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The Main Attraction
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Brainstorming
Where I’ll be doing all of the story planning and brainstorming of ideas. (Click to view posts in this category)
News
Looking for announcements? Look no further! (Click to view posts in this category)
Personal Life
What’s going on in my life including emotional checkups and how it’s affecting my writing. (Click to view posts in this category)
Writing Process
The how of my writing life. How I use various tools and theories and what works for me and doesn’t. (Click to view posts in this category.)
Writing Tools
Books, classes, software, etc. What I work with and why. (Click to view posts in this category.)
Where Things Stand
It's been a little while since I've posted anything like this (and I wonder if I've ever really posted anything like this). Anyway, I felt I needed to give an update of what's been going on lately with Unclean. (This is kind of a "vomit" draft of what's happening...
Restoration
In August, I signed up for my first writing class that involved other people on the site, LitReactor. Called Writing the Weird, the class dealt with the ins and outs of a genre called Weird fiction. When I took it, I wasn't really sure whether it would be useful,...
Playing Catch-Up
Emotional Overview A quick check-in showing my current emotional state. (Higher numbers mean greater degrees of emotion.)DepressionAnxietyStressYeah, it’s been a few weeks. Again, all I can say is sorry. Each week, I know I need to write something but it always...
Welcome to Trench
About four or five months ago, a song started showing up in my YouTube Music feed called Level of Concern by Twenty One Pilots. It immediately “grabbed” me and made a pretty deep impression. I immediately started doing some research on the band and the more I read...
Mystical Bear Revealed…
On the INF Club with Jas Hothi Last month, I had the opportunity to chat with host Jas Hothi on his vlog and podcast The INF Club. Jas is a great guy who normally is situated in London but did the interview while summering in Madeira. We met after he read about...
Nurse Rick At Your Service
(Note: I've done away with the usual graphs for depression, anxiety, and stress in this post - based on the circumstances, I haven't had time to really be depressed and stress and anxiety have understandably been through the roof. They'll be back in the next...