A Slow Walk Through a Beautiful Garden. The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri is a wonderful, beautifully written book. I was bored through most of it. That isn’t necessarily the fault of the author, I suspect it has more to do with my own expectations and preferences for pacing. However, I felt as though a large portion of the book was spent watching characters naval-gaze. This book definitely qualifies as a slow burn in my categorization.

Writing is hard. Not in the way that manual labor is hard, or even in the way that a puzzle or a level in a video game can be hard. Instead, writing is hard like getting in shape is hard, like therapy is hard, like your job is hard. Sometimes success pours out of you, and others you can’t get even the simplest of results. You get stuck, and making progress might as well be impossible.

Introduction For your reading pleasure is an early look into an early chapter of The Crystal Empire, my upcoming epic fantasy project. It is a rought draft, and things will likely change between this and the published version. This selection is from a bit later in the book. Mal 1 Things were not going according to plan. That wasn’t unusual for one of his plans, but Mal had hoped they could have avoided any major interruptions until they were within sight of the Wall.

It’s been an eventful few months for me. I started off the year with a lot of energy and excitement to be writing again. I still am, but I’ve had to delay a lot of the writing for almost the entire past three months. Why? Because life, that’s why. A lot has happened in the past three months. moved across the country joined an exciting, fast moving project at work officially in toddler mode now Reviewing Spring of Black Flowers was enlightening.

Introduction For your reading pleasure is an early look into an early chapter of The Crystal Empire, my upcoming epic fantasy project. It is a rought draft, and things will likely change between this and the published version. Kinro 1 Kinro, hunter of the Hawk tribe wished he could be anybody else. Their tribe had once been a noble group that had lived in harmony with the others of the Fringe, but Kinro’s father had ambitions for glory and gold that tradition could not satisfy.

Introduction For your reading pleasure is an early look into an early chapter of The Crystal Empire, my upcoming epic fantasy project. It is a rought draft, and things will likely change between this and the published version. This chapter is the first from the perspective of our heroine, Demara, and serves as an introduction to world beyond the Wall, a wild edge of the world known as the Fringe.

I did it again. I started blogging, then dropped off the face of the earth for like… eight weeks. Usually it’s more. Sorry? I tend to overcommit and stretch myself thin. I have too many priorities, and when I have to chose, I tend to pick my most personal objectives last. I haven’t been writing much fiction since the new year, despite how energized I was by everything going in. A lot of things have been in flux, all of it good.

Introduction For your reading pleasure is an early look into an early chapter of The Crystal Empire, my upcoming epic fantasy project. It is a rought draft, and things will likely change between this and the published version. This chapter server as the prologue, and centers around Tulian, God Emperor of all creation as he dies before he is supposed to. An audiobook recording of this preview chapter is available here

Welcome to What the Tech, a series where we explore and make sense of technologies and trending topics impacting IT, Security, and Business. Art and Artificial Intelligence Please read this blog post and generate some images to accompany it. Let’s start with a title/Header Image For a while now, many have been stoking fears of automation and artificial intelligence taking away jobs and ruining things for creatives. Why automate art when there’s other bs we could be automating away?

Where to begin? What a year 2023 has been. A lot has happened, and I’m excited to catch you all up on everything. TL;DR: I have had a great year, personally and professionally. Everyone is happy and healthy. Writing I’m writing again, obviously. I’m excited about it, and it feels really good to be putting “pen” to “paper” so to speak, after a concerted effort this November to try a NaNoWriMo.