Category: these crafts

corporate

I kick off a lot of big projects, from novels to video games to hare-brained website plots, but so much of that is stuff that lacks the weight of officialness. In many ways, they are little more than public sandboxes that, if substantial interest was generated, could be elevated but for the most part are…
dusty memory

Arguably, I have spent many years taking my experience for granted. As I set out into the world of contracting this year, I have found myself in the interesting postion of suddenly and very quickly needing to do a lot of professional self-reflection and inventory work. Specificially, I’ve needed to spend a couple weeks digging…
multitaskable

I think a lot of us out there would like to think that we are superb multitaskers. I like to think that of myself. Or maybe you don’t. But we are out there and I know a lot of people who would fit that description: I can do everything, anything, as much as I want.…
coder thoughts

Coding is an iterative space in which I live. I build something that some would call a minimum viable product. It is little more than a toy that does something simple and basic and imperfect, yet it is functional. Once that utility reaches a certain point it is not unheard of for me to abandon…
sum total words

You have a finite number of words in you. Oh, sure, that finite number may be huge. But it is finite. And there is absolute truth in the notion that every word you say or write removes from the remining tally one more word and brings you one word closer to the sum total of…
nerd-vantage

I posted an article a while back called raw code in which I detailed the notion that having skills in technology (though the lesson is transferable to virtually every refined skill, trade, or art) means that one can get a leg up on others without that skill for simple things. In my example, I talked…
critical mass

After a year of pecking away at this thing I’ve learned to think of as a “writing life” I’ve found that I’ve kinda reached a critical mass of projects. True. Part of me thought I would have created something worthy of publication by now, but rather that has not been the case. For example, I…
multimodal worlds

Written word. Spoken audio. Graphic novellas. It’s an interesting concept in fashioning a micro-universe in which to set a collection of fictional stories to reach into a multi-modal mentality and try to create different pieces in different formats all within the same world. If you know me then it has been no real secret that…
audio drama

In 2001, having recently finished university and found my first “real job” I packed up and moved to the west coast of Canada to a city called Vancouver. I had no car. I had few friends. I had a lot of free time. And I had the hulking desktop computer that had seen me through…
workflow

From what I understand about the craft of writing a novel, in writing said novel it is not advisable to expect that you will take a linear path from idea to published book. That is to say, the way there is no clear and easy path to you goal. There are curves and switchbacks. There…