Pretty, pale star, deep in the night, blinking towards me with a fragile light. So soft and alluring, drawing me in, with flashing eyes and porcelain skin. A homeless planet, seeking your light, I fall into orbit with nary a fight. I turn and I relish your glow as I spin, turning around you again…
January 14th, 2022 — 2:47pm
I turn forty-one today. Another year older, and I don't know how I feel about it. I think back on my youthful days, and I think about what I thought I'd be doing by now, and the person I would be... and it's completely different than the reality I live. The person I thought I…
January 7th, 2022 — 8:31pm
They say Life imitates Art, and Art imitates Life. But Oscar Wilde believed Life imitates Art far more than Art actually imitates Life. He'd likely be giddily boastful about this claim had he lived in this modern Era, with all the Social Media trends that sweep over the youth of the world. I suppose it's…
November 20, 2021– 10:36pm
I posted a review for Wade Garret's new book, Ghosts of the Scattered Kingdoms, the other day--which can be found here. It's a great book, by the way, especially if you like a nicely fleshed out world or Flintlock Fantasy, so I recommend it. Before that post, however, it had been a while since I…
Ghosts of the Scattered Kingdoms: a Review
I want to preface this review with the admission that I've never read any Flintlock Fantasy before now, a subgenre to which Ghosts of the Scattered Kingdoms belongs. It's the first book in Wade Garret's Where Shadows Reign Series, and I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of the book for the sole…
August 21st, 2021 — 12:46pm
Dear Journal, I am trying to get back into the swing of things with editing my most recent WIP. The task can seem very daunting when you look at hundreds of pages of text, a massive mountain of prose requiring tweak and changes. It's enough to drive a person crazy. It seems utterly impossible when…
8 years on WordPress!
Hi everyone! It's been a while since I posted. I wish I had some wonderful news as some excuse, a good reason for missing out on posting. But the truth is that I don't. Life happens. We all know this, and life happening isn't always a great thing. Sometimes negative things happen and we have…
Week Nineteen Check-in!
Hi to any and all that are reading this. I want to thank you for checking in with me today, for the last week of my weekly check-ins! It's been a great handful of months, with a lot of challenges along the way. Some days the writing bug finds me a little easier than other…
Week Eighteen Check-in!
Hi to any and all who are reading this. It has been a very unproductive week for me, not being able to crack my weekly goals. This is mostly due to an odd burn I managed to get on my left wrist, right on the fleshy part over the veins. I was cooking spaghetti with…
Week Seventeen Check-in!
Hi to any and all who happen to be reading this post. I want to thank you for stopping by to check in with me on this Monday. It truly means a lot to me that people have been coming along with me on my journey of keeping these goals. I would also like to…
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