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BD Strike aka BeautifulFiction

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BeautifulFiction | 40s | Fanfic Writer |BBC Merlin fan

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BD Strike aka BeautifulFiction@bdstrike.co.uk · 2w ago

So, I challenged myself to write 100,000 words in 31 days. Then I got ill and also had one day of being a sad wet dishrag in bed, and then my in-laws visited. Now only three of those 31 days remain (starting tomorrow), and I need to write another 12,367 words to make it. I can do this 💪

BD Strike aka BeautifulFiction@bdstrike.co.uk · last mo.

My kid left for university last week. I spent a couple of days feeling oddly bereft, but I'm feeling a lot better now. He seems to be doing okay, and I can do things like dust his bedroom for the first time in an age. So there's that.

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.

BD Strike aka BeautifulFiction@bdstrike.co.uk · 7mo ago

Dad's 85th bday dinner. Mostly okay but mum gave my sisters a late Easter present and then just said to me "I haven't got one for you". On the one hand I don't care about stuff. On the other it's the principle of the thing. I'm quite annoyed.

BD Strike aka BeautifulFiction@bdstrike.co.uk · 7mo ago

My mother, who is in deep denial about her short term memory loss, keeps telling me Obama was shot. Now, obviously, he wasn't. He's doing good. She's thinking of JFK. She's been confidently incorrect about it twice now but her memory is FINE /sarcasm

Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

quote from Haruki Murakami: “I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. “But to hold to such repetition for so long—six months to a year—requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.”