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.
Personal Illogic How To Represent Growing up, the only place I saw people of colour was Sesame Street. The only disabled person on television was on Ironsides and I didn’t get to see a movie with an all-black cast until my mid-teens.
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities Head Fog TLDR: I forgot to write this yesterday because my brain is like a sieve.
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities MRINYRATOK People like to go through the things that famous people do as if that’s a guaranteed recipe for anyone else to have the same success. Spoilers: it isn’t.
Thought Stream Tropes I Despise: Generic Blonde Wife You almost don’t notice this one, and that’s why it’s so insidious. Once I started taking notice of it, I noticed how prevalent it was.
Actually Autistic Tropes Vs Autism: The Superpower Someone, somewhere, latched on to the concept that Autistic people are super-good at some things and someone else’s speculation that Autism may be a step up on the so-called evolutionary ladder.
Actually Autistic Tropes Vs Autism: The Heroic Asshole So the white male hero gets to be the asshole that the writers wish they could be, solve all the problems, and save the day. Every week. More often than not, the Autism label is slapped on as an afterthought.
Personal Illogic Tropes I Despise: Innocent White Criminal Due to circumstances beyond Our Hero’s control, he has to enter a life of crime to make ends meet. He suffers. He fights. He becomes a monster. Was I talking about Walter White from Breaking Bad or whosisface generico Everyman from Ozark?
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities Hocus Pocus, When I Need to Focus There are days when I can keep things running on rails. Those are rare, rare creatures.
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities Running Out It’s just about my bedtime and I currently have no revelations to -uh- reveal. I do apologise.
Personal Illogic Nothing New Here When writing the future, it’s a good idea to think about the past. There’s patterns in history that echo through the ages.
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities Distracted, Disorganised, Distressed It’s half-past September and the good news so far is the lack of a rejection from Eighth House.
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities Publisher Hunt: The Longer Short List First off: I found another list of publishing houses that don’t care if you have an agent. And I immediately weeded out all of the ones who wouldn’t touch my material with a 40′ barge pole. The bad news out of this is that it raises the short
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities Courage, Where Art Thy Sticking Place? I’m still attempting to sell Adapting to someone, despite the fact that AR&E owes me my money back and remain out of contact so far.
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities Assembling the Short List I’m still attempting to sell Adapting to someone, despite the fact that AR&E owes me my money back and remain out of contact so far.
Current WIP The F*ckup Factor Real life contains… let’s call them mistakes. Errata. Things that can and will go wrong at the worst possible moment.
Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities F*ckin’ Plot Kittens… In the beginning, for Ee, there was the boot. It crashed down through the ceiling of sticks and leaves that kept most of the rain off of her, and nearly smashed her hand. So she bit the leg that was in it with all the strength she could muster. Cool
Murder Dollhouse My Traitor Brain Q: How many writers does it take to change a light bulb? A: Don’t change a f*cking thing!
Murder Dollhouse The Antagonistic Protagonist I’m not talking about your average anti-hero here. I’m talking about the piece of shit, the walking garbage fire, the absolute train wreck who is somehow the main character or a main character of the thing you happen to be enjoying. There’s obviously some differences between the
Personal Illogic Self Care and the Indie Artist’s Regime TL;DR- I spent the entire weekend looking after myself and not producing content. Are you mad at me? I was sick. I managed to pick up whatever vile Lurgi seems to be doing the circuit these days, and it’s been my best friend and worst enemy for an
