Poem about the internet and my humanity and some other third thing.
Writing Wednesdays | Tapioca Pearls Before Swine | 11/29/2023
Writings!
No Nano For Me This Year | 11/8/2023
I am firmly in the camp of not participating in National Novel Writing Month this year. Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me summarize.
Writing Wednesdays | Turkey Buzzards at the Beach | 10/25/2023
Free verse poem about what it says in the title. 🦅
Writing Wednesdays | Characters at the Gym | 10/18/2023
Just some journalistic observations of interesting people at the gym.
Writing Wednesdays | Bloody, Sweaty, Teary Excerpt #4 | 10/11/2023
Old, old snippet from 2021 that you can tell is old because the characters still have their original concept names. Context is that Gordon (who later became Kryoloth aka Kry) is an estranged lava magic user from an ice magic using family.
Pseudo-Journal Entry #5: Cats and Meditation | Writing Wednesdays | 10/4/2023
My attempt at meditating for the first time in a while last night was, uh, mixed.
WIP Wednesday | Bird Curse Excerpt 2 | 9/26/2023
Snippet from a short story below that I posted another bit from way back in March.
Miscellaneous Updates | End to Writing Wednesdays Hiatus Next Week, Trying to Find a Publisher, Happy Bi Week
Hello all! It's been a minute.
Writing Wednesdays | Pseudo-Journal Entry #4 | 6/28/2023
Breaking my hairbrush in half at the handle when I took a mental health day felt like a metaphor for something.
Writing Wednesdays | Science Fantasy Sun Wukong Lightly Lampooned | 8/16/2023
I was originally going to title this something like "Thinly-Veiled Fanfic Poem" but that would imply that there is any sort of veil at all, which there is not.
Writing Wednesdays | Thirst Aid Kit | 8/9/2023
Weird, contemplative thing I wrote a few weeks ago to try and ground myself while having a very rough day/week.
Writing Wednesdays | Dinner Date Cut Concept | 8/2/2023
There was a hot second where I was considering trying to expand Dinner Date beyond the self-contained, complete novelette form that it's currently in.
Writing Wednesdays | Autobiographical Musings About Heat and Cold | 7/26/2023
It is, quite literally, hotter than it's ever been right now.
Writing Wednesdays | Tech Villanelle | 7/5/2023
May be a little "durr hburr technology is bad fire is scary and thomas edison was a witch" but I'm just in a Mood lately and this poem I wrote last year speaks to it.
WIP Wednesdays | Paisley Selig Visual Development | 7/5/2023
I feel like at this point Paisley definitely gets across the "sad, wet cat" vibe I'm going for and it's just a matter of refining that.
Writing Wednesdays | Pseudo-Journal Entry #3 | 6/28/2023
Just some reflections I've had for a long, long time related to my technology addiction.
WIP Wednesdays | Dinner Date Excerpt 4 | 6/21/2023
Ah, murderboy monster brooding POV.
Writing Wednesdays | Surrealist Stream of Consciousness Breakup | 6/14/2023
Weird little thing.
Writing Wednesdays | Spaced Out | 6/7/2023
I've been watching too much Dragon Ball Z; it keeps influencing me to write content with touches of sci-fi.
Writing Wednesdays | Puppetry Prose Poem | 5/31/2023
Ah, alliteration in that title. I read this prose poem at Fabled's open mic night a while back.
Warm-Up Wednesdays | Only Mostly Dead | 5/24/2023
One part sword and sorcery one part horror one part tonally dissonant The Princess Bride reference in the title.
WIP Wednesdays | Solstice/Equinox | 5/16/2023
Reaching into the 2022 archives for a little dark fantasy snippet.
Writing Wednesdays | Pseudo-Journal Entry #2 | 5/3/2023
I'll be real, this is a little bit "stream of consciousness 2 AM purple prose gobbledygook.”
WIP Wednesdays | Dinner Date Excerpt 3 | 4/26/2023
Had a couple of near natural disasters today and almost forgot to post!​
Poetry reading at Fabled | “Egg Watch,” “Cartoon Blood,” and “Awakening Ugliness”
Poetry reading at Fabled’s Poets and Pints Night April 13, 2023.
Miscellaneous Updates | Dinner Date, We Don’t Bite Much, Doodle Art
Oops, my short story is a novella now.
Writing Wednesdays | Cartoon Blood Poem | 4/12/2023
I'm going to do a poetry reading at an open mic night tomorrow and wanted to post one of the poems in advance of when I can hopefully post a recording of my pieces on YouTube.
Writing Wednesdays | Dinner Date Cut Concept | 4/5/2023
This was where my original thoughts for Dinner Date, particularly Diederick’s character, were explored. Honestly, it kind of still works as some level of backstory for him, though not in every way.
WIP Wednesday | Bird Curse Excerpt | 3/29/2023
Working title, haha. Near-midnight posting, but here’s an excerpt for this week! This is two parts of a series of vignettes about​ a princess, birds, her suitors, and something being a little off about it all.
