Betsy Bailey
@betsybe.bsky.social
Nerd of words, spreadsheets & completed to-do
lists. ✅ Also into: 📚🧁🧶🏋️♀️📸🎨
lists. ✅ Also into: 📚🧁🧶🏋️♀️📸🎨
I’m nearly done with this WIP and am really going to miss it! It’s seen me through an entire Better Call Saul binge + Grey’s Anatomy catch-up seasons. 🧶 Alpenglow blanket pattern by @purlsoho.bsky.social, knit in reverse ridge using their Linen Quill minis pack. #knitsky #showmeyourknits #knitting
March 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I’m nearly done with this WIP and am really going to miss it! It’s seen me through an entire Better Call Saul binge + Grey’s Anatomy catch-up seasons. 🧶 Alpenglow blanket pattern by @purlsoho.bsky.social, knit in reverse ridge using their Linen Quill minis pack. #knitsky #showmeyourknits #knitting
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Why did the plank feel a hole in his life?
He was bored.
He was bored.
March 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Why did the plank feel a hole in his life?
He was bored.
He was bored.
Spotted: snowman carcass
February 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Spotted: snowman carcass
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Hot tea, just enough snowstorm and wind chimes for ambience, plus 1000 words of novel progress. ☃️ #writingcommunity #amwriting
February 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Hot tea, just enough snowstorm and wind chimes for ambience, plus 1000 words of novel progress. ☃️ #writingcommunity #amwriting
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7 Stages of Pen Grief:
1. Realizing it doesn't work
2. Scribbling on the notebook
3. Scribbling harder on some cardboard or whatever
4. Looking at the full ink reservoir and frowning
5. Sucking on the ballpoint
6. Scribbling on the notebook some more
7. Throwing it across the room
1. Realizing it doesn't work
2. Scribbling on the notebook
3. Scribbling harder on some cardboard or whatever
4. Looking at the full ink reservoir and frowning
5. Sucking on the ballpoint
6. Scribbling on the notebook some more
7. Throwing it across the room
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
7 Stages of Pen Grief:
1. Realizing it doesn't work
2. Scribbling on the notebook
3. Scribbling harder on some cardboard or whatever
4. Looking at the full ink reservoir and frowning
5. Sucking on the ballpoint
6. Scribbling on the notebook some more
7. Throwing it across the room
1. Realizing it doesn't work
2. Scribbling on the notebook
3. Scribbling harder on some cardboard or whatever
4. Looking at the full ink reservoir and frowning
5. Sucking on the ballpoint
6. Scribbling on the notebook some more
7. Throwing it across the room
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How do you write when the world is burning?
Passionately and compassionately. Onward.
Passionately and compassionately. Onward.
February 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
How do you write when the world is burning?
Passionately and compassionately. Onward.
Passionately and compassionately. Onward.
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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ―Thomas Mann #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
February 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ―Thomas Mann #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
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February 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Though concentration is not coming easily, I’m still planning to eke out a golden hour of writing before the day is done. In the meantime, I managed to distract myself drafting a character relationship map in Canva. So not an altogether unproductive day, creatively! #writingcommunity #amwriting
January 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Though concentration is not coming easily, I’m still planning to eke out a golden hour of writing before the day is done. In the meantime, I managed to distract myself drafting a character relationship map in Canva. So not an altogether unproductive day, creatively! #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Library Path Post
January 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Library Path Post
I finished The Classic Storytelling course at The Novelry last week, and today I begin the 90-Day Novel course! I’m excited to dig in on this first draft - it’s a story I’ve been wanting to tell for awhile. 👩💻 #amwriting #writingcommunity
January 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I finished The Classic Storytelling course at The Novelry last week, and today I begin the 90-Day Novel course! I’m excited to dig in on this first draft - it’s a story I’ve been wanting to tell for awhile. 👩💻 #amwriting #writingcommunity
18+ years in the desert southwest have given me a fresh appreciation for seasons, including winter. Especially REAL winter. The kind of winter I barely experienced growing up in Ohio (our lakes didn’t freeze like this during the 70s/80s years of my childhood). #minnesota
January 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
18+ years in the desert southwest have given me a fresh appreciation for seasons, including winter. Especially REAL winter. The kind of winter I barely experienced growing up in Ohio (our lakes didn’t freeze like this during the 70s/80s years of my childhood). #minnesota
I haven’t gone to the movies in years, and I never re-watch anything, but THREE times in the space of one month I dehydrated myself (to minimize potty breaks) to see the glorious #Wicked part one in theaters. 3x! I know it’s bonkers. #noregrets 🥰🤓
January 8, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I haven’t gone to the movies in years, and I never re-watch anything, but THREE times in the space of one month I dehydrated myself (to minimize potty breaks) to see the glorious #Wicked part one in theaters. 3x! I know it’s bonkers. #noregrets 🥰🤓
Except the chaos is IN the house 😅
January 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Except the chaos is IN the house 😅
So, I signed up for The Novelry last month and I am *loving* this course! I probably could have started immediately with The 90 Day Novel, but decided to ease in with The Classic to help with ideation practice and the dreaded creative block. #writingcommunity #amwriting
January 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
So, I signed up for The Novelry last month and I am *loving* this course! I probably could have started immediately with The 90 Day Novel, but decided to ease in with The Classic to help with ideation practice and the dreaded creative block. #writingcommunity #amwriting
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My kingdom for an edit button
November 17, 2024 at 6:13 PM
My kingdom for an edit button
November 19, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors
October 14, 2024 at 8:52 PM
hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors
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Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time
November 17, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time
It’s not RBF, it’s anxiety scowl.
November 16, 2024 at 3:06 PM
It’s not RBF, it’s anxiety scowl.
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Welcome to Blue Sky.
November 15, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Welcome to Blue Sky.