Category: positive thoughts

Wild Wednesday

Poets are expected to write love poetry.

Today of all days I feel like I am out of place.

My boyfriend and I have been together for nearly all our adult lives…but we are not the romantic sort. He is my best friend.

His sister writes such lovely romantic poems.

I am trying to talk her into publishing them.

But for the poet who writes gothic poems or poems about nature more than love poems…today is an extra stress.

For poets write about love and romance, right?

I just want to say it is okay to be alone. I am nonbinary with Acesexual tendencies. Romance is not something that interests me…so why would I write about it?

Just because today is a commercialized romantic hell…You are okay even if you have not found that person yet. You are okay even if you never do.

Maybe Politics?

I posted yesterday on Facebook how blessed I felt. I had been invited to join a collective group of poet’s and artists. I said that I felt like an ant in a group of giants.

A good friend pointed out that without Imposter syndrome where would we be… Politics?

That made me laugh .

I am ill suited for politics, because the only person I can lie successfully to is me.

Still I shall enjoy the time spent amongst others who bend words so pleasantly.

(btw the art is mine)

Artsy Fartsy Thursday

Title; ridge

Wild Wednesday

Someone asked me in a vague way about inspiration and why I chose the genre I did…

I don’t think I chose it.

let me explain. I write what is comfortable. For me that often is prose with a poetic bent. I am by my nature Goth and pagan… energy that follows me in my work. I am a gamer. that also follows me into my work. I am a parent. again it follows me. I think it’s just something we write what we know.

That is why you can’t write the same story I can. Even if you write the same topic. your life experience and your voice is going to be drastically different from mine.

So write it, that story buried in the back of your head…. I promise it is something that no one else has done.

Artsy Fartsy Thursday

I love doing digital flowers but I often feel like they are not something that requires skill because of how easy they are to do.

I literally put it together in less than 5 minutes each time. this one took ten because I wanted more details.

Wild Wednesday

Games.

Video games to be specific.

I have several that I am rather fond of.

Back in the early oughts I was so into Ultima Online that I learned how to code in C# just to be able to make a server to play with.

My friend group, though small, have a small selection of games that we cycle through that are multi player. This includes Conan Exiles, 7 days to die, Green Hell, project Zomboid, palworld, valheim, raft, subsistence, Stardew valley, and red dead redemption 2 online.

Of the ones that I listed… Palworld is the newest one and the one that I am most likely to be on a solo run with.

I used to love 7 days… the developers really ruined it. It looks great but they keep taking the game and wiping their backsides with it then when the fans try to make suggestions they are asinine to them. It makes it less fun.

Project Zomboid is complicated. 3rd person view and I keep dying.

Raft is fun. but I don’t like having the shark attacks on.

Conan Exiles rocks. Over all good multi player game.

Valheim… I don’t like the building mechanics in this game.

Green Hell is better now. The first time we tried to do multi player there was invisible natives and I kept dying.

Stardew valley is Farmville on crack. Lol

Rdr 2 I am struggling with this one. Not good at stealth. Not good at shooting.

Palworld is basically a pokemon clone with a better story.

Reformatting Patreon

I finally have a rhythm on here. I am hoping if I add slowly I can get patreon on the regular posting thing. I cut it back to a single tier…Just $1 a month. For that You would have access to stories by Serena, occasional poetry and art by me. But I am planning only one post there a week for now. if I see myself capable that may change.

Next will be me adding Ko-fi….

Artsy Fartsy Thursday

I was in a pencil and paper mood.

The first one is something that I did not want to share… I was trying for cute and came out with a borderline Leatherface… that one can hide in my sketchbook till the end of time….lol.

Goal Achieved!

Tears of the Broken is Written. Now I start working on Hope Splashes.

Wild Wednesday

I am certain I can do the deadline for Tears of the Broken.

I don’t know if I will be able to get it done with a huge amount of leeway but it will be done by the deadline.

I promised if I was certain I could I would reveal my next volume today.

If you follow me on Facebook at all you have seen the cover. I have an album that I dump all the new ones that I create into.

Ever since creation this has been on my mind.

I generally choose a word for each year. most years it has not been something I have put a lot of weight on. This year the word is Hope.

So I thought Hope Splashes would be a good one for this year… but I think it wants to be written sooner rather than later.

I wanted to share all of the covers here but it was too much for WordPress. Hence why my post for last week. I found the limit 😞.