Incoming: my new short story, SPOKENSOFTLY, will be arriving later this morning for newsletter subscribers. You can sign up here, if so inclined…
Meanwhile, in “better late than never” news: that whole “submit your show to Apple Podcasts” thing that I’d been avoiding for so long because I thought it would take forever? Done. In five minutes: The Socialized Recluse is, apparently, now available through Apple Podcasts.
This month’s MacroParentheticals dispatch, featuring title and cover reveals - and a stab at a release schedule for the next year - will be on its way to subscribers shortly. You can sign up here, if so inclined.
News: Tip Jar Launch / Etc Etc
Long in the brainworks, but: I’ve decided that it’s time to – if not charge directly for my work, then at least give an option for readers to show their enjoyment or appreciation of what I hurl into the world via a tip jar.
(“Tip Jar” terminology itself beingstill in flux (suggestions welcome); note, that I use ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/twweaver - for the main portal for this but am using Squarespace’s button option and the link to create my own text (and not pay $6 a month to change it from something about caffeine via Ko-Fi’s gold program). Like I said, suggestions welcome.
Had considered membership but, because of my method of working – read: things come out when they come out and only when I decide they’re ready – I’ve decided that the tip jar is the best way for me to work.
(Cheers for the new perspective, my friend.)
As of right now, I’m including the Tip Jar button only on certain pages (doing it this way is a bit more work, but it’s a good way to customize things) like the first short story, DESCANSO, and the latest episode of THE GROUND LOOP.
A nice mental shift to a.) place a minimal monetary value on my work and, b.) bring a little bit of the busker feeling to said work. My Ko-Fi page is very much in progress, but I’ll probably be adding stuff and playing with it - as I am wont to do - until my dying day because that’s the way I roll.
As you were.
Update: the seven-year paragraph is finished. Releasing to NL subscribers later this week (so I don’t have time to fuck it up).
Added a new Stories section to Parenthetical Recluse. Aiming for the first one to arrive, newsletter-exclusive, next month.
Arriving Sunday morning: MacroParentheticals subscribers get early access to RE/EMERGENCE0003, the latest collaborative offering from Elizabeth Joan Kelly and myself. Very excited for you to see this one.
Incoming: featuring new music from Elizabeth Joan Kelly and new words from myself, re/emergence0003 arrives in early access form for newsletter subscribers on Sunday morning…
News, Etc: What with this being my final daily Informality
A week of change continues and ends and it’s time to wrap up this daily series once again. Too many time constraints, too little evolution, and a general desire to stop that pervasive feeling of wasting my breath have culminated in the current plan, for now:
Sunday becomes written word day (and a day off from the Main Project(s)) with these daily pieces switching to weekly Sunday morning releases, three per month – the fourth being reserved for the monthly newsletter – and residing at a new blog at the main site: The Informalities / RSS. This Micro space will be for whenever/whatever pieces that pop up during the week, thus reclaiming the MicroInformalities title.
Wednesdays remain aural days: GROUND LOOP, SOCIALIZED RECLUSE, RE/EMERGENCE, and other upcoming stuff – involving an audio component – will release on Wednesdays.
The rest of the time I’ll be toiling away; this space will remain my whenever-whatever cross-posted thoughtstream. Dog pictures and such.
With a third one coming hopefully this year, I’ve added a Books page to Parenthetical Recluse (duly filed under “better eight years late than never”).
Just received stunning new music from EJK: re/emergence0003 is on its way. Follow the link for more info and how to get early access.
Newsletter Sunday / Proof of Existence, 19-24apr2021
The week that was, the return of Daily (Micro)Informalities:
Leave it / Click (19apr2021).
Outgrown Collars / Focus (20apr2021).
THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE, Ep0003 - Elizabeth Joan Kelly (21apr2021).
Returning to the Depths, Mostly (22apr2021).
Of Deadlines and the Saving Grace of Puppy Puzzle Toys (23apr2021).
