Blogs tagged "writing"

The rhetorician sleeps again. Two olanzapines last night, 400 mg of liquid caffeine this morning. The uneasiness and ...

Less shit, not more. Especially with being more manic recently, my capacity to make decisions is disoriented by the c...

Your browser does not support the video tag. I saw a mule the other day. For the lesser wizards out there, if you see...

I came across an article about a “fully restored 1840s Brooklyn Heights townhouse” available for the low price of $12...

Let us start October off on the right foot with an exciting new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee Links. Oh no, whatever wi...

Back in the 90s and very early 2000s, most of my video games came from Toys ‘R Us. See, for example, my discussion in...

Welcome to the 299th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

Welcome to the 298th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

Leafy Intro Welcome to the 297th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

It’s easy, once you know you can

How wise do our mentors need to be?

Make your projects 4-dimensional

so. this story was supposed to go somewhere else. i had written it for a publisher's call, revised it, overthought it...

08th September. 9:10 am.i woke up earlier than usual today morning. why? did i fall asleep early last night without c...

september 7th. 1:40 AM - 4:05AM. sunday night - monday morning.i try to write and fail. i set in my mind to start a b...

The AI Pascal’s Wager Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project? Let’s put aside ...

Ah ouais, quand même, on en est là ! À ce point immergé dans notre propre stupidité. Durant la dernière vague de chal...

Fuir le numérique ou bien le reconquérir ? Le numérique est-il intrinsèquement mauvais ? Comme le souligne Sandra, le...

Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not ...

Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.

Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.

Note: this review contains spoilers What Worked the themes the curse of fame, the complicity of the public in that cu...

“Focus on the work, not your attachment to it.”

Note: This review contains spoilers What Worked Brandon Sanderson is known for his inventive world building and this ...

A fun way to get people talking about what’s not working in a project & their ideas for what to do about it.

Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of ...

Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of ...

On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while

Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less ...

Sound of my master All over in me His breath in my being That sharp heartful bleeding gong of Shiva

Kicking rocks, it feels like.

Some lists of Bourdain's that I liked.

Thinking ahead.

Salutations, friends! It has been a time since I’ve had the notion of treating ChaoticanWriter.com as a place to talk...

Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright ...

I ran twenty 45-minute demos of Daggerheart at Gen Con 2025. Here is a list of big takeaways I have for game masters ...

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. A two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A two-time ...

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. He was a two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A tw...

Everyone said NO. Not this year. Not this time. Not this team. We were all wrong. But never before has being so wrong...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

Lately, my son has been obsessed with asking us to tell him stories. At first, I eagerly jumped on every opportunity ...

It’s time once again to check in with the Fifth Doctor’s audio adventures. Last time, we had a mini-season of further...

Russell Stone is a Rabbi whose career is on the slide. His run-down synagogue has been deserted by more or less every...

A while back I reviewed Blackshard, a horror-themed walking simulator set in a vast futuristic megastructure. Such se...

The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present

On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it

God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hi...

In Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, the countdown to Christmas begins in September.

I was reminded of a 2007 anime called Myself; Yourself. While I did not care for it, I remembered the when and why I ...

On first reviewing the show you're watching (or book you're reading, game you're playing, etc.) before thinking about...

“Debate” as a sport is one of the most degenerate sports there is. I say this as a former participant in the sport, h...

The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: thos...

Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, som...

Note: This has been cross-posted to my company's blog, in case you think there is some use in sharing with someone in...

Pre-script: I've got a podcast episode out with Ed Zitron available here. It has been a year and a half since I quit ...

It’s my last day of writing for the year, so I’m going to try keep this one quick – it was knocked out over three hou...

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

Most people used to presume the Earth was the centre of the Universe. It sounded bizarre to others when Nicolaus Cope...