And that something is Another New Era for As Cool As Mint Ice Cream!

Writing about what I’m reading, while fun, has made reading more stressful than I’d like it to be. Thinking about Maggie Stiefvater’s concept of “plot bunnies” has inspired me to exercise my creative fiction writing chops more often. My first true love was writing fiction, and what better month to revitalize my first relationship than February?

I’m always thinking of weird concepts for stories (the aforementioned “plot bunnies”) and I often feel stuck on these ideas while trying to work on my longer stories. Solution: write out the short version of the plot bunny and move on! That’s what part of this blog will be from now on: minimally edited short stories from the weird ideas that usually fade into obscurity on my Notes app (like “what if the planet Pluto were housed in the body of a little boy?” or simply “hidden potatoes”). Maybe one day these ideas can become something more, but for now, I just want to take these ideas and run with them without worrying about how good or bad or imperfect they are.

The other part of this blog will still be about my second love, reading, though I’m not necessarily going to only write monthly wrap-ups of everything I’ve read. They might be lists, more in-depth reviews, book tags I see on booktube, general reading life thoughts, and sometimes good old reading wrap-ups. Maybe I’ll sprinkle a few posts about whatever weird thing I decided to research for fun (because apparently that’s a thing I do now…).

My goal is to post in the middle of the month and at the end of the month, one of each type of post. I’m hoping that challenging myself in a way that excites me will reignite the motivation to write for fun that I seem to have lost somewhere along the way.

-Ryn Baginski