NaNoWriMo 2022: Days 6-10
Total word count: 2509 Ah, the benefits of the tortoise pace. Writing at 250 words/day is giving me the time to properly develop two parallel cultures, as seen […]
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NaNoWriMo 2022: Days 1-5
Current word count: 1502. It only took two days for me to realize that I needed National Novel Writing Month to be Personal Novel Writing Year. To my […]
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Against my better judgment, I am participating in National Novel Writing Month this year, after a years-old absence. For 2022, I’m playing using close-to-classic rules: a new idea […]
More DetailsLeaving the Roost
It’s nearly time to leave Twitter. Elon Musk, billionaire space enthusiast and edge lord, is on track to purchase Twitter by this Friday. He’s over-leveraging his assets to […]
More DetailsRings of Power is a good show, and I’m prepared to die on this hill
When did I stop being enthusiastic about things I love? In hindsight, I should have been much more vocal about my feelings about The Last Jedi. I loved, […]
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I don’t know when I started to run on fumes. My last post was September last year (about the delightful Star Wars Visions, which has a second season […]
More DetailsStar Wars Visions, or What It Took To Love Star Wars Again
Has it been long enough to talk about Star Wars on the internet? My feelings about the sequel trilogy — The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The […]
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Sometime in late March, I contracted the SARS-COV-2 virus. I don’t know how, where, or exactly when — maybe at the office, where hygiene standards had grown lax, […]
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If you’re familiar with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, you’ve heard of Vogon poetry: verse so stilted, so cliché, that is tantamount to torture for someone to […]
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(CW: suicidal ideation) As I was closing on my house in October — amidst tribble-like avalanches of paperwork, hands squeezed with white knuckles as everything almost fell apart […]
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