Old Races re-read

November 27, 2025

When I wasn’t writing, cooking, or sleeping at the retreat, I re-read the Old Races trilogy (affiliate link), which I started because I needed to figure out where scene breaks were in some cases because the conversion from the old epubs to the new ones isn’t always tidy. I spent so much time swearing at the copy editor, though. These books, which I’ve talked about the difficulties of writing in places that I can’t find in two seconds so am not linking to right now, had an additional difficulty to…

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home from retreeeeeat

November 26, 2025

I’m home from retreat and SO VERY TIRED, although I think a lot of that is having spent a lot of time standing outside in the weather on the way home, and also the bed was hard as a rock, which didn’t make for awesome sleeps. I ended up with about 22K, which is Not Very Damn Much by my retreat standards, but I did finish the second section of the book (it came in at like…42.5k, or something, out of what was supposed to be a 60K book, please…

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Picoreview: Wicked

November 24, 2025

Picoreview: Wicked (both acts): not bad, but way, way, WAY too long I have avoided the musical Wicked in all its formats because I hated the book with a deep and committed loathing, but many people I trust told me repeatedly that the stage show/movie is only barely based on the book. That, frankly, was not enough, last year, to commit myself to a 2 hour, 40 minute first act film of a stage show that is in and of itself only 2 hours and 30 minutes long. However, the…

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Call of Cthulhu: Betrayal From Within!

November 23, 2025

Somerset awakens, as previously mentioned, in a sodden basement with Edward Gavigan lingering nearby. Somerset: Eddie, old boy. I suppose you’re going to kill me now. We’ve ended up with friends in low places. Gavigan: Some of them lower than others, I hear. Your American cowboy friend, for example… (Dillon, who died a few episodes back) Somerset’s head explodes with fury, but he’s like: Don’t suppose I could have a drink and a smoke beforehand? We are of a certain class, after all. Gavigan: Obviously. Gentlemen, and all. He offers…

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art project: 70 and counting

November 15, 2025

Aight, this wraps up my Udemy course, which, weirdly enough, I started one year ago today. Even if I hadn’t started doing this project, I’d still drawn more in the past year than I had in MANY MANY years, so all by itself that’s pretty satisfying, but this project means I’ve finished it, after buying it EIGHT YEARS AGO, and that I still have about thirty hours of practice in front of me. I thought the bricks turned out pretty cool in that one, and I’m informed the skull is…

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