Hi. How are you?
It’s been a minute.
Things have been good, considering we’re still in a pandemic, and there are people who are still acting like there wasn’t one in the first place.
Still writing stories. I recently submitted a short story and am pretty much starting a manuscript (that I had already finished a couple years ago) from scratch. It’s…going better than I expected. Even when I’m not writing, I’m drafting ideas in a notebook/loose leaf paper/my head. Like Motel 6, the light is always on.
Reading, reading, and more reading. Never bad and never dull. I haven’t kept count on how many books I’ve read so far, but I have read some hefty books: Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson, The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (an Alabama native), and The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Daré, to name a few. I was nearly wrecked by Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower! It was the most dystopian thing I’ve ever read/watched, enhanced by the fact that this past year, or last few years, has felt like a dystopia…Still gonna read the sequel.
Video games! I’ve been playing Hades for the most part, but I bought New Pokémon Snap and have been enjoying it a lot. Can definitely say I am better at taking pictures than I was at six years old when the first Snap came out.
Shows? Faves so far have been WandaVision, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Loki, considering that I didn’t initially like the character his series has been good so far (what a surprise that I listed Marvel shows lol), Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Law and Order: Organized Crime., and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba. I’ve currently been re-watching Sailor Moon; I hadn’t seen the 90s version of the anime since it was on Toonami. Yeah, that long ago. Tuxedo Mask really did not do anything lol. And also, a myriad of cooking competition shows.
That’s pretty much it for right now. Hard to believe that half of the year is in the books. Life might become rough in these next months; unfortunately it’s not a video game in which you can change the difficulty with the press of a button. But, as the saying goes, “trouble don’t last always.” You can be knocked down, but you can stand up and press forward.