Betty

Poet | Novelist | Crocheter

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Casually paused Naruto so I could write my blog and now it’s 1/5 posts completed.

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Casually resuming Naruto instead of writing my blog and editing my manuscript 🫣

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A 3000 words draft in 4hours. I’ve outdone myself. Tomorrow we edit, hopefully we submit too.

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I’ve written about Mélanie’s coming of age. And I am filled with so much sadness for her 💀
I might need a minute to recover.

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I haven’t touched my manuscript in weeks. If you see this, Manuscript, I’m sorryyyyy.

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Je découvre Charlotte Dipanda et ça me fait tellement de bien.

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Brb. I’m about to write about Mélanie’s coming of age (please hold me to it).

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I’ve rarely felt this lost and aware of where I am at the same time. This can’t be a good thing ?

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I can’t wait to hear back from more magazines. Testing the 100 rejections theory feels awesome when you’re not attached to the outcome.

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I just finished His Only Wife and my hat goes out to Elikem Ganyo for reminding us once more to fear men 🙏🏾

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Just wrote 3 poems based on the past 6 weeks.
A reminder to myself that putting the pen down to live life is part of the creative process.

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My poem Until We Meet Again just made it to the June 2026 Issue of the Traversing Liminality Newsletter 🤎

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That said pages before 50 need some polishing to build up better suspense.
(When does this end?)

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We made it to page 50/151 and might regret sleeping so late when a rumble class is waiting at 6am tomorrow.
(I don’t need luck at this point, I need a miracle)

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The unglamorous work of picking up where you left off the last time you edited your manuscript…

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What do you mean I just received the digital copy of the anthology I featured in last year?

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It sounds like nothing but I just spent 45 minutes searching Patrice Ngoy Musoko’s registry.
The song I was looking for is called Na Libumu ya Maman.
I feel like I have finally earned tonight’s sleep.

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Because my novel has plenty of musical references, I’ve decided to build a YouTube track list of every song mentioned 🫶🏾

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My crocheting days feel so far behind?
This can’t be good.

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The unglamorous work of editing your manuscript…