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Struggles in Writing – A Multiverse of Possibilities

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-A galaxy-spanning space opera, with treasure hunters and giant robots. -An Old West that is not our own, filled with a mix of fantastic races and ancient technologies. -A world of super-powered heroes and villains facing off in a world ruled by the offended with social media accounts. -The hills of Eastern Kentucky, but filled with horrors beyond imagining. -A post-apocalyptic land with mutants...

From the Post Apocalypse to the Far Future (With Giant Robots!)

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Proving that my mind knows no ability to stay focused anymore, I’ve found myself on a completely different train of thought since Saturday morning. A friend of mine showed me the trailer for the new Sakura Wars game that is coming out in April, and I was reminded that I hadn’t gone back and listened to the original version of the opening theme that I fell in love with back in the 90s...

Exploring Retrofuturism and Hauntology

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Well, I had intended to make something of a weekly post here, but thanks to a delay at the start of the week due to an issue with my eye (massive floaters suddenly appeared in my left eye; turns out it was a blood vessel that detached after some laser surgery I had a few months ago.  The Doctor doesn’t seem to think it’s indicative of anything worse, though, so that’s good.  And...

New Beginnings as I Struggle to Change Myself

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Hey, everyone.  It’s been a while, and that’s completely my fault. This last year has been a struggle, mostly with myself, as I try to find some kind of balance in my life that I’m satisfied with. Let me lay it out…I’m going to be 37 this year, and with that, there’s been a lot of baggage on my mind.  The big one is that my father and his brother both died in...

Time Flies, and Life’s Struggles Continue

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I swear, I just don’t know where the time goes these days.  It’s already over halfway through November, Thanksgiving is next week, and I am feeling like I’m floundering to get a grip on things. I’ve had some health issues relating to diabetes, but at least for the time being it seems that this issue is being dealt with in a good way.  The doctor changed my medication...

So What’s Up With Me?

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Where have I been?  Why have I stopped writing? Well, I haven’t stopped writing, I’ve just made a fraction of the progress I’ve hoped for the last couple months.  Work has been picking up more than ever, and I’ve struggled to keep a balance between that and my life outside of work. I have made some progress, in that I’ve actually started on writing the first of my...

Back in the Saddle

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Officially finished with the other, non-writing project I’ve been working on this past month, so now I’m back to focusing on my worldbuilding and story development. Look for the third entry in my Providence horror series soon.

Update: I’m Going For It!

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Well, after some time to reflect, I’ve decided that I’m making my main focus first off my science fiction setting.  I keep going back to it more than all the other ideas at the moment, and I really want to explore it more now given the crap being produced for my former two favorite sci-fi universes (Star Wars and Star Trek).  I’ve started a new World Anvil page that I will...

Failure is Always an Option; This Time, It May Have Been The Best One

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This past Sunday saw my first attempt to run a Call of Cthulhu game.  I’ve run a few horror games before, but this was our first time delving into the the actual CoC system (7th edition in fact).  And I’ll freely admit this is more of a test than a full on, long running campaign, just a little tale about a zombie outbreak in a tourist mecca at the height of tourist season that may or...

The Providence – Part 2

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“I knew that getting inside the Providence was not a simple task, but I had no idea that it involved two hours of trekking through old drainage tunnels and part of the active sewer; it even involved sliding down a dislodged drain pipe using a rope. I learned from Jacob, one of the urbex guys, that all the manholes around the building itself had been welded shut, and all of the adjoining...

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