Category: Writing
Posted on March 24, 2024
Promises, Progress, and Payoff: Earning A Story
Developing a skillset often comes as a double-edged sword. You may have more ability, but you also recognize flaws where previously you had only blissful ignorance. As I learn more about writing and the storytelling process, I see …
Posted on January 7, 2024
The Reserves: Inprocessing (Part 3)
This is the chapter three of my online episodic story, The Reserves. For the complete collection, please click here. Enjoy! Clay walked into Pizza Pi through the pizzeria’s circular doors and took a deep breath through his nose. He believed …
Posted on December 11, 2023
The Reserves: Inprocessing (Part 2)
This is the chapter two of my online episodic novel, The Reserves. For the complete collection, please click here. Enjoy! Clay pulled into a spot and put his car in park, letting it idle as he stared at the aggressively …
Posted on November 5, 2023
The Reserves: Inprocessing (Part 1)
This is the beginning chapter of my online episodic novel, The Reserves. For the complete collection, please click here. Enjoy! Clay looked at himself in the mirror and practiced smiling again. He sighed as it turned into a …
Updated on October 27, 2023
Introducing The Reserves
Salutations, well met, and alternative third greeting! I’m excited to announce that soon these Wanderings will occasionally be graced by an episodic fictional story told by yours truly. While I’ll still be working my novels offline, I’ve always …
Updated on February 19, 2023
The Bottle Gymnastics
Just when I think we’ve hit our parenting stride, Ezran winks and says “hold my milk.” His latest passion? Winning gold at bottle gymnastics. I sent my wife off on a romantic sunset boat tour yesterday afternoon—romantic both …
Posted on February 12, 2023
Rock On, Little One
Parenthood is full of joy, wonder, and horrifying surprises. Often, those three facets get tied together in a neat little package that leaks something obscene out of a corner you thought you had strapped down. Yesterday, my son …
Posted on February 5, 2023
The Infinite Variabilities of Taste
Taste is a funny concept. You can have good taste or bad, acquired taste or popular. The one thing we all have in common is we each have our own taste, be that for food, media, or people. …
Updated on February 5, 2023
ChatGPT, So Hot Right Now
“A wise man can get more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” – Baltasar Gracian They’ve done it. They went and ruined my writing career before it ever had a chance, and they …
Posted on January 22, 2023
Editing Step 1: Recon
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” – Philip K. Dick I wonder if there are writers out in the world who prefer editing to writing. If so, maybe they can scoop up some …
