Capital Letters

But it is easier to Go when I lower my expectations of what the writing should be able to accomplish at this stage. We are feeling things out. Building scaffolding.

I’m just itching to be at the point when I get to edit !

This week’s great tragicomedy was realizing that what I thought would be the end of the book should actually be…

The middle 🙃

I have come to accept that while I did write an entire first draft of my WIP, that draft was a bloated novelette

The current draft is the first draft of…the novel

I cannot expect it to do second draft things, no matter how much I wish I could

Sigh. To be gentle with oneself!

In today’s workout:

EVERYTHING I LIFTED TODAY WAS HEAVIER THAN WHAT I LIFTED LAST TIME !!!!!!!!!

Whenever possible, assuredly

Blueberry matcha and grape yogurt cake !

This was Excellent Cake 🍰

Is it blackmail or is it redemption??!!