Astute readers who aren’t completely lost in the timeless void that is modern living may have noticed I didn’t post a new chapter last week. I apologize for this. At some point, I managed to injure myself badly enough that I’ve been basically stuck in bed for the last who-knows-how-long.
At first, I thought this...
2021-01-01 16:26:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt's really more of a chapter, honestly.
Q&A next week! A your Qs!
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“Yeah, okay.” Anesh spoke into his cell phone, standing in the corner of the room that he and a few other people were working in. “That’s not great news, but it’s another check on the list.” He si...
2020-11-22 02:24:59 +0000 UTC View PostTwo chapters after this before book two is going to wrap up, I think. After that, I'll be taking a bit of a break from TDG (though I *will* be coming back to it, for sure this time). I'd like to take a moment to ask everyone to let me know how they feel I should handle the gulf between patreon chapters, and public...
2020-11-08 08:19:33 +0000 UTC View PostKinda shorter than I'm used to today. I'm still, *still* exhausted from the process of moving. But at least I'm mostly done. Though I've still got a frankly idiotically large pile of board games sitting behind me that need to be shelved.
Also, today marks the start of the November writing challenge for...
2020-11-01 07:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostTrying something a little different for this one. The Daily Grind is one coherent story - as much as I can make it anyway - but I still like to experiment with style and theme within it. I probably won’t do exactly this again, but I would appreciate feedback.
Also, there will be no chapter next week. ...
2020-10-18 03:30:50 +0000 UTC View PostI've been writing more nonfiction lately than I ever have before. I'm not sure why, exactly. But it's very cathartic to share some of these slices of my reality with all of you.
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I want to take a minute out of your day to talk about Blaseball.
If you’re one of the people who hangs out on t...
2020-10-12 02:44:41 +0000 UTC View PostI got another review this week from someone who was mad at how I'd 'tricked them' into thinking that James and Anesh were straight. Normally, I get kinda annoyed at these, but ultimately I'm just mildly amused and a bit tired of them. This time, it was actually quite funny, because they didn't even read all the wa...
2020-10-11 00:55:55 +0000 UTC View PostI'm as shocked as you that I needed to make a nonfiction tag.
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The summer when I was nineteen years old was largely composed of new experiences for me.
I had just come home from college; away from home for the first time and having rapidly come to the conclusion that I hated it. I did not, in my ...
2020-10-08 02:39:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey, I know this is probably the audience that
2020-10-04 03:14:53 +0000 UTC View PostAlright. Took a week off to not die, but we're back now. Let's roll.
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James was currently sitting in what used to be his office, fingers steepled in front of his face as he leaned his elbows on the new desk that now occupied the room. He was on the other side of the desk from n...
2020-09-26 12:50:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis one is late, and I'm sorry to say I might have to skip next week's chapter, too. Right now, there's smoke leaking into my apartment making me sick, fire bearing down preparing to make me charcoal, and a host of add-on personal issues. Soooooo... I may take a week off. We'll see how things shake out! &nb...
2020-09-16 15:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostThis one is a day or two late, due to depressio
2020-09-07 09:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostIs this one shorter? Longer? I can't tell anymore. Either way, hope ya'll enjoy.
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James and Alanna pressed their backs against a low wall of lockers, trying desperately to ignore the smell of whatever was leaking out of them, while on the other side of the hall, Sarah and Cold-W...
2020-08-30 03:02:47 +0000 UTC View PostI'm actually not sure I like this one very much. Let me know how ya'll feel; I might actually redo it entirely if it doesn't hold up.
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James drove the van, doing his best impression of someone who had left traffic laws far behind, while in the rear compartment, Sarah d...
2020-08-23 02:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We arrived to be told that the war was over.
It wasn’t unheard of, but it was jarring to have it happen to us, personally. To watch the great Vishian Third Sociocide Fleet drop out of the subspace corridor and into real space, to see them assemble into the battle formation that would let us screen f...
2020-08-18 21:28:17 +0000 UTC View PostFeelings and stuff today. Unmitigated violence next time.
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When James woke up, he was almost surprised to do so in his own bed.
It was the same king sized monstrosity it had always been, although an observer who knew what to look for now would be able to see the stratified patterns of...
2020-08-15 22:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis one is a bit weird, I think. I know where the story goes *soon*, but these bridge sections always feel off to me, even though it's characters doing that thing I like best, and communicating and plotting. Anyway, I leave it up to all of you to let me know if the pace gets too glacial.
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2020-08-09 00:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostI'm way ahead today! Enjoy these assorted scenes.
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Momo’s first totem, refined over a dozen iterations as her skill in making the things grew, guided them to where they needed to be.
It found emergency medical care. Originally, it did that, didn’t have a range limiter, didn...
2020-08-01 23:59:21 +0000 UTC View PostDid you guys know I have other short stories ag
2020-07-26 06:37:36 +0000 UTC View PostTwo *hours* late this time! I'm slipping!
Also, holy shit, I didn't mention this last time, but I blew right past a hundred patrons when I wasn't looking. You guys... have no idea what this means to me. With my hours at work cut due to plague reasons, I make the majority of my money off writing now. &n...
2020-07-19 09:59:35 +0000 UTC View PostI am here to report with shame that I missed my deadline for "one a week" by *fourteen minutes*. I make no excuses, and will report to the stockade alongside George Martin at once for the fate of all delinquent authors.
Fifteen minutes now, since I took my sweet time writing that.
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Hospital waiting...
Keeping up the pace. One a week. One a week, *forever*.
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The car screamed into the school zone with approximately zero regard for such petty things as ‘rules’ or ‘speed limits’.
James had several ranks in driving. And he’d used them before, sure. But he’d...
2020-07-05 03:17:52 +0000 UTC View PostI think the poster meant "fate"?
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The voice boomed, dire and eternal, vibrating the very stone of the chamber. "Mortal. You are hereby sentenced by the whims of fate to servitude to one of the Twelve. By the cast die, you are Bound eternal to..."
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2020-06-29 12:11:32 +0000 UTC View PostHoly shit, I actually hit my target of "one a week" this time. *Barely* within the window, but I did it. Yes! Excellent!
Now to do it... again...
Hm.
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Order Of Endless Rooms Operations Manual.
Section 3-1, Part 5 : Officium Mundi, Life Forms - Stuffed Shirts 2020-06-28 08:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Better late than never? Maybe?
Man, I just gotta get faster at these.
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“When does You-Three get back?” James was asking Anesh, as the two of them rode the elevator down to whichever basement hosted their dangerous wildlife containment zone. There was a greater than fif...
2020-06-21 10:58:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a short one, partially because of more life things happening to me with unnerving frequency, but also because it's kind of just a bridge. It's a conversation that I feel needs to happen, but it's also not the really off the rails fun bits I was excited for.
Those bits happen next time. I promise.
... 2020-06-11 10:18:04 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not dead, I'm just sleeping.
Serious
This one is about five months out of time, and it's kinda weird, but that's just how time be sometimes, I guess.
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“You wanted to see me, boss?” Harvey asked, sticking his head through James’ office door.
“Yeah, two things.” James said, digging through his outbox - an...
2020-05-11 08:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostLet's set a plot in motion.
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James slid into the padded diner seat across from the short, scruffy man with the chevrons on his grey-green shirt, assuming that there were only so many police sergeants in the building. The man across from him, bearing the stenciled name of ‘Madden’ on h...
2020-05-01 07:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post
