I'm no longer the person in my 2022 #introduction. Here's an update:

Writer and editor but phasing it out work-wise, which is both reckless and necessary. Currently developing a stageplay, playing chicken with my novel edits, and working on my next poetry chapbook.

I am an #EclecticWitch. Of course I read the #tarot.

I'm compelled to #paint recently because this is how my brain processes things now.

I'm single and optimistic for the first time in a long time.

Hello.

Parents left in the car with a parang (machete), which is something worrying if you're in the wrong neighbourhood. But being my parents in this suburban-bordering-on-rural area, it wasn't long before they came home with a 10-foot-long green bamboo trunk, one end braced against the inside of the boot hatch and the other sticking out of the front passenger window like a harpoon. I wish I got a photo but I was laughing too hard.

After a 10-year absence, I will be joining #Nanowrimo2023. It's a fantastic way of ignoring editing work on my 2013 #Nanowrimo novel, which nearly got published a couple of years back.

'Dreaming of Water' was based on two short stories for #StoriesOnFire based on a novel-in-progress I have with a co-author. The story that teased the origin story of a side character proved intriguing enough for me to pursue.

Wanna be my Buddy?
https://nanowrimo.org/participants/tarlia

#DreamingOfWater
@nanowrimo

Why is it that men I match with on #dating sites come at me with, "I'm the most boring person on the face of this planet, with no passions or interests or opinions. So what are you doing this weekend?"

Not you, obviously.