The Hate Riddle
I started writing a piece, but it got too big to finish in a timely fashion, so instead I’m pushing it back a couple of days. In its stead, I’d like to pose you a question, one that’s been bothering…
Category Personal
Breadcrumbs
Admitting that I don’t really know who I am has made my life so much easier. Admitting that I do not know the extent to which I am fundamentally unknowable has made my world so much simpler. Admitting that my…
Force of Habit
We are the things we do. Taking a break is so strange. I still feel basically intact and like more or less the same person, but bits of my mind seem to wander. When we do the same thing every…
Break
I’m doing a lot of traveling right now, so I’m going to be taking the weekend off from writing. New posts will start up again on Wednesday. Thanks!
Obvious Truths
I’ve been writing a lot about various permutations of writer’s block recently. “Write what you know,” that’s what they say. It’s odd, isn’t it? All that one must do to write is put words down, to transcribe one’s thoughts. We…
ProMaRaRo: Revision
I haven’t played the game I drew this week at all. I think that I made some assumptions going into this that have proven to be false. I had assumed that because I spent so much time during the day…
Fear Itself
What am I scared of? Here’s what I’m scared of. I’m scared that if I miss one post then I’ll miss more. I’m scared that if I let one deadline slip then the concept of the deadline will be invalidated,…
Driftwood
I can’t think too good right now. –––––––––– When life starts getting difficult to face, it’s a natural tendency to try to section off a bite-sized chunk of self-destruction, to burn a piece of ourselves in effigy. Destroy a piece…
Good Enough For Now
I was supposed to have published this two hours ago. I was supposed to have written this last night. There are benefits to procrastination, but if you wait long enough for the last minute that last minute will always find…
Tentative
Sitting in front of my computer at night, I can perfectly envision the reaction – the overlap, the rejection, the vector of projection, the object of collision – but I can’t make it happen quite the way I want. It’s always…