For my update, my year+ long search for a fulltime job is finally at an end 😮‍💨 but as much as that’s a relief, I forgot how much time and energy fulltime work takes up!

But I’ve been keeping up my writing in small ways. I continue to collect ideas like a magpie collects shiny things, but I’ve started to do my writing in short snippets with whatever is available: a notepad when going on walks, in the form of essays or concept pieces on mastodon, or even on my phone using Fossify notes.

Though I still spend more time consuming media than producing it. Especially reading. I found that my reading speed has actually almost doubled since last year! (Though I’m still v slow.)

I was actually just drafting a post about our solarpunk writing resource wiki! I’ve been working to rebuild my notes from past projects and gathering up new information to build out a collection of writer-level information to make writing solarpunk easier.

In this month I mostly focused on the new page about Long-Lasting Stuff for a Library Economy. I’ve been talking to people who work on electronics and machines and gathering up posts, links, and other information. It’s not really done but that’s the cool thing about this project - none of the pages are! Each one just gives us a place to drop any new links or other resources as we find them and I’ve been adding stuff to all of them as I go.

I think at this point I’ve only got a couple other pages I want to create and feel qualified to gather the info for, but I very much hope some of you will want to contribute your own notes! And I plan to start reaching out to other communities and to a few specific people to see if they want to put something together to help fiction writers get their special interest right.

Outside of that, my main goals for the new year is to resume work on the TTRPG campaign book. We’re pretty much just in editing now - we’ve even got a professional editor on the team who has found tons of stuff I’m very glad to fix before publication. (And we’re hopefully getting a cover soon). After that I hope to start work on a choose your own adventure book version of the same story/setting to make this work more accessible. It’s easier to pick up a fiction book than a whole TTRPG campaign with a GM and a group of friends.

I’ve been journaling, and doing quite a bit of writing for my job. I haven’t had as much focus towards more creative things-- but im hoping this month i can settle into a more regular writing routine.

I have a few ideas that have been rattling around and it would be nice to give them space to see if they grow into something larger

I’ve finally started the second section of the Kanteletar novel, and the first half went very smoothly… until I got kinda stuck and I might have to tinker with the ending more than I had imagined. I wanted to complete it by the end of December, but it looks like I might need a couple more weeks.

I started taking part in a monthly anarchist writing workshop, so I hope I can get some new insights on my work AND I can provide mine to other likeminded authors!

Anyway, the target for this 2026 year is going to complete this novel and possibly write a quick fantasy novella I’ve had in mind for some time. Not too high effort, possibly Pratchettian, just to take my mind off the solarpunk genre before the next project.