The Monthly Update! Check out past updates HERE
The State of Gibberish
Is it July already??? What????????????? That’s the state of Gibberish. Abject confusion. Where does the time go!
What You Missed
A little more to report this month!
LIVESTREAMS
FLASH FICTION FRIDAY
Weekly prompts keep dropping and I’m really enjoying what yall are doing with them! Check the prompts out at the Prompt Index page here!
FICTION
ESSAYS
no essays this month! Got a couple in the hopper but letting ‘em cook slow!
What Is Coming?
Shaina and I are going to keep marching through the Artists Way, I’m going to keep churning out Find the Blackpage episodes as best as I can! One thing I’ve started for Paid Subscribers is I started a new section called Dev Diary wherein I post weekly snippets stepping slowly towards publishing an anthology and other future works! Paid subscribers can keep an eye out for Dev Diary entries weekly on Mondays.
The Paywallening
The inexorable icewall of paid content marches forward through time! Everything from September 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 August 1st, everything from October 2023 and earlier will go behind a paywall. The next stories to go under are these:
Writing Exercises
Flash Fiction
Republish: Chess - This was the very first story of mine that was ever published, in my high school literary magazine in 2007/2008. Some concepts/ideas are here that I’ve since repurposed in my fiction. This is a non-canonical Sandbox Earth story (which shows you how long that’s been living in my head!)
Scoot’s “Pinocchio” - This is a moral allegory leveraging imagery from Pinocchio and the Prodigal Son, and I am very proud of it.
Serials
Duel - While Sandbox Earth was technically my first published serial, Duel was the first serial I published after Notes became a thing. Duel is the story of detective James McElroy and his droid sidekick DB-431. Synopsis: When Detective McElroy is approached by the moneyed daughter of a dead industrialist—he’s reluctant to take the case. But after taking a cursory look into the case and close brush with a dangerous assassin, the case is on!
Essays
No essays going behind the paywall this month!
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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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