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Keeping Moving
Andrea Blythe
November 18, 2024
Over the last month, my time has been full of travel and work, attending conferences for both my day job and my personal creative work and visiting family. I’ve hardly been home and hardly have had time to connect to my writing. Hardly time to even doom scroll prior or after the election.
Then, the results came in, and I was struck with profound grief. The tears flowed and I felt so raw — and that rawness hasn’t fully gone away.
But each day draws forth, full of work and beauty and sorrows and joys. All I can do at the moment is to connect with family and friends, to feed myself with poetry, art, and stories that move me, and focus on the work in front of me. I will keep moving and keeping loving and do what I can to support those around me.
In case you also find them helpful, here are a couple of articles sharing actions you can take now that we’re . . . well, now that we’re here in this version of the multiverse. Alison Stine shared “What to Do Now with No Money,” and Daniel Hunter at Waging Nonviolence presented “10 ways to be prepared and grounded.”
I wish you all the best as we move forward into this uncertain future. May we all have the strength to speak up and be true to ourselves. Blessings.
What I’ve Been Working On
With everything that is going on in the world, I find myself wanting to pull back, as if it might be disrespectful to share my good news. But at the end of the day, dulling my shine doesn’t really help anyone — and when times are difficult, I believe we should celebrate any small pieces of good we may receive. So, here goes.
In Poetry
Following the publication of Necessary Poisons in October, we held a virtual book launch. I had a great time reading poems and talking about my process for writing poetry. Watch it on YouTube or below:
In addition, Leslie Archibald interviewed me for Interstellar Flight Magazine and asked some fantastic questions about my book and my creative process. Here’s a brief preview:
I was thinking about the way our lives are shaped by stories — both the ones we tell about ourselves and the ones others tell about us. As we go through our lives, we gather a collection of moments that coalesce into memories, and we share those memories with each other as stories. But we are also made up all those moments we don’t remember but nevertheless have an impact on who we are.
In Games
Patrick Knisely recently released a massive update to his game, Monochrome Heights, a challenging platformer with a unique phasing mechanic that I have been providing narrative support on. The new demo features additional levels and integrated cutscenes, which I wrote and/or edited. It is just so cool to see this project continue to grow and improve. Patrick is doing some fantastic design work, and I’m so proud of the contributions that I have made.
Still image from a cutscene in Monochrome Heights.
At the end of October, I decided to take part in a Bitsy Game Jam, with the theme “petrichor.” The result is a little game poem called “Petrichor,” in which the player follows a worm’s journey under the earth and the secrets that lay hidden there. You can play it for free in your browser.
An image from my new game poem, “Petrichor.”
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