In 2010, I was moderately known as a blogger writing about EVE Online; those of us seen as "regulars" with decent writing skills were loosely known as the Blog Pack. One of our number, CrazyKinux, ran a monthly event known as the Blog Banter, where a subject would be chosen for all of us to … Continue reading Self-Fulfilling Disappointment
I've mentioned before that the novel I'm currently working on is the first for which I've had a full plot outline developed before I even started writing. This is where I admit that I've had to re-outline the story, one year after I made the first outline. It's not as bad as you might think. … Continue reading Remap
When I was taking Creative Writing classes in high school, one of the toughest parts for me at the time was separating my own work from others'. I read a lot, and I actually read much more when I was growing up in the '90s, since my dad had a strong antipathy towards video games … Continue reading Playing at Deities, part 2: Maps
I had a different post on world-building ready to go last Monday, took a read through it before posting and realised that anyone whose brain isn't affected by ADHD (hello!) would probably see it as a pile of gibberish and roundabout logic. (The fun part about having ADHD: abstract reasoning makes analysis of multiple factors … Continue reading Playing at Deities, part 1
You know what's worse than moving overseas? Moving overseas at the end of the year. It took my stuff two and a half weeks to reach the US via container ship from Iceland; it's now been a week and a half in Customs, and I only got the release confirmation on Thursday. They still haven't … Continue reading Techno-fail
I've been writing stories since I was able to pick up a pencil and form letters on paper correctly, a skill I acquired at the age of three. Spelling came later, but I was already reading on my own, and I distinctly remember when I was five folding and stapling together several pieces of paper … Continue reading The Writers’ Think Tank
So I'm back in the US, again, and staying with my parents for the second (technically third) time since I first left home at 21. I'm not sure where I'm going with this one, but let's take a little stream of consciousness trip and see where we end up. It really does suck to have … Continue reading Transience
People discuss introverts and extroverts as if it's a yin/yang situation: black vs white, bookish vs party animal, shadow vs spotlight. However, as with most things psychological, it's less an On/Off binary than a sliding scale: remember, even in the traditional yin/yang symbol, there is some yang in yin, and yin in yang. I'm an … Continue reading Bubble
