Keely's Way: 2/10/2025
Springtime for...yeah, you know.
It’s been a year and it’s only February
It is so surreal to be living in the middle of a total government coup being run by a foreign billionaire on a platform that proudly platforms Nazis and trying to market my stories on broken social media networks owned by other craven billionaires while AI both revolutionizes everything and threatens everything.
Project 2025 is in high gear and most of politicians are just like, “gosh doing things is so hard!” My good friend in New Zealand is spamming my inbox with advice on how to apply for a job there. Oh shoot that reminds me I need to renew my passport…if I still can…
As I told a friend, please find me the person who was cursed to live in interesting times so we can take them out for doing this to the rest of us. 🤣
I am not okay. No one I know is. Even the deplorables who voted for that shit-stain of a human being are not okay, now that the turns have tabled.
Yet.
The grind must continue, I have to keep working and writing and making money, now more than ever. I feel up to the challenge, but dang, I would like to live in boring times for a while please!
Weekly Roundup
Doing things!
Dragon’s Grail Arc 2 has LAUNCHED! The first couple of chapters are up, and the story will update every other week for now. Astra’s journey continues up the river Hoshikwazu with a dragon, two stubborn men, and two humongous, mysterious dogs!
Finished the series on Routines vs. Patterns! These posts focused on the differences between setting your schedule up by patterns you follow or routines you set. What’s the difference, you ask? You can find out here!
Then turned around and started a new series: Guide for Hobbyist Authors. Not everyone wants to have a full-blown “author career” and doesn’t need a lot of the advice out there that is meant for professionals. This guide of about four posts will be about how to write, edit, and publish a book for the fun of it!
The Skeptic’s Inspirational continues! Daily bites of motivation, inspiration, and reflections suitable for everyone, no matter your spiritual or philosophical approach to life.
The Bastards of Yumeng continues with Chapter 45! It’s up over 85k words!!!! Yanli faces off with the man who she once called “father!” (This fanfiction is a WIP and is in the 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) / 魔道祖师-墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī fandom, free to read over on AO3!)
THROWBACK!
This is a bit more philosophical than I usually get when talking about the history of text technology, but I think I bring it full circle around to the question of what do we call ourselves, and how does that define what we do?
Author ~ Writer ~ Storyteller
It’s a Keely-Boo World
The snow (wtf) FINALLY melted and Keely has been enjoying the mild weather all day by snuggling up to the front screen door. I put her bed there first thing in the morning and that’s pretty much where she stays…until it is time for a treat, of course!
Yes, she’s still in diapers, and probably will be long term. There is nothing wrong with her that they can find, such as infection or cancer or bladder stones, so at this point it is diapers and frequent pee breaks for the long-term. Oh, my old girl…she’s about 17 years old, give or take, so I can’t complain too much!
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