Blogs tagged "writing"

Man, I'm exhausted. Last night, I spent a fair portion of the evening alone in my car in this parking lot I frequent....

Having a gun isn't about who you shoot. I woke up this morning feeling not quite depressed anymore, glory to God. Thi...

When I get depressed, it's much easier to forget what matters, usually because of the anguish that comes from it. Som...

Leafintro Welcome to the 291st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially vir...

Leafy Intro Welcome to the 290th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

I have a PocketBook InkPad Color and PocketBook Color (both first generation). I run KOReader on both. I tried to do ...

I was checking my backlinks on Ahrefs when I saw one from the Chicago Sun Times. I do not recall having had a Chicago...

A friend sent me a link to an interview in Natiulus titled I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem. I truste...

Graceful degradation is underrated

Some moments are intensely vivid and pleasant. Other moments are intensely and vividly unpleasant, or, more commonly,...

Some people’s clothes have a way of riding up in unfortunate places, in a way that seems almost willful. It’s as if t...

A poem seldom arrive clean.It comes in through the windowwith dust on its knees,carrying one cracked cup,one unpaid b...

June 29, 2026, 05:45 AMThe trip was cancelled. The tickets vanished into the digital void, but the manager approved t...

June 20, 2026, 11:55 PM - June 21, 2026, 03:50 AMThe ether is heavy tonight. Mortals call it twilight, but to me, it ...

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 ...

Un petit mot de nos sponsors… Comme pour les stades ou les équipes cyclistes, il est important de nommer les vagues d...

Qucocoma Philippe Samyn ? J’apprends avec tristesse le décès de l’architecte Philippe Samyn, un esprit incroyable aux...

Ne rien avoir à penser Se faire prendre pour des crétins parce que ça fonctionne Google l’annonce : il y a plus de pe...

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of diffi...

Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.

A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.

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 professional update, some new things, a request for listeners, and a reading.

A simple method for checking in; a reading & a game for Disability Pride Month; plus some recent updates across the s...

Episode details A reading of a short poem by W.S. Merwin: The Estuary. I share a few words about what might have infl...

Kicking rocks, it feels like.

Some lists of Bourdain's that I liked.

Thinking ahead.

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

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...

We encounter charts, graphics, and statistics, and rather than interrogating them, we fold them into what we already ...

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 ...

Time once again to check in on Big Finish’s First Doctor-themed output. The last time we took a look at this, we enjo...

Now that I’ve put the New Adventures (bar for the Benny-led ones), Missing Adventures, and the Doctor-featuring Decal...

Last time we checked in on the Doctor Who Magazine comics continuity, we took in the first half or so of the Eighth D...

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...

Part two of my O2A2 2026 short visual novel review project...

Reviewing 11 very short visual novels that were submitted to the Itch.io O2A2 2026 - Only One of Any Asset Visual Nov...

I review a new indie visual novel that was inspired in part by the al|together 2008 localization of The Letter, which...

I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I ...

Not all political decisions are the same. Some are easier to make but potentially less effective while others harder ...

Have you ever thought that universities are boring and we might be able to make one that's not? Well, my friends and ...

“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...

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...