Writing Process

Step One – Butt in Chair

OK, the tools are lined up, ready to go. Now what? Do I plot first or just pants the hell out of it? Posts in this category delve into how I make use of all that cool software or the latest hardware toy sitting on my desk.

Where Things Stand

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...

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Restoration

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,...

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Playing Catch-Up

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...

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Welcome to Trench

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...

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Nurse Rick At Your Service

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...

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Architecting My Garden

Architecting My Garden

As I wrote last week, I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching about this story that I’m working on. It’s been a somewhat stressful time since so many things that I thought were nailed down sort of flew out the window after I completed my 5 part history here in...

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