Kerrigan Legend

My journal is full of very profound first sentences that go absolutely nowhere.

Lit a candle to set the writing mood. Stared at the candle for twenty minutes. Blew out the candle. Called it a session.

The romantic image of a writer is someone deeply in tune with the human experience. I am deeply in tune with how long I can avoid opening my document before guilt wins.

I have a very beautiful journal I bought specifically for capturing ideas. It has four entries in it. My best ideas are on a sticky note stuck to my laptop that says don't forget this.

Writers in film always seem to finish their sentences. Must be nice.

The dream: writing at a Parisian cafe

I told someone I was working on a book and they said oh how romantic and I just nodded because it was faster than explaining what the last six months have actually looked like.

A writer's life

People imagine writers communing with their muse. I spent forty minutes today trying to remember a word I already knew and ultimately googled synonym for big.

I can almost guarantee that if you use the phrase "beta reader" on this app you will receive a litany of responses posted by questionable "beta readers" and "proofreaders" asking you what genre you write. Even though it's posted in your author bio.
Give it a whirl if you feel like having fun today.

The cozy writing nook Pinterest board has 200 pins. The actual writing situation is a dining room table covered in mail and a laptop that runs hot.

Romanticized: a writer filling notebooks with raw

Writers in movies stare pensively out rain-streaked windows. I stare pensively at the same paragraph I've been working on for six days.

My writing process has three stages: avoiding it

The fantasy is a cabin in the woods with no distractions. The reality is I'd spend the first two days reorganizing the kitchen and calling it getting in the right headspace.

Someone asked me what my writing routine looks like and I described it so confidently that I almost believed I actually have one.

Wrote for four hours today. Deleted three and a half of them. Living the dream.

The aesthetic: candlelit desk

People think being a writer means sipping wine in a sun-drenched studio while inspiration flows like a river. It's actually 11pm on a Tuesday

the enshittification of pinterest ...and a different platform to once again, dream and be inspired.

i wrote some words a while back about an app i used to love... i wrote books on it, created trainings, lost a revenue stream because of its leadership's bad decisions (womp womp), and was obsessed. loved it. it's gone.

so where do we go from here? my thoughts.

Right? Also a who-you-know type game.

in my head, also.

same.

I think it has potential, although it's pretty young yet in development.

Right? Ugh.

We need a category called "the melting pot" for everything that doesn't fit in a particular bucket.

It's young and still emerging. I'm giving it some time.

I love how you're always popping up on my feed. :)

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