This site is presently a work in progress, but I ultimately aim to do a few things here:
- First and foremost, I'll be talking about my various writing projects. What they are, where I'm at with them, related ideas and insights, and the guts of my process (such as it is). As my stories begin to take on a more concrete shape, I'm also planning to share excerpts from my drafts and worldbuilding materials when applicable.
- My hobbies and other diversions are fair game as well: PC and board games; my feeble efforts at fitness; building computers and other IT work; and Eva, my wrinkly wrecking ball of a dog (to name but a few).
- Engage my (future) readership, for my own sake as much as theirs. I have a lot to learn about establishing myself online, and that seems to be a thing best accomplished by actually doing and then adjusting course as-needed. My hope is that those efforts – fuck-ups and successes alike – will prove entertaining and perhaps even instructive as I make a go of this big, scary self-publishing effort.
- I want to give you pause. Make you think. I want you to be more than simply entertained by what I write. I want my stories to connect with you in both visceral and intellectual terms. I want you to worry, to care, to believe in the same things that my characters do. To examine the gravity of their decisions, the implications of their world. The burden of their choices. Just because their stories aren't "real" doesn't mean that they can't affect us in a real way – both writers and readers alike – and that is what I want you wrestling with long after the final page.
I consider storytelling that touches both the heart and the mind in equal measure to be the pinnacle of the craft. That is my ultimate goal, and something I hope to hone in part through what I publish here.
If you like, stick around and enjoy the show.
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