Alice Sharp
@alicehsharp.bsky.social
Slow Writer and Recovering Medievalist. Mother of Three. Californian who never meant to move to Canada, but ended up here anyway.
The cat just cozied up to the phone and meowed loudly into the microphone.
To her credit, the fraud agent for my credit card didn't react.
To her credit, the fraud agent for my credit card didn't react.
December 11, 2024 at 5:02 PM
The cat just cozied up to the phone and meowed loudly into the microphone.
To her credit, the fraud agent for my credit card didn't react.
To her credit, the fraud agent for my credit card didn't react.
Have to pack lunches for school then back to our regularly scheduled collapse of the world order.
December 9, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Have to pack lunches for school then back to our regularly scheduled collapse of the world order.
Spent a certain amount of my writing time searching the internet for caftans because I can no longer handle writing with a waistband irritating me. Which is to say my birthday is next month and I think I am really leaning into my "40-something neurodiverse creative" identity.
December 9, 2024 at 2:41 AM
Spent a certain amount of my writing time searching the internet for caftans because I can no longer handle writing with a waistband irritating me. Which is to say my birthday is next month and I think I am really leaning into my "40-something neurodiverse creative" identity.
I just finished Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing. One can't and shouldn't project forward from it because the Philippines has endured so much colonialism, poverty, and dictatorship. There are differences. But the mental habits of Duterte supporters are familiar.
*eye twitches*
December 8, 2024 at 4:16 PM
I just finished Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing. One can't and shouldn't project forward from it because the Philippines has endured so much colonialism, poverty, and dictatorship. There are differences. But the mental habits of Duterte supporters are familiar.
My eldest was asked what he wanted for breakfast. "A big hot plate of SATURDAY," he replied.
December 6, 2024 at 4:33 PM
My eldest was asked what he wanted for breakfast. "A big hot plate of SATURDAY," he replied.
I am making pfeffernüsse. There is no upper limit on the number I could offer my eldest. I need to make them when he is out of the house and hide them because my recipe instructs you to let them age for 2-3 days and I don't know what happens if I don't, my ancestors haunt me or something.
December 3, 2024 at 9:54 PM
I am making pfeffernüsse. There is no upper limit on the number I could offer my eldest. I need to make them when he is out of the house and hide them because my recipe instructs you to let them age for 2-3 days and I don't know what happens if I don't, my ancestors haunt me or something.
The thing about 2024 is you wake up and your brain is inundated with half a dozen era-defining events while you are just trying to endure a common cold.
December 3, 2024 at 4:45 PM
The thing about 2024 is you wake up and your brain is inundated with half a dozen era-defining events while you are just trying to endure a common cold.
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spite can help mitigate ADHD sometimes
December 3, 2024 at 12:17 AM
spite can help mitigate ADHD sometimes
"What's it about?"
"So you're editing?"
"Just a first draft?"
"Are you going to publish it?"
"I'm still brainstorming MY novel."
"Can I do the cover art?"
"If I do the cover art you HAVE to credit me."
- Local 10 yo who is home with a cold, all within about three minutes. #amwriting
"So you're editing?"
"Just a first draft?"
"Are you going to publish it?"
"I'm still brainstorming MY novel."
"Can I do the cover art?"
"If I do the cover art you HAVE to credit me."
- Local 10 yo who is home with a cold, all within about three minutes. #amwriting
December 2, 2024 at 11:16 PM
"What's it about?"
"So you're editing?"
"Just a first draft?"
"Are you going to publish it?"
"I'm still brainstorming MY novel."
"Can I do the cover art?"
"If I do the cover art you HAVE to credit me."
- Local 10 yo who is home with a cold, all within about three minutes. #amwriting
"So you're editing?"
"Just a first draft?"
"Are you going to publish it?"
"I'm still brainstorming MY novel."
"Can I do the cover art?"
"If I do the cover art you HAVE to credit me."
- Local 10 yo who is home with a cold, all within about three minutes. #amwriting
Wrapping gifts for the plethora of December events. Came very close to sending my dad (who is turning 81) @catvalente.bsky.social 's Minecraft novel The End, and my godson (turning 10) a selection of essays on tech and modern life. So, this is going well.
December 2, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Wrapping gifts for the plethora of December events. Came very close to sending my dad (who is turning 81) @catvalente.bsky.social 's Minecraft novel The End, and my godson (turning 10) a selection of essays on tech and modern life. So, this is going well.
Yet another day of not wanting to do The Things and yet, here we are, facing The Things.
December 2, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Yet another day of not wanting to do The Things and yet, here we are, facing The Things.
I'm glad I made a soufflé tonight because I could really do with an excuse to eat straight cheese sauce, with some egg whites as cover. #food #homecooking
December 1, 2024 at 1:53 AM
I'm glad I made a soufflé tonight because I could really do with an excuse to eat straight cheese sauce, with some egg whites as cover. #food #homecooking
I had a stress dream last night about trying to arrange extra time to finish a dissertation I hadn't even started, which was particularly galling because I defended my PhD a decade ago this coming January.
