Here were are, skating in towards the halfway mark for the year. Wild.
Like I mentioned in my last post, my writing took a hit last month due to a number of unavoidable circumstances (and, admittedly, some avoidable ones too… but Tears of the Kingdom is amazing and I regret nothing) but I’m looking forward to making sure I carve out the time in my schedule to get back at it. I’ve got some fun ideas I want to play with for Tanner and Miranda, for one thing, and I’ve realized that the story I’ve been working on with Correspond is even bigger than I thought it was, so the plan is to put in the work to structure and outline it properly and use NaNo later this year to write the thing.
I did still manage to keep up with reading, which included the two newest Black Ocean stories out from J.S. Morin (space magic and time travel shenanigans!), the newest Country Club Murder by Julie Mulhern, as well as The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and The Giver by Lois Lowry. Currently, I’m still working my way through The Priory of the Orange Tree, which I’m appreciating for the complicated worldbuilding and the author’s penchant for following along with all kinds of high fantasy tropes just to turn them on their heads when it suits her.
Hope all is well with everyone reading this, and, if you’re in the northern hemisphere, enjoy the starts to your summers!
F.A. Hakimian 