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Newsletter 3/31/25

March: what a big month!

  • Writing wise, I set out to stick with my new goal of writing for one hour per day. Due to a lot of other exciting things going on, I changed my goal midmonth back to my usual forty-five minutes per day (minus a few travel days). I basically stuck to that, and posted over 14,000 words across my projects, including Act I of a three-part novelette, “What We’ve Almost Forgotten” and updates for Our Secrets and Our Silence (It All Became So Violent). Please let me know what you think in the comments sections of those works (and thank you to everyone who already has)!
  • Next month, I’ll stick with forty-five minutes per day. Keep up with my progress on TrackBear!
  • This month, I returned to the Leather Leadership Conference for my third year as a presenter, this time to Level Up in Los Angeles, CA. I taught “Creating Sensory Friendly Events” and “The Literal Servant Leader”, read my story “The Night That Clara Just Wanted to Sleep” at the Community Showcase while two incredible improv volunteers brought the house down, and was beyond honored to become the newest member of the Board of Directors of the LLC! Thank you to everyone who made this weekend so awesome. Here’s my photo diary from the conference.
  • This month, I was also incredibly honored to win a House Exeter 2024 Community Education/Top 5 Class Award for “Productivity for Service”. Thank you so much to all of the wonderful people involved!
  • Next month, I’ll be teaching “The Ups & Downs of Service in a 24/7 M/s Dynamic” virtually with Joshua Tenpenny for M/s 301 on 4/27. Join us!
  • We had one Las Vegas TNG (The Next Generation) event this month: one of our usual munches. Thanks to everyone who attended!
  • In April, I’ll be hosting one of our usual munches on the twenty-first, if you happen to be 18-35 and local to the Vegas area.
  • For the Neon Cactus Wordsmiths, I hosted two Discord write-ins this month. Thanks to everyone who attended!
  • Next month, I’ll be hosting two more Discord write-ins on the 2nd and sixteenth. I’m also going to start hosting a new monthly social, in person at my place on the third Friday evening of each month, starting April 18th. If you happen to be a Las Vegas based writer, join us for those and more here.

Other updates from this month:

  • Here are some of my other favorite photos from this month.
  • I read so many amazing books this month. Shoutout to Scythe by Neal Shusterman, How to Calm Your Mind by Chris Bailey, Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green, Building a Non-Anxious Life by John Delony, and Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune. My goal is to spend at least fifteen minutes learning/reading every day. Keep up with my reading on StoryGraph!
  • In March, I also went to some awesome events and spent some great time with family and friends.

Thanks for everything this month; have a happy, healthy, and safe April!

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