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Writing with Bipolar Disorder: A Mental Health Awareness Month Post
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I thought I'd talk about what it's been like for me as a writer living with bipolar disorder. ...
Kristina Elyse Butke
May 22, 20236 min read
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Fantasy Genre Pet Peeves
I have been getting more and more into BookTube and was inspired by the "Bookish Pet Peeves" video by Elliot Brooks where she surveyed...
Kristina Elyse Butke
May 15, 20239 min read
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The Get to Know Me Tag (Writer's Edition)
I found this tag via R's Loft and there are some rules to it if you'd like to do it! Link back to the person who created the tag....
Kristina Elyse Butke
May 8, 20235 min read
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May All Taboos Be Shattered: A Review of Season One of "Heaven Official's Blessing"
This was one of the series I was looking forward to watching once I came back from Japan. I watched it in two ways: first, I watched the...
Kristina Elyse Butke
May 1, 20234 min read
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Writing Sprint: Talking Rabbits
My brother is a writer with nonstop ideas. I was lamenting to him how I was having trouble coming up with the next book concept, and out...
Kristina Elyse Butke
Apr 24, 20234 min read
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Reading One-Star Reviews of Books I Love
Hello, friends! I've really gotten into BookTube over the past few months, and came up with this idea after watching Elliot Brooks do...
Kristina Elyse Butke
Apr 17, 20235 min read
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My brain is empty.
Well, friends, I've hit a writing wall. I have finished edits from my agent, and now it's a long waiting game...and the most consistent...
Kristina Elyse Butke
Apr 10, 20233 min read
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"The Last Unicorn" and the Unicorn Tapestries
When I was a child, one of my favorite animated films was (and still is!) The Last Unicorn, adapted from Peter S. Beagle's novel,...
Kristina Elyse Butke
Apr 3, 20233 min read
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Does This Spark Joy?
For months now, I've been getting rid of one of the most precious things to me--books. I started the book-purging process in Japan,...
Kristina Elyse Butke
Mar 27, 20234 min read
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Bookish This or That Tag
This comes to you via Paper Fury, one of my favorite book blogs on the web. Now, C.G. chose to make it like a survey and I have no idea...
Kristina Elyse Butke
Mar 20, 20233 min read
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The Devils Will Have Their Due: A Review of "Chainsaw Man"
At last, I've finally been able to subscribe to Crunchyroll! And there's a ton of anime that I have in my watchlist to catch up on, plus...
Kristina Elyse Butke
Mar 13, 20236 min read
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The Story of My Omamori
I've been to hundreds of shrines all over Western Japan, from Yakushima up into Tottori. And besides collecting goshuin (red shrine...
Kristina Elyse Butke
Mar 6, 20235 min read
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