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Midlife Updates (Oct 2023)

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OCT = Pumpkins and Preptober!

This season, the powers of light have bestowed upon our region…an additional Municipal Liaison. *insert hysterically happy tears here* In case you missed the three years of failed updates over here (cough, cough), I’ll fill you in:

LIFE HAS BEEN WEIRD! And busy. And…shutdown-y. 

And if all that wasn’t enough, I decided a toddler and a new business weren’t keeping me busy enough in 2021 — so I applied for (and was accepted into) the lay preaching class in my diocese. It was a two year long commitment to learn how to faithfully and accurately deliver the gospel according to the lectionary calendar, as well as how to minister to our communities in the ways that best aligned with our gifts. It was amazing, and…not a walk in the park.

Now I finally feel like I can give energy back to my writing in the way I always meant to previously, and sometimes actually was able to do.

I have been mentally planning my November NaNoWriMo project, which is even less #pantser of me than usual. I still don’t have anything written as far as a plan, outline or characters but considering that I haven’t written anything for my own heart and soul in the last four years, I’ll take it.

This year’s project will be a fantasy genre novel with themes of love, death, identity, mental health, and time/lines. I haven’t decided yet if it belongs in the as of yet unnamed anthology of recent years’ works. I guess we’ll find out when we start laying words to the page.

See you soon,

KHS

Day 7 – WIPtember 2020

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Day Seven – Publishing Path

After many conversations with writers of all stages, I feel comfortable saying that most writers who want to get published believe that they want to be traditionally published. This is also true for me, to a point.

I am currently not in receipt of a project that I would consider finished enough to publish on any forum, much less to ship off to a publisher’s office. Additionally, it is (currently) enough for me to just say “I wrote something!” And then move on to the next project.

I have investigated self-publishing via several types of modes but not having breathing work to share is a deterrent. I know that when I get to a good place, I will probably self-publish initially. I have done enough poking around to know that traditional publishing isn’t really what it seems. With that in mind, I’m keeping my options open. Who knows what will be available when I get any of these dozen semi-close projects polished?

#WIPtember v.2020

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Welcome to WIPtember. If you’re new to this concept, I’ll give you a little lowdown: prompts, daily ones.

I started this endeavor last year, but never finished. I got completely overrun by NaNo Prep and abandoned ship. But this year, nay nay I say. We shall finish.

So, let’s go. Day One. Seems a little odd to do an intro on *my* blog, when you clearly could click my Bio link, but for the sake of continuity…

WRITER INTRO: Aging punk rocker with two adult kids and a toddler, living in rural New York. I used to write to fight the patriarchy. Now, I write to keep my sanity. My style is paranormal voyeurism.