October 15th to 21st: Adventure Seed Time

October 21st, 2020: I finally got the draft done for the Arium Kickstarter commission on Sunday. Working to craft five short adventure seeds was a much bigger challenge than I thought it would be when I signed on to do them back in August. Being assigned the peculiar writing theme of “Gonzo” for open-ended role-playing... Continue Reading →

November 6, 2020 0

October 8th to 14th: The Grief Wound

October 14th, 2020: A lot of the past week was spent working through the loss of my friend that happened last Sunday. Wednesday I felt emotionally clear enough to write about our friendship and posted it as a eulogy on Facebook. It reached a lot of mutual friends that didn’t know he’d passed, and some... Continue Reading →

November 5, 2020 1

October 1st to 7th: Losing a Friend

October 7th, 2020: 2020 continues to be relentless. On Sunday, a friend with a long history of diabetes and kidney failure died. We hadn’t seen each other in person for a few years, but we’d done a lot together prior to that. We read bad vampire books aloud by his campfire. He was at my... Continue Reading →

November 4, 2020 9

Microfiction

Last week, I gave a purely personal update on how I was doing after a long silence. This week’s check-in is a more nuts and bolts talk about something I write frequently and post a lot of on this blog and elsewhere: Microfiction. I’ve begun a new approach to my weekday microfiction writing. Up to... Continue Reading →

July 16, 2020 4

Yes, It Is a Hard Time to Write

I’ve been dealing with a lot since I last posted an author’s update in the middle of May. I’ve been depressed with all that life has thrown at me at once. I’ve been angry. I’ve lost my motivation, and I’ve regained it. But through it all, I have kept writing. Maybe not much by some... Continue Reading →

July 9, 2020 12