Weekly Update – November 5, 2024
November already? Yikes. Anyway, a couple of important things.
First, quickly, is my suggestion to skip formal participation in NaNoWriMo this year, for reasons I’ve gone into before, so I won’t rehash them now.
Second: if you have no voted already, today’s the day to get that done, and I’m going to urge you in the strongest possible terms to vote for Kamala Harris.
At this stage I’m betting some of you are rolling your eyes and getting ready to chastise me for being political, I’m a writer and I should stick to writing, which prompts me to ask: have you actually read my work? I strive for diversity and inclusion in the characters. My themes are steeped in feminism, sex positivity, and allyship for the queer community. My work is reflective of my beliefs. It’s been political all along, and if you haven’t noticed that by now, I don’t know what to tell you.
As for using this website as a platform for those beliefs? Well, I feel a responsibility to use whatever little influence I might have in the world to try to do good, and I believe that of the two candidates available to us, Harris is the good one — and if you vehemently deny that, I’m not going to try to persuade you otherwise. You’ve already bought fully into the laughable idea that the selfish, short-sighted, increasingly erratic, easily exhausted, petulant, vengeance-starved narcissist with vague but terrible plans for the country and no grasp of how any of our systems actually work is the best choice, and there’s no convincing you that isn’t true.
I won’t dignify any arguments about third-party candidates with a response. They’re not going to win and voting for them will affect no more change than it did any other year. Same goes for anyone who says they’re not voting “out of principle.” If you had principles, you’d participate in your society and not stay home and feel smug about yourself and pretend you’re taking a stand against anything.
If this post loses me any fans or followers, assume I’ve inserted the Elmo Shrug GIF here. I honestly don’t know why you followed me to begin with, and your absence isn’t going to diminish me at all.
I realize my tone here is pretty belligerent, but the fact is, the MAGA movement has already harmed the women and queer people in my life, and threatens to do worse if, somehow, Trump returns for a second term, and the fact that is still a possible reality angers me beyond words. You do not tell people you love them and then vote for someone who will hurt them, full stop.
Anyway. Go vote, vote for Harris, and I’ll see you here next week (or not?) with news about the new project.
WRITING PROJECTS
Action Figures – Legacies: Third draft in editing stage.
Action Figures – Untitled sequel to Legacies – Second draft completed.
The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – untitled book eight: Third draft completed.
The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – untitled book nine: First draft underway.
The Great Rock & Roll Time Trip Tour – First draft underway.
APPEARANCES & EVENTS
Nothing currently scheduled.
MISC.
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