Much Ado About Random Battles

Saturday, March 11, 2023
in which I explain my unpopular stance on random battles
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A Matter of Balance

Tuesday, March 7, 2023
in which I discuss a principle of JRPG game design
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And So It Begins

Thursday, March 2, 2023
in which I declare what my next creative project will be
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The Transparent Metaphor

Tuesday, October 4, 2022
in which I review Square Enix's Diofield Chronicle
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Balancing Act

Wednesday, September 28, 2022
in which I describe my exprience with Testuya Takahashi's Xeno game franchise
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Upcoming Appearance: The Magdalene Feast

Wednesday, February 2, 2022
in which I announce that I will be taking part in live stream broadcast
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New Release: MacroMicrocosm 7.3 Healing Hands

Tuesday, February 1, 2022
in which I announce a new publication containing my reviews and stories
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SF is Already High Literature

Monday, January 31, 2022
in which I discuss SF as a properly literary genre via Andrew Milner’s Locating Science Fiction
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A Typology of SF Definitions

Monday, January 31, 2022
in which I discuss the three different kinds of SF definitions I have encountered so far
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SF as Constellation

Monday, January 31, 2022
in which I discuss Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr.’s seven beauties of science fiction
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A Historical Definition of SF

Monday, January 31, 2022
in which I describe what I learned from two works by Adam Roberts
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Genre Boundaries: SF and Fantasy

Monday, January 31, 2022
in which I recount a day spent reading Darko Suvin and China Miéville on the difference between SF and Fantasy
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Revisiting Darko Suvin

Monday, January 31, 2022
in which I describe what I (re-)learned today from Darko Suvin’s famous work, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction
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New Release: Chronicles of Ytria

Sunday, October 31, 2021
in which I announce the release of my third short story collection
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Chronicles of Ytria Preview

Wednesday, October 20, 2021
in which I share the author afterword for my upcoming story collection
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The Laundry List

Saturday, October 9, 2021
in which I spell out my plan for actually doing all of the things I’ve been neglecting
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Reductive Thinking

Sunday, July 18, 2021
in which I have some fun generating synopses for my novels
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Nine Years of Writing and Publishing

Friday, July 16, 2021
in which I share what I've learned nearly a decade on from deciding to take writing seriously
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On the Reading and Critiquing of Books

Wednesday, July 14, 2021
in which I discuss the Virginia Woolf Essay "How Should One Read a Book?"
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Cover Reveal for When the Gods Wish to Punish

Sunday, July 11, 2021
in which I reveal the cover for my next novel
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Cultural Capital; Or, Why Do We Even Like Things, Anyway?

Wednesday, July 7, 2021
in which I explore Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital
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Seventh Novel Draft Complete

Monday, July 5, 2021
in which I announce that my first draft of When the Gods Wish to Punish is complete
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Pop!_OS 21.04 Review

Saturday, July 3, 2021
in which I discuss the newest release of my favorite operating system
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On Consistency and Dedication; Or, the History of Matt Buscemi's Powerlifting

Friday, July 2, 2021
in which I show how powerlifting taught me the importance of consistency and dedication
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Blazing Torpor

Wednesday, June 30, 2021
in which I muse on the Pacific Northwest heat wave
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It's a Novel!

Saturday, June 26, 2021
in which I announce that When the Gods Wish to Punish has crossed the 40,000 word mark
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So Many Ideas, A Catalogue

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
in which I list through my current backlog of writing project ideas
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Writing the Middle

Tuesday, June 22, 2021
in which I muse on how a writing project evolves over time
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Natural Limits

Monday, June 21, 2021
in which I must bring up the unfortunate topic of Elon Musk
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More is Less

Sunday, June 20, 2021
in which I take note of yet another aspect of liberalism run amok
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