life goal: infamous recluse
I could pretend that I have saved this 13th issue specifically for Halloween. But this would be a terrible lie.
With the assistance of some careful time management tools (otherwise known as "a polygonal box I spent 20 minutes cutting out and coloring with highlighters"), I have found myself back on track with this issue of the magazine. It's astonishing the things you can trick your own mind into doing.
Because time is a lie on even the best of occasions, last week unfortunately did not have an issue. As such, naturally today's issue is late.
A day isn't really finished until you go to sleep -- I'm pretty sure that's true. To that end, this is clearly still a Friday zine. Hooray.
It's a challenge to come up with a newsletter that manages to talk about neither my business (I have a blog and a twitter for that) nor the mess of the year surrounding us all. I always feel better when I've done so, though, like pushing my way through a sequence of stretches, or the evening after a very long walk. Moving my brain to discuss the very minor moments that make a year is, I'm coming to find, very much worth the trouble.
I have a new short story out, with a pile of extras thanks to the lovely Lightspeed Magazine. Enjoy "Sing in Me, Muse", out today, as well as a thoughtful "Author Spotlight" interview with me by Sandra Odell, and an absolutely gorgeous podcast reading by Gabrielle de Cuir.
Would it be fair to say that I forgot to write this issue? Both fair and accurate! Time is strange and uncomfortable, unfortunately linear in ways that I sometimes don't measure well, and apparently today is Friday.
I am returned from my vacation -- slightly refreshed, but with the curious weight of reentering the normal world (for various definitions of "normal").
It's difficult for me to find focus when I'm in my own home -- I'm used to going out and locking myself into various locations until I've completed the work that needs doing. I wouldn't say that my writing is suffering, precisely, but it's more difficult than I'd like to get to a moment of mental equilibrium that allows the inner voice to whisper words.
Katherine Crighton 