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Category Archives: Writing
Week Wrap-up: 02 July 2018 – 08 July 2018
This week’s felt really long, though much of that is probably because I’m tired and suggish as I’m writing this. Still, some cool stuff happened this week: Boyfriend’s birthday! Happy birthday, Peter! Got to play Lifeboat, a card game I … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Pets, Writing
Tagged cleaning, cockroaches, decluttering, editing, jobhunt, linux, pets, weekwrapup, writing
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Week Wrap-up: 18 June 2018 – 24 June 2018
Bits and bobs from the last week: Writing continues apace. Found a project that’s relaxing to work on, which is nice, and put in a few thousand words on it. Now I just need to figure out what length the … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Technology, Video Games, Writing
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Writing Reminders
This is your reminder that: You can can be happy and still be a writer You don’t have to kill your characters to create conflict You can write happy, fluffy stories and still be a “real” writer Write what makes … Continue reading
Week Wrap-up: 11 June 2018 – 17 June 2018
This last week was actually really uneventful? It was sort of nice. I haven’t written one of these in a while, but I suppose those other weeks will just be lost to time. How sad. Anyway: Still waiting to hear … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Books, Personal, Pets, Video Games, Writing
Tagged board games, books, decluttering, fallout4, games, jobhunt, linux, sleep, video games
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Week Wrap-up: April 30th 2018 – May 13th 2018
It’s been two weeks! Oh no! :O Things have been busy, brain has been stormy, but the world keeps chuggin’ along. And while that’s been happening: Passed the first technical interview as I chug along through Big Tech Company’s interview … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Technology, Video Games, Writing
Tagged collaboration, drawing, fallout4, jobhunt, linux, mastodon, organization, sick, social media, twitter
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Week Wrap-up: 23 April 2018 – 29 April 2018
It’s been a week of bad sleep and general busy-ness. But other stuff happened, too. I finally started cleaning up my space in the apartment and it feels good. I now have a huge pile of papers I need to … Continue reading
Posted in Game Development, Personal, Pets, Writing
Tagged check in, depression, fallout4, gamedesign, games, gradschool, jobhunt, mental_health, modding, sleep, videogames, writing
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So Bad It’s Practically A Crhyme
I really needed to write a blog, But, tired, my brain filled with fog, So I took the easy way out, Come on, don’t pout, A bad limerick’s better than some rambling monologue!
Week Wrap-up: 09 April 2018 – 15 April 2018
This week was a week of ups and downs and a lot of cruising on depression autopilot. So that was fun. I finished recovering from my cold, yay! I missed every single workout slot, so that sucks. I didn’t sleep … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Learning, Writing
Tagged blogging, depression, fallout4, gradschool, java, jobhunt, longweek, modding, pacificrim, programming, rain, weekwrapup, writing
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Grinding Gears
So a very notable thing happened on Thursday: I finally finished writing through to the end of the second draft of The Shivering Deeps. Yay, right? It is pretty cool to be done with it, although I’ve noticed that one … Continue reading
On Continental Breakfasts
Editor’s note: I’m posting this from Rainforest, where the internet is very, very poor. As such, I’m using Lynx, an ancient text-only browser, to do it. Apologies for any weird formatting, I’m currently assuming markup will work properly and that … Continue reading
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