Category: creative genius

  • distracted by book making

    I’ve been reluctant to fall into the trap of new-hobby-dabbling while on my sabbatical. The goal here was, yes, to find some space for reinvention but also and probably more importantly, focus on the long list of things I’ve been meaning to go deeper on for years but have neglected due to my goldfish-like attention…


  • Feature Rich

    I had this dream a while back, a couple years ago in fact, to code a content management system for novelists. No, not a web publishing platform, but it could be that too I suppose, though rather more of an online tool for someone who was inclined to sit down at a keyboard and try…


  • plotting code

    Worth checking in on my progress, I think, as I continue to simultaneously pound away on a couple of writing projects AND build a piece of software to assist with that effort. Key to these efforts is that I’ve been writing a story. Not quite a novel. A story with some weight and length, but…


  • podcast fiction

    I’ve been writing. It’s a compulsion, but it is somehow, deep down, my life purpose. To write something. And ultimately I probably somewhere, somehow care if it is eventually published, but at the end of the day the exercise of putting words into the white spaces of paper, digital or dead-tree, is fulfillment of that…


  • timeboxing

    As I work to get my sabbatical in order, I’ve been contemplating various strategies. The first thing I had done was to make a long list of things I wanted to accomplish. At the risk of undermining that effort, I do think the list is almost impossibly long. It’s as much aspirational as achievable, but…