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Trope: Act of True Love Description: So our characters are madly, hopelessly in love, but the universe is often cruel and refuses to let them be happy together for more than five minutes. (Fucking universe, man.) One of the pair—or sometimes even both!—is so very much in love, they will make a great personal sacrifice […]

Since last checking in, the world seems a little bit less on fire, but not significantly so. Throughout the whole lockdown, I saw a lot of authors and fellow writing buddies posting on social media about how they didn’t feel like writing AT. ALL, and dude, I totally get that. Trust me, I do. And […]

My go-to answer for anyone who asks how lockdown in NY is going is “we’re hanging in there.” We’ve had our ups and downs, and I’m really not up for discussing the downs right now. I started playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses on the Switch…last week? Two weeks ago? Time has no meaning right now. […]

Which skills am I referring to with this title – my writing skills, my decision making skills, or a little bit of both? Probably both. Both is almost always an accurate answer. So I finally got back to Sonata for Springtime, which I started over a year ago, and then life got in the way. […]

When last we left off, I’d been sick for a month and hadn’t been doing much of anything. Long story short, I wound up having major surgery for my chronic illness in mid-January. Major as in, “we’ll try to do it laparoscopically, but we might have to cut you open,” and sure enough, I woke […]

(almost nailed the rhyming title, but not quite) Lately, it seems that all of my creative-minded friends have been talking about what new project they want to embark on. I would say something poignant and poetic about it having to do with the time of year, with spring just around the corner, and everything waking […]

While I didn’t hit my original deadline of finishing up Seductive Suspect by the end of February, I did get it done before the release of Mass Effect: Andromeda next week. We’ll put that in the win column! So that’s all taken care of, and I have another ten days to loaf around (and maybe […]

So I’ve been hinting at my new project in the past couple posts, and it’s time to come clean. I’ve been dodgy because this is something new for me, and I’m determined to make it work. I’m about 5K words in (and I have a great outline, for reasons I’ll talk about below), and so […]

It’s that time. My writing fingers are getting itchy and I think I’m ready to start a new project. It’s an exciting moment – opening up MS Word, seeing that beautiful blank page, and going to “Save As”. But am I really ready? I don’t have a formal checklist of tasks I need to complete […]

I’m nearing the end of my second playthrough of Dragon Age: Inquisition. This time, obviously, I’ve been taking my time and not blazing through to get to the end, letting the game consume every moment of my free time. Also (and I’ll elaborate on this throughout), I was able to almost halve the number of […]

I’m still taking a little breather from writing, and yes, still playing games. I finished the main part of Dragon Age: Origins, finished DA: Awakenings tonight, and I have one more DLC to go. I’ll probably play through a couple more of the origin stories, but I don’t know how many times I’ll replay the […]