Expert Dream Monster @cislyn@wandering.shop

#introduction Bi poly married speculative fiction writer. I mostly write short stories and poetry - long form stories are harder for me. I dabble in a lot of crafts, make messes, pet kitties, play games, and dither about how to introduce myself on social media sites (especially since I'll likely just lurk. It's what I do). I'm a submissions editor for Uncanny Magazine, and I read voraciously. Um... yeah, that's me.

I've been juuuust slightly under the weather for the past few days and it's frustrating. I took two covid tests (Friday and then again last night), because it's super not normal for me to fall asleep in the middle of the day, but so far so negative. It's some other bug. Which is good news! But also ugh, I'm tiiiiiired.

Flights of Foundry, the virtual SFF convention I help to run, is looking for a new logo design!

Pay: $300
We're looking for a logo visually coherent with the Dream Foundry's (which you can see here https://dreamfoundry.org/ and also on the DF twitter https://twitter.com/dream_foundry)
We'd like to see portfolios - no concept sketches at this point! -emailed to leaders@dreamfoundry.org.

Please don't expect an immediate response - it will take a little bit to look through and make hard decisions!

The blackberry brambles along the driveway are thriving and I’m looking forward to the summer ritual of pricking my fingers and skirts on thorns as I reach for a tiny burst of sweetness that stains me purple every time I get junk mail.

My yard is very pretty right now. I’ve got wild violets, pansies, and lavender growing in the clover

I’ve been trying to draw a little something every day this week - I’m really loving water color pencils.

It's a beautiful day, I did some drawing earlier with my watercolor pencils, and now my head is reminding me that migraines are a thing. Oof. Hopefully some meds will knock it out.

I’ve started playing Rune Factory 5 and I really love how chill and relaxing this game is. Also, I want a little pop-up in real life that tells me I’ve leveled up my sleeping or walking skill. I’d probably do more of both of those things!

That was meant to be “snug” but honestly she was pretty smug too.

Tonight’s moment of cat is Bubbles being smug

One of the stories I sold this week I wrote back in 2017. It's been revised something like 6 times, and I didn't even start sending it out until 2019 where it started rounding up form rejections (9 of them in total).

I write first drafts super fast, but getting to a finished product takes me a while, and sending things out is a long haul, too. Patience and persistence pays off, and it's more than ok to be slow.

Signed another story contract today - that's two this week! This is shaping up to be a good year for my writing, which is odd, because I haven't actually *written* a darn thing in months. I've done some revising, but my creative brain is just not there right now. It's ok. I have a big backlog of stories and poems to be sending out, and sometimes it just takes a while.

Her new favorite place to hang out is the wrist rest of my keyboard. What a good helper!

Tonight’s moment of cat is Bonus being adorable.

I've been trying out the Toot! client on my phone and really liking it so far. Definitely recommend if anyone is looking for an iOS app.

Mew

I didn't get everything done on my to-do list, but I did make a decently sized dent in it. And now I'm exhausted and want to just sit and stare into the middle distance for a while and pet some kitties.

Also, it seems like it might be a good idea to dust off the @dream_foundry account and start making sure that we're putting content here too.

~adds it to the pile of to-dos~

Today I'm hoping to get a bunch of Flights of Foundry 2021 videos scheduled for release, doing some work with the captioning volunteers, and working on a style guide for the captioning project. Oh, and a meeting with the Con or Bust folks to get a few more details ironed out before the board meeting next week.

I predict my focus will survive through about three hours of all that, but we'll seeeee. And I've got bubble tea on the way, so that'll help.

~cracks knuckles~ Time to get to it.