November 30, 2024 at 9:17 PM
I had a stress dream last night about trying to arrange extra time to finish a dissertation I hadn't even started, which was particularly galling because I defended my PhD a decade ago this coming January.
Celebrated yesterday's writing goal victory by driving three children-- one of whom is non-verbal, visually impaired, and uses a wheelchair-- over the Malahat (the local highway that terrifies me the most), at night, for 20 minutes of train ride through Christmas light displays.
Anyway, we lived.
Anyway, we lived.
November 30, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Celebrated yesterday's writing goal victory by driving three children-- one of whom is non-verbal, visually impaired, and uses a wheelchair-- over the Malahat (the local highway that terrifies me the most), at night, for 20 minutes of train ride through Christmas light displays.
Anyway, we lived.
Anyway, we lived.
I am certainly not doing NaNo, but I am trying to finish a draft of this novel by the end of the year. The pacing is a mess and the voice is all over the place but today I hit my November goal a day early. #amwriting
November 30, 2024 at 1:04 AM
I am certainly not doing NaNo, but I am trying to finish a draft of this novel by the end of the year. The pacing is a mess and the voice is all over the place but today I hit my November goal a day early. #amwriting
Oh dear. All the new-to-me writers here are going to be very hard on my book budget.
#booksky #writersky
#booksky #writersky
November 29, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Oh dear. All the new-to-me writers here are going to be very hard on my book budget.
#booksky #writersky
#booksky #writersky
Over on our epistolary blog, @dfurchtgott.bsky.social and I have a two-for-one day with our Thanksgiving experiences: she as a Canadian in the States, mine as an American in Canada. First, her letter:
Ida, to Lucy: November 28
Dear Lucy, I’m drafting this ahead of Thursday because here in the USA, where you were born and where I live after marrying an American during grad school, we’re coming up on Thanksgivi…
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November 28, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Over on our epistolary blog, @dfurchtgott.bsky.social and I have a two-for-one day with our Thanksgiving experiences: she as a Canadian in the States, mine as an American in Canada. First, her letter:
Thanksgiving is a time for arcane family foods, and here's mine:
November 28, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Thanksgiving is a time for arcane family foods, and here's mine:
Thanksgiving is one of the saddest days to be an American abroad.
November 28, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Thanksgiving is one of the saddest days to be an American abroad.
Twice a week I have to pick up my eldest with his wheelchair-using sister and toddler brother in tow. On public transit.
The bus is busy today and it isn't the usual patient driver. This is my social anxiety nightmare.
The bus is busy today and it isn't the usual patient driver. This is my social anxiety nightmare.
November 26, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Twice a week I have to pick up my eldest with his wheelchair-using sister and toddler brother in tow. On public transit.
The bus is busy today and it isn't the usual patient driver. This is my social anxiety nightmare.
The bus is busy today and it isn't the usual patient driver. This is my social anxiety nightmare.
I just peeked at my 11-year-old's writing assignment and he correctly used "comprised," so I think my work here is done.
November 25, 2024 at 11:09 PM
I just peeked at my 11-year-old's writing assignment and he correctly used "comprised," so I think my work here is done.
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I strongly believe that we underestimate the power of existential despair in our current cultural and political moment.
November 24, 2024 at 2:21 AM
I strongly believe that we underestimate the power of existential despair in our current cultural and political moment.
On the topic of Tearful Lasagnas-- as writing metaphors and otherwise-- today I made the Merengue Buttercream from the Magnolia Baking Book for the third time, and this is the first time I haven't had to troubleshoot with Berenbaum's Cake Bible and a double boiler.
November 22, 2024 at 10:57 PM
On the topic of Tearful Lasagnas-- as writing metaphors and otherwise-- today I made the Merengue Buttercream from the Magnolia Baking Book for the third time, and this is the first time I haven't had to troubleshoot with Berenbaum's Cake Bible and a double boiler.
Sending pitches always makes me feel like I am going to be sick. I have to close my email as quickly as possible after hitting send. I don't know, maybe I worry it will turn into a beast and bite me or something.
November 21, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Sending pitches always makes me feel like I am going to be sick. I have to close my email as quickly as possible after hitting send. I don't know, maybe I worry it will turn into a beast and bite me or something.
Today my toddler came to me, his mouth grubby and dark with oreo stolen from the lunch treats stash, to call my attention to the moon hanging in the morning sky.
And isn't that just the human condition.
And isn't that just the human condition.
November 20, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Today my toddler came to me, his mouth grubby and dark with oreo stolen from the lunch treats stash, to call my attention to the moon hanging in the morning sky.
And isn't that just the human condition.
And isn't that just the human condition.