An aspiring plant-mother, a lover of owls, a collector of books, an admirer of experience, a cook, a writer, a homemaker, a sometimes painter, an embroiderer, a lover of complex characters, & a giver of deserved (sometimes undeserved) happy endings.

Regarding 2018: I'm here, I'm alive, I'm well. My goal is to finish everything I've started (with the possible exception of Divine Trinkets & On My Way Running) by April 2019. Wish me all the luck you can spare.

Currently updating Ibid.

Working on Sonnet.

Dreaming about Wishful.

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“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
―John Green

"This is what I was born for—to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world—to instruct myself over and over..."
—Mary Oliver

“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”
―Pearl S. Buck

"When writing... a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."
―Ernest Hemingway

“My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
―Jane Austen [from the 2007 film: Becoming Jane]

“All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.”
—Steve Almond

“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
—Virginia Woolf

“Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.”
—Ray Bradbury

“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
― Joss Whedon

"Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide."
—D.W. Winnicott

"I write to discover what I know."
—Flannery O'Connor

"Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends."
—Hafiz

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