Welcome to the 23nd writing club update! The number twenty-three is one of those numbers that contains a clearly incrementing sequence, so always satisfying to type on a keyboard–you can kind of roll your fingers over the number keys: 23 23 123 1234 (that kind of thing).

Speaking of satisfying to type, I hope everyone has had at least two or three great writing experiences this month!

On to weather, Spring is really happening here finally, after a bit of an extended chilly period. So that’s always fun.

To anyone stumbling upon this post and wondering about the rules – there really aren’t any! This is a club for mostly the same regulars and semi-regulars, but visitors are encouraged to comment on writing updates or share their own. The main idea is to set a goal for yourself and try to achieve it by the next month’s update. :)

  • grrgyle ( grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) OPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    My obsession with making Doom maps has blossomed into a full hyperfocus, so I’ve been riding that muse for most of my creative exertion. I’ve no idea when the obsession will wane, but actually there have been some increasingly, uh, literary for lack of a better term, entries in the Doom community canon in recent years. I’ve got some ideas I’d like to try out RE entering into conversation with the toxicity of nostalgia, that kind of stuff. Pretty funny but also apt to use a game that came out in the 90s to talk about that haha.

    But yeah, most of my writing has been in the form of journaling. I’ve been struggling with performing well at work and being present in my community (I have a pretty low social battery), so most of my entries are basically just me doing therapy on myself ;p but it’s writing of a sort, so it’s got that going for it.

    I’m going to leave my goal purposefully blank for this month, and see if I can surprise myself with what I come up with by the end of next month. :)