Stretch Goals; September 17 2025

Since high school, I’ve thought of myself as a fairly political person. Being in a university politics course has proven to me that I was right on the mark about that, but also underscored how much more there is to know about politics in general.

On the flipside, my course on social justice is frightening in how much of it I’d been taking for granted as common sense. Thinking back, if I’d been introduced to these concepts right out of high school, I probably would have been shocked by a lot of it. But nowadays, it all seems horribly obvious… Which makes it all the more disgusting that alt-right conservatives don’t seem to get it.

It’s good but it’s exhausting.

I’ve also been whittling away at my latest manuscript, which I’m disappointed to say will probably wind up being a novella rather than a full-length novel. I’m a firm believer that a well-written book is exactly as long as it needs to be, so if that means it’s on the shorter side, so be it…

But it’s also hard to sell novellas. It shouldn’t be ‘all about the money’, but when you live in poverty, everything’s about the money, truly.

If you want to help out and haven’t already bought my book, you can check out the purchasing options for The Other Face of Sympathy here! Alternatively, there’s always my ko-fi page, where every bit helps me with essentials. I’m focused on essentials only, as of late. I miss having a goal I’m saving up towards, but that’s not doable right now.

I love y’all. I hope this world starts treating us all better.