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Category: Writing

  • My review: Shroud, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    I read this on ebook back in like May 2026 but never wrote a review and now I’m panicking and trying to organize my thoughts before voting in the 2026 Hugo Awards. This is a great sci-fi story with a classic feel. An alien planet so weird that it has to be explored. An alien…

  • Update to NaNoWriMo 2023

    An update to my earlier post. Well, that was a month. I wrote 28,310 words, all on the Freewrite. I wrote every day in November (except for the 1st, since the Freewrite hadn’t arrived yet). I was supported by all of my partners, who had to give up at least little bits of our time…

  • Proforma ‘Profound’ Profanity

    Those who know me in meat space know that I cuss a lot. I cuss like I’ve completely repressed the memories of my grandmother making me take bites out of bars of Ivory soap. I cuss like a sailor (actually I am a sailor and you cuss like me). I cuss like a person who…

  • NaNoWriMo 2023

    NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. The whole premise is that you write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. The point of the practice is to get you churning out words. Sit your ass down and write. To hit the goal, you generally aren’t editing or revising much, and probably any drafting…