Modifying Time(blocks) (24apr2021).
April’s newsletter inbound; see you tomorrow.
April’s installment of my MacroParentheticals newsletter lands in inboxes tomorrow morning - and, oh, what a month it’s been: Puppies. Podcasts. Sleeplessness. Spark plugs. You can sign up here, if so inclined. (Hint, hint.)
Newsletter Sunday / Proof of Existence, 22-27mar2021
The latest MacroParentheticals dispatch, the first of the monthly NL iterations, is on its way to inboxes. Full-on daily posts might return tomorrow, but, having existed on a daily basis, partially, over the last week:
On Deletion Practices (24mar2021).
On Evolving Inspirations (22mar2021).
See you tomorrow, maybe, as daily pieces make their return. Simply because I think I like doing them.
NOTE: though it’s too late to change it now, I made an error in this morning’s newsletter: in reference to Abbott Kahler’s “How Sara Gruen Lost Her Life,” I said “as she moved heaven and earth to secure the release…” when I meant to write, “as she moved heaven and earth in efforts to secure the release…”
Finally added a projects page to Parenthetical Recluse. The nip/tuck continues, ad infinitum. (Good morning, BTW.)
Very much a work-in-progress, but I’ve added a Status page to the primary brain-garden.
Encore: re/emergence0002, the latest music + microfiction collab from Elizabeth Joan Kelly and myself, is now available for a limited time.
New, by we: re/emergence0002, the latest release from Elizabeth Joan Kelly and myself, is now available for a limited time. Enjoy!
Incoming: re/emergence0002 arrives on Wednesday, 17mar2021. Sign up for early access to this and all future releases.
News: On the Monthly+ Iteration of My Newsletter
from last weekend’s MacroParentheticals0042:
With a number of new creative things coming out, an upcoming seasonal increase in demands on my non-writing time (read: in-lawn, digging holes, lifting heavy things, fixing a fence, replacing a side door and frame, and at least another 30 cubic yards of mulch-laying in addition to other fun things which should get me to April), a wish to not besiege/bore readers with multiple emails, and, most importantly, a desire for evolution and creative growth, I need to streamline my efforts and focus on the realization of those new creative things.
Here’s how I’m going to do that:
From here on out, the letter and the news parts of this now-“monthly+” newsletter will be separated, with these letter bits releasing the last Sunday of every month and the news bits coming your way in “extra editions” as new projects and installments are released (best guess being one or two (two at most) extra editions a month, probably on Fridays).
Extra editions will herald:
- Continued early access (+/- a week before public release) to new Socialized Recluse interviews and re/emergence installments.
- Exclusive access to new short stories, serialized things, and et cetera. (There will be et cetera. Perhaps serialized et cetera.)
- Free ebooks / PDFs of aforementioned new creative things, as well as discounts on physical releases of above.
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While the original plan was to release one novella per year - and may yet be the case (eyes / stomach, all that) - I’ve managed to unblock so many ideas that had been waiting for a place to call home that I’m aiming for two novellas/novelettes per year, the first in February, the second in August, and released as eBooks (free for you, with appropriate, non-subscriber remuneration TBD; Amazon availability likewise TBD).
Each December, these long-form fictions (as well as that year’s re/emergence tales - among other things) will be collected and released as a physical, self-published zine. I’m planning to work with local printers (coincidentally, most likely at the print shop that, growing up, made the smell of a printing press and fresh ink one of my favorites in the world) to produce this effort, which will be available only directly through me (via Parenthetical Recluse, which is, in this new paradigm, switching over to being a static home / storefront for all of these new creative things) and to subscribers for a sizable discount.
Obviously, since I only came up with this in February, there’s only one novella this year and December’s collection will be a small one, a test run, for lack of a better phrase. The two-per-annum will start in 2022.
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If all of this sounds good to you, I hope you’ll consider signing up for MacroParentheticals. I’m excited to share what I’m building.