{"id":10412,"date":"2017-12-31T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T19:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=10412"},"modified":"2017-12-31T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T19:19:38","slug":"now-where-were-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/31\/now-where-were-we\/","title":{"rendered":"now, where were we?"},"content":{"rendered":"

And that was 2017. For the most part, the less said, the better, let’s be honest.<\/p>\n

I did hardly anything musical. The band has been on hiatus. I’ve done a lot of politics, because hey, guess what, it’s fight for personal survival time again. Isn’t that<\/em> just fucking awesome.<\/p>\n

But while I haven’t been able to make the music happen, I have been writing. Not blog posts – as is clear from the blogroll this year – but fiction, instead. Kind of crazy amounts, for that matter – just over 130,000 words since April, a good… I don’t know, five times my previous total fiction writing history? And I actually got published once, back when.<\/p>\n

And it’s all Overwatch-inspired fiction. I’ve never written fanfic before, but I am now, and it’s a torrent, and a lot of it – more than I’ll ever talk about – is deeply personal in different ways. Confusingly – to me at least – I’ve been told by several readers that they aren’t Overwatch fans, and don’t really know anything about the lore, but it works for them despite that<\/em>. So that’s neat.<\/p>\n

(I’ve also had a few people say variations on “for the love of god file off the serial numbers and sell this,” but I’m like, “Why?”)<\/p>\n

Regardless, this seems as good a place and time to make a checkpoint tally. I also just put up a new short story – one that’s part of a series – that’s basically my New Year’s Eve story. So here are my works from 2017:<\/p>\n

Novellas and novels:<\/b><\/p>\n