It’s been awhile – too long – since I’ve done anything with this publication. When burnout hits, it hits hard, and trying to salvage what’s left of motivation is a struggle. Between that and how hard it was to stay visible in the shifting writing community climate, exhausting. I’ll be honest, my original vision for Scribe Base was fairly different compared to where it ended up (not that I’m complaining – I loved reading all the submissions that were sent in over the years!) but I realize the crossroads a little more clearly now and that, likely, a return to the original vision may be the only way to reignite the motivation here. Attempt to revitalize this again, despite past attempts to do so that were short-lived? Or start a new journey focused on topics that I believe need more representation than what they’re currently receiving? So, for now, I’m exploring details of a new publication and I welcome everyone here to join me on this new journey. Specifically, it will feature speculative fiction and liminal spaces, as well as animal and environmental poetics. Reflection pieces, musings, prose, and so on. I especially would love to see it, some day, have a collection of works with philosophical weight. That is the intention with the new one – works that have philosophical considerations underpinning them. The site is not up and running just yet but I do have a bluesky for it in the meantime.

For this site? I’ll keep it up, of course. I still would like to explore, again, the original vision behind this site: serving as a sort of base/hub for writers. That is, works on approaches to writing, writing about writing (whether approaching this from a linguistics slant or considerations of creativity and struggles), and even writing prompts or advice and workshops! The very first issue had elements of this vision. We’ll see how it goes. But, for now, my focus will be on the new site and getting it operational.