another year dead.
and what a shit show it was. ffs.
put out Subject A and Oios Lykos. Subject A has been doing surprisingly well. Oios Lykos seems to have been largely ignored. i don’t know the secret formula for drumming up interest, just hope by doing what i do consistently, an audience will grow.
finished Repeat finally. think it may be my best writing yet. no idea, but it felt right. nearly a third done on Operation: Looking Glass, the sequel to Subject A. this one takes the ideas implanted in A and unravels it all while staying in the vein of the original. i love the feel of the flow, even as it grows darker and more absurd.
next year will be Distilled Chaos, a collection of short stories. Repeat, a love story with apocalyptic ramifications. Operation: Looking Glass, book 2 of Wonderland. Molotov Cocktail Hour, a collection of poetry. and the rerelease of my first collection of shorts, Notches, revised, expanded and with a fantastic forward from PC3 and an afterword.
i plan on writing three antho stories, a new Blobert, book 3 of Wonderland, this novel that has been eating at me for a year, then Repeat Volume 2. plus Bishop 3. gonna be busy.
hope the holidaze treated you well. thks for supporting a bipolar poet in a world he is infuriated with. more to come. it only gets weirder from here.
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Thanks very much, Mike! I write daily, first thing in the morning. I need to get over the “not good enough” syndrome. I love the name of that press! Thanks so much for the encouragement and advice. I really appreciate it. ♥
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Mike, congrats on creating through the storm. Where are you publishing these? I’m hoping to publish my short stories soon, too (the one I’ve been working on for ages). I keep getting sidetracked! I read something recently that hit me hard. “You can be really good at many things, but if you want to be great at something, you have to let go of all the things you’re really good at and focus on what you want to be great at.” So for me, that’s writing. I want to be great and finally publish another book somewhere other than Amazon. I am sending you good vibes for all your projects. Your work ethic inspires me. =) ♥
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i am published through Uncomfortably Dark, an ever growing press run by Candace Nola.
finish that collection and get to writing the next one. every sentence makes us better. i do my best to write daily, usually telling myself Sunday is a day off and writing more anyway. now i feel off if i haven’t written. i also learned not to force a story, sometimes they grow quiet and need time to percolate. i usually keep two stories going at once, and make notes on new ones at all times. you’ve got this.
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So strange. I thought I responded to this. So I said, thank you so much for the advice. I write every morning. I need to get over the “not good enough” imposter syndrome. I love the name of the press. I really appreciate your response. ♥
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