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Introducing Glyph: a keyboard only editing system
So here’s a project that I’ve been working on for the last 10 years that I’m going to just put out there for others to see what they think, or maybe use. I find editing large amounts of text in a modern OS to be painful to my wrists. Using a mouse to select text,…
Some reviews for my short story “In the Halls of the Makeshift King.”
The July/August issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine has a short story in of mine called “In the Halls of the Makeshift King.” As some of the reviews below point out, it’s one of my more philosophical pieces, less pew-pew-pew than people expect of me. But it’s a story I’m proud of for being heavy…
Caribbean Futurism and Beyond Conversations with Writers of Folklore, Fantasy, Science, and Speculative Fiction
During the pandemic I got an email from Jarrel De Matas inviting me to do an interview about Caribbean futurism and the books and stories I’d written. Jarrel has collected a series of interviews and fleshed them out with context and notes, and created a new entry in the Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction series…
Creating a custom Obsidian writing environment: a video guide
In the last post I showed how I use Obsidian, a lot of people asked what plugins and themes I used, so I went ahead and created a video that walks you through how to get started with one theme and two plugins to replicate 90% of what I do. The CSS code to style…
How I used Obsidian to custom roll my own writing environment/app
Several years ago I became entranced by the idea of a Zetelkasten, a method for linking notes together to create a sort of second brain. I’ve given presentations on how I used an app called Obsidian to create a group of ideas, research, and snippets that allowed me to continue writing stories in the middle…
Unlocking a Patreon Story for all to read: The Emporer and His Totally Amazing, Awesome Clothes
During 2016-2020, I wrote a few stories in my Patreon reacting to the events around me. I decided to unlock one of them that I read at events that folks have been asking where they can point people to it. I decided to just unlock it here, as it’s not included in any of my…
Passing through a shifting world, ghostlike
I was excited when I last updated the blog in May. The semester was over, and I looked forward to jumping into two very large projects. One is personal, the other the current novel. Things did not go as planned. The utter exhaustion I was working under was not apparent, but as I tried to…
Semester Done!
In the time since I last posted regularly here and when the blog rebooted I’ve shifted my career stack by becoming a full time professor. This was a challenging year. Our university experienced some budget issues, decided to merge with a larger university which was presented as our way through these challenges, we spent a…
Check out “And the Cat Came Back” by Alan Marks
I mention that I teach graduage school at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Writing program occasionally. I started in 2019, just before the pandemic. Since I have been off social media a lot, and this blog was down for a long time, I’ve not been bigging up my students when they accomplish…