The Criminal Revue: Part I

I’ve always been a fan of true crime. Whether it’s because of my ma’s influence or my own natural predilections for the macabre, I’ve long been drawn to tales of serial killers and criminal fiends; their psychologies unraveled in gristly mental vivisections that mirror the sadistic dismemberments perpetrated during their own crimes. However, last year … Continue reading The Criminal Revue: Part I →

Genre Defining

I'm the kind of guy that thinks way too much about the details of any given thing. Whether it's the interpersonal relationships of fictional doctors or determining how children are able to grow at expeditious rates under the influence of toy slime, my brain is constantly whirring and fizzing because I can't just leave anything … Continue reading Genre Defining →

It’s a Kind of Magic

I don't believe in magic. I have a very rational view of the world, a view that could also be called "boring." My world has no magic, no monsters, no gods, no fey. I know because I've looked. I've looked in closets and under beds and in forests and down lonely mountain roads and among … Continue reading It’s a Kind of Magic →

To Stand and to Be Counted

For the last year or so, I've been struggling with a decision that's been harder for me make than I anticipated. There are, for me, few positives. I don't think I'll gain much from what I'm about to do. I also don't think I'll face too many consequences, but maybe I'll be surprised in that … Continue reading To Stand and to Be Counted →

A Return

For a long time, writing had become less than a chore to me. A chore at least has a purpose, an end goal. If I'm taking on the chore of doing dishes, by Christ, there will be some clean dishes at the end of the day. Writing wasn't even that to me. The odds that … Continue reading A Return →

Strange As Life

SPOILER WARNING: I'm going to go in-depth on the plot of the game, "Life is Strange" and I will be spoiling a major plot point TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide I don't play a lot of games and I rarely finish the games that I play, but I played the hell out of "Life Is Strange." It … Continue reading Strange As Life →

It Is The End, My Friends

Hello, I've reached the end of my blogging for 30 days spectacular. I'm pretty happy about that. I found out that it's really hard to think of thirty interesting blog entries sequentially. But it has kickstarted my interest in writing and has gotten some gears turning again that I thought would be forever rusted up. … Continue reading It Is The End, My Friends →

Write It Out

Hello, I'm not a plotter. I don't like planning out my stories at all. It robs me of the thrill of discovery. I sometimes start a story having no idea where it's going to go, but that's what makes writing exciting to me. I can go on the same journey as someone reading the story … Continue reading Write It Out →

Writing Update

Hello, I'm nearing the end of my experiment to write in this blog every day and I'm looking forward to that last day. There's only so much I can say, day in and day out and I'm sure there are days when y'all could tell I was checked out, especially on those 11:00pm postings. But … Continue reading Writing Update →

News In An Echo Chamber

Hello, I realized recently that I get the majority of my news through social media sites and that's really got to stop. Most of the time, I only hear about events important enough to be blared out in all-caps, bolded typeface sprayed all over the worst possible photograph of Donald Trump. While this is helpful … Continue reading News In An Echo Chamber →