2023 Writing Log, Part 31
Sep. 1st, 2023 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I’m still working on Chapter 17 of The Demon King. Slow but steady.
- I’m still working on Chapter 11 of An Unfound Door. Slow but steady.
- I received the print copies of my newest short horror fiction zine, Terrible People, and I posed a listing on Etsy (here).
- I also posted an Etsy listing for my Seeded Ground minicomic zine (here).
- My review of the Southwest Gothic graphic novel The Hills of Estrella Roja has been posted on Women Write About Comics (here). I’m happy this book exists in the world, and I’m happy I got to write a review of it.
- I finished, edited, and submitted my review of the nonfiction book Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All to the academic journal that commissioned it. Monster Kids is an interesting media history with a gentle sense of humor that digs deep into the marketing decisions behind children’s programming in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and I really enjoyed it.
- As an aside: fuck Elon Musk for driving Twitter into the ground. The site was always shit, but at least it had the payoff of helping independent creators promote their projects. Now Twitter is just… dead. It’s dead. I can post about my zines and reviews and so on all I want, but no one is going to see the tweets. Meanwhile, Bluesky doesn’t seem to be gaining traction, at least not for me. I don’t mean to be negative, but it’s very disheartening. I hope we make it out of this mess.
The beginning of the semester disrupted my routine and drained my energy, but I’m doing my best to keep my head up and keep moving forward. It's going to be a good semester, I think, but I need a bit of time to adjust.
- I’m still working on Chapter 11 of An Unfound Door. Slow but steady.
- I received the print copies of my newest short horror fiction zine, Terrible People, and I posed a listing on Etsy (here).
- I also posted an Etsy listing for my Seeded Ground minicomic zine (here).
- My review of the Southwest Gothic graphic novel The Hills of Estrella Roja has been posted on Women Write About Comics (here). I’m happy this book exists in the world, and I’m happy I got to write a review of it.
- I finished, edited, and submitted my review of the nonfiction book Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All to the academic journal that commissioned it. Monster Kids is an interesting media history with a gentle sense of humor that digs deep into the marketing decisions behind children’s programming in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and I really enjoyed it.
- As an aside: fuck Elon Musk for driving Twitter into the ground. The site was always shit, but at least it had the payoff of helping independent creators promote their projects. Now Twitter is just… dead. It’s dead. I can post about my zines and reviews and so on all I want, but no one is going to see the tweets. Meanwhile, Bluesky doesn’t seem to be gaining traction, at least not for me. I don’t mean to be negative, but it’s very disheartening. I hope we make it out of this mess.
The beginning of the semester disrupted my routine and drained my energy, but I’m doing my best to keep my head up and keep moving forward. It's going to be a good semester, I think, but I need a bit of time to adjust.
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Date: 2023-09-04 05:29 pm (UTC)Twitter was not good for me and I didn't go on it much in the last five years, but I know how valuable it was for other people and I'm angry on your behalf that Musk ruined it.
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Date: 2023-09-04 08:13 pm (UTC)If the offer is still open, though, I might hit you up later this fall for Discord server recs.
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Date: 2023-09-06 11:33 pm (UTC)Silver linings are really important, honestly. I think they're what keep us going when the clouds are really dense.