MAYA'S DREAMiNG LAND

Halfway!! Woo! Today's piece is going to be short (because I'm writing it on the last day of June lmao). I got a Substack page set up this month, (https://substack.com/@mayadietrich7) so be sure to follow that for more immediate musings from me. Lot's of fun stuff going on this month. Lot's of very scary things that may or may not make me want to throw up. I'm also running on about 2 hours of sleep spread out through the last 5 days. Yay. This month we're looking at series wr

Hellooooo! I'm very excited for this month's Writer from a Writer. As I've hinted at before, with the entirety of this series really, I have some pretty big aspirations to ensure I stay writing all my life. A major part of that is writing in multiple mediums. This month we'll be focusing on songwriting! Tracy Chapman was born and raised in 1970s Cleveland, Ohio, where she lived with her mother and older sister. She grew up across the street from a public library, which was th

Hello curious readers!! This is a month I'm very excited for, because it was such a hands-on activity for me to justify making time for. One thing about me is that I LOVE scrapbooking. I like mindlessly gluing images onto cardstock, writing little notes in my doctor's-print and leaving messages about the photos. I like arranging and rearranging their orders, colouring - I actually even make my own stickers (a quarantine pastime that stuck). All that being said, it does make

Amaze amaze amaze, I have returned for my third Writers from a Writer post, fist my bump! (another last minute one, go me). I have to say, this month's writer is one I'm really excited for. I love books, but something you may not know about me is that I also love movies and TV, and one of my all-time favourite things is when the two meet (especially when they're given a spectacular soundtrack, which mixes my three favourite things! - more on this later). I felt like I owed yo

Hello inquisitive readers! I got insanelyyy busy this month (working towards unattainable goals and whatnot) and really crammed this into the last few days of February, I know… the whole excuse I was trying to avoid by doing this. Anyway, hello and welcome back to my Writers from a Writer series! Honestly, I was on the fence on who I wanted to study this month. I knew I wanted to look at someone from the Romantic era (and, no, by this I don't mean romance as a genre, I feel t

Hello and welcome back to the dreary hellscape that is my mind. I'm kidding… mostly. I was looking back at this last year over the break, and I realized that I've barely written on here, oops. Ideally I'd like to post weekly, but I know that that's just not possible considering all the things on my plate at the moment (work, academics - a full course load at that - and some very exciting things that I've been sitting on for months now and I really need to get my act together