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 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.

I feel like maybe I should go and poke at my dreamwidth account too, but the chances that I'll have either time or energy to actually update it and/or read other people's posts... yeah... maybe it's ok that it just sits there, quietly gathering dust. DW is great! It's lovely and well run and a great idea and gosh I just can't right now.

My "I survived the convention" present to myself arrived yesterday and it is so pretty! I highly recommend getting hair flowers from The Faerie Market - I feel like a character in a Tales game who's found an attachment andI want to wear it all the time. https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheFaerieMarket