Happy Day Off Everyone!
I'm also enjoying my day off.
It’s a day off for just about everyone, so I’m taking it easy today. Just a tiny peek into my plans for the Substack, which is about as navel gaze as I can get. Once I learn how to schedule and stick to plans, and stop playing Spider-Man on the PS5, this is what you’re gonna see.
More Writing.
Wow, shocker.
Specifically I’m going to expand on the flash fiction, trying to build into short stories and maybe a novel. That’ll show my crippling self doubt that says I won’t write a book!
I’m also reading The Onion and Reductress and Hard Time News with a critical eye to improve my satire writing, which is a tough form of humor for me to master. I’ll also try writing RPG stuff but that’ll be more in person and hands on and me selling zines out of my car trunk at conventions.
A podcast.
Since I am a man with facial hair, it’s inevitable that I have my own podcast. It’s really going to be an excuse to talk to friends, and this will lean more into the TTRPG content I’ve been doing less on here. The theme? It’s Stuff Blake Does so i have the excuse to talk about any topic I want. It’s lazy, but so am I.
Here is a session of a podcast I did with my friends Kurtis and James. It was called Here is Why You’re Wrong, and we would talk about hypotheticals I cooked up. This one is about being a Godzilla monster and it’s one of my favorite sessions!
If you want to hear me on a current podcast I’m a regular co-host of Movie and a Beer with my friends Dan, Bryan, and Aaron. Yup, all dudes with facial hair. But it’s a fun podcast!
Social Media
It won’t bleed into here too much, but I’m reading articles by people with larger followings to build my social media presence, which can help with getting a proper paid writing job.
It feels advertising myself, which I hate. It’s partly why I’m so bad at dating apps. But I want to grow my Substack and provide the best content I can think of.
That’s all.
I’ll have more deets (the hip, cool way to say details. I don’t know if it saves any time since details is only 2 letters and 1 syllable longer) about these features next week, but for now enjoy a hopefully relaxing day off!