Kelsi Johnson
@scarvenartist.bsky.social
Lover of words and other worlds. Writer. English BA. Self-taught artist. Mercy is my song.
Restful autumn season cancelled! After 3 years of difficult searching and many deferred hopes, we are finally moving house! 😭✨
(From having a shared driveway with our neighbors and loud city noise to little cottage in the country!)
(From having a shared driveway with our neighbors and loud city noise to little cottage in the country!)
August 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Restful autumn season cancelled! After 3 years of difficult searching and many deferred hopes, we are finally moving house! 😭✨
(From having a shared driveway with our neighbors and loud city noise to little cottage in the country!)
(From having a shared driveway with our neighbors and loud city noise to little cottage in the country!)
Forgot this place even existed this summer, it's been that wild. 😅
(In contrast, starting back to homeschooling this week has been positively restful.)
(In contrast, starting back to homeschooling this week has been positively restful.)
August 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Forgot this place even existed this summer, it's been that wild. 😅
(In contrast, starting back to homeschooling this week has been positively restful.)
(In contrast, starting back to homeschooling this week has been positively restful.)
Struck 100k on this draft this morning! 🤸♀️🤸♀️🤸♀️
There's a lot of mess to sort out, but at least some showdown scaffolding is now in place.
There's a lot of mess to sort out, but at least some showdown scaffolding is now in place.
June 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Struck 100k on this draft this morning! 🤸♀️🤸♀️🤸♀️
There's a lot of mess to sort out, but at least some showdown scaffolding is now in place.
There's a lot of mess to sort out, but at least some showdown scaffolding is now in place.
Still questioning whether the middle of this book raises too many questions it can't answer yet--but it occured to me this morning that this first book from the villain's POV would be WILD, he is 100% flummoxed, and so MAD about it.
June 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Still questioning whether the middle of this book raises too many questions it can't answer yet--but it occured to me this morning that this first book from the villain's POV would be WILD, he is 100% flummoxed, and so MAD about it.
I'm still several months away from ending this book draft, but I just re-read the conclusion I wrote a few years ago, and excuse me, that is still FIRE. 🔥🔥🔥
June 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'm still several months away from ending this book draft, but I just re-read the conclusion I wrote a few years ago, and excuse me, that is still FIRE. 🔥🔥🔥
1000 word cafe-writing session today! 🥰 (This was my belated Mother's Day present. 😁)
May 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
1000 word cafe-writing session today! 🥰 (This was my belated Mother's Day present. 😁)
Inched my way to 80k on this book today. \o/
May 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Inched my way to 80k on this book today. \o/
My shoulder is still rather dreadful, and holding a pen or pencil for any length of time is very painful (drawing is Out)--so today I am thankful for typing (which does not hurt!), and a fair amount of writing progress, despite other Creative Woes. 😅
May 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My shoulder is still rather dreadful, and holding a pen or pencil for any length of time is very painful (drawing is Out)--so today I am thankful for typing (which does not hurt!), and a fair amount of writing progress, despite other Creative Woes. 😅
Reposted by Kelsi Johnson
Being an artist is like "when i finish this art project i am going to reward myself for working so hard by making this new art project"
Over and over until you die.
Over and over until you die.
April 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Being an artist is like "when i finish this art project i am going to reward myself for working so hard by making this new art project"
Over and over until you die.
Over and over until you die.
I've continued to have terrible mysterious back/shoulder pain--and so often it's hard to get any doctor to look beyond my Terrible Spine to any other probable cause. So I am DEEPLY thankful for my physical therapist, who really listened yesterday--
April 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I've continued to have terrible mysterious back/shoulder pain--and so often it's hard to get any doctor to look beyond my Terrible Spine to any other probable cause. So I am DEEPLY thankful for my physical therapist, who really listened yesterday--
Somehow lost EVERYTHING I wrote yesterday, despite having autosave in libreoffice set to every 2 minutes???? Screaming, crying, throwing up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Somehow lost EVERYTHING I wrote yesterday, despite having autosave in libreoffice set to every 2 minutes???? Screaming, crying, throwing up.
My 8yo: "Which word is the opposite of BIG in my spelling words?"
Me: "This one is not in your spelling words--but like the other ones in the list, it ends in 'le.'"
"Small?"
"...No."
"Tiny???"
"Um--no. So when you were a baby, you might say, 'When I was....? Begins with L?"
"LARVAE?"
Me: "This one is not in your spelling words--but like the other ones in the list, it ends in 'le.'"
"Small?"
"...No."
"Tiny???"
"Um--no. So when you were a baby, you might say, 'When I was....? Begins with L?"
"LARVAE?"
April 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My 8yo: "Which word is the opposite of BIG in my spelling words?"
