I signed with a new agent and spent the last 5 months on a major restructure of a maximalist ecofiction novel imperfectly disguised as a contemporary workplace comedy. #WIP Hollywood has taken over casting for a televised mission to Mars. It’s back up to over 400 pages and my agent is going to be so mad when I finally turn in this draft. Just need to untangle the final 50 pages, which is why I’m playing here. Procrastination is part of the process.
Of all the things I miss from pre-COVID times, I think I mostly just miss American bar culture.
Strangers, on barstools, at the bar.
Watching a game, or Jeopardy, or a classic movie. Chatting with each other. Sometimes, in my case, just reading quietly, or maybe with my laptop playing a game.
But just, hangin' out, really.
Becoming, for a month here, a month there, once a whole year over there, a "regular".
"On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the sea and tourism will trade that next week for the mainland’s solid ground."
One of the photos that grabbed my attention: The rows of identical concrete houses they'll be moving to.
Hühnerprojekt abgeschlossen. Sie sind da. :) Rosie, Jackie und Cookie. Meine Tochter (8) hat sie mit ihrem angesparten Taschengeld bezahlt. Sie gehören ganz allen ihr. Und sie ist schon den ganzen Tag draußen und kümmert und beobachtet ihre neuen Lieblinge. :)
I don't have a lot, but West (West Flows) surprised me by declaring he was gay. I will admit I struggled with that, until I realized that love is just love. And he is very much in love with his Jeko.
I hope that more characters will come out as queer. I think my Moon might be. (She's the MC in the book after Sun Burns.)
Valheim is a survival game, but it's really complex. Materials, monsters, even farming and taming animals - all part of it. I have a solo server (which does have some limitations, there are a few things that are VERY difficult to do alone) and one where I play with a friend.
"Bestsellerautorin Katja Diehl beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit Fragen der Mobilität. Wie werden wir uns in Zukunft fortbewegen? Welche Konzepte und Transportmittel sind zukunftsfähig - auf dem Land und in der Stadt? In ihrem neuen Buch "Raus aus der Autokratie - rein in die Mobilität von morgen" untersucht sie, wie es um die Bereitschaft zu einer Verkehrswende steht - gesellschaftlich und politisch."
Liebe Community,
ich steuere gerade nicht auf eine Katastrophe zu, sie ist schon da!
Ich habe ab übermorgen keine Krankenversicherung mehr und suche deshalb dringend einen anderen Job. Leider, nach wirklich vielen Bewerbungen, Gesprächen, Probearbeitstages usw. hat mich niemand eingestellt.
And Latinos, Asians, Muslims. Thugs (black men.) Indigenous peoples. LGBTQ. Young people with blue hair. The poor. Educated people. Women who aren't doormats -- or are but won't be raped or beaten. Jews, at least those who don't hate Arabs. Feminists. Liberal men. Atheists. Women who've had an abortion. Witches. Goths.
Liberals just hate conservatives (and that's fairly recent.) It's much more efficient. You don't have to memorize the various lists of people to hate.
I'm German, born here, living in Germany, bilingual English/German.
I spent a year in LA (looong ago) as an exchange student, and since then, part of heart heart has stayed in the US. I have many, many American friends.
Turning 59 this year, am autistic and a pattern seeker. Cis-woman. Also a writer. 😉