i'm a novelist in spirit

+ today i may have made a tasty sourdough cranberry loaf. i haven't cracked into it yet — it's still cooling — but it seems a bit off to me weight-wise. ugh....baking is SO temperamental. 

[ok, just ate some — delicious, but the cranberry distribution is a little off. i'm sure there's some stupid bread making tip i should learn to make it better. ugh(x2) — back to youtube skewl.]

+ sooooo.....a friend and i are going to be challenging each other to create three (THREE) kdp (kindle direct publishing) books this year. he has actually sold work on that platform and said doing this would prompt me to actually write with a purpose instead of pretending i'm a starving artist who thinks about writing more than she actually writes. 

i am spending more time thinking of a fun nom de plume than i am coming up with ideas....so like me. ugh(x3). 

the idea behind this is to work it like a writing boot camp — it's going to be less about art (snorfle) and more about, you know, having determination and grit and actually FINISHING something. 

we have no real rules beyond having fun with it and reconnecting with our voices. we did promise each other that there would be no "omg, this is going to be as long as gravity's rainbow and JUST as deep and clever" (snorfle) "so i can't possibly finish anything prior to 2032!" 

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