I Tried to Destroy Human Civilization
“My friends–former friends after reading this, I hope–have sometimes joked that I sound like a supervillain.”
Category: Personal
Confessions of an Artful Coward
Hello, readers. This will be another of those posts where I unpack my latest batch of unearthed psychological problems on the blog. This will not be another post where I try to tell you I’m done with the blog or writing. Those were never the desires I wanted to escape from. I understand that now. […]
A Heart-to-Heart About Publishing, Query Letters, and PTSD
Hello, readers mine. This is the latest in my long series of attempts to parse the messy road that brought me to the present. This time it’s imported from Twitter. Some of this will be old hat for many of you. For some, it may be all new. Either way, I wanted to post my […]
The Thing About Mistakes
Hello, readers mine. I’m struggling with something at the moment, so I’m afraid we’re due for another of those posts. You know the ones. The ones where I treat these pixel-born pages as a replacement for therapy. Ironically, I’m at a point in my life where I’m open to therapy, but can no longer afford […]
And From the Ashes?
The following is a scheduled post. I’ve set it for close to a month after I reached the decision stated here. That you are reading it means nothing has happened in that timeframe to change my mind. Hello, readers mine. I always felt that this day would come. I’m thankful to you all for standing […]
Coming Out
Four days ago (less a few hours), I posted an advice article titled simply, Writing Female Characters, Take Two. That seems to have gone over well; however, as of today I had to go back and update it with an extra disclaimer at the start. And believe me, the irony of having waited until some […]
Where Have You Been, Word-Nerd?!?!
Alright, yes, a fair question! Aaagh–would you–STOP HITTING ME WITH YOUR CAPS-LOCK KEYS! (Hypocrisy, thou blowest from the north, and upon a lukewarm wind because my place of residence forgot how to winter in 2020)–so, let’s ditch the over-tangential style of 2013-2017 North and answer the title question: where have I been? Ach, mensch, I must tell […]
Salients of a Broken Mind: The Longest Campaign Comes to an End
(Fair warning–like all “Salients of a Broken Mind” installments, this will be a raw gaze at my innermost self. I write this one from a place of closure, and for once it just ends on a bittersweet rather than bleak note, but consider yourself forewarned!) Your work will not succeed when you most need it […]
The Necromancer and the Revenant: Updates and Next Steps
(Full disclosure as of 4/10/2019–while I did write this for important updates, I obviously got a bit worked up in the process; I’ve tweaked or removed 3-4 sentences which aren’t reflective of my thoughts when level-headed. If you’re coming back to this and remembering it as moderately less reasonable, that is why.) “I’m sorry, but […]
A Meandering Attempt to Understand Why I Can’t Enjoy Escapist Writing
I’ll be honest with you all–I started writing this one during a down period a couple of weeks ago. I’ve mulled it over since and decided to finish and post it because I think there’s something important here. Anyway, just keep that in mind as you’re reading, and remember that you can always click away […]
