blog vs newsletter: fight!

The difference between the blog (this) and the newsletter (over here, and you should sign up for it if you haven’t bc…bc I said so… o.o): The blog is just that. It’s whatever’s on my mind today (or possibly last week, depending on whether I’ve scheduled a post ahead of time or not). Daily life, nothing necessarily news-oriented. It has movie and book reviews which, despite the name ‘picoreview’ for movies, can go on at some length, and it has me flailing about stuff, and, you know, good stuff like…

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a fairly decent week

It has been a fairly good week over here, work-wise. I’m working on my next paranormal romance, with about 10k on it this week, bringing it up to around 16K/25% done, which pleases me. I have a goal to finish it by mid-February, although (of course) earlier would be better. Beyond that, I mean, like, I’m only level 4 on City of Heroes, but I’m on level 4 in City of Heroes! I’m so happy! :) I have big plans for Saturday which involve alternating between reading a book, napping,…

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Picoreview: Freelance

Picoreview: Freelance: surprisingly cute! This is a John Cena vehicle on Amazon, probably an Amazon original, about a Large American Military Dude who finds himself protecting a dictator he very much does not want to protect, and it’s much more fun than it has any right to be. Like, there’s plenty of dumb, but overall it’s quite charming and has several laugh-out-loud moments. There was a bit where I said “That looks like X will happen pretty soon,” and almost as soon as I finished speaking, X happened, which was…

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one two three FOOOOOUR earrings in my left ear

mild complaints about the state of my ear

Mild ear-piercing-related healing grossness in this post, if you’re sensitive to that sort of thing. ♥ I got my stupid slow-to-heal helix (ear cartilage) piercing looked at today, 15 months after I got it pierced. At about the 11 month mark when it not only still hadn’t healed but was still/again actively gooey, I gave up on the “just clean it with saline 2x a day” advice and swabbed it with hydrogen peroxide a few times like we did with piercings when I was a kid. It fuzzed up in…

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The Blog and the Future

Right, so, I’m trying to reduce my dependency on billionaire-owned social media, which mean I’m trying to increase my blog footprint again. I used to be good at blogging, but somewhere along the way, with all the short-post social media (and its instantaneous feedback, let’s be real, that’s super nice), I got well out of the habit of blogging and also, more relevantly, got to where I started feeling like multiple blog posts in a day (which I used to do all the time!) were…obnoxious. Bothersome. Too Much for readers.…

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