Well, I finally finished
and published The Uncapped Pen, my collection of fifty stories dealing
with writing, in some way. To try to
bring some awareness to The Uncapped Pen, I reposted three stories that
were in the “Maybe Pile” for the collection: “The Honeymoon’s Over,” “It’s Harder than it Looks,” and “It’s a Fine Line.” I also posted “Procrastination,”
the idea for which I came up with in the months between when I “finished” the
collection and when I finally published it.
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I finished writing a
story a month on my website with “That’s … a Plan,” “Sweet Dreams,” and “He Knows.” I do plan to continue this in 2024.
I’ve also decided to try
to post, or repost, a story each month to my Ko-fi account, to try to do
something with it. I started in November
with “Close Enough,” and continued in December with “Beware Upgrades.” I think
I’m going to try to do a new story, then repost an old story, because I worry
if I tried to do all new stories I’d burn out and get frustrated. For the monthly stories on my website, I’m
trying to write them that month, whereas for Ko-fi, I’m hoping to write them
months in advance and just hold on to them.
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I also posted the story “Conditions,”
and reposted “Autopilot.”
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On my Mastodon account,
I’ve started trying to post a microfiction story one week, and a haiku the next
week. I managed to post microfiction
stories on: 10/17, 10/24, 11/6, and 12/18.
I managed to post haiku on:10/30, 11/13, 11/27, 12/11, and 12/25.
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In my last newsletter I wrote
how I had been sick which threw off some of my projects, such as my Free Story Ideas. This quarter I only managed one, Two spooky ideas which I had for Halloween. Free
Story Ideas is a project I’d like to continue, it just seems other stuff keeps
coming up. I’ll have to think about it,
but instead of one a month, I may try for just one a quarter. We’ll have to see.
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And speaking of my plans
for 2024, I should have a blog about that up in a few days.
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