Lights Out

I worked a fair bit on my project tentatively titled 'Raven' today, tidying a little of Yesterdays 1,844 words, and adding another 1,389.

I recently decided that any amount of writing is sufficient for a day, so I stick to what I am able to do without effort, then refocus on other things.

Today, I am learning to do other things, and expand my reach - let's start with the thing I am learning.

So I have decided to learn how to do pixel art - don't ask why, I am not entirely sure why either, it just seems like a fun little thing to do, so I made a pixel campfire, it looks like crap, but I made it and it is mine.

I think that is one of the things I have come to learn of late, you really are limited only by your patience. I have seen so many posts that are blatantly AI, and the people posting them are so pleased with themselves, it is kind of sad to be honest.

That all being said, back to my day.

So after writing, and making a pixel campfire, and having some lunch (lamb and veg if you are curious) I decided to log on to Facebook, it is one of the socials I rarely go to directly, but I wanted to check if I had any notifications or whatever, and there was a post about substack.

Substack is basically kind of Instagram, kind of Reddit, Kind of facebook, it straddles a lot of lines, and light Bluesky it allows you to follow specific channels - meaning you can skip out stuff you don't want.

No this isn't an ad.

Just an observation, one post there of 998 words, and I was happy.

very much a longer form post too, by the way.

Maybe these will get longer too


Giggidy.


Neal.

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