Happy leap day! How was your February? I confess, the beginning of it feels like a long time ago, but everything in between is a muddle. Maybe that’s what happens when I get buried in editing. More on that a bit later! 😉
There were a couple rough patches this month, but they were drowned out by lots of laughs, precious people, good music, and fantastic stories—including one of my favorite reads this year about TIME TRAVEL.
It’s 2020 and high time for a new S&S banner, right? Ta-da! 🙂 Hard to believe the first month of the year is DONE, but here we are. It was a mostly good one in my corner of the world, minus a few tired days and some sickness passing through the house. I read great books, got back to working on WIP, met up with several friends, and revived my bookstagram (which had been languishing for months).
One of the loveliest things about January, though? The days are getting longer. Right around the winter solstice, daylight hours are SO short here, from about 8am to 4pm. But now the sun starts climbing closer to 7:30 and doesn’t set till after 5… which means my daily work commute is no longer in the dark. SO HAPPY.
First up in this month’s Subplots & Storylines: silver screen reviews on a web-slinger, a raider of tombs, and motley shows!
Okay, everyone’s saying it, but I have to agree—how crazy is it that this decade is over?! Looking back, the 2010s contained the most transformative part of my life so far… the decade in which I grew up. (Hey there, fourteen-year-old me.) Most of you would probably say something similar.
Buuuut let’s save the ruminations about 2020 for another post! We have just enough time to chat about the end of 2019, or more specifically, what November and December looked like in my little corner of the world.
I figured out a new way to tell time, and it’s not clocks. It’s Instagram. Somehow everyone on there moved from Anne Shirley’s “I’m so glad we live in a world where there are Octobers” quote, to panicked shrieks of “NANOWRIMO COMETH!!!” This all happened in a synchronized movement across my entire feed, so either every bookstagrammer is telepathic, or we all copy each other. (Which, y’know, is a valid option too.)
In actual news, October was a productive writing month, I’m still in love with Stranger Things, I celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving, and got a drastic haircut!
By the way, my brother Josiah @ The Steadfast Pen had a story called From the Mind of the Dead published on Havok and it was EXCELLENT. If you’re a member, you can still read it!
