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I ghosted y'all. That's not something I like doing. I like to be a reliable narrator after all. Someone people can depend on. I predicted 2024 would be a hard year. I planned for it. In some ways, that plan succeeded. In other ways, it failed.

I wanted to share a little pre-Halloween treat with you to help you escape the onslaught of election news. I finished a queer and kinky story recently that has a somewhat awkward length, and I have no idea where or if I'm going to publish it.

September undid pretty much all the restoration and rest that August provided. This wasn't an utterly shit month but it was a struggle. It was far busier than I intended and life just continues to dump on me when it comes to big, unavoidable chaos.

August was definitely an improvement over July for me. It's still soggy and hot here in North Carolina. At least we got a lovely break in the heat that we called "False Fall Number One" where the weather was a gorgeous 70°F for most of the week.

July wound up being a bit of a reset month for me. After burning myself out on event organizing, I took some much-needed vacation and found out that I really should have taken more. I had no idea how tired or exhausted I was, and that was before all the political chaos happened.

June was... a lot. I was expecting it to be a challenging month. I was not expecting to juggle as many challenges as I did.

This month wasn't a bad month, but it wasn't a good writing month either for reasons we'll get to down in the health stuff section. I did get a lot of good reading and audiobook listening in this month though...

I'll be honest. April was an unexpectedly expensive and emotionally draining month for me. I was served up a lot of unwanted challenges while things are also starting to get busier at work.

My writing and editing were so-so this month. Here are all the reasons why! The good, the not-so-good, and the ugly...

You discover a lot about yourself during the editing process. The words you overuse ("but", "also", "brow"). The punctuation you're fond of (#emdashforlife). The time travel you inadvertently put your characters through even when your story has no time travel in it.

I hope you're having a good start to 2024. And if you're not, there's no rule that says fresh starts have to happen on a particular schedule. You could choose to have a fresh start on January 29 or even December 30 if you want to. There's nothing special about January 1.

One of the reasons this whole project is still in beta is that there are some big chunks of plot and some character things that I'm still sorting out. I spent some time this week going back and revising previous logs to include some key plot pieces and character traits I finally figured out.