Beth Cohen

sorry for crying about a self-imposed fake deadline, that wasn't very tattooed alt baddie author of me

the older I get, the more I understand the importance of a good shawl

everyone! rejoice! for it is my favorite time of year: when my cat rolls herself back and forth in front of the fireplace like a gas station hot dog

husband, nervously: idk i'm just thinking through all the situations neurotically and trying to plan ahead

me: that's not neurotic

husband: i love you, but you are not the best person to say what is and isn't neurotic

me: hm ok fair

unfriendly reminder that videos from SORA are generative ai videos. don't repost them, don't engage with them, just let them die.

"Penny? Short for Penelope?"

"No, short for Pendulum."

We cope in our own ways. Mine is not letting a tattoo appointment pass me by!!

I'm going to buy a Diet Coke to welcome gram to my ancestor altar this evening.

Grandma is not doing well, for those keeping score at home. She's sedated nearly all the time now for her pain, and it's just a shitty waiting game at this point. My dad is keeping me updated on things, which I appreciate bc mom doesn't have the bandwidth. Don't blame her.

I was supposed to go with my mom to get her tattoo covered up on Saturday but she had to cancel her trip for grandma things.

Buuuuut now I'm just gonna use the appointment instead tee hee.

hang on pardner i'm overstimulated in the club

honestly the "write words every day" advice doesn't work for me. i like to take weekends off. the all-or-nothing part of my brain gets really hung up on *every day* and if i miss one day, i throw everything out for the rest of time.

I should be able to kick someone out of a Google doc

reading about all the changes grammarly has made to add AI to their product (for work) and every day I inch closer to buying a typewriter.

remember that time i accidentally overspent a client's paid search ads budget by forty thousand dollars?

mistakes happen. it's not the end of the world <3

i hate to say it but keeping social media apps off my phone entirely has been beneficial for both my mental health and my doomscrolling habits

I can't believe this needs to be said but don't use an AI web browser. stick with Firefox and turn off the AI features.

these fuckin boneheads making AI browsers my god

I need to learn how to make bao

new moon, new me, bitch

I used to have a lovely lyric soprano voice. I sound like a wheezy gremlin now but there was a time in my life where I actually had decent breath control and a respectable range.

back to school essentials for me at 34:

- soup recipes
- palmer's cocoa butter body oil
- thc infused coffee
- caramel treats
- vitamin d supplements

A screenshot of a fantasy map tool with two large cities, a couple smaller outcrops, and a great river cutting the continent in half

i don't have an "official" map for Moonshadow but I do use Inkarnate to draft out where significant locations are so I'm not confusing readers (and myself) by saying a journey of several hundred miles only took an afternoon on foot

would anyone be interested in a short video on how i use candle magic to support my writing habits? i love a candle spell but i'm not sure what the overlap is between witchy folks and writers that follow me!

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ok question: did your parent/caregiver read out loud to you when you were a kid?

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fireplace: crackling
soup: simmering
practical magic: playing

I will be unavailable until further notice

The Dispossessed [50th Anniversary Edition]: A Novel A Novel

currently reading: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

this is not an ad i'm just enjoying it and you should buy it on bookshop

Bedtime: listen to an audiobook while getting ready for bed, asleep between 6 and 7

it's my ideal routine but it takes a lot of effort to keep up unfortunately

when do you get your writing done?

it's officially fall here in the seattle area and i'm working on shifting back into my early-morning writing routing

Morning: up at 4 to write for up to two hours before work
Workday: survive, don't bite anyone's head off
Evening: marketing stuff????