2026 update!
Check out this short 2026 update from kidlit author and illustrator C. Garland Miller.
I hope everyone had a great holiday season! It was a big season of change for me, as I lost my day job. But on the plus side, I've had a lot of time to write and dedicate to personal projects. So, that is something to be grateful for.
2025 didn't go exactly as I had hoped and planned when it came to writing. Once the year was said and done and I reflected on my experiences, I spent way less time than I did writing in 2024 (overall). I started outlining a ton of stories and spent a lot of time world building, but nothing really kept my attention long enough that I wanted to devote time to writing an entire novel out of it.
I ended up experiencing quite a bit of writer's block and tried to mostly focus on writing when I got the desire to. And as I think about my time in 2025 now that the year is over, most of the time I found myself want to work on smaller bits of prose and writing, notably short stories and poems!
I ended up writing quite a healthy collection of wee funny poems about life and fantasy and monsters in 2025. I also wrote a few short stories that I had a lot of fun with, enough so that I feel it's worthy of continuing to write more of them.
So, my goal for 2026 is to release a poetry collection of the small tidbits I've collected over the past year. I also want to release a short story collect of scary, silly, and fun stories related to monsters.
Stay tuned for more in the coming months, and thanks for reading!