Hey, everyone.

You’ll notice I haven’t posted in a while. First of all, I’m sorry about that. The first half of 2026 has been hectic, and as always, it’s been easy to just shunt this space off to the side while I try to keep up with everything else going on.

There’s another reason I haven’t posted here in a while, though. I know I already mentioned this a while ago, but I’ve been ruminating lately over the purpose of this blog. How constructive writing here really is. I think a big part of the reason I haven’t really gained any new readers for BS&K over these past three and a half years is the stark truth that no one I don’t already know will care much about the writing progress of some unpublished author they’ve never heard of. It’s always possible, of course, that I just haven’t presented the narrative in a compelling enough way—and maybe that inability to craft a compelling narrative is the reason I remain an unpublished novelist—but I’ve been trying to do some research on marketing principles, and that research has just pointed me more and more in that direction. I don’t have a product a lot of people are going to be inherently interested in.

That, and the writing has not been going well. Like, at all. I know I haven’t posted here since January, but you really haven’t missed that much. If I had been posting, all you’d have been hearing about would be Kosan II has been a huge struggle, maybe the toughest book I’ve ever written. That pretty much sums up what I’ve been going through these past few months. I guess the fact Kosan II has been so hard shouldn’t be surprising: it’s an even bigger and more complex book than the first Kosan, and that one had to be written once, edited a few times, then completely rewritten again from the ground up to get it in the form it’s in now. I suppose I could have talked about the different problems I’m facing writing Kosan II, but to a large extent, that wouldn’t work either, because pretty much everything has been the problem: I keep writing myself into corners that I can’t get out of, then get frustrated at being in the corner, and not being able to think of any way to resolve the issues I’m having.

And so, for these reasons, I’m making official what was already pretty much the case: I’m officially ending BS&K. The site will still be up for a few months, until my domain expires in the fall, but I don’t plan on renewing the domain. Unless I have a sudden change of heart, this is it.

This does not mean, however, that I will never start another writing blog again. It just means that a) I don’t have the time or energy to keep one going right now, and b) I don’t think it makes sense to have a blog until I get a publishing deal. If (when?) I do finally get one, though, the writing blog will return, whether it’s a full-on revival of BS&K, or a different blog with a slightly different focus.

To everyone who did stop by—whether regularly or just once or twice—thank you. From the bottom of my heart. I mean it. I hope you’ll ride with me again once I start the next blog up.

Until then, though, there’s just one more thing to say.

One more time, everybody.

Have fun, stay safe, keep reading!