Category: Life

• July 5, 2022

  The best “edit” I made to my approach to my fiction

  Back in 2013, I self-published the third installment of my Herezoth trilogy. I had social media going to promote it. I had my old blog. I was new to the game and was super-focused on numbers: twitter followers, blog hits, sales, reviews. I wanted to hit the ground running. I wanted to do things the…
• July 3, 2022

  On trust

  I watched “The Italian Job” last night. I hadn’t watched it in about 12 years or so, and had only seen it once before. Something that struck me is a saying of the main character’s father, which she repeats: “I trust everyone. It’s the devil inside them I don’t trust.” That’s an intriguing line. I’d…
• July 2, 2022

  On secondary characters

  

  I’ve seen two related memes recently that stuck out in my memory. The first says something like, “I’m 35 and have yet to receive my call to adventure. I’m starting to worry that I’m not a protagonist.” The second says something like, “I never received a letter to Hogwarts at 11. I never discovered a…
• July 1, 2022

  Life imitates art

  There’s an old cliche that says life imitates art. It’s been rather interesting for me over the past couple of years to see how that has occurred in my life in unexpected ways. I wrote in my previous post about starting anew after leaving religious life/ religious formation in January 2020 (just before Covid hit).…
• June 30, 2022

  Starting anew

  

  Life sure has thrown us all some curves over the last couple of years. I was no exception. In a lot of ways it feels like I’m starting everything over completely. You see, my plans all fell apart just before Covid in 2020. I was born and raised Catholic, and in 2019 I entered religious…