Top Ten-ish books of 2022

I'm currently on 46 books read for 2022, which is lower than I manage most years, but it's been a weird year for various reasons, so I'm pretty pleased with that really. Here are some of my favourites, in no particular order.

10 Reasons you haven’t written your book yet (And why they are stupid.)

I'm going to post a few favourites of mine from my old Wordpress blog over the next few weeks, usually with some tweaking. Then come 2023 it should be basically all new stuff - aside from one that's kind of seasonal and needs to be posted around the start of February.

10 Reasons you haven’t written your book yet (And why they are stupid.)

(I was guilty of several of these in the past.)

1. I haven’t quite finished the research/outline yet.

Why it’s stupid: If your first save of the outline or some research notes for this project was onto a floppy disk, you just may be procrastinating.

Bye Bye Birdie

Last word on Twitter

Before Elon Musk took over Twitter I both adored and hated that beloved hellsite. Sometimes I wanted to get away from it, but it was hard to break the addiction. So I guess I should at least thank the muskrat for that, because oh boy, did I go from “I wish I knew how to quit you,” to “Oh, that was easy” in two weeks flat.

I haven’t used Twitter for several days now, since the poll to allow the Orange Menace back on. Especially after it ended at the infamous cursed ratio of 52:48. That was a sign. Now last I saw, Trump hasn’t actually come back to his newly unlocked account and, has said he won’t. (Even Trump thinks Musk is a loser. Let that sink in. Apparently he’d lose money if he did come back anyway.) And I wouldn’t have to see his tweets, cause I’d block him. It’s just the toxic miasma his presence creates through the whole site that puts me off.

To deactivate or not deactivate Twitter

Following the many shenanigans of the past couple of weeks since you-know-who started his mad rampage through the Twitterverse, I've decided to stay off Twitter and focus on Mastodon for now at least. It's a wrench. I both adore and hate that beloved hellsite, which I've used since 2007. But the question is, do I want to fully deactivate the account? Do you? There are pros and cons on both sides depending on who you are and how you use Twitter.

State of the Bee

I feel like this is a very transitional time. Like everything is new. 

• New king here in the UK, which is a very odd thing to get used to
• New PM (closely followed by another new PM.)
• New owner for Twitter (I have Thoughts about Twitter, but that will be its own post eventually) who's apparently doing his best to kill it off, so that means... 
• Now new social media to try out. Find me on Mastodon.

Other things, like the pandemic, like menopause and other personal stuff going on have me feeling that it's time for a fresh start. But one old thing is new again - I'm publishing once more! Woohoo!