The Writer Profile Project talked to Darby Larson on May 7, 2007. Read that full interview here. And now read his update.

Darby says:

Right now, I’m in the middle of a two month paid sabbatical from my day job, one of its more attractive perks, and have discovered that time away from work is conducive to time away from the internet, as well as time put towards writing, as well as time put towards playing video games. It’s a nice little taste as to what it would (will?) be like to just write full time for a living and I’m grateful for the privilege. So yeah, I’ve been writing, but I won’t talk about what quite yet. I think I’ve scrapped whatever projects we may have talked about (writing a kind of memoir maybe?), and really, have not been taking even publishing anything very seriously. Have been in a mode of just writing for myself and it’s been liberating and productive.

The piece at McSweeney’s we talked about (Don’t Read This Or You Might Get Poked) is supposedly going to be in their new humor book, Joke Book of Book Jokes, published April 1, 2008 (unless that whole thing’s a hoax). A couple of new flash stories have been published and a couple longer stories I’ve spent a lot of time on are making the rounds, and although I don’t expect them to produce much fruit publicationably, they represent, quintessentially, where I think my writing wants to go, and right now that feels better to me than whether or not they’re ever published for some reason.