Programming Note: Remodeling

getting ready for 2026

Dear Gibberish,

With Find the Blackpage done and dusted, I soft-announced in the Debrief that I have big plans for 2026 and that necessitates a change in structure. We’re going to SEASONS when I start back up in the new year. Remember, I take December AND January off from publishing to recharge my batteries, and so between today (10/8/25) and February 1st 2026 I am going to reorganize my newsletter’s homepage.

the current homepage

This entails:

• New sections

• new logos and graphics

• a handful of new pinned posts

• reshuffling where posts live

• updating discovery surfaces like welcome emails, the START HERE page, and the “about” page.

This DOES NOTentail:

• Any changes to your subscription

• any of your favorite things going away

• any action on your part

The goal is to improve organization and make it more clear what you can find at Gibberish. Here’s an example:

The two seasons of Gibberish will be Sci-Fi Season and Fantasy season, headlined by Sandbox Earth and The Blackpage, respectively. Right now, the stories in each of these settings exist together in The Volume and Writing Gym and Index. In the future, I will have a Sandbox Earth section, where you can find all my Sandbox Earth stories. I will also have a Blackpage section, where you can find all my Blackpage stories. And there will be another section for the non-canonical stories outside of those two settings.

I beg you to pardon my dust while I am making these adjustments! I can’t resist poking and prodding at it in my spare time, but before I confuse any of you, I need to tell you what I’m doing.

Thanks for being a subscriber, supporter, and reader of Gibberish! I am looking forward to 2026!

God bless you,

-Scoot