WIP Wednesdays | Dinner Date Excerpt 2 | 3/22/2023
More of the murderous shapeshifter and his partner in crime being a terrible kinda-sorta couple who are definitely-absolutely the worst.
Writing Wednesdays | Howling at the Sun | 3/15/2023
This is, no exaggeration, my favorite short piece I've written thus far in 2023. I'm very excited to share it.
Writing Amidst a Severe Weather Warning | 3/2/2023
There's a tornado warning where I live right now. The cats and I are camped out in the bathroom.
WIP Wednesdays | Dinner Date Excerpt 1 | 3/1/2023
Excerpt from a short story about a horrific eldritch being and his kind of sort of girlfriend watching him on a date with someone else.
WIP Wednesdays | Very Emo Sonnet | 2/22/2023
Feeling pretty sick physically and mentally this week but I mustered up the strength to post a couple of stanzas from a sonnet I'm working on. I plan on reading a few poems at an open mic night in April and this might very well be one of them.
Warm-Up Wednesdays | 2/15/2023
Happy day after Valentine's Day! I'm shamelessly using an image of a cake I made as the header for this post. The story is of a desperate sort of romantic nature so it's semi-justified.
Writing Wednesdays | Pseudo-Journal Entry at the Airport | 2/8/2023
I apologize for not posting last week, I was going through a lot mentally, as alluded to in this “story.”
We Don’t Bite (Much) Character Concepts | Paisley, Zack, and Ren | 1/25/2023
Ima keep it real with you, chief, I wrote several writing posts for today and just wasn't satisfied with them. But since I've been on an art kick, it feels appropriate to share that this week instead.
WIP Wednesdays | WDBM Paisley & Ren Scene | 1/18/2023
I've been working pretty heavily on this project so it feels right to post my WIP for the month with content from my script for my visual novel.
Warm-Up Wednesdays | Girlfriends and Gryphons | 1/11/2023
That title is probably too cheesy for this somewhat sullen little story, but it's what I've got.
Warm-Up Wednesdays | Contemplations on Death and Birds and Death Birds | 1/4/2023
So we're starting out 2023 with, um... whatever this is. Prose poetry, if I'm flattering myself.
Warm-Up Wednesdays | Enemies to Lovers but They’re Swords | 12/28/2022
I'm ending 2022 with my bread and butter; cute, weird enemies to lovers with fantasy elements. Personified swords are so fun.
Warm-Up Wednesday | Untitled #1 | 12/21/2022
A stream of consciousness thing today, very shower thoughts-y.
WIP Wednesdays | Paisley Selig Rough Concept Art/Discussion |Â 12/14/2022
Something a little different this WIP Wednesday! Here I have some conceptual scribblings and discussion of Paisley, the sad, anxious vampire from We Don't Bite (Much). At this point I've got his shapes pretty worked out and his face's design overall simplified to the point where I feel comfortable with the idea of eventually redrawing it over and over again.
2022 Writing Roundup
I wanted to give a brief overview of my writing projects closing out 2022 and rough out my initial plans for 2023.
WIP Wednesdays | We Don’t Bite (Much) Excerpt | 11/30/2022
To the Americans in my audience, I hope that you had a great Thanksgiving! Nano may have gone down in flames for me for the last week and a half, but I still wrote a substantial bit for this story that I would like to share before I reattack with writing and art development next year.
Last Nanowrimo Check-In aka Everything in My House Decided to Break Including My Head + We Don’t Bite (Much) Excerpt
Oh boy, folks, it was not in the cards this year. I hate to say it, but for my own sake and for the sake of the project I'm calling it at roughly 20k with Nano. Got a lot of good content out of dedicatedly working on this, but I've reached my stress threshold. Still, stay tuned for a little excerpt at the end of this post of me explaining what broke me.
Nanowrimo Week Two Check-In + We Don’t Bite (Much) Excerpt
First things first, thank you so much to my thirteen followers! I'm so pleased that I'm garnering an audience for my little snippets to hold me accountable with consistently updating my work. It means a lot to have your viewership. Thank you again!
Nanowrimo Week One Check-In + We Don’t Bite (Much) Excerpt
Week one of National Novel Writing Month is up! I have 9635 words so far in my draft. I'll probably write some more this evening in an attempt to catch up to the 11667 goal to be right on track, but I wanted to record what I've got so far while on my lunch break.
WIP Wednesdays | We Don’t Bite (Much) Excerpt | Nanowrimo 2022 | 11/2/2022
I'm taking my first stab at writing a visual novel this Nanowrimo, with a bit of a rough and tumble """script""" format.
Poetry reading at Fabled Bookstore—“Vampire Working at Subway”
Given that it's Halloween and I am about to embark on writing a vampire-centric Nanowrimo story, it feels appropriate to reupload my reading of my poem, "Vampire Working at Subway," a semi-autobiographical work of horror.