Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 05/09/20252 years ago a song sparked a book idea, then deeper ponderings, things I had to say about death & grief, the burden of great empathy, the unsolvable riddle of faith & belief. Drafting & researching became writing. I often feel I should be much further along, but I’m grateful for how far I’ve come. 000
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 26/08/2025That was a hiatus! In April my boss left the organization, sending me into a 5 month gauntlet of interim leadership and the longest interview of my life. Writing and most everything else fell by the wayside. But now I’m the big boss 😬 so here’s hoping I can carve out some time for creativity again! 010
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Learning to be grateful for the storms that shake our branches and show us how strong our roots really are … change can feel like chaos but we can’t grow if we’re swaddled all safe and tight in the known, in the past. We’ve got to welcome the thunder and the wind as much as the rain. 010
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Lily Pads at Sunset Brookgreen Gardens, Murrels Inlet SC 030
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 13/06/2025If I see a mushroom, I must stop and take a picture! #mushroom 🍄🍄🟫🍄🍄🟫🍄🍄🟫 010
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Oooooh no! 😱 Not a new idea for a new book that is not the book I need to finish! Get thee behind me, Satan! #WriterProblems #JustFinishTheBook 020
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Life goes on and grows on. #TreeStump #Moss 080
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I love the way the day lingers on this pine tree. How the light guilds the bark. How the shadow line marks the minutes of sunset up, up, up the trunk. Life is kinda beautiful, y’all. ❤️ #RomanticizeEverything 000
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Morning coffee, gentle rain, and 500 words written? No better way to start my day! Day 6️⃣0️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 040
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Sometimes the rain just feels like rest. 😌 010
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Any other writers out there pulling up Notes or the Google Docs app at stoplights? 🤦🏼♀️ Gotta get it out!!! 📚 #writersky #booksky #writerproblems 020
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Morning coffee and 300 words written. NEW words. Inspiration is just getting going and … now off to work. 🤷🏼♀️ Day 5️⃣9️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 0100
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Is there anything more beautiful than the wink of morning sun through that lush green of late-spring? 010
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Coffee. Early morning birdsong. Writing on my back porch. Heaven. 🥰 Day 5️⃣8️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 030
Reposted by Shiny Happy PeeblesAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2025And now, to soothe your timeline, a patch of Illinois tallgrass prairie. 1136765
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 29/05/2025It’s really rough to be a morning writer with an 8:30-5 “real” job. Squeezed in what I could over coffee. After work my brain is just too busy and buzzy to get in a good writing headspace. Day 5️⃣7️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 030
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Wrote a good bit over the holiday weekend. My sister was in town and watching her beta read act 1 and 2 was a surreal experience! Seeing someone laugh when they’re supposed to laugh, gasp at the right parts … just insane! Day 5️⃣6️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 050
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Squeezing in writing time everywhere I can, with morning coffee at the computer, sitting in traffic on my work commute, in between bites at lunch. Whatever it takes! Day 5️⃣5️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 030
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Completed a really cool passage in Act 3 that I started a year ago. Have felt so deflated lately. No strength to hold space for my writing w/ my high-powered job & motherhood & marriage & all the other things people need me to be. Day 5️⃣4️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 020
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Been letting the backyard go wild and just look at this gorgeous purple thistle! 000
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Took off Friday to recoup from an insane work month. Trying to find the 🧐 mental fortitude and ✨ inspiration to write. Send more coffee. ☕️ Day 5️⃣3️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 030
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 08/05/2025I almost killed this Hydrangea I was gifted two years ago. Somehow it survived but it hasn’t ever bloomed … until today! Just the reminder I needed that nothing is beyond saving, and a little patience and time can yield beautiful returns. 💜🩵💙 010
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Sat on the porch with coffee and wrote. After the chaos of Act 2, this chapter is a pause in the pace, a character taking stock of regrets, reflecting on the weave of their choices, and finding answers in the still water. Day 5️⃣2️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 020
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 01/05/2025🌼 Happy May Day! 🌼 Pretty sunset yesterday and beautiful early sun peaking through the trees this morning. I love this time of year! Everything is green, the weather is getting warm, and summer is just around the corner. ❤️ 010
Reposted by Shiny Happy PeeblesSophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Bluebell blur. Knees aren't quite up to this any more, but I try! #Bluebells #LocalPhotography 322618
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Actually wrote something NEW yesterday! Getting back into the energy of the third act. Day 5️⃣1️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky #writerproblems 040
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Nothing like drinking your coffee while listening to the birds and the rain! It’s never a wasted moment when we can STOP and appreciate the little things. Satisfaction starts with gratitude. ❤️ 000
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Not feeling especially creative today … time for a crutch word check! Day 5️⃣0️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky #writerproblems 040
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Anyone else keep a “scraps graveyard” for lovely bits of writing that just didn’t fit but you couldn’t bear to delete? Like saving that spare piece of wood for the lucky day when you need something just that size. 🤣 Day 4️⃣9️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky #writerproblems 3140
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Writing and editing, writing and editing. Working on these last chapters keeps sending me back and forth to earlier pages, tightening knots, moving around moments, marveling at how it’s all come together! Day 4️⃣8️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky #writerproblems 130
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Actually wrote for the last three days! Yay me! 116,000 words and counting … why is the third act so haaaaaaard? Day 4️⃣5️⃣ and 4️⃣6️⃣ and 4️⃣7️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky #writerproblems 040
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Worked through one of those pesky third act chapters that have been dangling in front of me half-finished! 🥳 Just have to keep fighting the urge to review and revise before the dang book is done! Day 4️⃣4️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky #writerproblems 030
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 30/03/2025How do I balance the desire to create worlds with the rushing current of the “real” world? I’ve been away lately, pulled away by good days and bad days and fear of the future. Need to make time for my #WIP I always find so much hope and humanity in the world I’m building. #writerproblems #booksky 181
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Happy Friday #BlueSky! There’s beauty everywhere if you stop to appreciate it … even at the edge of a parking lot. 😊 #nature #simplethings #gratitude 030
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Gloomy, rainy skies today but this pink pop of spring is giving me energy and hope! #spring #blossoms 010
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Moving a bit slow from a fun night out yesterday but some solid Sunday morning writing occurred. Woot! Day 4️⃣3️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 050
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 22/03/2025media.tenor.coma man is dancing in front of a blue background and the words bill bill bill are visibleALT: a man is dancing in front of a blue background and the words bill bill bill are visible 090
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Three sentences counts, right? Yeah. It counts. Day 4️⃣2️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 051
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Wrote/edited some this morning while I drank coffee, then a little while sitting in 5 o’clock traffic. Day 4️⃣1️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 050
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Not a lot of writing happened this week. Work has been … soul-crushing. BUT a nice walk outside yesterday got the inspiration flowing a bit! Day 4️⃣0️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 060
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Yiiiiiip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip. 120
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Busy birthday weekend for the littlest minion but squeezed in a little writing this morning. Hoping I get some inspiration and motivation back soon to push through the third act! Day 3️⃣9️⃣ of 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ writing goal to finish my book. 📚 #writersky #booksky 030
Shiny Happy Peebles @shinyhappypeebles.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Did not write today. 😔 But I did get my work email inbox to a non soul-crushing level, sooo. 🤷🏼♀️ #writerproblems #realjob 150