So, I've mentioned in this update book that I've been writing for ten years, right? Nobody asked this but I'm willing to bet that one of you may be wondering what the heck I've been working on in that ten-year time frame. If there's no one then that's fine, I imagine people all the time before transcribing it on my computer and calling it art.

Most are absolute trash that I deleted permanently a long time ago because it makes me want to scream. You will not find it, you cannot find it. If you do, it's on one of those witchcraft machine sites and I was 14 when I wrote that crap. You do not want to see it.

If you were an unfortunate person who has read my writing during those time periods (like my quartner) then I hope your hard drive called a brain has wiped it out from existence.

There were a lot of uncompleted and unfinished works in that pile I have to admit. But what I find pretty funny about my writing as I look back and remember certain details was that I liked playing with the concept of gender roles as well as consistently having Asian representation in my work. Hell, I remember writing a biracial Asian/White main character a few times before scrapping it all. The themes are queerness and Asian representation has always been there which means I've always been queer.

No wonder my first boyfriend was scared I was going to leave him for a woman. Luckily I left him for a nonbinary person instead so we're all good.

I don't know if my mission with writing has always been clear from the start of my journey but the more I write, the clearer it became. I do want to write a lot more diversity and representation. I wish I could write more main characters from different ethnicities from mine but I have a hard time finding Thai representation so it's my priority at the moment especially since the research process for my culture has doubled as a healing journey for me. I try and do my best but I can only do so much, I am one human being.

Now there's the old writing that I actually kept. That's... oh boy.

The works that weren't as terrible? It was mostly short stories and micro-fiction since it took me a long time to attempt writing anything remotely longer than a fourteen-page essay. But I was organizing my computer recently and I found a bunch of stuff I forgot.

One was a picture book project I helped with. Someone was asking for authors to submit their own fables/folktales for their school project and the thesis was that digital platforms should be integrated into the traditional publishing sphere as there's a lot of talent online. I was like "Cool, I wrote a bunch of silly fables. I'll send something in" and when they finished it, they sent me a pdf version of the story and had one illustration for each story. The art was pretty dang cool and they did a fake ISBN, publisher name, and publisher/copyright page that books have at the beginning of a novel. I forgot I used "Joy Jumphol" instead of J. A. Jumphol. Maybe if I do a meet-up type of situation, I'll have printed copies to give to people.

Then there was a micro-fiction contest that I did and was one of the ten winners. I read it and I asked, "WAS I OKAY?"

No, no I was not okay. Why am I even surprised?

There are also a couple of horror fiction shorts I wrote. One I had completed and posted while the other was still incomplete. Maybe I'll attempt a horror novel one day.

Then there was an alternate reality game that I helped direct on these forums I moderate called "Wacky Writers". It ran in 2020 and a sequel happened in 2021. The premise was essentially that a trans-inclusive queer magic school has mysterious happenings where magic isn't performing how it's expected to be and the players have to figure out how to help repair the source of magic. The sequel game was a continuation of a mysterious magical illness that the world hasn't encountered thus far and the players had to find a cure/stop further break out. I remember my favourite character that I helped create was "Eris Vayne", a transmasc student that became all the leadership positions that were established to be run by three students in the previous game. He was swamped with work, stressed, tired, had a dry sense of humour, and nobody else wanted to be tasked with the responsibilities of leading the students. My favourite dialogue piece was Eris was taking attendance to get the crowd buzzing and they said "When I call your academy I want you to scream “Here” or just scream. I don’t care. I want to scream too."

Just so much fun. I would love to write an adaptation of those games one day but I have too much to write. Adaptations are a bit too much sometimes. Or if it was turned into a legit video game. Ugh, would love to do that but possibly even more work. These games lasted about a couple of months in real time too so it took a fair amount of time and energy for these stories to come to life.

But yes, I've done a lot upon further reflection. I didn't write many novels but I created a lot of stories and had fun. That's the best part of the writing experience I think.