2024 Writing Log, Part 34
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rynling- I edited Chapter 21 of An Unfound Door. I also edited the novel outline and decided that this should be the second-to-last chapter. I therefore added another section to the end to help pull everything together.
- The brilliant Emily.e.draws created a gorgeous illustration of Agnes, the heroine of An Unfound Door. This piece captures the story’s sense of mystery remarkably well, and it’s exactly how I see this character. You can check it out on Tumblr (here).
- I finished “The Record of the Last Heavenly Warrior,” my story about Castle in the Sky for an upcoming Studio Ghibli fanzine. This is a bit more experimental than the sort of work I usually see in fanzines, but it’s a good story, I hope.
- I edited and submitted the first draft of “The Brave Tale of the Heroic Swamp Princess,” the story I’m contributing to Whispers of Hyrule, a Legend of Zelda fanzine about Hyrule’s forests. I’m infinitely grateful that I had an opportunity to write this.
- My essay on “The Optimistic Fungal Horror of Ender Lilies” is now live on Sidequest (here)! I’m really proud of this. As I expected, it gained zero traction on social media, but I’ll promote it again once Ender Magnolia is released.
- I was contacted by the editor of How to Love Comics to provide a few annotated listings for an article about horror comics, and this week I wrote the second two listings: Abby Howard’s The Crossroads at Midnight, and Betwixt: A Horror Manga Anthology.
- Back in 2019, I printed a chapbook with my translation of Hiromi Kawakami’s short story “Summer Break,” a strange but gentle work of magical realism about recovering from mental illness. I’ve been feeling burned out and alienated by political discourse recently, and I was thinking that I want to spend time with something like Kawakami’s first collection of short fiction, which is honest and challenging but still green and growing. So I made a digital version of the chapbook that’s free to download from Itch.io (here).
- For this week’s post on my book review blog, I wrote a mini-review of Shima Shinya’s four-volume sci-fi manga Glitch. An earlier version of this appeared on Women Write About Comics, but I figured it’s worth reposting. You can read the review (here).
- I finished the seventh panel of my “Trees in Video Games” minicomic. This one is about the Erdtree in Elden Ring. Although this illustration looks simple, it took me three weeks to figure out how to draw. I can do plants and people, and I’m starting to figure out architecture, but landscapes are still tricky. I don’t think this is anything special, but you can check it out on Tumblr (here) if you’re curious.
This week I touched grass in New Jersey. Pics or it didn’t happen? Here you go!
- The brilliant Emily.e.draws created a gorgeous illustration of Agnes, the heroine of An Unfound Door. This piece captures the story’s sense of mystery remarkably well, and it’s exactly how I see this character. You can check it out on Tumblr (here).
- I finished “The Record of the Last Heavenly Warrior,” my story about Castle in the Sky for an upcoming Studio Ghibli fanzine. This is a bit more experimental than the sort of work I usually see in fanzines, but it’s a good story, I hope.
- I edited and submitted the first draft of “The Brave Tale of the Heroic Swamp Princess,” the story I’m contributing to Whispers of Hyrule, a Legend of Zelda fanzine about Hyrule’s forests. I’m infinitely grateful that I had an opportunity to write this.
- My essay on “The Optimistic Fungal Horror of Ender Lilies” is now live on Sidequest (here)! I’m really proud of this. As I expected, it gained zero traction on social media, but I’ll promote it again once Ender Magnolia is released.
- I was contacted by the editor of How to Love Comics to provide a few annotated listings for an article about horror comics, and this week I wrote the second two listings: Abby Howard’s The Crossroads at Midnight, and Betwixt: A Horror Manga Anthology.
- Back in 2019, I printed a chapbook with my translation of Hiromi Kawakami’s short story “Summer Break,” a strange but gentle work of magical realism about recovering from mental illness. I’ve been feeling burned out and alienated by political discourse recently, and I was thinking that I want to spend time with something like Kawakami’s first collection of short fiction, which is honest and challenging but still green and growing. So I made a digital version of the chapbook that’s free to download from Itch.io (here).
- For this week’s post on my book review blog, I wrote a mini-review of Shima Shinya’s four-volume sci-fi manga Glitch. An earlier version of this appeared on Women Write About Comics, but I figured it’s worth reposting. You can read the review (here).
- I finished the seventh panel of my “Trees in Video Games” minicomic. This one is about the Erdtree in Elden Ring. Although this illustration looks simple, it took me three weeks to figure out how to draw. I can do plants and people, and I’m starting to figure out architecture, but landscapes are still tricky. I don’t think this is anything special, but you can check it out on Tumblr (here) if you’re curious.
This week I touched grass in New Jersey. Pics or it didn’t happen? Here you go!
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