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Little Bean is here

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Hello all.

Thought I'd have more time and energy to write at the end of the year, but I knew I wouldn't get to NaPoWriMo since my baby girl was due in April. In fact she came a bit early on the 9th, so she's a month tomorrow. Definitely don't have time for writing now! Haha. Maybe as she gets older and I can put her down without her screaming, but then she'll be crawling and I'll be chasing her. So who knows! Haha.

Love you all and appreciate your support of me and my work. My baby girl is a precious gift and honestly she's the most beautiful artwork I've ever made. :)

Peace and lattes,

Bru
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Hope After the Storm

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Some of you know what happened to me this summer simply by reading the two poems that expressed the suffering I was going through as a result. After those two, I couldn't write about it anymore and haven't been on dA in months. There are thousands of items in my inbox and I doubt I'll catch up on them.

But thank you to those who have continued to stop by and found inspiration in my work. 

I wanted to let you all know that my husband and I have been blessed with a profound gift: our rainbow baby, we hope and pray, is due in April of next year, and so far this pregnancy has gone well.

It's possible I will resume writing soon. I hope to become active again, and I'm sorry for my absence. I needed it, though, and I hope you understand. 

I am going to attempt NaNoWriMo, since fortunately it falls during the second trimester and I'm starting to get energy back.

I may also participate in DFC to stretch my poetry muscles again.

Peace and hope,

Bru
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Help I'm an adult

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So I thought I would be online more now that I'm done with grad school but dear heaven if I'm not almost thirty now and living like it with a house and a dog and thinking of making a family and suddenly I'm less involved just like I was afraid of back when I was a teenager making little doodles and poems.

But part of it is also because the only computer in the house is an ancient mac which constantly overheats and slows down to a crawl so the only thing I have patience for when I am on it is to blog and be done with it. Also if my dog kicks the cord out of the socket the whole thing shuts down (no battery) and I  just give up at that point. And trying to do dA on mobile is awful and not very user-friendly yet either in the browser or in the app.

But I do hope to participate a little in the February Sonnet Challenge as I am feeling the lack of poetic creativity in my life.

If you're at all interested in other things in my life, I've just started a bookstagram account: search labruyerebooks on insta and there I am.

Also my blog related to theology and such is philosophiawomen.wordpress.com but it's unrelated to art so it might not be especially relevant.

In retrospect, 2015 was not great for creativity. I did do NaPoWriMo and NaNoWriMo which I guess is pretty good, but there was very little writing outside of those things. Or reading. I read 21 books in 2015 and about a quarter of those were school-related. But I have a goal of 30 books for 2016, and I'm hoping to do FSC, as stated above, NaPo, and maybe NaNo again, and see what bursts forth from the creativity I know I have pent up in there between work and grocery shopping and loading the dishwasher and all the boring parts of adulthood. Haha.

Much love to all of you who continue to check out my work and my page despite my inactivity. Long live art. Here's to 2016 and successfully adulting AND being creative.

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NaNo is done, DFC is here

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I finished NaNoWriMo an hour ago precisely, with 50,514 words. Phew! What a month. It really helped that I wasn't in school this year. But I keep busy with a lot of other things so I wasn't sure if I'd get it done.

Anyway, contemplating DFC over at ProjectDFC again this year. I'm kind of exhausted with writing, but I need to get back into poetry some more. Perhaps I'll do a few for fun but not kill myself over trying to get them all done. We shall see.

Yay writing!

Merry Christmas, all.

Bru

~ Le Petit Prince
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NaNo-ing, BRB

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Trying to beat out last year's attempt. I've won only once, so hoping for a win this year.

Did I tell you guys I'm graduating in December with my M.A.?!?!?! I'm technically done with classes now, too, so not having homework this year during NaNo means NO EXCUSES.

Anyone else participating in NaNoWriMo? Find me on there as  HDaBru.

Good luck, happy little writer peeps.

Peace and lattes,

Bru

~ Le Petit Prince
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