Crazy Creatives Cheerleading Camp
A haven for creative people living with mental illness. This is the place where you can tell it like it is, not yet another place where you have to pretend to be someone you've been told you should be.
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Open Book Blog Hop + Tackle It Tuesday: Pacing

Monday, August 8, 2022
Open Book Blog Hop + About Me Monday: Disappointment

Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Insecure Writers Support Group 3 August 2022

Saturday, July 30, 2022
Blow Your Stack Saturday/Snippet Sunday/Weekend Writing Warriors 30 July 2022
On July 5, I received a few books that I ordered from Thriftbooks.
You, the reader, need to check out Thriftbooks.
One of the books was The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.
I wrote my name in my new book the way I did when I was a little kid.
“This book is the property of Ornery Owl, July 2022.”
Okay, I didn’t write the Ornery Owl name when I was a little kid because I didn’t think of that one until 2019. But The Artist’s Way is the property of Ornery Owl, because that is the persona that will heal the rest of me.
One of the first things Julia talked about is writing three journal pages every day. These are supposed to be handwritten. I don’t know if that’s going to happen.
OFFICIAL SNIPPET END
(Spoiler: it's been happening all month. I'm actually kind of surprised.)
I've really been struggling this year, so thank you for indulging me with this snippet from something that may or may not ever be published depending on how evil I'm feeling. If I'm feeling especially evil, I will probably unleash it on the world.)

Friday, July 29, 2022
Friday Book Hop 29 July 2022

Friday, July 15, 2022
Friday Book Hop 15 July 2022
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“The study of psychological trauma has an ‘underground’ history. Like traumatized people, we have been cut off from the knowledge of our past. Like traumatized people, we need to understand the past in order to reclaim the present and future. Therefore, an understanding of psychological trauma begins with rediscovering history.”1
The author chose this quote from Judith Lewis Herman to begin her book. Considering the subject matter, it works perfectly.
1 Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2015), 2.
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Laura selected this quote to begin Chapter 17. I would argue that there is also strength in knowing when to back off, to re-evaluate, to rest. I was one of those people who went to work deathly ill on more than one occasion. I always ignored health problems until they became critical. At nearly 60 years old, I am now learning to do certain things I should have been doing all along for my well-being.
Until next time!

Thursday, July 7, 2022
Make it Happen Thursday: Organizized
Writing Schedule for July 2022
Sunday Selections (Photography)/Poetry Sunday
(Finish and send off entries for Lincoln Poetry Contest)
Mental Health Monday (Encouragement Project)
Tasty Tuesday (Cooking with Ornery Owl), Watkins promotion
WIP Wednesday (Naughty Netherworld Press stories)
Work on editing/formatting The Wizard's Key
Make It Happen Thursday/Blog Hop Thursday/Wordy Thursday (Weekly roundup, editing, reviews)
Make blog posts for the month.
Seek My Fortune Friday (Work on stories for publication elsewhere)/Fanfiction Friday
For July: The First Line autumn entry (Lily)
The First Line Nonfiction: Write a 500 – 800 word essay about the first line from a favorite literary work.
Blog hops: First Line Friday/Friday 56
Not sure I'm going to bother with the fiction entry for The First Line. They've rejected both of my previous fiction submissions. I'm getting this hunch that I'm not their cup of tea.
Sexy Saturday (Erotica stories)/Shameless Self-Promo Saturday
For July: Naughty November story for Cobblestone Press
Do Triberr tweet queue
Specific Events
Release the Beast July 15
Send out the newsletter.
And now, it's question time.
What would I really like to be working on?
All Tales from the Dreamlands/Cthulhu Mythos/Fetchiverse all the time.
But, guess what.
That’s not commercially viable.
I really want to go out and kill everyone who has it all together and put their heads on posts in front of my house to warn all those other well-organized and successful jerkfaces to beware.
Before anyone thinks they have to call the police or animal control to restrain an ax-murdering round owl, slow your roll. I am being hyperbolic. I’m not actually a murderous psychopath, plus I'm too lazy to bother hunting people down and killing them. I’m just aggravated because it seems that all I ever do is struggle while some people have wonderful things throwing themselves at their feet.
Ah well, on we go.
~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~
