“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.”
Book 9 of The Kingdom’s Disdain is available now!
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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
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Somehow it’s already the 20th of May and I’m only three chapters into Beach Knight. Oh well, since I started imprisoning myself in the back room I’ve been more productive. Hey guys, writing books is hard. Sometimes I stare at my outline and think, “Something more interesting should happen in this chapter” and when I
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Today I sequestered myself like the cardinals in Conclave and wrote for an hour. I got a good bit done, but maybe less than I had hoped. Either way, I think this is a good strategy. I’m nearly done chapter 3 of 10 and I think I just need to accept that my book is
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I don’t feel like I’m writing fast enough. The Beach Knight outline has ten chapters and I’m still working on chapter three. Not really sure how I’m going to have it done by the start of July and still have it meet all of my quality goals. Headaches are getting worse lately. Yesterday I spent
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Don’t think I’m done with the nonbinary orc. I’m not. Since it’s a plot point that Port Starfish is mostly human, with a smattering of dwarves, elves and halflings here and there, an orc kind of stands out. Most of our protagonists are nonhuman creatures that face some amount of social alienation due to that
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I need some chocolate cake and a stomach that can digest chocolate cake (I’m unfortunately cursed: lactose intolerance!) My day job took a turn for the worse today. While I’d rather not talk openly about what my day job is, just know that when it goes bad it goes very bad. I’ve done some preliminary
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Last night I spent the whole sleep cycle dreaming that the infamous Jason Voorhees was trying to kill me. That was pretty weird. I’m not really afraid of that dude like at all. I love the Friday the 13th movies because they’re cheesy fun. For whatever reason, he was far more threatening in my dream,
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Yesterday I went birdwatching. This is not something I regularly do. It’s something I pretty much never do. I was invited to join others who were doing it. All the same, I started to notice how much can be gained from spending time in slow observation. I’ve been creating fictionalized facsimiles of nature by writing
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