July Update
The Monthly Update Is Back! Check out past updates HERE [https://gibberish.substack.com/t/monthly-update]
Keeping the ad-hoc energy in updates but talked for a lot longer! If you don’t want to listen to me ramble, here’s some show notes:
0:00 - It starts here, as is tradition0:30 - A reintroduction to the Monthly Updates1:03 - What happened in June?
* Weekly Exercises have continued on Tuesdays in The Writing Gym [https://gibberish.substack.com/s/the-writing-gym]!
* I’ve been publishing longer fiction every other Friday in The Volume [https://gibberish.substack.com/s/the-volume]!
* Brood [https://open.substack.com/pub/gibberish/p/brood?r=18pqmt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web] (June 7) - I talk about Brood at 3:03
* 4:25 - Shout out to Leigh Parrish [https://substack.com/profile/83459091-leigh-parrish] with whom I discussed drafting strategies and how I applied them (painfully) to this story.
* The Call [https://open.substack.com/pub/gibberish/p/the-call?r=18pqmt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web] https://open.substack.com/pub/gibberish/p/the-call?r=18pqmt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web(June 21) - I talk about The Call at 5:25
* This story is sneaking up on the coveted spot as my most popular story on Gibberish. At the time of writing, Father and Sun [https://open.substack.com/pub/gibberish/p/father-and-sun?r=18pqmt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web] has 73 likes, The Call has 70. Thank you, everyone, for all the love on BOTH of these stories (and all my writing!)
* 6:50 - Shouts out to Macabre Monday [https://open.substack.com/pub/macabremonday] and Sep-ul-chral Roots (sound it out, scoot)
* 9:00 - stiiiiilllll talkin, good grief. Get it together.
* 9:55 - June was a two-episode month for Letters from Armin [https://gibberish.substack.com/p/selected-letters-of-armin-tolor-index]!
11:18 - Let’s talk about Collaborations!
* Did you know I do voice work? Check out my shingle [https://gibberish.substack.com/p/voice-for-hire]!
* The most recent (and most highly produced) example of my voicework is a collaboration with Chantal LaFortune [https://substack.com/profile/71686201-chantal-lafortune] and Thérèse Judeana [https://substack.com/profile/200813401-therese-judeana] at a publication called Aestheté [https://open.substack.com/pub/aestheteamphitheatre]: A presentation of GK Chesterton’s “The Ballad of the White Horse [https://aestheteamphitheatre.substack.com/p/the-ballad-of-the-white-horse-book]”.
* 14:09 - Brother Alexander [https://substack.com/profile/75209380-brother-alexander] (you may remember him from a guest story he published at Gibberish last summer [https://gibberish.substack.com/p/guest-story-a-fairy-tale]) connected me to his friend Call of the Shieldmaiden [https://substack.com/profile/92297001-call-of-the-shieldmaiden], who runs a literary magazine called Corncrake [https://corncrakemag.com/]
* Corncrake July Issue publishes today, July 1!
* I have submitted something for their August issue [https://corncrakemag.com/submissions/]!
* This is a GREAT opportunity for fiction writers to reach new audiences and bring readers to Substack.
18:05 - Let’s talk about DRAFTS!
* July 5th, Part 2 of the limited serial which began with Help [https://gibberish.substack.com/p/help] (I hope!)
* July 19th, Alt History Fantasy/Horror? Lots of work to do on this too!
* Serial Coming Soon???? It will be about Byron the Blackpage [https://gibberish.substack.com/t/blackpage]!
21:09 - “What am I Who are you reading?” 🎤
* Bridget Riley [https://substack.com/profile/15774075-bridget-riley]’s Down in the Holler concluded this past weekend, I need to catch up!
* Shouts out to Michael S. Atkinson [https://substack.com/profile/4291737-michael-s-atkinson] who riffs wonderfully on my Tuesday writing exercises. (I also learned this morning that it’s his birthday! Happy Birthday, Michael!)
* Once I get Down in the Holler down, I’ll be looking at S.E. Reid [https://substack.com/profile/80396624-se-reid]’s Freelance and Fishmaids!
* Because I was riffing off the top of my head, I unjustly left off The Casual Writer [https://substack.com/profile/83840104-the-casual-writer] and her surprise serial, Uprooted [https://thecasualwriter.substack.com/p/uprooted-a-family-tree-mystery-navigation], which has been really interesting and really fun! Worth checking out if you are interested in mystery, family trees, or old leather-bound books smelling of rich mahogany.
23:22 - I wave my piece of paper in the microphone23:30 - It’s over, just a technicality at this point. I’m bad at ending podcasts.23:59 - The End!
Thank you for being here for Gibberish!
God bless!
AJPM
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