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I want to start off by simply saying I believe you should unabashedly enjoy whatever it is you enjoy, as long as it isn't exploiting or hurting others. Pickles on ice cream? Let it rip! Monster smut? Get it! Covering yourself in jelly and crawling around your apartment
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Every single writing course, craft book, or conference talk will espouse the importance of reading as much as, if not more than, you write. Time and time again, we hear about someone who hates to read but wants to write. To those people, we writers yell, "You MUST read
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Across my social media accounts, I list "narrative designer" as part of my persona. This label is factual, but also, in many ways, hopeful. You see, I have a certification from the University of British Columbia in Writing for Video Games. I also earned a certification from NYU
Media Log
Like many of you, I have decided to attempt to watch 31 Horror movies in the month of October. This presents a bit of an issue for me, from a blogging standpoint. Every month I do a Media Log, where I list everything I watched, read, and played the month
Media Log
I'm super late this month, and for that I apologize! Alright, here we go! Every month, I list all the different media I engaged with, along with a short paragraph about what did or didn’t work for me. I watch a lot of movies, read a lot
Author's Commentary
My father told me this story gave him Mickey Spillane vibes, especially this line: "...the boss’s nephew stepped inside with the self-importance of someone who’d never been hit hard enough to second-guess a thought." It was one of the highest compliments I have ever
Author's Commentary
Alright, let's get a bit silly today and discuss my whimsical, horror-adjacent story, "My Turn As Pope," which was published by Silly Goose Press in their recent Issue 7. You can read it HERE. First, one thing to know about me is that I grew
Media Log
Alright, here we go! Every month, I list all the different media I engaged with, along with a short paragraph about what did or didn’t work for me. I watch a lot of movies, read a lot of books, and play a lot of games, so buckle in. Books
On Craft & Process
A lot of discourse has been going on about AI and protecting yourself as a writer from accusations of generating stories with it. The prevailing wisdom seems to be that we should all have a letter outlining our process ready to go on demand. At the end of this post,
Author's Commentary
If you have followed me on socials, you know that I won't shut up about this anthology called Bad Intentions: A Crime Fiction Anthology Based on the Music of Warren Zevon. The reason I won't shut up about it is because it is a crime fiction
Notebook
I was always going to write about AI. It is a constant source of stress and ire in my life. But I would be lying to you if I said the timing of this had nothing to do with that recent HWA newsletter. So why is AI bad? Simple. It
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Back in 2019, I found myself in an interesting position. I was asked if I would consider writing evergreen articles about gaming hardware for a new gaming news startup. Because I write under a pen name, I won’t divulge the name of the site or the podcasts I eventually