A Week in Writing #570 - Things Don't Always Go According to Plan

Hope everyone is staying safe, and, of course, writing.

I believe the plan was to work a lot on Blackmail this week. While I did some work in the book, and passed 70,000 words on the road to 80,000, I didn't work on it as much as I wanted to. But the word count now is 70011 and growing. I also spent some time doing some retro work on previous books. I know it might seem odd but with this book, I believe I've finally nailed the description for one of the characters and I wanted to be sure it is the same in previous books.

One of the thing that has occupied my time has been our new artist turning in pages, which has been missing from my life for months. I was telling the other creators, my sons, that it feels like Powers Squared is a comic book again. Yeah!

On the subject of comic books, our podcast, On the Air with Powers Squared, this week was about Trevor's The Blade of Miracles and the new issue coming out later this month. You can watch it on twitch.tv for the next few days, listen to it now here, or wait and watch it on YouTube after 2:30 pm PST on Wednesday here. I've also added a preview of the book on our website, so check it out.

SRCC Press learned this week that we've been waitlisted for WonderCon 2026, which is disappointing, considering we've also been waitlisted for San Diego Comic-Con. You never know, but I'm not sure if we would want to do Small Press again there. We're hoping for Artists Alley since that's where the action is at that Con.

Trophy Unlocked gets into the holiday mode, with Miracle on Main Street (1939), which is one that I wrote. Before that it was Game Day on the blog with Paul's review of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. And that would be a lot, but not for Trophy Unlocked, because the week started with Paul's review of the film Five Nights at Freddy's 2. I also wrote a review of Cash on Demand (1961), a British Christmastime bank robbery film that I stumbled across on Saturday night. Most likely, it will be on hold until next Christmas, but it would be worth waiting for. 

The Trophy Unlocked blog is also only a few days away from celebrating it's 15th anniversary. The first post was a review by Paul of Tron: Legacy on December 18, 2010. Now there are over 1725 reviews. I don't know if Paul had this in mind when he started the blog, but it's quite an achievement and one I'm happy to be a part of.

Next week, here's hoping for more pages of Powers Squared and Blackmail.

Well, that about does it for me. Keep writing and I'll see you again next week.