This is a question I’ve seen around, and one that I have to reckon with in Brother Shadow: how do you keep an arrogant character likable? How do you use this as a flaw without making the character completely infuriating? Here’s my theory on how to keep them just the right amount of infuriating. . … Continue reading Making An Arrogant Character Likable, pt1/2
Originally published in Horizons Literary Magazine on 05/01/23 --- . Because. That’s not an answer. Because I said so. That’s not a good answer. Fine, because girls don’t. That’s a bad answer. That’s how it is. That’s not fair. That’s too bad. . Stop fussing. I don’t want to wear that. Why not? I don’t … Continue reading Fiction: Recurring Arguments
My brain works in cycles these days. . I have an ever-growing list of books I want to read. It exists alongside an identically organized (that is, whatever order I thought of them) list of movies and TV shows I want to watch, and a highly dissimilar (that is, painstakingly curated) list of stories that … Continue reading I’m Reading Too Many Books At Once (hooray?)
A few years ago, these went around briefly as a meme on some corner of either Tumblr or Twitter, I don’t fully remember which. They never really caught on, but I really enjoyed the concept, so I’ve kept my personal bingo card of tropes hanging around since then. Years later, the original still holds pretty … Continue reading Authorial Bingo
If you write in any kind of volume, you start to notice that you have some calling cards. I made a bingo card out of mine. Next post will be an explanation of each square, but for now:
Much as I've tried, weekly updates might not be in the cards just now, I have too many other things going on. In the name of reestablishing consistency, I'm changing the schedule to every other week. That should be more manageable.
You know that nagging feeling that you forgot to do something? That feeling is a way of life when you have ADHD, and its not always possible to mentally retrieve whatever the thing was in the first place. Last Tuesday, that feeling came from not posting a post, which I didn’t actually notice until I … Continue reading 150 Days! Also DANGERT I forgot to post about it
I'll talk about this more on Tuesday, but I wanted to acknowledge the milestone meanwhile. Technically this happened on Sunday, but it was still there when I went to update today, so I got another chance to screenshot it. Of course, a bunch of the updates are a single sentence in a day, but you … Continue reading Milestone!
Last week there was a post going around about a minecraft seed (4325227337) with a huge, crazy sinkhole at spawn, falling off into a lake almost down to bedrock, with a village floating on top of it. A friend and I have been exploring it. The sinkhole is gone in the most recent version, but … Continue reading Crater Lake Minecraft Seed
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of a dog standing on a school desk, promising later context. This is that context. The picture is my dog Mary, who lived to be nineteen years old before she passed away last year. I had created a pretty long and heartfelt post about her, which … Continue reading Context, Finally
Dramatic Pause 