Streams, fantasy craft books, & YouTube! :)

Hello, hellooooo!

Popping in today with a couple announcements.

First up, I'll be over on the Inimitable Books, LLC channel for a Scrivener workshop today at 12:00 noon CST. I will be playing the part of the curious and confused (a role I know well in regards to Scrivener). I'm very excited to pick the brains of Zara & Kelli and learn from their expertise.

It's funny, having been a longtime user and lover of Scrivener, I'm aware I know ~5% of its capabilities. So here's to hoping they'll help me get up to 15%! Bahaha.

Second off, don't forget that we have our Double Stream Days coming up!

The first Double Stream Day of the month will be this Wednesday, February 28th, at 9:15am CST.

And Double Stream Day #2 (and our book club discussion of ON WRITING by Stephen King) will be the following day, Leap Day!, February 29th at 1:45pm CST. (I'm very excited to spend my Bonus Day with y'all!)

Ahead of that, I'd like to announce that March's Crafts & Drafts book club pick is WONDERBOOK: THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO CREATING IMAGINATIVE FICTION by Jeff Vandermeer. (He's won the Shirley Jackson award, Nebulas, three times World Fantasy winner, wrote a NYTimes Bestselling Series, etc. Truly the list goes on.)

This book kept coming up in my searches and, in reviews, people insisted it was perfect for intermediate fantasy writers (and beginners!).

I'm personally most excited for the scattered essays included in the book, from the likes of Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lev Grossman, and a lot more.

There's also a lot of "extras" on the Wonderbook website that might be worth checking out, especially if you don't want to commit to buying the book just yet. (I've put a Hold on a copy from my library first!)

And finally, look at the state of my iMovie:

After taking an extended break from YouTube, I'm finally back to editing footage! I'm currently hoping to get a video a week out, starting with February's Prime Writing Weekend vlog. (Including links where people can vote on their favorite submissions for the haiku and 7-word story challenges!)

The click click click as I cut and move and edit footage is a rhythm I've missed and I feel so good about getting to the place where I did miss it, you know? For a while I wasn't sure if that drive would return but my brain has been itching with ideas and enjoying executing them.

I've even turned reading ON WRITING into something of a vlog too, so I'm excited to finish that up in a couple days, discuss it with y'all, and see what ✨realizations✨come from it.

Okay, okay, I think that's it. Until Wednesday! :) I hope you all have a wonderful start to your week and happy writing!!