Hi. I’m Diana. I’m a book fan, writer, and Marine Corps reservist. I blog about what I’m reading, what I’m writing, and my experience, so far, writing my first novel.

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PME complete ✅ Happy Sunday, all. I have been sequestering myself from the internet these past few weeks as I focus on finishing this draft of my manuscript. If social medial taps into our instant gratification, reptile-brain, then book writing calls upon our think-deeply-on-something-forever-and-ever-until-something-clicks, brain. I did some work for the Marine Corps this weekend, here I am with my hubs and straight-faced child after I showed up for my dad’s birthday party. Be well 🙌. Happy Monday, all. I finished reading, “Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet,” this morning. I recommend it if you’ve every been curious about the internet. Blum goes through the history of the internet by way of all the internet’s physical locations. It’s surprisingly refreshing. For a space that feels so abstract, the internet is anything but. I’ve been reading this book lately and I’m only half- way through because it’s kind of a slog. But this is THE book, they say, about character archetypes and the mono myth. This is just a fancy way of saying that all stories are the same. I dig it. I buy the argument. Still all the mythology is a lot to take in, but it’s a must read if you’re into character archetypes and such. It’s a rainy day here in Florida today, and despite the fact that my kids’ soccer practice is canceled, normal life keeps getting in the way of reading my manuscript and pressing on with revisions. If you didn’t know, I have a military+science-fiction+coming of age novel that I’ve been working on. It’s both a passion project and a serious one. Sometimes it kicks my ass. I hit an author-ly milestone this morning. It’s the, “you have an actual story here but you still have more revisions to do,” milestone 😅. This is my second round of professional edits for my book manuscript.

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