This Happens Every Year ...

Ah, buggrit. Here it is less than a week before my birthday and six weeks before Halloween, and now I realized what I want to do for both of them. Seems that my current creaton* bombardment doesn’t just include the four or so entire fantasy sagas demanding to be written by last week SEND HELP; it’s also about art projects—such as pirate and Halloween costumes.

Unfortunately, I can’t just do one of these things, because I have dolls. I’d have to make ten costumes for each occasion, and I don’t have the time or the money to do that right now.

So the upshot of all this is that, unless I drink way too much PowerThirst over the next month, there will probably be no doll Halloween album this year. On the plus side, I have tons of ideas written down** to do for next year! And don’t even ask me about next year’s Talk Like A Pirate Day. I will try to make it epic.


*Creatons are particles of creativity. Not to be confused with croutons, which are particles of salad.

**God help me, y’all, I have started a CRAFT NOTEBOOK.

Hip To Be Square!

Permit me to sing you the praises of my new love!

I have become enamored of quad rule notebooks.

It’s funny how a notebook can change the way you think—college-rule feels sharper than wide-rule, and I can scribble with abandon in silly notebooks,* but I’ve never felt so clear as I do writing on graph paper. I have no idea why, but it is a very good feeling—like I am on top of things.

I picked up a quad-rule book originally because I’ve been getting into maps lately. Trying to map out my conworlds, you see. I’m not very spatially smart, so I admit it was a Thus Spake Zarathustra moment when I realized that maps help me visualize a story—and now I’m discovering how darn much fun maps can be.** And the graph paper? Immensely handy for that.

It’s the simple things in life you treasure.


*Fuck all y’all, Ed Hardy stuff is GREAT. You want to say only douchebags own his stuff, then meet my Ed Hardy notebook, and then meet my Ed Hardy mermaid trainers as I kick you with them! That will prove I am not a douchebag!

**Another thing I now have in common with Bilbo!