• September 1, 2025

    Today, I’ve done two things to help my creativity:

    1. I read part of an interview with John Keen in The Paris Review. It was excellent! I’ll probably finish it tomorrow.
    2. I’m posting to this blog!

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    Love and gratitude, as always.

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  • August 31, 2025

    Today, I’ve done four things to help my creativity:

    1. I visited Golden Hour Books and purchased a copy of The Paris Review.
    2. I revised a micro titled “Secret Garden” AND a micro titled “Plant Food.” (I didn’t work on a micro yesterday, so I had to do two today).
    3. I watched Adaptation, dir. by Spike Jonze.
    4. I’m posting to this blog! And starting a new streak.

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  • August 27, 2025

    Today, I’ve done four things to help my creativity:

    1. I, once again, listened to the Magnus Archives while shifting the Bookmobile collection in the stacks. I was slightly less enthusiastic about the whole process today compared to yesterday, but it was still nice to revisit such a good horror podcast.
    2. I revised a micro titled “Sunday School.” This is actually my first memoir micro, and it’s been fun to play around with that mode. One more pass, and it’ll be final.
    3. I read a really excellent article about GenAI and libraries. Find it here. I was particularly intrigued by the summary of a speech given by Ruha Benjamin, especially the parts regarding the potential powers of imagination.
    4. I’m posting to this blog! Two days in a row so far. I’ll be curious to see how long I keep the streak up.

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  • August 26, 2025

    Today, I’ve done three things to help my creativity:

    1. I listened to the Magnus Archives while shifting the Bookmobile collection in the stacks–the stacks are very dusty, but the collection is going to be in such good shape! This is an excellent task because it sort of combines something mindless, which is great for ideas, and revisiting a story that I’ve found really inspiring for my novel.
    2. I wrote a new micro, titled “Plant Food.”
    3. I’m posting to this blog! I really want to do this, and it’s tricky to maintain, so I’m counting posting as a creative act in itself.

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  • August 19, 2025

    Today, I watched a few very good episodes of Bob’s Burgers.

    It’s late and I need to go to bed, so I’ll edit this in the morning to throw in hyperlinks. But I didn’t want to go to bed without cranking out this silly little blog. I really meant it when I set out to do it everyday, because I think it really helps me focus in on the things in my life that I find inspiring and that drive me to create. So, here we are. (Also, I edited a micro and wrote a new one! Is bringing that up all the time getting boring yet? Should I start telling y’all the titles?)

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  • August 18, 2025

    Today, I revised a couple of micros.

    I’ve been a little hit or miss with this blog lately (and with lots of things, honestly!) but I’ve still kept up this micro practice. I’ve written 14 in total. And, I was right that maintaining this sort of creative practice would help my other work–I actually picked my novel up again last night and started to revise it into its fifth draft.

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  • August 5, 2025

    Today, I read a couple of really great articles in Jacobin. I highly recommend getting a subscription!

    I also wrote a new micro (yay!) and started revising the one from yesterday. Today’s micro is kind of lame, but I think the one I wrote yesterday is promising. Reading the articles in Jacobin is actually what got me excited though, because their ‘progress’ theme for the spring 2025 issue meant a lot of the articles were sci-fi adjacent. There was also a kind of lackluster article about folks who think they’re sensitive to electromagnetic waves that didn’t really go anywhere, but definitely got me thinking. I’ve always loved sci-fi, and I keep thinking that one of these days I should try to write my own. We’ll see.

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  • August 4, 2025

    Today, I (finally!) wrote a new micro, and also edited one.

    This morning, I finally mustered up the energy to write a new micro AND revise one. It’s only been a week-ish since I last did that, but it still felt like such an accomplishment! And, for the first time in months, I looked at my novel, Forgotten Holler. I didn’t do anything with it yet, but I touched it and set it where I could easily grab it, then flipped through some of it. Progress!

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  • August 3, 2025

    Today, I sent out my newsletter, and told my subscribers my favorite creative activity of the week.

    How were you creative today?

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  • August 1, 2025

    Today, I edited one micro fiction.

    New jobs are truly exhausting, so I’m really proud of myself for keeping up this micro writing thing. Obviously writing every day doesn’t make you a writer, but the act of doing something writer-ly has really made me feel better about who I am as a creative person. And for what it’s worth, the job is off to a great start, and I expect that to continue.

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I am trying to post something every day reflecting on creativity, what’s inspiring me now and what’s inspired me in the past, what I’m working on. Think of this is a public writing journal, made public only in an attempt to make myself more accountable.

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