Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities State of the WIP, State of the Pitch I've spent all year attempting to gain help with Adapting, but only received silence instead of interest.
Just Writer Things Hints and Tips From a Chronic Writer My writer's group frequently calls me 'relentless' when it comes to always writing.
Just Writer Things Accidentally Mentoring... I have no idea how this keeps happening. I've picked up a third mentee.
Reasons to Love Reasons to Love: The Creative Process When attempting to figure out what I was going to rant about, this week, I kept asking myself one question. What do I keep going back to and enjoy going back to it? I enjoy making things. Not just stories, though I do make up stories with a relentless enthusiasm
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities Juggling Moments I've had a disruption to my usual sequence of operations, and hammering out a new one is -er- "interesting". As in, "may you live in interesting times" brand of "interesting".
Reasons to Love Reasons to Love: Terry Pratchett (GNU) I've read his books since the first Discworld titles, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. Yes, I was a 1980's teenager.
Just Writer Things The Opposite of Writer's Block I keep getting ideas for what to stick in the series of epilogues.
Just Writer Things Tandy Syndrome Before some genius coined the word "enshittification" I knew the concept by a different term. "Tandy Syndrome".
Anxiety The Anxiety is Real I've been procrastinating on a lot of things. Today, I had some real good excuses. In-person time with MeMum, who did need me for an extended Leyland's tour of errands. And tech support. And a good gasbag, because who doesn't need a good gasbag?
Advertising Myself Pitchfest Incoming My heart's already going hell for leather at the mere thought of it.
Just Writer Things Pasteboard, Blob, and Glop The publishing industry has seen it before. So too have creative platforms of all kinds.
Personal Illogic Look Out! I’m Going Off! The Australian Government, in its infinite alleged wisdom are setting up a committee to look into Autism and enquire about it, why it’s there, what needs must be done, and all that other balderdash.
Personal Illogic Just Written That Way Recently, the BBC added another incarnation into Doctor Who’s expansion pack past. Shouldn’t be a worry, they did it with John Hurt’s “War Doctor” and nobody was tremendously upset.
Personal Illogic A Little Research Plz? A little less than a week ago, my Beloved and I had a chance to enjoy the Doctor Who episode, Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror. All well and fine.
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities Working Things Out in Meatspace There have to be thousands of tools to help writers out there. I automatically avoid all the ones that are pay-to-play because I'm firkin broke.
Personal Illogic Futures vs Zeerust When Jules Verne wrote his futures, he didn't imagine much further than gears and steam.
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities The Unobservant Effect I would like to make this clear that I have absolutely, positively no idea whether or not this is a co-morbidity of my ASD, if it’s a Writer Thing(tm)…
A Chapter Of... A Chapter Of: B’Nar I have zero ideas and I’m having a hard time trying to Brain, today. Therefore, I’m not stressing about it and just posting one chapter of an unedited novel of mine.
Just Writer Things How to Write a Story Speaking of ideas, it’s occurred to me that I am slowly approaching having written three thousand individual tales. I’m likely to get there in 2021 if I’m doing math correctly.
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities H.A.M. Explained in Detail So I have a new PLN of attack for my daily regimen. I call it HAM and it stands for Half-hour Action Model.
Personal Illogic How Do You Write So Much? The real truth is, I love to write. I have loved to make up stories since I was a pipsqueak. It’s part of my story. I have written tales and loved it.
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities This is... not... I have less free time because I can't keep focus. I can't keep focus because I'm always tired.
