Scribbles and Strikethroughs

(I cross mine from R to L, but Jake does his straight through)

I was watching a kdrama and they were tallying a vote and I was just like: 😍😍😍😍

Cus I’d never considered the cultural implications of tally marks. Lol, I just thought lines to five are lines to 5, ya know? Then I read the whole wiki page and now I want to learn more!

I once received a DM comprised of just that sentence. Nothing else. No constructive criticism or any reason as to why this person clearly agreed with my own view of myself.

For someone who has never told anyone in their real life that they write anything, reading something like this from an anonymous user only solidified in my mind the fact that this person was right.

I’m not a good writer.

After an embarrassing amount of minutes passed, in which I thought about deleting every story I ever posted, I decided to delete the message instead. Unfortunately, that didn’t mean I could delete the feelings it caused or change the fact that I’m not a good writer.

Two weeks went by and I didn’t write anything, let alone post. Then I received a comment on a story I had posted three years prior, one I’d written after a death in our family. The comment read, “Thank you for sharing this heartfelt story. I really needed this. I just lost my mom and this really got me today.”

I stopped thinking about being a good writer after that. I thought instead, “what if I had deleted my stories and that one person three years later hadn’t read it that day?”

Here’s what I realized: no one is a good writer.

Good means to be approved of, but stories aren’t created from approval. They’re built from life experiences, feelings, and emotions Therefore, the impact of anyone’s story isn’t good or bad. It’s a million other things.

Heartfelt.

Sad.

Funny.

Inspiring.

Romantic.

So to all the story writers out there, hold your head up, write what is in your heart, and never doubt that there isn’t at least one person out there that needs to read your story.

So, no.

The bare bones of solid plot—plug your points and get writing!

but!!!!!

WE COME UNDONE IS OFFICIALLY PUBLISHED!

it’s available HERE as a paperback!

it’s available HERE as a kindle book!

if you sign up to the $10 tier on my patreon, over HERE, you get a free copy of it this month along with the other goodies!

SUMMARY 

The thing about life is that even on the darkest of days, there’s still a glint of hope. It’s the stars, peeking through the smoggy sky. It’s the moon burnt red in fire. It’s strings of lights run by glints of copper, twining through the trees and the old rafters.     The hen that pecks at a dying land. The gears that keep turning. And the thing about life is that even when we come undone, there’s always going to be someone or something to pick you back up, help get your feet moving again, help you find another light to cling too, another ember to fan into your own burning flames.    Ian’s been moving through the ashes for far too long, and Caleb might not have realized his flames were burning so low. But the way that the world works, is that it tends to put you in exactly the right spot, at exactly the same time.    Or maybe that’s just luck.    Some could even argue it’s bad luck.    No matter what it is, though, it’s there.    And you have to deal with it.

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When an old friend shows up at Caleb’s farm, he finds the full wrath of the Capitol Council brought down upon him. When given a choice between keeping Ian safe, or keeping ownership of the last farm in the country, Caleb knows that there’s only one choice he can make. Keep them both, of course.

*a genre mash-up with flavors from fantasy, post-apoc fiction, and western hints. 

ey you lil shits

lets just talk about this here cookie recipe

this shit

is 

the

BOMB

HOLY SHIT

I JUST FINISHED THIS AND WOW IT TASTES AMAZING

YES

WONDERFUL

Use one spoon white sugar, and one spoon brown if you have it.

After microwave, before noms, add vanilla ice cream.

most restaurants have sugar packets, and i thiiink Starbucks has brown sugar sometimes too. guesstimate from someone who does a lot of baking, about four standard packets should be a tbspn

restaurants also have salt, McDonald’s usually has it in packets. don’t dump a whole packet in, just a dash

individually wrapped butter pats are usually a “fancy” restaurant staple, so idk your economic situation at that point, but if you see'em, snatch'em. two to three of these, depending on size, is a tbspn

vanilla is expensive these days, but the flavor is 100% essential. teeny-tiny bottles exist in most grocery stores, a good size for mug recipes

ofc flour doesn’t come free, but it too is often sold in small packages in many stores, usually cheap

store brand chips, or check for lowered prices on baking ingredients around/after holiday season (I’ve gotten some nice Ghirardelli products during holidays)

Me, the next day: