“The beast of the gulch is on the move. It hunts without reason. It kills without eating. Its prey is the sound of a beating heart. Within the shallows of the gulch dwells death.”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Special Effects Chest pain Is a constant A wall between myself and the body There is a chronology that I am separated from as I hover Above the flesh, noncommittal Like a prince who can’t make up his mind You’re falling into the water You’re stumbling…
Creator Journals 7/15/25 Another good writing day. I expanded what I originally imagined to be a small scene into a full thousand word segment, and it really worked both comedically and for the characters. At the current rate, Beach Knight is probably going to come out somewhere between 100k and 120k words, like a real…
Creator Journals 7/14/25 I have some real momentum lately. I just went on a creative thinking walk to try and shore up my villain’s main motivation. The villain in Beach Knight is a particularly sinister one. On some level, I want them to be so villainous that the reader won’t want to relate to them.…
Creator Journals 7/13/25 It’s a Sunday so I’m not obligated to think. In fact, I might be religiously required to not think. That’s one interpretation of the Fourth Commandment, maybe. So I’m just going to talk about Thefwin Peachwillow a bit more. The best blog posts come in trilogies, after all. She’s 5’5, which is…
Creator Journals 7/12/25 What can I say about Thefwin Peachwillow that wouldn’t spoil the story. Well, first off, she’s not a major character. She’s a character I made specifically to fit a role in a chapter that required a large and diverse cast. She’s an elf, but she’s an elf that leans into her racial…
Creator Journals 7/11/25 I’m going to see Superman tonight, and I’m pretty excited about that! It’s a warm, rainy day. I prefer warm rainy days to cold rainy days.Beach Knight is coming along. Chapter 7 is very good so far. I think I’ve started to finally actually find my footing with this one. Who knows,…
Creator Journals 7/10/25 It was a busy day today, and I still managed to get out 1500 words and finish chapter 6. I’ve been busy and stressed, but I think I’m getting stronger. I think I’m gaining a better immunity to distractions. I’ve also started going on daily walks and drinking more water, so it’s…
There are a lot of feelings and ideas that are hard to express in typical prose. I’m going to be doing a little bit of experimenting here. This used to be my poetry blog before I started posting Creator Journals, so I was thinking of reintroducing some of that. I think on Wednesdays, I’ll post…
Creator Journals 7/8/25 Can you believe it’s already the 8th of July? It was the 7th just yesterday! Man! For mysterious reasons, the headaches are back today, so that’s limiting what I can write by a lot. I’m finding difficulty just writing this blog post, in fact. I think I need to reconfigure my publishing…
Creator Journals 7/7/25 I didn’t write any Beach Knight today. Instead, I prepped and wrote lore for a D&D game I’m about to run. I use the same world for my D&D games and my books, so it helps out regardless. It struck me today just how many people groups I’m inventing. How many nations…
Creator Journals 7/6/25 There’s a lot of societal injustice in the world right now. It’s all over the news and all over my social feeds. It’s hard to stay above the water, stay positive and keep it from stressing me out. Stress causes me a number of physical symptoms, so I’m trying my best to…
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