What if you wake up some day and you’re old and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn’t go swimming in that warm water all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen!

Sometimes I think about what all the hours I spent on AOL Instant Messenger gave me, and I zero in on A) my ability to write banter/snappy dialogue as I was having several important conversations at once and had to prove myself B) an incredibly fast ability to touch-type, both of which enrich me.

I finagled one period of freshman wellness to teach misinformation and what you do when you've shared it--looking for super engaging ways to talk about this to young teens! #edchat #libraries #infolit

Actually editing/explaining things in a revision instead of just deleting the flagged sentence is growth.

Can confirm that most writing is laundering personal trauma and poorly executed self help but hey you can sneak jokes and metaphors in there too

Bookish checkpoint
- last book I read: The Devil and Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy
- current read: Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
- last book added to tbr: God of the Woods by Liz Moore
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quote with yours! #booksky 💙📚

This has also been my "rich person dream" for a while, to have cherry diet coke or cherry caffeine free diet cokes on tap would be so bad/good for me

FOR BETTER OR FOR CURSED will launch into editor inboxes in the new year, so if you like dark humor that's actually funny, wedding weekend hijinks, and the possibility of conjuring a demon when you bought a spell from a Tik Tok witch, I'm your girl.

Nothing like a line edit to confirm that I made it through two degrees and lots of books written without learning how to use a comma properly.

Trying this out--between works as I shore up revisions on someting and begin something new. Follow along for writing, parenting, writing while parenting (and working full time).