Electronic Ephemera

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  • Writing is Hard

    Last year, I finished a first draft. This wasn’t from scratch; some of the chapters were already done, so it was probably only about 80k words. That was a lot of work, and I’m rightfully proud of it. In that same time, I’ve written maybe two blog posts. Can you guess which one bothers me…

  • 2025 Roundup

    So. 2025 was a year. Draft 1 of The Secret Project: The Secreting is finished! I conservatively wrote 50k words (likely more like 70(!)), and now we’re in the editing phase. I find Draft 1-2 is far, far harder than any other editing process, and that’s saying something for this behemoth. The goal is to…

  • 2024 Roundup

    Every year since 2012, I’ve kept track of what books I read the year before. Inspired by the goal of reading 52 books in a year, achieved once in 2015, I start every year by looking at the old lists and starting the new. I love having done this, as looking back at those years…