A few weeks ago I started working on a project I’m calling Reading About Writing, in which I hope to summarize the main ideas from different writing craft books, then provide some additional contex...

I was very proud of myself for wrangling Wordpress + Simply Static + Cloudflare, but eventually it gave me such a headache that I’ve moved this site over to Jekyll + GitHub + Cloudflare. It was cer...

As I write this, I’m at one of the lowest points in my life. First, my day job wrings the soul out of me each day, leaving me feeling unfulfilled, unappreciated, and underpaid—and I’m thoroughly c...

Day Five of my ten-minute short story challenge! I missed Day Four yesterday, but we carry on. Read Monday’s entry here, Tuesday’s entry here, and Wednesday’s entry here. I interpreted the chara...

Day Three of my ten-minute short story challenge! Read Monday’s entry here and Tuesday’s entry here. I interpreted the character to be a shepherd on a moon, the setting to be that from another s...

Day Two of my ten-minute short story challenge! Read Monday’s entry here. I interpreted the character to be a man who’d walked around the world, the setting to be a world carried along by bees, ...

To warm up for NaNoWriMo 2023 next Wednesday, I’m writing as complete a short story as I can manage each day this week—in no more than ten minutes each. Hopefully, I’ll become more efficient as I r...

Earlier this year, I attended a fiction writing conference focused on revision. We were divided into small groups and encouraged to submit the first chapter of our WIPs for group feedback. Since I ...

Last night, I finished playing a D&D 5e campaign in the Eberron setting—a campaign that had run for over three years. Our DM recorded all two hundred sessions of the campaign, and you can watch...