Me: "This one is not in your spelling words--but like the other ones in the list, it ends in 'le.'"
"Small?"
"...No."
"Tiny???"
"Um--no. So when you were a baby, you might say, 'When I was....? Begins with L?"
"LARVAE?"
Me: "This one is not in your spelling words--but like the other ones in the list, it ends in 'le.'"
"Small?"
"...No."
"Tiny???"
"Um--no. So when you were a baby, you might say, 'When I was....? Begins with L?"
"LARVAE?"
I seem to finally be coming out of a 6-month writing block? (I've been writing, it's just been tortuous.) Maaaaybe I will actually finish a full 2nd draft of this book this year after all?
March 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I seem to finally be coming out of a 6-month writing block? (I've been writing, it's just been tortuous.) Maaaaybe I will actually finish a full 2nd draft of this book this year after all?
Beautiful day slightly interrupted by a visit to urgent care for my daughter, who fell at the playground and sliced her chin open, and emphatically needed stitches (her Worst Fear). She has been slightly mollified by ice cream. (My kids and their dramatic facial injuries, ackkkkk. 😬)
March 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Beautiful day slightly interrupted by a visit to urgent care for my daughter, who fell at the playground and sliced her chin open, and emphatically needed stitches (her Worst Fear). She has been slightly mollified by ice cream. (My kids and their dramatic facial injuries, ackkkkk. 😬)
Severe back pain flare-up timing itself neatly with the PT appointment I scheduled weeks ago, when I was fine. Usually that happens in reverse.... 🙃
March 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Severe back pain flare-up timing itself neatly with the PT appointment I scheduled weeks ago, when I was fine. Usually that happens in reverse.... 🙃
Some days the only thing motivating me to go to the gym is the fact that I get to listen to an audiobook there. 😅
February 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Some days the only thing motivating me to go to the gym is the fact that I get to listen to an audiobook there. 😅
My writing time these days is stretched very thin (I have to get up at 5am to do it at all, and there are no opportunities after the kids get up), so a week where I've finally made about 2000 words progress, with scenes that actually feel right, is a cause of much rejoicing. 🥹
February 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My writing time these days is stretched very thin (I have to get up at 5am to do it at all, and there are no opportunities after the kids get up), so a week where I've finally made about 2000 words progress, with scenes that actually feel right, is a cause of much rejoicing. 🥹
In the spirit of "I see it, I reread it" this year, I chanced upon THE TRUE MEANING OF SMEKDAY in the library yesterday, and was laughing over it so much later that the kids demanded I read it to them, so I read them the first chapter.
February 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
In the spirit of "I see it, I reread it" this year, I chanced upon THE TRUE MEANING OF SMEKDAY in the library yesterday, and was laughing over it so much later that the kids demanded I read it to them, so I read them the first chapter.
Realized in the scene I wrote this morning that my Big Bad had slipped his official introduction into it, in disguise, even from me. 😅 (He is the Most Evil Shapeshifter, so I don't know what I expected.)
January 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Realized in the scene I wrote this morning that my Big Bad had slipped his official introduction into it, in disguise, even from me. 😅 (He is the Most Evil Shapeshifter, so I don't know what I expected.)
My 3yo nephew has had two long hospital stays since New Year's Eve, due to a burst appendix, and he finally gets to come home today. 🥹🥹 Lots of scary, anxious times. We're thankful. ❤️
January 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My 3yo nephew has had two long hospital stays since New Year's Eve, due to a burst appendix, and he finally gets to come home today. 🥹🥹 Lots of scary, anxious times. We're thankful. ❤️
Finished re-reading Return of the King in two days and now somehow I've got to go on with life. 😭
January 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Finished re-reading Return of the King in two days and now somehow I've got to go on with life. 😭
My once-a-decade re-read of Lord of the Rings with my husband around is mostly this meme on repeat. 😅
January 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
My once-a-decade re-read of Lord of the Rings with my husband around is mostly this meme on repeat. 😅
Get in, loser, we're posting lock screens.
January 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Get in, loser, we're posting lock screens.
Finally serious enough about sourdough that I decided I ought to actually acquire a lame, so I can make my bread prettier.
January 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Finally serious enough about sourdough that I decided I ought to actually acquire a lame, so I can make my bread prettier.
First two days of shoveling snow: Look at me, not falling apart physically! 💪🏋️♀️
Third day of shoveling snow: CRIPPLING SCIATICA.
Third day of shoveling snow: CRIPPLING SCIATICA.
January 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
First two days of shoveling snow: Look at me, not falling apart physically! 💪🏋️♀️
Third day of shoveling snow: CRIPPLING SCIATICA.
Third day of shoveling snow: CRIPPLING SCIATICA.