That title . . . makes it sounds so ominous. Let me clarify; what I don’t mean is that this is the year where Omicron merges with GPT-3 and the not-at-all-evil-sounding “xenobots” to become a Thanos-level super villain. All of those things are real, even the xenobots (ho ho, scientists say they learned to self-replicate... Continue Reading →
Games for Writers – Hades Just Became the First Video Game to Win a Hugo Award—And Yes, It Absolutely Deserves It
I wasn’t going to write about Hades this week. My post is late because, though I was planning on cleaning up one of the reserve posts I’d written a week ago, the news dropped yesterday that Hades won a Hugo Award for Literature. If that doesn’t sound impressive enough, Hades is the first game to... Continue Reading →
Dream Diary – I Was the Leader of a Stranger Things-style Monster Neighborhood Watch / Monster-Fighting Corp.?
Disclaimer: While working out what to write this week, I remembered that I had multiple posts saved for future posting. I wrote them, saved them, and totally forgot about them. In one case, I actually just assumed I did post them and was genuinely shocked that I hadn't. So, given that things are a little... Continue Reading →
Process in Progress #5 (continued) – I Realized What Was Slowing Down My Edits: Me
Okay. I promise that I’m not stressed out. Edits didn’t go poorly. But they didn’t go poorly because I had a breakthrough . . . that took extremely long to hit me. “If you edit something for long enough, it stops getting better—it just starts getting different.” I don’t remember who told me that. Someone... Continue Reading →
Process in Progress #5 – I Need to Figure Out My Editing Process
Things That Happened While My Back Was Busted: I watched The Princess Bride, and in doing so discovered that . . . holy shit, Inigo Montoya is really the protagonist of that story. Like, the Han Solo factor of “Why am I not following this guy the whole time?” couples so strongly with his arc... Continue Reading →
Sorry–I Need Another Break Today
I never, ever like taking multiple week breaks these days. But I'm working with a half-charge on my laptop and a thrown-out back. So, like, can I get to my laptop charger on the other side of the room? Sure. Am I going to do that? Hell no--even lying down right now is uncomfortable. And,... Continue Reading →
A November 2021 Break – In Prep for Editing Memory
Apologies for this one being a little late; my sleep schedule is such that I accidentally missed the majority of Sunday. I would have done a November “Read/Watch/Play” today, but A) I haven’t finished the novel I started reading last week and B) the only good thing I’ve watched so far this month was Shang-Chi,... Continue Reading →
What I Learned from Xiran Jay Zhao – The Art of Almost Never Using the Same Setting Twice
*Updated in February of 2022 to use the author's pronouns. **This is a spoiler-free post. Hello and welcome to the very first installment of a new series I'm calling "What I Learned From . . . ," where I'll be talking about one thing I learned from an author I've read. This series is ridiculously... Continue Reading →
Something to Read / Watch / Play – October 2021
Happy Halloween! Nothing on this list is scary. I'm sorry, but I'm just not into theming these posts for holidays. At least not yet. What I am into: taking a little break from publishing long, monstrous posts . . . by promoting some stuff I recently read, watched, and played that were really good. Something... Continue Reading →
What If… Someone Made a Smash Clone for Fantasy Fiction?
Disclaimer: Let me say right out the gate that this entire post is me being a huge nerd. That's all it is--no insights about writing or documentation about my current work in progress. All it is: me mashing up two things I love in a way I'm not sure overlaps for a lot of people.... Continue Reading →
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