Finally started to work on essays for this one fellowship and my brain sure is blank. Life has delayed my work for this, so I hope it first impact my application at all. They're only selecting 6 writers so 🤞

Ayla is still in serious condition & we could use some help, if you can. She is stable now after being admitted to the ICU last night but they're not 100% sure what is going on. Between all the tests & stay, I'm not too sure what to do for our next steps financially. Thank you in advance! 😔

Ayla is currently at the hospital. She was admitted last night and was stable enough to leave the ICU today. There's a lot more tests to run because it's not looking good and they're not sure what's wrong with her yet. 😔

Now I'm just a guy who is like "What if I abandon happy hour for hot pot?"

Maybe a person telling me that they didn't know to turn off all the lights during a closing procedure was a bigger red flag than I realized.

I know Ashley Herring Blake is supposed to be one of those Romance greats, but her greatness is currently making me feel bad. I'm 140 pages into Dream On, Romana Riley and am super enjoying it while also being like hmmmmmm...maybe I need to approach some scenes in my WIPs a little differently.

I managed to hand write a few pages today for this Sapphic Persuasion Retelling that is of course very As Told By Ginger x Persuasion and I hope everyone is ready for my super Lilith Fair inspired mood playlist to get me through the tough times of potentially writing this idea.

I wish my heart was less obnoxious and normal about life. That'd be so hot.

Well, I've been trying to read for a few hours but the shoulder pain is way too great again, so time to just be sad.

I had dreams again about my Sapphic Persuasion Retelling idea then my cats woke me up for food. I keep putting this off because I wrote one retelling but feel like maybe I'll just give in and work on this one. It'll also revolve around asexuality a lot more with the notes I jotted down.

Well, that was a nice almost 2,000 words that I just wrote but I'm taking a break to think a little more about this idea. Also, I just wanted to read yet I'm glad I got those words down and some bullet points on the immediate scenes to follow.

Oh snap, it's been 26 days since I last binge drank, which is so hilarious because I wasn't even trying. I swear it's the new place and also the pain meds I was on for a hot second.

I'm just gonna think about the Philly Book Crawl all month as I slowly put my unread books back onto my shelves.

My unhinged Sunday morning ideas as I continue to debate if I should change the names of characters in AK Retelling and went "What if I just named them all after Clueless characters?" That's worse than me wondering how to name Kostya Levin after myself since he's named after Tolstoy.

Plug in Baby has been playing on loop in my head since the Muse concert, but I miss the days of being able to hear New Born live (it really is the perfect piano + guitar song for a live audience 🥲) Oh yeah, we finally went to see Muse again & it was lovely. Decent mix of all albums but Showbiz.

I fear this re-interest in the overall Medieval theory and the many topics that come with it will somehow still turn into a new writing project and personally, I'm not ready for that. The inspiration levels are at a 0 and I miss Lil Noir Murder Mystery, but those gears sure are chugging along.

Me: Oh no why do I have another migraine?! Also Me: Oh yeah, I forgot to take my meds since I moved for that. Whoops! I did turn off all the lights and watched a storm with Eddie Spaghetti now that we can see the world.

I'm one step closer to finally scheduling my landlord to do a walk-through of my old apartment but the stress of it all is taking a toll and I want it all to be over with.

I always feel so special because I've had the chance to meet Emily Wilson multiple times and feel like my reinterest in ancient literature was rekindled by her and I'm so happy about that. It's so wild I also went to the release event for her translation of The Odyssey and also The Iliad.

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 4w ago

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

Finally donated the last of the books I set aside for Books Through Bars today! If you're unfamiliar with them, check them out and look into a local place to donate books because everyone deserves to read. www.booksthroughbars.org

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I've been thinking about this local fellowship I saw but it's focus is women writers and it did say non-binary writers could join who relate to being a woman, but I've thought a lot about it and also looked up the author running it and it looks like a great opportunity but not for me personally.

Messaged someone else about reading because we talked at a time I was too busy and without the one reader, I'm a little less busy to exchange chapters. 🤞 I'm trying to be more selective because my analytical brain that trusts everyone has gotten some weird feedback that I need to just move on from.

R.E. is Querying@earthkids.bsky.social · 4w ago

It looks like I've lost one of my readers for AKRetelling and should probably find someone else to read. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, it felt like their comments drastically differed from the other main reader, putting my brain into a problem-solving frenzy.

Casually mentioning my great grandma who was in the Olympics for fencing back in the day. I know I talked to her a lot while she was still alive but I wish I spoke to her more cause sometimes I was scared to talk to her due to family politics but she always let me talk about my history obsessions.

I might've messed up my rotator cuff, which has really put a damper on revisions and writing. I was making so much progress too 😭

It looks like I've lost one of my readers for AKRetelling and should probably find someone else to read. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, it felt like their comments drastically differed from the other main reader, putting my brain into a problem-solving frenzy.

Aaaaw look at me 7 years ago when I got to talk about the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing. It's also me standing in front of a planetarium that we visit at the start of AK Retelling. You can almost see the clocks above me that are mentioned near the end of the first chapter.

49 pages of Femina left to read! It's taking me forever to finish this because 1. It's an eBook and 2. I had to return it to the library at one point and 3. The author's strengths are Medieval British history, leaving some other parts a slog to get through.

I'm thinking maybe I'll truly try to visit England in either February or March (probably March). I read that's an okay time to visit Lindisfarne? And I would like to see the Bayeux Tapestry. I have no idea if that's a super expensive time. I also like the cold but idk if snow is a problem?

Park rangers fined Sandra Shachar for vandalism this morning at the President’s House, hours after the Trump admin installed its version of history. The 72 year old has been posting news articles on the site’s walls since the slavery exhibit was removed. If she does it again, she’ll be arrested.

Trying to figure out a weird thing for AK Retelling, some feedback has ppl mentioning they're surprised we don't start in space and it's about 50 pages before we jump to the future and are in space. Would a little 2 page prologue help with this? It'd be like a cold open from a later snippet.