I'm trying to figure out how my scrap file for Bloom How You Must is 72 pages long. Is this the perfectionist in me or what because this is damn near an extra 1.5 chapters 😭

NEW ON SUBSTACK: On Writers Block and Calling In Community - open.substack.com/pub/tarajeffer…

Is Diddy getting arrested or no? Because I don’t want to see him assaulting somebody all up and down my timeline and he’s just sitting at home, free to continue to be a demon. Throw that man in JAIL

When I tell you I haven’t had a weekend like this in a while? Thank you God. More please 🙏🏽

Heading out to the coffee shop early to get a good chunk of writing done. Yall pray I find that flow that fills the pages 🙏🏽

This was beautiful to read. #mayahawke’s voice as #Anxiety really hits home for so many — myself included. Seeing the toll it takes visualized was life-changing. Go see #InsideOut2

Sounds of Blackness - Optimistic It doesn’t matter what’s going on, it instantly puts me in a great mood.

Still in my feelings about #InsideOut2 so I wrote about how deeply healing it was to see Anxiety personified on screen. New on Substack: I Wish "Inside Out 2" Existed When I Was 13 open.substack.com/pub/tarajeffer…

That’s a baby who sees these things modeled and respected . That understands it’s okay to be sad, and that if we as a family can help your sadness we do it. I would have folded like a card table when she put her lil hand on my heart but I’m a sap

People who sing the praises of AI for writers seem to think that having an idea is the only thing that matters. Not developing that idea, playing with it, trying things that work and things that don't. It's all product, no process. The process is the point. It always has been.

I wish "I Was Made to Love Her" was as long as "As." That song is criminally short.

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Ice Spice is one of those AI robots and no one can tell me otherwise. #BETAwards

Keke is really one of the hardest working women alive. #BETAwards

Teyana Taylor really is a superstar and I hate she was mistreated so much that she left music.

I interviewed a Black female massage therapist who gives full mind, body and spirit care. In her appointments, you get the time you need. She said the hardest part of her job is getting Black women to come in before they are on E. I have not stopped thinking about it.

Motherhood (and the transition to having adult kids) is beating my ass right now. Send prayers! 😮‍💨

Thank goodness 😮‍💨