Wassup.
A little later of an update this time, but a) it means I can reflect on the whole month (who knows what might change in the last couple of days?!?!?!), and b) nobody’s gonna read this anyway, so it’s fine! Hurrah!
Wot I Wrote
Couple of bits going on, first and foremost the LitRPG I’ve been mentioning. Steady progress on that, with a view to hopefully beginning a serialised release before the end of the year. I do have a cover for it, and it’s a niiiiice cover, so watch this space for more!
I’ve been returning to the world of Cthulhu Dreamt to get a bit of editing finished up on Entanglement, the tie-in novel for the role-playing game. You can still preorder bits of that, and you should, because it’s great! (Lots of talented people did lots of things on it. I also did a thing. You can enjoy some or all of these things together or separately. Woo!)
Wot I Enjoyed
I’ve been reading Heretical Fishing, a cosy thingy by one Haylock Jobson, which is very much scratching my ‘comfort reading’ itch of things that are just sort of enjoyable and you don’t need to think about too hard.
On the other end of the spectrum, though, I did also read Managing and Other Lies by Willow Heath, who’s a very talented and exceptionally nice reviewer. Shion Miura’s The Great Passage was also an extremely worthwhile read, especially for anyone interested in language. For a book so very definitively about the Japanese language, it’s excellently translated to still be powerful and very readable in English.
And in podcasts, I’ve been powering through What Went Wrong, which is about the many, many things that tend to go absolutely tits-up in the production of just about any movie, even the really good ones. I started with episodes on movies I knew, but I’ve ended up learning a lot about movies I haven’t seen and probably never will and loved hearing about it all anyway.
Other Bits Wot I Done
I found some time to speak to my mates Reed Reimer and Andy Torres for their Culture of Imagination podcast about… I mean, it became a real flipping stream of consciousness on my part, for which I can only apologise. Hopefully it was at least an entertaining one!
And that’s about it for the month, so take care and see you again soon.
Oh, one more thing: if you sign up for my mailing list, I’ll send you five completely free short stories you can’t read anywhere else. So do!
Chris Durston 
The Great Passage was excellent. When I wrote about it, I said it was a love story.
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