Brittany Bristol

Rory is OBSESSED with this sausage, leek, potato soup I made and every time he smells it we have to deal with the sad starving puppy looks and the begging... How do I say no? Obviously he can't have sausage but I guess we're making a dog friendly beef potato soup he can eat...

All about the frogs today

I haven't been on TikTok in months and just popped on for a minute and suddenly my timeline is full of powwows, bhangra, dabke... I am so happy! #dance

I love writing romcoms, but my idea of romance is when my husband maps out all the craft stores at our vacation destinations or brings me home new Rubbermaid bins for my yarn collection. It's not sexy and it's not high stakes, but damn it makes me happy. #writersky #crochet

Let spooky season begin! Toured an abandoned tuberculosis sanitarium in Saratoga. The coolest thing I've done in a long time!

Recently discovered Oscar Wilde NYC and am here for the maximalist decor. Wondering exactly how many haunted dolls it would take to cover my ceiling.

I've leveled up my crochet abilities of late.

Celebrate with me... The succession of my crocheting abilities over the last six months.

This was going to be a bear, but after I made the head, it told me it was a frog. I'm a baby crocheter and I figured out how to rework the head and face without any kind of pattern. I think it's definitely frog-esque and unlikely to inspire nightmares 🐸

It's sad to admit, but I have more fun just chatting and brainstorming with chat gpt than I do with most people. I cannot, for example, ask a coworker to brainstorm a wardrobe for a world traveling raccoon on a vespa. Chat gpt does not judge me. Chat gpt suggests a velvet vest and jodpurs.

Volta

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Up at 4:30am writing this morning. The end is kinda sorta in sight. Once I finish the rewrite, I get to do the edit. Will this book ever be finished? I'm writing and crafting like a maniac, trying to ride this wave of creativity as long as it lasts. #writing #writersky

One more bear. We're having a baby boom at work so there are two more of these in my future. #crochet #bear

I am so proud of myself. I have struggled to figure out how to crochet for more than a year. Usually crafting comes more easily to me. I still can't make a magic ring the first (or 5th) time. But I didn't give up and last night I successfully finished this stuffy! #crochet #success

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I love that moment when, after fighting and fighting with a story, not knowing how to get from point A to point B, and no attempt working, something finally clicks and the writing starts flowing again. #writersky #writing

YouTube video by Love Kari Cooking Creamy Spaghetti Verde Poblano Recipe #shorts

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50 Things Your Characters Can Do WHILE They Talk This is one of my favorite tips for how to write good dialogue… Give your characters something to do while they talk! The wonderful movie Warrior has a great lesson in how to write good dialo…

I saw a post about giving characters in scripts “business” or actions to do during conversations. This is true for fiction, too! That’s why I put together this blog post of 50 things your characters can do WHILE they talk.
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me when I get home from work

If Some of Literature’s Most Complicated Male Characters Were Just Reasonable People Instead Holden Caulfield (The Catcher In the Rye) “I really don’t feel like I fit in at this prep school, but Mom and Dad have been trying so hard to find...

Holden Caulfield:
“I really don’t feel like I fit in at this prep school, but Mom and Dad have been trying so hard to find me one that’s a good fit. I should really just hold my tongue on this one and suck it up."

Agent speaking to author: You've got a decision to make, Brian: This book can be a harrowing scream of rage at a broken world sliding inexorably towards dystopian nightmare. Or it can be a sequel to 'Flopsy Bunny's Very Busy Day.' But it can't be both.

HOW ABSOLUTELY DARE YOU

I happily played guinea pig while my son practiced his steak-making skills on Mother's Day. It was delicious!

The Dutch word for a ladybird is lieveheersbeestje, which means “our Dear Lord critter.” Lieveheersbeestje is also a lovely word to say aloud. Other fun sounding ladybird words are the West-Flemish word pimpampoentje, the regional Czech word pinkalinka, and the (rude-sounding) Malay word… kumbang

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

Extroverted in Brooklyn last night at Bingo Loco. Lots of fun for this former club kid whose knees hurt and likes to be in bed by 10pm.

I just learned from a friend who studied Middle English that the word glamour derives from grammar, attributed to court poets who were considered such intellects and were so much in demand that a person who was 'grammarous' eventually became 'glamorous.' There's hope for me yet!

He suffered a stroke in 1919 & died later that year, aged 65. Feast of St Lucy (1916), Convalescing (1917) & Boy (nd). Larsson is now more popular than previously & decent books of his art available- go get one & enjoy one man’s celebration of his love for his family!

I Insisted on a Strict Policy of Only Educational Toys for My Baby, and Now She Is Too Smart and I Am Terrified of Her “Mother, I tire of the coding caterpillar.” The words send a chill up my spine, not just because of the outsized vocabulary that sounds, frankly, u...

"She already speaks more languages than I do, and I’m almost certain she’s been mocking me in Mandarin."

What's the most obscure thing you've searched Google for this week? I needed to find out how much a yard of taffeta cost in the late 1880s. Spoiler alert: Google was patiently unhelpful and showed me a bunch of taffeta Victorian gowns on the market now, going for about $3000. #writersky

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir’s Art and Thought Most of us are familiar with Nietzsche’s words, “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking” or Thoreau’s famous line, “The moment my legs begin to move my thoughts begi…

How walking helped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir make art: “Simone’s hiking was nothing like Nietzsche’s ‘walking’ or Thoreau’s ‘sauntering.’ She marched. Like a machine.”