I’m looking at my editorial calendar, and it’s telling me I should have written a blog post yesterday. That did not happen. Instead I spent most of the day fixing tech issues on the blog, updating things, de-updating things, and semi-productively surfing YouTube – The Happy Page doesn’t update itself, you know. I went on Pinterest and there wasn’t much new to see, so I went out to the plant cage and moved the habanero and the tomatoes out to the deck because it isn’t supposed to freeze again and they’re both huge. And then I made spinach turnovers for dinner and watched an episode of Insane Pools with my wife.
Which meant I had to write a blog post today, and I woke up drawing a blank. Checking all of the other blogs I follow netted me two things to comment on, another review of the new Dark and Gritty Superhero Movie, and an idea for a prop which I actually went upstairs to the studio and created a mockup of just to make sure it would work (it did). But I still didn’t have a topic for a blog post. G+ was full of Atlas Obscura posts, some of which I +1’d for being interesting reads but none of which could be appropriated for the blog. I checked my mail, scanned the kudos notification from AO3 – Extended Family is still popular, someone read and liked Finders Keepers – and then went to look for a job. Found a writing gig that didn’t pay, but that did make me remember I had stories in my portfolio which needed to go up on the site so I could link to them when applying for gigs that might pay. Spent a while creating book covers in Photoshop, then uploaded the stories. Checked my email again. People on one of the forums I belong to are continuing their days-long argument about posting etiquette and today it took a rather nasty turn, so I’m waiting for the moderator to scold them like naughty children. But it hasn’t happened yet. Went to Pinterest, still nothing interesting; looked up plantains because I have two in the kitchen and found a couple of recipes, also learned that I can totally put a green plantain in the spiralizer, yay! So we’re having marinated chicken and plantain fried rice for dinner, during which we will watch Lucas build another awesome custom pool because that and the treehouse show are fun to watch and don’t make me fear for the future of humanity the way half of everything on HGTV currently does.
So now I have to go cook, and possibly make some jerk seasoning just because I can. Let me think, is there anything else? Maybe…
- There is a new Thug Kitchen cookbook out. NSFW, also NSFYourMom unless your mom is me – I bought our daughter the first one for her birthday last year, it’s an awesome cookbook;
- There are two new stories up on the Stories page, natch;
- I changed my Camp NaNo project, going to do some very necessary revisions instead of writing something new. I’ll work on the Barracuda Flats continuation next Camp;
- Oh, and In the Land of Ever After will start posting here on the blog on Friday morning, April 1st, 8am sharp! A cover link will also appear for it on the Stories page. And just so you know, all of those blank lines you’ll be seeing in the Table of Contents below the first chapter are indicating already-scheduled chapter posts. Which means that if you enjoy my takes on fairy tales, you aren’t going to be running out of fresh weekly reading material for a good long while. 😉