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    Back in December, I turned 42, and although it’s not really a milestone birthday, I went full on navel-gazing. So much of my life over the past two years has been about returning to me, evaluating my values, my habits and practices, and it all kind of solidified into this … thesis? I don’t really

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    Aaaaaaand I’m back! I tried doing only Paradiso-related things on this website, and yeah … I wasn’t too happy with it. My entire identity isn’t within my writing projects, and there was so much I wanted to share that wasn’t about a fictional space station orbiting Mars! And really, so much has happened over the

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    This is actually more of an update than anything else because things are gonna be changing up. I have decided that my blogging is going to happen over on Tumblr, with fun little updates on Bluesky, art & photography on Flashes, and whatever I’m gonna do on Skylight … honestly, I’ll probably just lurk over

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  • Paradiso Challenge, Day 30

    Monthly Wrap-Up Jesus, how is it already the end of April … granted, the last week has felt like it’s been four years long, for several reasons, but still! I truly cannot believe that, in the middle of all the things I’m dealing with right now, I was able to complete a full 30-day challenge

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  • Paradiso Challenge, Day 29

    Character’s Accomplishments Oooh, I have the perfect character for this one! Leah Kwasny was actually one of the first characters I developed for Paradiso – right after Fan, actually – and man, is this woman a force to be reckoned with. She knew exactly who she wanted to be when she was a child; beginning

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  • Paradiso Challenge, Day 28

    Character Phobia(s) Oooooh, this should be fun, but I’m having a hard time choosing which of the characters I haven’t talked about yet. You know what? Somehow I’ve gotten almost to the end of this challenge without talking a bit about Innis Bergonne, a character I invented well before 2016 (which is when I started

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  • Paradiso Challenge, Day 27

    Soundtrack in Paradiso This was originally supposed to be something like “compromises” or whatever, but I just couldn’t figure out anything to write on that topic. So I changed it. Because I can. I have a perpetually evolving YouTube playlist that I continue to use to get into that writing headspace, and it’s creeping up

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  • Paradiso Challenge, Day 26

    Saturday Snippet #4 And without further ado, my final Saturday Snippet. I’m really excited about this one and hope you love it as much as I loved writing it.

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  • Paradiso Challenge, Day 25

    Free Friday or share your hobbies Other than writing? Hm. Well, I like to go to the gym (lifting weights and training for a 5K), to hike, to watch movies/TV, to read, to paint … pretty much standard hobbies. They (plus my ridiculous animals) keep me busy outside of work, so I don’t tend to

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  • Paradiso Challenge, Day 24

    Paradiso aesthetic in gifs I was going to do a mood board of some kind but then I remembered that I have work in the evening and need to sleep, so … gifs it is!

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