Getting Excited, Making Things

I’m trying to get better about getting things done and finishing projects. Of course, I’ve decided to try finishing an 80,000 - 100,000 wor...

Lately I've been reading a lot of mystery novels, and I've been kind of inspired to make something mystery on my own. There's so...

Happy Blog End and Start Day (Belated) I’m late. Later than usual, but I like to take the first of August as a day to wrap up what I’ve...

So, a decade of doing this blog thing huh. I may still not have any idea what I’m doing but I’m moving ahead so that’ll have to be good enou...

I like it when things click. When I’m programming I love that moment where things go together perfectly, and I love that moment in my own br...

This post is just to finish off my updates for my summer of writing more. As it turns out, I didn't really want to write more, so I didn...

Well, I'm kinda giving up on this idea. I'll update more / better come August, but I've decided that these projects just aren...

Woah. That was harder than I figured. A little bit because I've taking a sessional teaching gig for May/June, but more so just from the ...

With my PhD winding down, I've been thinking about how I want to organize my time for the next while. I'll write about my thoughts...

When I was a teenager, Stephen King's nonfiction ruled my world. His fiction too, of course but there's something I always loved abo...

Well, I've managed to write all six of my planned sketch stories . I'm disappointed it took me so long to do what was supposed to b...

This is the fifth of the six sketch stories . Neighbours They sound that fucking klaxon whenever a ship is going to drop. All it do...

This is the fourth of  six sketch stories . It's unrelated to the others. You can expect the next sketch story when I damn well post i...

This is the third of six sketch stories . It's unrelated to the first two . You can expect the next sketch story on March 29, 2016. ...

This is the second of six sketch stories . It's totally unrelated to the first , except that I wrote it and it's supposed to be shor...

So again, I'm past a project deadline and I don't have five stories to post. I'm still struggling to sort out how to keep mys...

You may or may not have noticed, but I haven't uploaded any sketch fiction since my last project update . That's not great, but I a...

This is the first of 6 sketch stories, where I write a very short story that briefly describes a scene or a feeling. It's the first time...

As always I seem to get behind on projects, but in the last few months I've managed to start picking things up again. So I'm going t...

A little while ago I had the please of listening to Neil Gaiman speak and read at my university. Unsurprisingly, this was really good and i...