Anxiety Annex

November 18th, 2020: I got The Forever Halloween to a completed sixth draft Thursday night, finishing it at almost 10,400 words. This became a seventh draft after my wifeโ€™s proofread and a sweep with an editing tool on Monday. I sent copies out thereafter to a handful of people that were interested in reading it,... Continue Reading →

November 5th to 11th: Harm and Healing

November 11th, 2020: A lot happened over the last week. Nationally, we had an enormous, tense and drawn out election that still isnโ€™t fully resolvedโ€ฆ but is resolved enough that Iโ€™m very happy with one result. ;-) On the personal side of things, my trio of problems from last week are no more: My wife... Continue Reading →

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 โ€œGonzoโ€ for open-ended role-playing... Continue Reading →

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 didnโ€™t know heโ€™d passed, and some... Continue Reading →

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 hadnโ€™t seen each other in person for a few years, but weโ€™d done a lot together prior to that. We read bad vampire books aloud by his campfire. He was at my... Continue Reading →

Microfiction

Last week, I gave a purely personal update on how I was doing after a long silence. This weekโ€™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. Iโ€™ve begun a new approach to my weekday microfiction writing. Up to... Continue Reading →

Yes, It Is a Hard Time to Write

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

That Pearl of Great Price That is America

Captain America, What If? #44. 1984 Listen to me โ€” all of you out there! You were told by this man โ€” your hero โ€” that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people โ€” that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities... Continue Reading →

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