Twitter/X account is deactivated. My brain just cannot cope with my own cognitive dissonance of despising what is going on with that platform while simultaneously continuing to participate, if even just as a reader.

Back on the river. First SUP since Tahoe - quite a different scene, but the vibes are still good 🤙🏽 🌞

#StandUpPaddleboarding #SUP #BlackCanyonRiverTrail #WillowBeach

This tweet comes unironically from the GOP, which loves giant defense budgets, wants to regulate women's bodies, wishes to tell schools what they can teach, desires a 1900-mile-long border wall, wants to increase the size of police forces, thinks the government should prevent drag story hours, is trying to track young women's periods, thinks social media companies need more regulation, is banning books from libraries, and is trying to tell doctors what prescriptions they can & can't write.

Honestly, posting is helping me stick with this challenge, so I'm staying with it.

For day 10/100 (yeah!) of #the100dayproject, I wrote 1051 words, when I felt like writing ZERO. It's the small wins...

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519 words for Day 9/100 of #the100dayproject, in which one of my characters attempts to tell his life story in 3 minutes (that's about 450 words).

@Karen5Lund Oh that’s a great idea (2nd account). Hadn’t thought of that. Thx!

@tsubtext I started playing a couple of months ago. It’s a nice way to wind down at the end of the day. It also provides a little laugh sometimes; like, so many neckties randomly thrown around every scene 😂

Thinking of moving my account over to a different server. Does it really make a difference though?

Oops – I posted that yesterday was day 6, but it was day 7, making this day 8/100 of #The100DayProject, and 300 words written. Yay!

But still, I write. Not a lot – I finally got word that a project I pitched was accepted (I feared it wouldn’t be, which is why I decided to spend 100 days on this novel). But the schedule is tight!

I’m still committed to finishing this novel, even if it is one sentence at a time.

For now, they’re still in that booth. 😊

Photo by Hans Vivek on Unsplash

Being Nazi-adjacent means you’re a Nazi. You don’t get to pal around with them then act innocent.

@dbsalk Secret shopper report?? Ooh, I didn’t know they did that there.

Luckily my son’s already gotten a guest compliment, which he was excited about. And he was able to talk to HR (yeah, he did that, and even I was like ‘ugh are you sure you want to take it that far?’) and they are making sure he isn’t positioned in physical proximity as the CM with the offending behavior.

Do you look back fondly at your experience?

@dbsalk It’s really like this strange “bubble-inside-the-bubble” isn’t it? My kiddo is super into “maintaining the magic” and is having to learn to work with people who aren’t.

Example: while we (guests, on stage) chatted with an attractions CM, he insisted on maintaining the narrative of ‘friends of’ characters (we appreciated it). Then he shared his ‘I got my CM ex-gf pregnant so I can’t work in the same land as her’ story.

We were like “Huh. That’s…magical?”

Stuff like that, but worse 😳

A much more productive Day 6/100 for #The100DayProject with 900 words written. The scene takes place in a diner, my two protagonists sitting across from each other in a booth like this, plotting their next time-travel move. (And maybe falling in love?)

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Day 6/100 of #The100DayProject was spent editing. I know I should wait until I am “done” with a complete first draft, but my brain was having a hard time focusing (I just received word that a work proposal was accepted and I am quite excited). So something was better than nothing.

Just an accountability post today. (And a picture of a bouquet of flowers I found tossed against a wall on my morning wall. I bet there’s a story there…hopefully not too tragic).

#writing #writer #writingcommunity

When my youngest got into the Disney college program, we kept reading stories about CPs quitting early (“self-terming” in the mouse’s parlance). We didn’t get it.

A month in and…I think I’m starting to get it.

(And no, it’s not the insane schedule.)

He’s still excited about Disney parks but…getting a crash course in, well, let’s just say many of the things for which compliance training exists 😂. (Not safety related, thank goodness.)

The WDW Princess Half Marathon took place today. I didn’t run it; rather, I was home procrastinating writing and doom scrolling (as usual).

So for day 5/100 I managed to write 300 words. And I’m sharing my “jump” picture from the time I did run this race back in 2017 (feels like forever ago)!

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A politician using state power to try to control what is taught in higher education - what would you say if you saw it in another country? https://twitter.com/jdmortenson/status/1628984073128448002?s=20

1100 words written for day 4/100 of #The100DayProject after many hours of procrastinating.

I am using this question, from “The Book of Questions” in a conversation between my two main characters. I think it’s such an interesting way to learn about someone; both what they want to know, and in what direction (past or future, inward or outward) they are most curious 😊.

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