If I have one hill to die on, this is it. I've talked about this before and I'll open this damaged box of mine by saying even as I defend the concept of the trope that I cannot think of an example of it that I like or does it well according to my standards. …
Author: junekinn
Fourth Month Check-In
April did not go as planned. It started to. I wrote a good 15k words at the beginning, got two chapters ahead with Someone Will Die and did a lot of crucial plotting for Of Blood and Stone. And then I went on a nine-day trip to California for a wedding. I did not bring …
Third Month Check-In
March had a weak start. I ended February on rocking footing so it's not surprising that I came into this month kind of shaky. I started a new short story but haven't been able to work on it much given that I realized it would be a bit longer than my previous short projects but …
Pros & Cons for April
I somehow got the idea stuck in my little, aching brain that I should do camp nano this year. A few things stick out to me as reasons why I shouldn't almost immediately. I usually bail on regular nano just for sake of time or whatever my usual excuse is. For some reason, November is …
Old Draft Blues
A few months ago I talked about making the 'Graveyard' a folder in my google drive full of dead story ideas that were taking up space in my files so I discarded them in one neat little space because I can never truly get rid of anything. I talked about Death of a Prince, my …
Second Month Check-In
So, how did February go? To put it simply, I ended up taking a lot of creative breaks. Not so simply, I was bogged down by endless distractions and I did not write much. I made a lot of plans to write. Did a lot of thinking about it, but when I get down to …
Competence and Pet Peeves
A while ago on my tumblr (in a post I can no longer find because the search function is AMAZING) I made a joke about competent costuming. It wasn't clever by any means, I was just pointing out that in the show a character said she knew another character was somewhere she shouldn't be because …
Til Death
Months ago I was locked in world building purgatory when it came to fleshing out the marriage and funeral rites of the Escana Empire. I think there's a lot of detail I can add to their funeral traditions because I sort of lost steam, but I did come up with good things for their wedding …
Obligatory Pre-Valentine’s Musing
I think out of all the bonus holiday shorts I've written over the years, anything relating to Valentine's Day has been fleeting. I did one last year, and another two years prior, but it's not something that comes to mind for me often. Strange, probably, considering romance is definitely high on the list of genres/subplots …
First Month of the Year Check-In
I wanted to write a post on January First doing the usual. Y'know. Talk about how I wanted to use this more, outline ideas and goals I had, prepare myself for the upcoming year. That did not happen. I spent my first day of 2022 very busy getting thrown off my wagon so instead, I …
Aliston. J Drake 