A recent milestone: I fleshed out a complete plot line for my novel!

And it’s awesome and messy and written by hand (don’t worry, I immediately took photos of the curling pages so that it’d be preserved somewhere). It’ll probably all change around in another month or so, when I’m frustrated by the middle scenes and need to file down the edges. But my thought process is that if I have an outline, I can start writing 1-page scenes for each of the segments and inch my way towards having a working draft. Not a completed draft, but a working one.

In the spirit of plot outlines (and my own neurotic list making), this post is a list of works and resources that have really resonated with me lately. As I wrote recently, I’m in the middle of a lot of things – otherwise known as the slog – and have been seeking works that make me inspired to keep moving.

 
And, of course, the allure of learning something completely new and out of my comfort zone: tabla!

A set of tabla and my notebook full of beats sitting on a printed orna on the floor.