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Continue reading →: Heinlein’s Rules of Writing – My Interpretation
A lot has been written about Heinlein’s five rules of writing and I’m going to write a little bit more. Like a lot of writers, I enjoy writing about writing. In this case, that joy is nested because I’m also writing about someone else’s writing about writing. Because of when…
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Continue reading →: Grief Can Be Additive
When you have to grieve for more than one person at a time or when you have to start grieving for someone else before you’ve properly built a new normal for yourself, it can build up fast. In a little less than four years, I’ve lost ten family members, five…
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Continue reading →: Writing Report for October 2026
I few days later than I planned. Busy week, but that’s par for the current course. I spent a lot of October establishing a new normal that still involved weekly trips to another city for reasons that haven’t gotten any better. My dictation in the car seemed to slow a…
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Continue reading →: Highlander Doesn’t Hold Up
That’s likely an unpopular opinion. Don’t get me wrong, it’s got an established cult presence and the underlying concept is very cool. <spoiler> A bunch of immortals battling for mortality? </spoiler> That’s a pretty seriously twisty reveal, even if it had to be explained with a voiceover at the end…
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Continue reading →: Things That Bug Me in Fiction Part 4: Formats That Don’t Work For Me
I’m sure I can come up with more if I try, but there are three specific things I’m of thinking here, formats or styles that annoy me almost every single time. I’ll take them in ascending irritation order. First, we have second person perspective. It’s worse in present tense than…
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Continue reading →: Old Novellas Progress
I’ve been working for several years to move things I’ve drafted and not gotten back to into higher drafts. In 2024, I’d finally gotten through most of the flash (anything not in final draft has been written since January 2025), shorts (anything not in at least third draft has been…
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Continue reading →: Writing Report for Q3 2026
This will be a little longer than the usual writing report as I’m going to cover three months all at once. You’ll note I haven’t been blogging a lot lately, and while previous posts might lead one to believe it’s because I’m hard at work on my thesis, the truth…
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Continue reading →: Fourteen Days Ago, My Father Died
Yes, that’s two weeks, and I’ve waited this long to say anything about it here. Oh, if you have me on social media, I posted the obituary, but I’ve mostly been staying offline. And it was that long before I noted here that my mother had passed away, although that…
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Continue reading →: Banned Books Week
I’m not a fan of the United States as a country right now and for reasons that go beyond the current administration and its rapid descent into fascism (although that’s a big part of things). I do try not to hold that against institutions, organizations, or individuals that just happen…
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Continue reading →: Never Take Writing Advice From Non-Writers
And before anyone gets concerned that I’m advocating against Beta Readers (which I don’t personally use but if you do, that’s entirely fine), I’ll state outright that they’re not giving writing advice. At least, they shouldn’t be. Beta Readers give feedback on how well what you’ve written did or did…
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