I’ve been digging up some old stories. It turns out I still have some that were hiding from me. They were probably written during a strange period of my life where I can’t remember much. Well, it’s not that I can’t remember— I remembered the stories. But they were disconnected… Continue reading
So you know I’ve been very slowly reading a Jin Yong wuxia novel. Serendipitously I got an idea for a story related to that and in such a way that connects to a past story. For better or for worse (I’m not sure yet) I often just take something that’s… Continue reading
I’m back from my little trip. How’d I do? I had a pretty fun time and met some of my wife’s family, i.e. new family members for me. And that was great and that’s what’s important. I got to see some of the city as well and eat some good… Continue reading
So it’s possible that without exaggeration r/SwordAndSorcery may be the only subreddit that I actually like. And I don’t like it that much. But it’s pretty comforting to spend time there. And there’s this author who posted his work there recently. Now I’m not trying to make fun of this… Continue reading
Well… I’ve come to Washington, D.C. for a few days and I’ve had to quickly accept that I’m unlikely to get the nice open runways of writing time that I feel like I need so much during this whirlwind, which is of course going to dash my momentum on my… Continue reading
I’m in the middle of traveling. Yesterday was so hectic that unfortunately I didn’t get any time to sit down and work on my project, which is a whole chunk of reality I’ll have to carefully grapple with. However, there was a fun bright spot. In the Ubers around where… Continue reading
Like I said yesterday, reading Uketsu was getting me in the mood for more Asian literature. I find Asian books of almost any kind produce a greater feeling of escapism than western books, which is what I really want sometime. What I ended up settling on for breezy bedtime reading… Continue reading
I was excited to read Uketsu’s Strange Houses as soon as possible without distracting too much from my own work. I enjoy looking at floorplans and using them to imagine life there… that’s the only part of looking for houses that I like. Anyway, Strange Houses really went off the… Continue reading