Thoughts on being home in Ireland, and then returning to Vancouver.
A Hundred Thousand Shades of Green
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Keep Calm and Keto On
So I lost a lot of weight on a keto diet and I thought I should talk about it a bit.
I am disabling comments
New site, new blog, new… well, almost everything. As part of the newness, I’m disabling comments site-wide.
Derailment
So... let's talk about derailment. I've not been properly active or even been able to write much for just over a year. The third book in the Daemonva trilogy is stalled out. Sometimes, life happens, and movement becomes difficult. I think every writer knows this. My...
The work is flawed
That's all I have to say. The work is flawed. By 'work', I mean my current novel, which is Book 3 of the Daemonva trilogy. By 'flawed', I mean that it has issues; deep, glaring issues that make me want to take it outside and burn it. It is flawed, and I can't see a...
Happy New Year…
new-year-goals I wish I could say I came out of 2016 unscathed. But I didn't. I wish I could say I wrote as much as I wanted to. But I didn't.I wish I could say I trained in swordplay as much as I wanted to. But I didn't.So, now we have a new year. 2017. Perhaps it'll...
I did not finish Nanowrimo
It's December, and I did not finish Nanowrimo. This was mostly due to me being knocked on my ass by a sinus infection two weeks ago. I got more sick than I've been in a very long time, even to the point of being out of work for most of last week. I'm still...
It’s the little things…
I have to tell you about my day. Normally I don't bother with this kind of personal... diary? Memoir? I don't know. But I must tell you anyway.It's Halloween, and that means dozens of little kids out with costumes, getting enough candy to make themselves horribly sick...
A long, strange January
It's been a long, odd month. I'm still stuck in editing hell with The Nameless Knight, but I'm working on it. The cover is done, so the only thing left to do is get the book finished and out to the copyeditor. I've started a new job, and some of my time is being hosed...
The holidays, and rolling on to 2016
Happy New Year, everyone! I've been having a quiet few weeks, just enjoying our first Saturnalia/Christmas/mid-winter festival with my little daughter. There have been many presents, and giggles, and all that fun stuff. There has also been more wrapping paper and...
Nanowrimo is done
The Nameless Knight Nanowrimo stats I'm exhausted and I've written about ten thousand words in, oh, two and a half days. But the first raw draft of The Nameless Knight is done. It's DONE, it's done done done DONEDONEDONEDONEDONE AAAAAHHHHH!Don't be scared, this is a...
The Importance of Tea
This has nothing to do with bookbinding or swordfighting or writing, I know, but frankly I like to indulge myself sometimes. It's 9am, I'm sleep-deprived, and right now the cause of that is only seven months old, and snoozing in bed and getting the shut-eye that I so...