2022, Halfway Through (I)

This is the long-form, more image-driven, less literary version of the semi-annual update to my “life stakeholders.”

For the semi-annual update that feels more like a first draft of a potential epilogue to a book, go here.

Pro tip: click into the links throughout this post for newsletter recaps by month, links to other writing, and miscellaneous easter eggs.

If you want to read more “in-the-moment” writing from the first half of the year, check out Patreon (note: some of it is paywalled, but unlock-able for as little as $1/month) and my writing-oriented Instagram (widely accessible).

January + February

[January newsletter/February newsletter]

A few weeks into the New Year, my boyfriend had a tough love conversation with me that I was procrastinating and making excuses when it came to putting adequate time and word count on paper. Ashamed to admit that he was right, I proceeded to put down $$$ to go to a conference as a forcing function to get something substantial written (else risking embarrassment). From the end of January into mid-February, I went into a frenzied, full-court press to get to a full, working draft of my book proposal ahead of attending my first writing conference: the Southern California Writers’ Conference.