The Monthly Update! Check out past updates HERE
The State of Gibberish
Things are busy around the shop at Gibberish, this has been an eventful month. I moved back to Virginia! So long South Carolina, I’m back in Dixieland again, it’s good to be home. Lent1 began in early March, my personal laptop (which broke a while ago) was found to be unrecoverable. I had some non-leisure travel, I’m still finding a new equilibrium in the process.
So it will be a little quiet from me, while I settle all my personal life stuff but so far it hasn’t interrupted the flow of things here! FFF is still going strong and you all are producing some GREAT fiction every week! My second monthly exercise dropped and I’m really enjoying those and I’m getting lots of great feedback from the paid craft-chats!
So the boat is rocking a little bit, but somehow I’m still here. Thanks for being here with me!
What You Missed
Only just getting off the ground this year, as February was the first month of any real fiction action!
LIVESTREAMS
No live streams this month! I’m hoping to get back to them soon, though!
FLASH FICTION FRIDAY
Weekly prompts keep dropping and yall keep producing great stories! Check the prompts out at the Prompt Index page here! If you write with the prompts, don’t forget to drop a link to the stories in the subscriber chat so I can find them easily to highlight and others can find them easily to read!
FICTION
Monthly Writing Exercises continue with The Keys To The Heart! Check out the paid subscriber chat to see some great feedback I’ve received for how to improve my writing in the next exercise!
What Is Coming?
Flash Fiction Friday has kept up, last month I promised to TRY to give you an installment of Bima Sakti and a background collab. Frankly my personal laptop being broken has hindered my ability to work on these.
April contains Easter, some non-leisure travel, and some other things that are taking up space in my mind. So all I can promise is to keep FFF going and another Monthly Exercise at the end of the month! Things are quiet but getting steadier.
The Paywallening
The inexorable icewall of paid content marches forward through time! Everything from June 2023 and earlier has already gone behind a paywall as of publication of this post. Check out the previous update to see the stories that have gone behind the wall!
On May 1st, everything from July 2023 and earlier will go behind a paywall. The next stories to go under are these:
Writing Exercises
Flash Fiction
Awake and Alive - A droid considers it’s own existence while it is hunted by a bounty hunter
Powerless - Two scavengers come upon an old wreck floating through space, and expect it to be easy salvage…
Republish: Artificial Intelligence - A researcher delivers a presentation on his work to create a human-like artificial intelligence, that perhaps seems too human…
Serials
No serials going behind the paywall this month!
Essays
No essays going behind the paywall this month!
This is your last chance to read these stories for free! Check them out now!
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Thank you for reading!
Thank you for another great month of reading and writing here at Gibberish. I appreciate you all for sticking with me—here’s to another great month ahead!
God bless you all!
- Scoot
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I'll be in the DC area in mid-May on family business; we'll mostly be doing medical stuff, but if you're in the area, you should wave at me! :)