Hello everyone. With 2023 coming to an end, now seems like a good time to wrap up my year in reading and writing. This is a bit of a hard thing to do, because I feel that the last three years have been one massive blur. It was surprise to me to starting writing about …
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NaNo Results
Okay, just done my first NaNo, and feels good to go get a lot of writing down, even if I did fall a little short of the 50,000 word target. Well... maybe a lot short. Definity short. I wrote 17,419 words of my novella Amanidas, increasing the total wordcount to 29,866. And you know what? …
Kinda Doing NaNoWrMo
So, I'm kinda doing NaNoWrMo this year. By that, I mean I'm hanging out on the official forums and aiming to write 50,000 words, but I am not starting a new novel. I'm continuing with my current project, a story about a little girl called Astra who lives on a deserted space colony called Amanidas …
Hugo Talk, NaNoWrMo Plans, and Holiday Sketches
Just a quick update on things happening with me. And also a look at the Hugos, though not much since I haven't really been following them this year. I could pretend to be really noble and say I was boycotting them due to China's human right's issues, but whilst that certainly turned me off, I …
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Ayreon Live and Europe Adventure
So, I've been a bit quiet lately. No twitch streams, no new stories, and no posts on either this blog or my socials. That's because I have been on an adventure for the last two and a half weeks. For the last year or so I've been saving and planning to travel to Europe to …
Got Interviewed by Analog
Thank you to the Analog team, especially Emily Hockaday, for interviewing me at the Astounding Analog Companion. Was really nice to talk about 'The World in a Ramen Cup' and well, all the other stuff I veered off into. Everyone, you should go check out the interview. https://theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2023/06/21/qa-with-jayde-holmes/
Exciting Changes to this Website
Long time followers of this blog may have noticed that I didn't write anything about the Hugos this year. And that I haven't posted anything for a couple of months. This year, I've been feeling as if I've turned a hobby I love into a tedious job. Don't get me wrong, the reading challenges are …
Unboxing the Creepy Book
The bubble wrap does detract from the forbidding aura of the book I admit. You ever get an impulse to order a cursed book online? Last month I learnt about Einar Baldvin's beautiful but creepy graphic novel The Crawling King, and I instantly wanted it. The book is a collection of scraps of stories and …
Book Bingo Challenge 2021 Results
I read a lot of great books in 2021. In total I read 71 books, with a total of about 14,634 pages. This year I was marking off books on a randomly generated book bingo card, and I got three bingos. I almost finished the card, but there were a few easy tiles I missed. …
Space Opera September 2021
I'm going to be off work for a whole month, and with all that time I decided to see if there were any fun readathons to keep me occupied. As you can tell by the timing of this post, this was a pretty last minute decision. Fortunately, I came across a really fun looking Readathon …
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