Life, Writing, Weirdness

So May worked out well, even if it turned out to be more crowded with non-writing events than I expected, and June has been busy so far.

Not even a month into my time as a graduate student, I went to my first academic conference. Between the conference, a tourism day, and travel on each end, that burned a week, and I got very, very little writing done while I was away. A conference can mean a lot of things depending on where you’re at in your academic career, but as a new grad student it meant randomly talking about my research with anyone who might be interested, team bonding, and going to a lot of short talks on other people’s research across a wide variety of things that still all fall under the umbrella of Astrophysics.

After the conference, I had a day where family events caught up and a day where my exhaustion caught up and I went to bed very early, so here we are on June 10^th. I’ll talk about what was supposed to be this month’s theme later in the week; today is to get me back into some kind of blogging groove and a very quick recap of May fits my mood.

25,315 words with 16,787 of them being first draft fiction, most of those going into the Micro-fiction project for the month.

First draft finished on 40 stories. 36 falling into the Micro-fiction range I set, 1 flash, 2 shorts, and 1 novelette. Everything at longer than Flash length was something I’d started before May began. In the case of one of the shorts, a long time before.

Bonus item: finished plotting Distant Early Warning, the tentative title of a three-season, 30-episode audio drama I’m planning to commit. Still a long way to go, but I have a basic sense of the story and characters, so it will be interesting to see how things work out.

Ultimately, I think the point of things for me is that while life may have me make adjustments or miss days (or even weeks), the writing goes on.

Be well, everyone.