A little while ago[1]longer than a week, less than a year I answered some question on Reddit. I think the question was along the lines of “Why do Star Wars fans hate Kelly Marie Tran” and of course the real answer was “Real Star Wars fans love her” but that’s fangating and not cool. There …
Category: The Writing Life
Uncle Josh Preemptively Autopsies NaNoWriMo 2020
I am almost certain to finish NaNoWriMo this year by hitting 50,000 words in a single text file. It’s not a huge accomplishment, though. I managed to force myself to write every day in November so far with only one day off, which has made catching up difficult but doable. The biggest challenge was not …
Uncle Josh On Finishing NaNoWriMo 2019
My goal for this effort was to actually write the stuff I didn’t write last year. The conceit of the project is The Magician’s Journey. We know the Hero’s Journey or some “best-seller-in-a-box” checklist version of it. It is tied to Jungian archetypes (probably very loosely) and I thought about another archetype of the Magician. …
Uncle Josh Pokes 2018 with a Stick (3/3): Words, Words, Words
According to Goodreads I read 62 out of 50 books I had challenged myself with this year and that’s probably not-quite fair. There are several graphic novels that may or may not be counted as one for the series or not at all. For example, I finally finished collecting Akira and read the whole thing, …
Uncle Josh Autopsies NaNoWriMo 2018
I “lost” 2018. Am I upset? Kind of. Did I have “unusual circumstances”? No more so than usual. My wife having a trip to the Emergency Room and then surgery the Monday before Thanksgiving were tough things to bear at the time, but in the end they shouldn’t have affected my writing schedule all that …