What a year it’s been!

There have been plenty of tough times, in the form of health issues and losses in the family, financial struggles, pressing deadlines, harassment and bullying by the real estate agency, and subsequent VCAT preparation.

… cont. below due to character and image restrictions.

I posted early this morning, another in a long line of sleepless nights, an image of a lightbulb with the word “create”. I had typed up a long thing about it before realising the character limit here… so here goes, a thread on impostor syndrome, life, and creating anyway… 🧵

Stop overthinking, just create!

Me: I’m going to be productive today.
Also me: takes a 3-hour nap, reorganizes my desk, and watches 7 episodes of a show 🤡 #JustOneMoreEpisode

Anyone know where I can find the Bluesky terms around protection of artwork shared here?

Executives: We'd like to go in a new direction
Designer: Great, exciting, we can update in cool ways
Executives: How about we go w/ complete dogshit
Designer: But the logo is iconic
Executives: No, truly, just absolute dogshit, let's go with "bland" & "yogurt container label" [high fives all round]

Pluto's moon, Charon, at highest resolution so far captured by NASA

“I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”

This was probably my most viral tweet. I've seen it pop up in a lot of quote aggregators, sometimes attributed to a wonderful but definitely not-me filmmaker.

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.