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
Today I had a most poetic literary day that may be commonplace for others but not for me. Due to a sudden change in my day’s plans I found myself in a local bookstore I had never visited before— new books, not used, so my hopes were down because I… Continue reading
I think a lot about writing speed because back before it was torn apart by sex scandals and idiotic simpering leadership, I used to participate, or aspire to participate, in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, which was (and I suppose still could be) a challenge to write 50,000 words… Continue reading
Writing will inevitably be this blog’s most touched-upon topic as I have long been very, um, interested in methods to overcome writer’s block and actually get projects done. So it had better be early on that I introduce the method I have been using to finally succeed at getting some… Continue reading