November has tied me to an old dead tree
Hello people!
The title of this month’s newsletter is from “November” by Tom Waits, which is the only November song I can think of other than “November Rain” right now. I’m behind on the newsletter again, but this time it’s at least partially planned. “Every three weeks” is kind of a pain in the ass to keep up with, so I’m going to start sending this out monthly around the middle of the month. Hopefully the more regular schedule will help me keep it on time.
My vacation week turned into about a month of not doing much except my day job and playing Cyberpunk 2077. I did get some stuff done, but it was boring background maintenance type stuff. The big news is that I’ve figured out the next few things I’m working on:
I missed the window for a Halloween-timed release of Wet Hot American Monsters. Even worse, when I got back to working on it, I’d lost interest. I’m putting it on hold for now with a plan to maybe do it as a summer release.
My big project for next year will be Diner Punks. I’ve got a very thorough outline of the book, a solid idea of how I’m going to do most of the rules stuff, and I’ve been watching post-apocalypse movies and listening to rockabilly, so I think I’m ready to get back to it. Some of the writing I do next month will double as entries for WorldEmber 2025. You can read more at the Diner Punks World Anvil page, which you should also follow if you want notifications when I post new stuff.
I realized last week that earlier this year I decided I was going to finally get The Dumbass Dictionary done this year. With WorldEmber coming up that’s not going to happen, but I’m making it the second book (after Diner Punks) that I plan to definitely release next year.
Part of my month of being useless included not keeping track of what I was reading or watching, so I don’t have the usual list. I remember watching Weapons and Eddington and enjoying both of them, but otherwise nothing really sticks in my head except The Postman. Like Water World, I never saw this before because I heard it was bad, but actually enjoyed it once I got around to watching it. It got bonus points for making Tom Petty the mayor of one of the survivor towns, mainly because that’s exactly the kind of thing that would fit into Diner Punks.
That’s all I’ve got. I’ll try to have a more complete newsletter for December. For now, just follow the Diner Punks page and look forward to lots of rockabilly road warrior fun next month.
TYTYVM,
Steve
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