As of today, the film and television Writer’s Guild of America strike has been going on for a week. They are striking for better pay, better conditions, and regulations when it comes to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace. They had been going back and forth with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) for six weeks with nothing to show prior to their decision to strike. No, this is not another article on the strike (though I stand with those who choose to strike). This is actually another article about AI and writing.

Five years ago I wrote about what International Women’s Day means to me and I sort of explained what it meant to me. I included a little story about how I learned about the commemoration day and what it meant to be one of the only women in a men’s club (i.e. a service member and veteran).

This year has been a blur or maybe that is just how the beginning of the year feels like because everything is new and people have all these grandiose plans to start over. It is the end of the month, which means it is the monthly wrap-up where I go over what I accomplished goal-wise as well as what I have been doing outside of making content. Is it weird that it felt like just yesterday that I wrote up January’s?

It’s the last week of self-love month (well at least writing about it) and I wanted to include some more media for your self-love consumption.

This week, I will give you gentle readers some of my favorite ways that I bring self-love into my life and hopefully help you bring self-love into your own life.

Content/Trigger Warning: contains subjects about mental and verbal abuse, Fatphobia, homophobia, and mental health.

Is it just me or did it feel like January was super quick but also hella slow?

This should have been a blog post in December, but alas we are here in January thinking about the past. I feel like January is a great month to think about the past.

January 2020 started off, for me at least, with a paid trip to LA. I was going to a conference for student veterans and also doing my first performance as a draglesque performer in the city. I had big plans…

15 years of creating things that seem like distant memory. Most of the content I created in the past is long gone. Even old videos that I backed up are on a hard drive only compatible with a Mac computer and thus gone and forever out of reach.

As we ring in the new year, we as humans always set new goals for ourselves. It seems simple enough, right?

This week we are going to go over the tools I like using as a player. Some of these tools are tangible (meaning I have them in person) and some are online tools.

I am fairly new to the world of running games. I have only been doing it for a year and some change and it has really helped me grow creatively as a writer and world builder.

When you are stuck in a rut with writing, most of the time you just take a break or call it quits for a bit then come back to the project with “new eyes.”

A “sit down” interview with the main character of my novel for NaNoWriMo and my very first D&D character.

Where has the time gone? Everywhere because I didn’t write for a while.

I first heard about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo or NaNo for short) when I was neck-deep into my YouTube days.

“B’s are not employable.”

“Where have you been? You dropped off and stopped writing.”

I always thought I was just an ally. Outside of the community; always the cheerleader.

When it comes to the stories of assigned-female at birth (AFAB) veterans and the AFAB veteran’s experience, I am all for it. Please write about it, talk about it, raise awareness for it. I will read, talk, and help in any way I can.

If you follow me on my other social media channels, then you know I have been performing quite often. That performance piece has been in the way of drag.

Photo credit: David Martinez (@dmvrtinez.jpg)

And that is where the #witchtalk comes into play, because witch we need to talk.

I "needed" to show that I was a woman and I wasn't some androgynous person in a poorly fitting unisex (I got out right before "female" formed uniforms in the Army) uniforms.