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Wearing Too Many Hats (and Writing Anyway)

There’s a particular kind of tired that doesn’t come from lack of sleep. It comes from context switching. It’s the friction of writing a chapter in the early mo...

I’m not a Patriot

We don’t need to shout our pride to prove it. I served, I vote, I fly the flag proudly — but I’ve never once called myself a patriot. In Canada, we show pride d...

Chronicle #011: Post-Launch Signal Drift

Date Recorded: 22 October 2025 Filed Under: Author Reflections / Information Fatigue / Cultural Signals Classification: Declassified > “All history is written b...

The Grievance Gateway - Amygdala Hijack

I wanted to preface this post. I’m a sci-fi writer, but I’m also someone who cares deeply about the freedoms we enjoy in this country, and how easily they can s...

Behind the Pages of Pejorative: With the Author-Me

Wonder Where I’ve Been? Heads down. Caffeine-fueled. Deep in the bunker. I’ve been getting ready to launch my debut novel, Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation—a dyst...

Memoir Fragment #010: Uneven Dystopias

Date Retrieved: 11 September 2025 Subject Thread: Coffee / Witness / Solidarity Status: Incomplete but Honest > "Some days, memory is the only reliable narrator...

Dispatch #009: Guardrails

Date Sent: 23 August 2025 Origin: Forward Observation Post / Reality Line B Urgency Level: Moderate > “Some truths don’t need decoding—they just need courage.” ...

Memoir Fragment #008: While the Cottage Slept

Date Retrieved: 7 August 2025 Subject Thread: Impermanence / Tension / Stillness Status: Incomplete but Honest > Quote“Some days, memory is the only reliable na...

Transmission #007: Red Marks & Heatwaves

Date Logged: 29 July 2025 Origin: Neural Uplink / Inner Core Signal Status: Stable > “The signal is faint. My thoughts, however, are not.” Two weeks “off”, yet ...

Admit One - Ticket - Inkwell Prompt 232

The stub was half-buried in the ash. He almost didn’t see it at first, just a torn edge of paper the wind kept teasing along the cracked pavement. His boot came...

The Inkwell Fiction Prompt #232

Source: SurprisingMedia on Pixabay Welcome to the Weekly Fiction Prompt Hello community members! Thank you for joining our weekly writing prompt! Getting Starte...

Ash and Memory - In the Time Before - Inkwell Prompt 231

In the year 2142, time travel is strictly used for non-intrusive historical observation. Historians, “Temporal Archivists”, are trained to never interact. But H...

Dispatch #006: Chapter One, Take Two

This week, I hit a wall, and tore it down. After finalizing layout and hitting the halfway point in edits for Pejorative, I circled back to Chapter One and knew...

The Inkwell Fiction Prompt #231

Source: JillWellington on Pixabay Welcome to the Weekly Fiction Prompt Hello community members! Thank you for joining our weekly writing prompt! Getting Started...

Demo Day at Coromandel Echo

Demo Day at Coromandel Echo - Inkwell Prompt 230 - Boondoggle Inside a cavernous hangar repurposed for Unity propaganda expos, holograms flicker in the rafters,...

Transmission #005: Between Edits and Empires

Date Logged: 11 July 2025 Origin: Neural Uplink / Inner Core Signal Status: Stable > “The signal is faint. My thoughts, however, are not.” Sun’s trying to break...

Dispatch #004: Signal Received, Doubt Pending

Date Sent: 26 June 2025 Origin: Forward Observation Post / Reality Line B Urgency Level: Cautiously Elevated > “Some truths don’t need decoding—they just need c...

Round 2 - Druuvira's Visit to the Local Tavern

Update on these two posts I shared after my big write-up on using ChatGPT to run a D&D game. I want to be fully transparent: - These two posts were partially wr...

Round 1 - Greenest in Flames

Update on these two posts I shared after my big write-up on using ChatGPT to run a D&D game. I want to be fully transparent: - These two posts were partially wr...

Mashing together two hobbies

> Images was removed. [Image generated with DALL-E] Hey folks, a quick note for clarity. A while back, I shared a long post here about experimenting with using ...