Category: Writing

Writing is all about discovering what you believe.

Boys riding t-rexes while chasing terrible troodons

The Terrible Troodon

In 2015, my kids were heavily into both Portal games and dinosaurs. So, I wrote a short story featuring elements of the portal games, a pair of tyrannosaurus rexes (which my kids named), and a heap of terrible troodon. It also starred my kids. They loved it, and it was read and re-read aloud for more than a year.

Blog June

Blog June 2024

For the last 30 days, I’ve been engaged in a communal activity called Blog June. Its purpose is to promote bloggers to post. At least every day, if possible, but it’s not a requirement, just a goal. People are generally time poor and so garnering enough energy to blog can...

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Words: Kza-Lan

For much of its history, the language of the Kza-Lan used an abjad script. It is for this reason that there is some speculation about the exact spelling of most of the words in the language. In this article, we’ll be using the convention employed by the linguists and historians...

A knight in shining armour standing on a street in a futuristic city. An example of a secondary world anachronism.

3 Ways to Avoid Secondary World Anachronisms

Amongst the more popular reasons for being taken out of the moment were secondary world anachronisms. For example, the characters cry out the name of a present-day primary world deity, or the world has the same days of the week or month names as our primary world. Here are three ways to avoid secondary world anachronisms.

A small reservoir as seen in The Glyphs

The Glyphs 4 – Where the Saerk Are We?

The Glyphs is a multiple-choice game where you control the fate (and demise) of a gong farmer, as they explore the sewers beneath the Ancient City. Just choose an option from the poll below, and the most popular option will decide what happens next. I’ll put out one of these every week.

Wúrnúr and Hématnar.

Religion: The Scroll of Choalú and Wúrnúr

Wúrnúr being the elder warrior was named chief of the Onghaor, and while he had many duties, including teaching the boys and girls how to war and hunt, for the tribe was too small now to rely on just the boys, and collecting meat for the empty stomachs, he was constantly badgered to take a wife and sire children, for what the tribe most needed was children so it could grow in numbers.

A work space. Not me. This is not me either.

Why I’m Risking My Back For My Work

After reading Flexnib’s post about Bibliotheque Bound’s post, I’ve decided to add this post to the posticle about work desks. I have a work desk (or at least part of one). It contains a computer (a laptop) as well as several removable hard-drives, and a multi-functional laser printer.

Coils of the Serpent has 10k views

Coils of the Serpent – 10k Views

In comparison, it’s not much, but recently my novel Coils of the Serpent crossed the 10,000 views mark on Royal Road. The more popular works receive that many in a day, but it is almost two years to the day since I posted the first chapter there.

My Coding Activity on Codeberg

Writing == No Coding

Yesterday, I wrote about how I have difficulty reading whenever I’m deeply involved in a writing project. Well it’s the same for coding. I can’t seem to do both at the same time. It can be incredibly frustrating.