Carpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – September 2024

 

Authorial Highlights

  • Worked on a couple of different short bits and bobs to stretch my fiction writing muscles. Getting a bit more confidant.
  • The Fantasy Trip Quick Quest “The Gallery of Hands” remains in the hands of Steve Jackson.
  • Working on another article for Hexagram for The Fantasy Trip – still working on a monster article. Maybe for Hexagram #14?
  • GURPS Monster Hunters Adventure: The Face of Fire” aka GURPS Visage-22 has seen the final checks and questions asked and should be up in October sometime.
  • Haptic is on pause at the moment.
  • I currently have two outstanding contracts/projects a TFT Quick Quest and GURPS Monster Hunters Adventure: The Face of Fire.
  • Total wordcount for September was 38,590 words – I met my goal of 0 words for the month of September.
  • I’m am putting no wordcount goal for October 2024.
  • I’m still taking a break from projects for now.

Blog Highlights

  • Blog entries were about 0 per week. 🙁
  • Wrote one entry this month (this one).

Patreon Highlights

  • Patreon was not on time and won’t be. I will be doubling up for the month of November.
  • Gained 7 members, lost 6.
  • No fiction again. No attempt.
  • See the Patreon Schedule for October.
  • Get the Patreon Specials for October here.

Miscellaneous Related News

  • I did almost nothing in September.
  • My computer broke down and I was without it for almost a week. Originally, the power supply died (not uncommon and almost always the source of failure for a desktop). I got a replacement and it was working…and then it died again. I was beyond my skill at this point so I called in a repair service. It took them a bit, but they figured it out: my bios settings had somehow changed, the GPU had died, and some other minor things. But they got it fixed quickly, at a good price, and had a helluva customer satisfaction/service going on. They were also really respectful when I told them this was the last machine both my boyfriend and I worked on to build. When it came back to me it had been THROUGHLY cleaned, dusted, etc. I cried a bit. Damnably thoughtful of them to do all that and be so careful. They are now my repair guys.
  • I am still struggling to deal with some once-off expenses. So if you want to put some shinies in the raven’s nest he will thank you for it. Link to the GoFundMe is here.
  • My physical and mental health have still be out of whack. I’m alive and functioning (somewhat on the latter), so we’ll see.
  • I paused work totally on the Virginia Board of Workforce Development program.
  • As I said before, my energy levels are just low. Dealing with anything has been a slog at best. But I’m trying.
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