Queer Intro
Welcome to the Gay in the Bay Blog! I am Josie, a queer writer and videographer that loves to document what I see around me. This started out as a writing blog but has grown to include events that more people should know about.
This post is for the week of January 1 - 7.
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Celebrating New Year's
Happy New Year! I hope your year started off well. Mine has been interesting.
On the very first day of the year, I helped save a comic shop. Silver Sprocket experienced some flooding in their basement and potentially lost a lot of their product. it was exhausting to move boxes for over an hour (maybe 2?), but I was happy to help them out.
The weather has been pretty crazy this week! There was some sort of atmospheric river or something going on, which means its basically monsoon season for the Bay Area. There have been a lot of warnings going on to be safe, and videos popping up about flooding. So I’ve locked myself in and began revising my Superhero book.
This week I began my revisions. This has been eye-opening. In the recent past, I’ve admittedly been scared to begin this process. I think it is the fear that what I wrote is no good, or that I may have to kill my darling, even multiple darlings.
And I have. All of that has begun happening.
After a few chapters, I found out that I meandered way too much and explained rather than showing. Shifting events to a fictional city that I’d already created in another book was a great decision. There may still be elements that I’m holding on to for dear life, but I am much more willing to make those changes now.
The book has a much better structure now. I wanted each chapter to feel like an issue of a comic series. This iteration is in three parts, with five chapters each. I’m already on chapter four and really having fun.
On Sunday I got to see David Bowie’s The Hunger (1983). That movie is a wild ride from beginning to end. This will be a wonderful addition to my podcast. There’s too much to say in a single blog entry, but I can mention: gay vampires.
I decided to try a social media experiment. I visit Instagram quite a bit, but I wanted to see what I could limit. Today I tried holding back on watching stories at the top of my feed and hitting the like button. There was one exception for very particular reasons, but otherwise I cannot see or Like anything. I will write down how that goes. Until then, I already like how different it feels, even if it’s only been a day.
Thank you for reading the updates from the Gay in the Bay! Please stay safe and warm out there. 2023 has started off on an odd note.
Photo taken just after midnight, January 1, 2023.
Awesome things:
Finding Total Party Chill — I want to work for them now
Crossplay Love — An Japanese LGBT romance
Listening to Spotify while revising my book
Seeing The Hunger (1983) at The New Parkway Theater