1.04.2025 - Yearly Digest
Greetings!
Not really a digest. More of a Hey How Are Ya with a couple of announcements.
First, thank you for reading these posts. I needed you more than you needed me, especially as I navigated self-imposed exile in Montreal. Doing things this way also spared me having to resort to social media as a means to update folks on my status.
Without a Gun inhabits a weird zone between journal and sketchbook. More than a few of the random thoughts I toss at you here have morphed into something larger, and in some cases more concrete. And the resources I dedicate to this space, particularly the Features, are begging for redirection.
So, as a happy holiday to you all, I will be phasing out paid subscriptions altogether. This frees me up to focus on a host of new projects as I prepare to submit a pile of stories for publication (and, oh yeah, do a final neurotic rewrite on that book I'm always talking about before I give it up to the publisher).
Without a Gun will continue. Expect Weekly Digests and near-daily posts as usual. But it will all be free, and I'll open up the paid posts from the past year to anyone curious as to what they've missed.
Those of you on annual plans should receive refunds via Stripe in the next month or so (I know each of you personally so let me know if that doesn't happen). Monthly subscriptions will end before the next renewal date. And the few of you I've comped and didn't know it may sense a shift in the air, the smell of ozone, perhaps.
If you want to donate to my writing habit directly that option is always open but I'd rather find more interesting ways to encourage your investment.
So, as I continue to drift around and fall in love with San Francisco I will be taking a break, not more than a few weeks, to focus on redesigning this site, and to take up some tutorials on how to, y'know, promote a blog. Expect regular updates to resume by the end of January.
Excelsior, and all that.
And, in case you forgot about this guy, whose relentless productivity should terrify and inspire all of us:
