Caro

Always a fun writing morning when you dig out the maps
#amwriting

A hand holding the book “we are not safe here” by Rin Chupeco

Excited to read the latest from @rinchupeco.bsky.social !

Wrote over 1k words yesterday, then cut a 2k word scene today…so it goes, sometimes!
#amwriting

A gray cat is resting his head on a light-skinned outstretched arm. The person’s hand is on a red-lit laptop keyboard.

Odin the cat is “helping” me write and definitely isn’t impeding me at all… #amwriting

Screenshot of an excel-style document titled "Scribe Word Count Tracker" with columns listing dates, words written, word count, chapter, scene. The first entry is 8/19/24 with a word count of 9140 for chapter 1 and scene 1. The last entry is 8/19/25 with word count 56392 for chapter 8 scene 1.

Happy (just over) one year anniversary to my current writing project, nicknamed Scribe, a destroying-the-empire-style prequel series to the existing fantasy novel I'm querying.

I've savored this project more than I typically do and it has been incredibly fulfilling! #amwriting #amquerying

Attending @seattlein2025.org virtually and my TBR pile just keeps growing!

A white and buff cat sits on an elevated shelf and looks into the distance. In the foreground is a blurry computer screen.

Today’s writing supervisor is a little overbearing

Ah yes 3:30pm - thrilled to get my daily “remember to vote!” text message from the election gods

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

This tax season, we're here to remind you about TurboTax's 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free.

(Published Oct. 2019)

Reunited with my good friend writing in a coffee shop. Ah how I missed you #writing

just pre-ordered through my local bookstore - can't wait to read this!

a white greyhound dog stands so close to the camera you can only see the top three quarters of her face as she stares intently. beside her but not looking nearly as intense is a blue merle smooth collie

Ghost is very invested in what's happening

(I was eating cheese)

me: i'm going to write a silly little stand-alone fantasy story just for fun!

also me: but if i have a fantasy story i should make up a magic system

me again: and if i make a magic system i'll need an equally detailed history

me: and for the history to make sense i'll need to draw some maps...

The local cheese shop wasn’t open yet so couldn’t add that to my breakfast, but not to worry I stopped by after a romp at the lake with the dogs and dropped $30 to replenish my stash of various cheeses

Breakfast consisted of sautéed garlic, hashbrowns, and sungold tomatoes (that all came from my garden), plus fried eggs from my chickens. Living that cottage core life I guess!

Clusters of small purple flowers in the shape of spheres

Long clusters of purple flowers extending over a fence rail

Red berries on a tree

Dutifully collecting plant pictures for my garden club next week - all these years later and I’m still a nerd for extra credit

Breakfast with a view

Your first reading was fantastic - will you be reading the same pages for the second reading?

My TBR pile has grown exponentially thanks to #worldcon

A white greyhound dog and blue merle smooth collie sniff a collection of dried cattails at the edge of a frozen pond

a blue merle smooth collie and white greyhound dog stand in the background on a dry grass hill with a human in the foreground who is smiling at the camera

Stopped by a local pond with the pups - there was some ice but as soon as Ghost the greyhound saw open water along the shore she walked right in while Story the smooth collie lost her mind (she thinks Ghost is performing a harrowing magic trick and not just looking for mud to wallow in)

Puzzle update: Ghost the greyhound (and probably also Story the smooth collie) seem to have eaten...a LOT of puzzle pieces over the course of winter - I hadn't realized just HOW MANY until I laid out the remainder and...🤦

Ordered the latest issue of @locusmag.bsky.social because of the article by @marthawells.bsky.social and CLEARLY I've been missing out - what a phenomenal resource for SFF writers

a white greyhound dog and a blue merle smooth collie stand at the end of their leashes, looking back at the viewer with comically judgmental expressions. They're standing on a paved walkway. In the background are leafless trees and beyond that a vista of bare farmland with occasional patches of snow.

I made them stop and take a picture during our walk through a county park and was judged harshly for it #greyhound #smoothcollie

Today's writing session involved less writing and more sketching the details of the inner workings of this spaceship because I can't just chuck my protagonist into the void, I guess (at least not yet) #amwriting

Virginia Woolf's ORLANDO is now public domain and I hope we get a hundred increasingly weird queer & trans modern interpretations of the text (with a zero percent of the racism please)

Two dogs lying on a rug facing away from the viewer. The dog in the foreground has ears perked. It is a blue merle smooth collie. The dog in the background is a white greyhound with sunshine grazing its fur.

Catching some winter sunshine #greyhound #smoothcollie

Foreground shows a table surface with an incomplete puzzle. A person's hand reaches up and cradles the side of a white greyhound dog's head. In the background is a bookcase and a smooth collie dog lying on a circular bed.

Introducing Puzzle Eater (Ghost the Greyhound) and Manic Pixie Dream Pup (Story the Smooth Collie)