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Progress Report; January 20, 2025

Not a whole lot of progress this month. I did write and post a Queer Sci Fi column https://www.queerscifi.com/jeff-baker-boogieman-in-lavender-all-that-we-can-do-january-11-2025/ about (among other things) how I sometimes don’t feel I’m doing a lot writing-wise, so I should re-read that a few times.

Besides the column, I worked on a couple of my longer stories. And, of course, I resumed writing the weekly flash fiction stories and it was nice getting back in harness after the break! Wrote a couple of extra flashes including the monthly draw story and an end-of-the-year story from the three leftover prompts from the 2024 list.

Wrote a longer flash fiction for Clark Ashton Smith’s birthday that might have fit in a Sword-and-Sorcery magazine somewhere.

My plans for the year are to get back into doing longer fiction. I have several stories started I need to finish, as well as one that needs revising.

I also want to get a backlog of a few months worth of Queer Sci-Fi columns written so I don’t have to dash around just under the deadline to finish it.

I can’t believe that this will be my ninth year of near-weekly flash fictions and I have passed the 400 mark of produced and posted stories!

That’s about it for now!

———jeff baker, January 20, 2025