After a week off, LTD is back on.
The rains have come, and have awakened the clover seed laying in the dead beds of my garden. This means I have a shot at wilding a few square metres of dirt at the end of the garden into a pollinator patch and wildlife corridor in the spring. After a few months of working with the soil, I’ve come to think of a garden as telling its own kind of story.
Sunday’s newsletter is written and ready to go out — you can subscribe here and read a few previous issues too if you like. This week includes writing advice, using an example from one of my more famous pieces of work, and a poll. I fed the plants this morning and gave everything the once over, and then planted myself at this desk to work, which included finishing the newsletter and doing some things on this site. While watching the rain pass on Ventusky and through my window. Occasionally sitting outside to feel the new chill. It’s been a tough and beautiful summer. The rain has become a novelty to enjoy.
With autumn comes the need to adjust my schedule. I want to try some new things here. I may even puzzle out a way to serialise some fiction – I’ve been getting nostalgic for the years of doing FREAKANGELS every week, though I’m sure I was less joyful about it when I was having to actually do it. (For those who don’t know, FREAKANGELS started as a weekly webcomic.) But I know I remember feeling it was a good thing to put something new out into the world every week.
Anyway. LTD is back on. And I have plants growing.