Let’s start 2020 out with a bang, hm? Several original manuscripts have been unearthed, nearly crumbling in pieces that were as much dust as they were writing. All had curious notes, observations, and poems scrawled through the margins. In an effort to figure out what this unknown alchemist was trying Continue Reading
Blackwood
Let Your Creativity Lie Fallow for a Season
I mentioned this in my last post, so I want to expand upon it more. There’s this notion that I see in a lot of aspiring and active writers–including myself–that if you’re not using your free time to write, then you’re wasting your time. I like to use the metaphor Continue Reading
100-Word Rule
Or: How I Learned to Set My Own Achievable Writing Goal Two and a half years ago, I had an event completely upend my life in a not very pleasant way, which is something I’ve mentioned a couple times in this space, I realize. That basically meant that the larger Continue Reading
Progress Update
Finally, at long last, broke 70,000 words yesterday! It’s… actually been a while since I last worked on it. But, with this extra time that I have currently, I’ve been wanting to actually use it to work on writing. You know, like a proper writer. So, I wrote a flash Continue Reading
A Brief Introduction
The first book. I did have some vague publishing plans in mind for it, though they have long since changed. At first, this story was going to be a short story, but then, it grew. I thought it might end up being two or three different novellas, all revolving around Continue Reading
Short Stories: My Personal Purple Squirrel
Short stories are a beast I’m learning to tackle. A lot of times when I sit down to write out an idea, it spirals out and out and out, and all of a sudden I’ve got a novella on my hands. Other times, I work on a seed of a Continue Reading
Spring 2019
The spring is the time of year when new shoots push up from beneath the soil, when buds blossom on trees, and the entire earth seems to just exhale with color after winter’s sleep. With all this new coming forth in the world, my own life reflects that this year. Continue Reading
An Unintentional Hiatus
It’s been quite the spell, hasn’t it? I never intended to step away from here for so long, but many unexpected things happen in life that derail the mundanity of everything else. To keep a continuously long and convoluted story short, I lost my mother early in 2017 due to Continue Reading
An Update no.2
It’s been longer than I usually like since my last update on here, and that is entirely because of my day job work. I’m short-handed and stretched thin, and subsequently working weird and long shifts to fill in the gaps until I can get some help trained and ready to Continue Reading
An Update no.1
It’s been quite a few busy months for me. My day job changed, and I’ve moved to a position where I’m in charge and running the show, which isn’t anything I hadn’t already done before, but I’m in a new place and there’s been a lot of organizing and getting Continue Reading