2025 Creative Writing Productivity Report

Writing-wise, 2025 was a very productive year (especially in contrast to 2024, where I did almost no creative writing to speak of at all). Aside from finishing off my French-Decadent short novel PULP FIN DE SIÈCLE (which would later on in the year be published by Purple Bearded Uncle, and thus making my first truly substantial publication since 2019), I also wrote two short stories, one for PLEASANT TALES III entitled "The False Pomp of Quantum Physics" and one for COMETH DARKNESS entitled "Last Dark Ride." In September I also began work on a college basketball novel, of which I've thus far written around 30 pages (so, assuming the book will be 300 pages, it's around 10% done). I also wrote over 50 pages of content for the Neo-Passéism Substack. I also had a poem published in a Danish Neo-Decadent magazine. If you add all that up, I probably wrote close to 150 pages of material combined this year.

My writing plans for 2026 are primarily: try to finish the college basketball novel (which is really just practice for when I'm ready to begin the long-gestating medieval fantasy project), and continue seeking out a publisher for COMETH DARKNESS and PLEASANT TALES III. I don't really see myself working on many more short stories for the foreseeable future, as I try to shift my focus back to novel mode: as it is, over a period of 18 years I've written well over 50 short stories and 4 short story collections, which is more than enough.