One of the hazards of living in Vancouver is that your usual lunchtime spot might bet turned into San Francisco for a few days. On the plus side it's been fun watching the film crew at work!
Film equipment at a beach
Banners advertising the Golden Gate Bridge (next to Lions Gate Bridge)
@callmeglitter.bsky.social
Do watch this. It is mind-bending.
Rocky beach with calm water and a seal poking her head up above the surface.
A seal joined me today for my writing session, and it must have brought good vibes because I've FINISHED MY DRAFT!
I've been working on this particular WIP for 3 years, over 7 drafts, with several long breaks where I decided it was terrible (spoiler alert: it was not.)
Feels so good to be DONE!
There is some very cool stuff available at the Publishing for MN auction going on right now, including query critiques, manuscript critiques, AMAs, signed books, author visits for schools, and more!
www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...
reposting with alt
Also useful, this guide by @naomikritzer.bsky.social:
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
A wooden cutting board with green tomatillos, red peppers, and a black-handled knife.
I forgot to customize my produce box this week so today I learned how to make salsa with roasted tomatillos and added beets to a chocolate cake.
And I steeled myself to taste the peppers. They turned out to be jalapeños and I turned out to have zero spice tolerance AAAAAAAAA.
A foggy bay with wooden pier
Happy New Year!
Kicked off 2026 with a very atmospheric Parkrun. Now outlining an urban fantasy featuring a library which was not in the plan for this year but will not be denied.
May the new year be kind to you all!
A quilt top made up of sixteen sunflowers with blue and green backgrounds.
After a year-long hiatus, I finally completed this quilt top! All hand-sewn because that was easier than trundling my machine out every night (special thanks to seasons 1 & 2 of Supernatural for keeping me entertained). It is imperfect and uneven and I love it.
This film is EXCEPTIONAL. It is such a beautiful, no-holds-barred look at modern Christianity.
A black and white photo from the 1940s of a smiling woman in a knee-length dress outside a house in France.
This Remembrance Day, I remember my great-aunt, Lois Gunden.
In 1941, Lois traveled to France to open a home for refugee children. As the war escalated, she hid Jewish children among her charges.
In 2013, Lois was on of five Americans recognized by Yad Vashem as “Righteous Among the Nations.”
CORODON
A small orange pumpkin on a red backdrop
Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving!
I’m celebrating by making many pies and working on three different stories. Later there will be a walk in the sun.
October!
I have a packed writing schedule for the next three months - one WIP for October, another WIP for November/December. It's head-down writing time.
just full-body recoiled at the idea of wet socks
Doing Research is very important, it's where you get the all the shiny bits of knowledge that you squirrel away in your nest for a rainy day
oh no this has the potential to take up far too much of my time
WHAT
hey someone's got to do it
A cute red and white mushroom on a mossy forest floor.
September!
I’m enjoying the last warm days and looking forward to the coziness of fall. I have a lot of big writing plans for the next four months...
August numbers:
Total words written: 66,910
Projects: 3
Total hours spent writing: 42
Pastries consumed: innumerable
Photograph of a gravel path through a lush green forest in the summer.
Celebrating the completion of another draft!
This project was a novella that I've been writing on and off for awhile. Feels great to have it done!
So I experimented with my writing process in June.
And I wrote ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND WORDS.
I'm still reeling.
The June Numbers:
Total words: 100,141
Projects: 3 personal, 1 paid, 1 academic
Total writing hours: 53.47
Average words per hour: 1872
Books read: 10
Versions of The Tempest watched: 3
Purple background, white text. "...the histories Tolkien created for the fictional kingdoms of Gondor and Rohan... resemble mythopoeic narratives created by ancient, medieval, and modern states." "What Lies and Threats" -- Abby Roberts
I am very excited today to publish @arobertswrites.com's essay "What Lies and Threats" - looking at nationalist myth-making in Lord of the Rings, especially for Gondor and Rohan.
Read it for free here:
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/what-...
❤️MURDERBOT❤️
hooray! you're here!
Found art, artist unknown
I’m trying something new this January - instead of one writing project, I’m working on two, switching between them as needed. My goals for both are flexible; I’m mostly curious if this kind of setup will work for me. We'll see how this goes!
A champagne coupe filled with a pink champagne cocktail.
Happy New Year!
Plans have been laid, intentions set, and cheese fondue consumed. Wishing all a safe and happy 2025!
This fall I was commissioned by the AI Subcommittee of Virginia's JCOTS to write a report on artificial intelligence based on my work as a COVES Fellow this summer. Happy to say that this report was submitted this week and can be found here: studies.virginiageneralassembly.gov/meetings/2009
