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January 21, 2021
The Good Ending
Recently, I replayed Metro: 2033 with little doubt I’d get the good ending. I knew all about the hidden morality system and had confidence that I’d be able to work it to my advantage. I got the bad ending. Since, I’ve been wondering why—and what my ending says about me. In the case of 2033, I didn’t accrue […]
January 4, 2021
2021: Stay True
Last year, I picked a simple theme to govern the months of 2020: Less is More. Did I know what we’d be facing? Nope. But my mindset of doing less served me well over the months we’ve spent in isolation. This year, I’m picking an equally simple theme: Stay True. One of the lessons that […]
December 18, 2020
My Favourite Things: 2020
For the past few years, I have begun my annual favourite things post by talking about what a hard year it has been and how glad I am it’s over. You would not be wrong in expecting me to start this year’s post the same way. After all, it is 2020. But although it’s been […]
December 11, 2020
The Things They Don’t Tell You
As far as I know, there is no definitive manual on how to be an author. There are hundreds of books about the craft of writing and dozens of places to go for advice on how to write a good query letter and synopsis. You can take a course on everything from nailing that first []
December 2, 2020
What I’ve Been Reading
The #WritersRead prompt for November was: a book debut author. Bryan Washington isn’t a debut author, but Memorial is his first novel, so I’ve decided it counts. Also, I really want to talk about it. Memorial was my November Book of the Month Club selection, and I picked it because it reminded me of the beautiful movie, […]
November 19, 2020
Let’s Go Out
Writing a newsletter serial worked out so well the first time, I’m doing it again. Or… have done it again. As with Let’s Connect, Let’s Go Out – Robin’s story – is a complete novella that I’ll be sharing a chapter a time with my newsletter subscribers, starting this Sunday, November 22! Let’s Go Out(Let’s […]
November 16, 2020
Remember When I Said I No More MMOs?
I really meant it last time. I also really meant it when I said I was giving up cheese. (Why is it so hard?) So, here I am to report failure on two counts. I’m still eating cheese. I’m also playing another MMO. In my defense, The Elder Scrolls Online isn’t the most MMO-y of […]
October 23, 2020
Ordinary Heroes
When the world shut down and everyone learned to make bread, we decided to re-watch Star Trek: The Next Generation from beginning to end. It is, quite literally, the best thing I have done for myself this year. I remember watching TNG when it first aired. Later, if I caught rerun, I’d nearly always sit […]
October 8, 2020
What I’ve Been Reading
The #WritersRead prompt for September was: a book I wished I’d read in school. I’ve written before about books I’d like to see on high school reading lists. It’s a subject I’m passionate about, so I was determined to read something I really, really wished had been recommended back when I was in school. When I researched current high school […]
September 28, 2020
The Nerd List
Every time I hear someone say, “I was a nerd before it was cool,” I don’t think to myself, When was being a nerd not cool? My thoughts tend to flow more along the line of I’ve never been cool. I’ve pretty much always been a nerd, though. Being the child of a computer programmer, it was probably […]
