In praise of dumb tech
The world and all the stuff in it is getting increasingly connected through the internet. But that’s not necessarily a good thing. To clarify: People conn...
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Happy belated Pencil Day!
My friend, confidant, sometime tabletop game designing/spitballing partner, and all-around best bud told me earlier this week that the following day, March 30th...
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...
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...
In search of a new metric metric
As a child of the early 1970s, I’m in the unfortunate position of being in a country that was switching to the metric system* in my early youth but with e...
Volume of work begets creativity
I realized ages ago that I come up with the bulk of my creative ideas while working on other material. Not as much sitting and staring out the window (though th...
Looking back on a month off of social media
Today marks the last day of my month away from Twitter and Mastodon (and Tumblr, which I recently realized I was still on). What I will or won’t do with T...
Progress is good
… by which I mean that progress is a good thing as well as that I’m making good progress. In this particular case, on the planned novel. I had anoth...
A funny thing happened on my way to quitting social media for a month
Social Medialess October isn’t a thing. But perhaps it should be. I finally quit Facebook a handful of months back after long intending to ditch it for go...
My novel’s first draft is crap, and that’s okay
As I mentioned in my last post, the first draft of my first novel is going well. Meaning, as far as progression of the word count. As for the quality?That’...