NFTs? Hard pass, thanks.
For those of you who don’t spend hours of your day staring at a screen, ostensibly trying to write but too often procrastinating and instead surfing the w...
Author: Reay
Oh yeah, I passed 80K words in my novel, BTW…
For all the nail-biting and concern about the idea of how I’d ever possibly get to 80,000 words in my first solid crack at writing a novel–what with...
What I’m reading
Whoo, boy, can Stuart Gibbs write. I hadn’t read any of his books before–and he’s done a few–but this one catches you right away, as goo...
U.S. pharmaceutical ads be like…
Being in Canada, we get plenty of our entertainment from American sources. Sometimes on TV, that comes via American broadcasters who, of course, run American co...
A new look for the joint
Regulars here may notice that I freshened up the site with a new look. What do you think? Gone are the bulky header photo (on every page, which was an… in...
New writing goal will be met… and smashed
I continue to work on my novel when time allows, my own dumb distractions can get effectively put aside (I’m a writer, so will put my ability to procrasti...
World Book Day 2021
As it’s World Book Day–and most of the planet remains in isolation due to this pandemic, so we’re all hopefully getting even more read than us...
What I read this month
Bit of a light month for reading, oddly, but most of what I’ve gotten to has been enjoyable. ReadGlitch – Laura Martin Started and stoppedSpace Runn...
In praise of broadening focus
Recently I’ve been listening to a podcast by comedian Mike Birbiglia called Working It Out. Episode 4 is less his usual quasi-formatted approach to interv...
At a creative crossroads
I’m continuing to toil away at what will be my first novel, but have once again run into the “What exactly am I doing here?” stage. Meaning, i...