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Taking a Break

| December 16, 2024

It’s been a little while since I’ve taken a Monday off from posting, but today feels like a good day to give myself a break. It’s been a busy few months, or possibly just a busy year. Back next Monday with more advice!  

Happy Holidays!

| December 25, 2023

Whether you celebrate Christmas or any of the myriad other winter holidays, here’s wishing you and yours the best winter holiday season! Back tomorrow with my usual content. Today is a day for watching movies and ordering delivery (and tipping our driver HEAVILY)!  

Day Off!

| April 17, 2023

I’ve spent all weekend on panels at Flights of Foundry and juggled that with freelance work, so I’m giving myself a well-deserved day off from posting here! Back tomorrow with new excitement, and in the coming weeks with recaps of some of the Flights of Foundry events!  

Taking the Day Off!

| September 5, 2022

It’s Labor Day in the United States today, and though I’ll likely be doing research for my writing, I’m taking the day off from blogging. See you back here tomorrow!

Day off!

| November 8, 2021

Between my annual gaming convention over the weekend (virtual this year) and NaNoWriMo, I’m a little tapped out today. Thankfully, it’s a day off work already, and it’s also going to be a day off from the blog. Back tomorrow!

A Well-Earned Day Off

| March 29, 2021

Okay, I’m not at the beach today, but I am taking a well-earned day off after a weekend of online gaming. It was lovely to be able to “attend” a convention that’s normally at a time when we can’t travel this year, thanks to it being entirely virtual. So today is a day for catching […]

Happy Holidays to Me!

| December 28, 2020

Because 2020 has been a hell of a year, and all of our normal vacations were cancelled, I found myself with a surplus of vacation time this year. As such, I decided to take the time between Christmas and New Years off to spend some time relaxing (and, let’s be honest, writing). So I’m taking […]

When Sickness Overtakes Productivity

| November 11, 2019

I got back from vacation last week and had one productive day before getting sick for the rest of the week. So I’m way behind on pretty much everything in my life right now, including writing. Some folks are able to write through their sicknesses, and normally, I’m one of them. This time around, though, […]

Time Off from Writing

| August 5, 2019

We spent the last week of July visiting the Northeast U.S., which was a place that Jeremy had never been, and I had barely been (save for a quick conference trip to Rhode Island some years ago). It was ridiculously hot the entire time we were there, and the wifi in the hotel that we […]

Off on an Adventure!

| July 29, 2019

We’re off on an adventure at the moment, so I don’t have any writing advice to offer this week. I’m looking forward to a little time off from writing and to be reenergized when I’m back!