Remember kids, it’s not a coincidence George Orwell’s Animal Farm constantly shows up on banned book lists.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
*taps mic*
It's always been a shit way to write a book. Slamming through fifty thousand words in a month leads to burnout and a garbage draft you'll spend more time unfucking than if you'd actually just paced yourself.
I'm proposing Novel Outline November
Start with your idea on November 1st.
Write something for your novel every day. The only unacceptable amount is 0.
Attempt to complete the plot in 50K words. Stick with that as a limiting factor so you focus on what's most important to your story.
When it's done it's done! Everyone is a winner!
You will
Develop good writing habits
Challenge yourself to write long form
Create a base that can be expanded into commercial fiction (70-100K) or genre fiction (100-110K)
Happy writing!
keep going
don't leave me!
A reminder to the "the American government wouldn't..." crowd. They have. They have made their own internment camps before. They have rounded up innocent citizens and immigrants before. The victims of which are still alive to this day and trying to share their stories with the world, they have been trying to warn us for a long time. George Takei (as seen above) is a famous example of this. He has written about his experiences time and time again, even publishing a book talking about his time in these camps. He may be famous now, but at the time he was just another kid forced from his home. To this day he still firmly dedicates himself to trying to educate and inform people, trying to spread awareness with his platform. The American Government can and will do terrible things. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.
I think we should have a turn of phrase for "I'm not in the right, but I AM annoyed with this situation, so I just need to go bitch to a friend about this before I suck it up and go do the right thing" because more and more I'm finding this is a critical element of functional adulthood.
Okay a couple weeks ago I started this post trying to keep track of all the stuff going on in order to help remind us of everything that’s happened when the next election comes around. Well, because there’s just so much going on, I’ve realized trying to cram it all into one post isn’t going to work. So I’m going to do a new post every month and include links to the previous ones.
So here goes…
January 2025
February 2025
Donald Trump has enforced his tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. [x]
Donald Trump has put Mexico tariffs on hold for one month. [x]
Donald Trump allowed Elon Musk to begin dismantling USAID. [x]
Congress is voluntarily giving up its power and allowing Trump to make unilateral decisions. [x]
Darren Beattie has been made Under Secretary of State. [x]
Everything that Donald Trump has done so far lines up with Project 2025 [x]
The White House is drafting an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education [x]
Elon Musk, who nobody voted for or elected, has, essentially, hacked the government. [x]
El Salvador has agreed to take US deportees of any nationality. [x]
US Representative Andy Biggs is proposing a bill to abolish OSHA. [x]
Pam Bondi has been confirmed as Attorney General [x]
Donald Trump doesn’t think Palestinians should return to Gaza. [x]
Donald Trump says he’ll use US troops to “take over” the Gaza Strip. [x]
A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. [x]
Donald Trump has banned trans women from women’s sports [x]
Donald Trump sanctions the International Criminsl Court. [x]
A judge has paused the federal “buyouts” [x]
DOGE: Member of DOGE resigns [x]
DOGE has been given access to the Department of Energy. [x]
Miscellaneous news about Elon Musk [x]
DOGE is using AI to infiltrate the Department of Education [x]
Russell Vought, author of Project 2025, has been confirmed as Director of OMB [x]
Democrats in Congress have introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act [x]
Donald Trump has flagged the words “women” “diverse” and “historically” from studies done by the National Science Foundation. [x]
New Mexico Representative Melanie Stansbury has introduced the Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act [x]
Democratic Congressional leaders have introduced the Stop the Steal Act [x]
Donald Trump has called for a review of funding for the United Nations [x]
Federal agencies are barred from celebrating Black History Month [x]
Donald Trump has frozen aid to South Africa and accused the South African government of racism against white South Africans [x]
Donald Trump wants to use Leavenworth Prison as a migrant detention facility and have it run by a for-profit company known for its numerous human rights violations. [x] [x]
Trump has told the Treasury to stop making pennies. [x]
Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI) proposes the E.L.O.N. M.U.S.K. Act (which stands for Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy) [x]
Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were told to stop all work and are now being told to stay home. [x]
Trump will impose 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum. [x]
Trump says Palestinians won’t be allowed back in Gaza if the US takes it over [x]
Here’s a link to the Project 2025 Policy Agenda that Donald Trump claimed he didn’t know anything about.*
*He only claimed he didn’t know anything about it after it proved to be deeply unpopular with the general public.
I’m also including directories for both the House of Representatives and the Senate. That way, if you’re so inclined, you can also track the individual actions of every Senator and Representative.
Miscellaneous News
Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) repeatedly uses a transphobic slur on the Congressional floor. [x]
Clarence Thomas is…being Clarence Thomas *sigh* [x]
Donald Trump fired the Chair of the Kennedy Center and named himself as the new Chair [x]
Trump said that no group of people in the history of America has been treated worse than the way the January 6th insurrectionists have been treated. [x]
Once again, please feel free to let me know about anything I’ve missed. With this era of constant news we live in, it can be easy to forget so let’s give our future selves a little help!
anyone wanna have a toxic homoerotic psychosexual rivalry with me? it does have to be weird