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Hi, dA! It's been a while. I finished a first draft of a story just now; it's 10k words and crappy and needs total deconstruction and rewriting, and stopping just as I type the final word to pat myself on the back and let myself kick around on social media for a while probably isn't the best attitude for a writer to have, BUT it's the first thing I've actually finished for absolute ages, so heigh ho. I'm happy. If I finish it nicely, I will probably submit it somewhere, if everywhere rejects it, it will probably go on dA eventually. 
I'm trying to get back into writing. It's a slow process. I have been doing some non-fiction writing as a reviewer for the folk music website Bright Young Folk. You can read my first review here, if you're interested. Writing non-fiction to a regular schedule is slightly strange, but also pretty fun, and it's great to have a regular (if unpaid) writing gig!
In other news:
– I met Vigilo!!!!! For real. Like, in real life. She is amazing and wonderful and lovely and we went to museums and had hot chocolate and basically Vigilo is the best, and you should all go and read her poetry if you haven't already.
– Also I'm meeting IndigoSkyes and WyvernLetDie on Wednesday!!!
– Weird anecdotes from jobhunting: I apparently can't apply to be a trainee pizza chef because I'm too short. They want people over 5'6" (I'm 5'4") for health and safety reasons, allegedly. Why?!?!
– If you haven't listened to the Good Omens radio play, you need to.
– I got a sheep onesie for Christmas. I'm not sure my calling in life is to be a sheep, but we'll see how this goes.
– People who know me might know that I've been more or less living in Spain (with a lot of travelling) for the past five years. Now that's over, house is sold, I'm living in Sheffield, UK with my partner, and my family are soon to come to live here too! So lots of big changes. While I'm kind of sad that it didn't work out in Spain and I never integrated very much with the community, I am enjoying the hell out of living in a city. (And especially because it's pretty close to the countryside so I can go out into the Peak District when my countryside upbringing demands fulfilment.)
I can't think of very much else of importance, and it's approaching my bedtime, so I'm going to sign off. I hope you've all had wonderful holidays/Xmasses/New Years/whatever you celebrate, and that all is good in your lives.
I'm trying to get back into writing. It's a slow process. I have been doing some non-fiction writing as a reviewer for the folk music website Bright Young Folk. You can read my first review here, if you're interested. Writing non-fiction to a regular schedule is slightly strange, but also pretty fun, and it's great to have a regular (if unpaid) writing gig!
In other news:
– I met Vigilo!!!!! For real. Like, in real life. She is amazing and wonderful and lovely and we went to museums and had hot chocolate and basically Vigilo is the best, and you should all go and read her poetry if you haven't already.
– Also I'm meeting IndigoSkyes and WyvernLetDie on Wednesday!!!
– Weird anecdotes from jobhunting: I apparently can't apply to be a trainee pizza chef because I'm too short. They want people over 5'6" (I'm 5'4") for health and safety reasons, allegedly. Why?!?!
– If you haven't listened to the Good Omens radio play, you need to.
– I got a sheep onesie for Christmas. I'm not sure my calling in life is to be a sheep, but we'll see how this goes.
– People who know me might know that I've been more or less living in Spain (with a lot of travelling) for the past five years. Now that's over, house is sold, I'm living in Sheffield, UK with my partner, and my family are soon to come to live here too! So lots of big changes. While I'm kind of sad that it didn't work out in Spain and I never integrated very much with the community, I am enjoying the hell out of living in a city.
(And especially because it's pretty close to the countryside so I can go out into the Peak District when my countryside upbringing demands fulfilment.)I can't think of very much else of importance, and it's approaching my bedtime, so I'm going to sign off. I hope you've all had wonderful holidays/Xmasses/New Years/whatever you celebrate, and that all is good in your lives.
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I am alive, and also, I have a blog.
Hello, my dears! What a long time it's been. It's strange coming back here, like blowing the dust off things, but I see that the lit community is still very much thriving, which I'm glad for. I hope you are all well and wonderful and continuing to write and keep yourselves happy and safe. The world is a scary and violent place nowadays, and it seems increasingly difficult to do that.
This is mainly a post to say: I started a blog! It's called I Wish I Could Drink Coffee. My first post is here, and it's about social media and mental wellbeing. I hope to update it reasonably frequently, as I've got quite a few things I want to talk about that
I am alive, and also, I have a blog.
Hello, my dears! What a long time it's been. It's strange coming back here, like blowing the dust off things, but I see that the lit community is still very much thriving, which I'm glad for. I hope you are all well and wonderful and continuing to write and keep yourselves happy and safe. The world is a scary and violent place nowadays, and it seems increasingly difficult to do that.
This is mainly a post to say: I started a blog! It's called I Wish I Could Drink Coffee. My first post is here, and it's about social media and mental wellbeing. I hope to update it reasonably frequently, as I've got quite a few things I want to talk about that
The DeviantArt Writers Questionnaire 2015
I don't know if it makes sense for me to do this (especially when 2015 is nearly over) given that I'm hardly around here any more, but I was inspired to fill it in at this ungodly hour of the morning and thought what the heck, maybe someone can get something out of what I've written. :)
Link to orig. questionnaire: :thumb571916833:
Hope you're all well!
1. How long have you been a member of DeviantArt, and for how long have you been writing? If you don't write what realm of art do you work in?
Since 2009, but only active since 2010. So five years ish, I guess. Been writing since... since I was about 12, I think?
2. Why did you become a w
Diverse Traditional Folk Songs
So, I did a thing.
As some of you may or may not know, I am a little bit obsessed with traditional folk songs and music. Most of these songs that you hear are lovely, but very cis-white-straight-male-able-bodied-etc. centric. So this is a new project that I've started, to compile (because I believe there must be some old trad songs out there), to edit (because some only need a little tweaking and it's always good to see things from a different perspective) and to write (in the traditional style) folk songs that are diverse!
What do I mean by diverse? I am thinking of intersectionally feminist, LGBTQIA+-inclusive, disabled-inclusive, people-o
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