On My Creative Process #1: Jokes to Drama

Welcome to the first entry of On My Creative Process series, a series where I share some of my creative process with you. I recently wrote and released a novel (technically a novella), you may have heard of it or you may not have, it’s called The Novel Killer. It’s an...

More Ideas Than Time

Intro There are more ideas than time. This is something I struggle with a lot. I have a huge list of project ideas, and yet I know that I’ll never be able to complete – nevertheless work on – all of them in the time that I’m given here. Not to...

A Reflection on my Sober October

Earlier this month my partner and I decided to take some time off from drinking. We’ve done this a few times, as of recent we did it twice during the pandemic and decided to try it again in “normal” times. I can only speak for myself, so this post is...

Don’t Make Your Ideas (Too) Precious

A few months ago I submitted a short story of mine to a publication. The publication is a small-time one, hasn’t released its first issue yet (schedule is set for October of 2021), and probably won’t have that strong of a readership during its debut....

My Daily Drivers (April 2021 Edition)

As it is abundantly clear between this blog and my productivity podcast I love working with productivity systems. I love trying out new apps and techniques and then seeing if they’re worth implementing into my personal life. Throughout the years I’ve had...

Birthday Parties, The Pandemic, and Loose Connections

Intro This weekend I ran into a particular problem that hadn’t really occurred to me since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly a year ago here in the states. That problem that I ran into was that of party planning. In deciding how to plan a party during...

The Narrowing of the Gap

Introduction: COVID & The Narrowing Gap Lately, I’ve been thinking about the narrowing of the gap between my personal life and professional life. It’s been a year since we’ve been thrown into a narrow world between these two facets of our lives...

My Monthly Review

Introduction: The Monthly Checklist Every month I sit down for an hour or so to take a look back at the past month and work my way through a pretty involved checklist and a list of questions I ask myself to see where I came from and where I want to be. Although the...

Back to the Basics, Over and Over Again

I’ve been teaching myself Python for the better part of the year. Being the mathematically and systems oriented person I am it was only a matter of time I delved into programming again. This isn’t the first time I’ve been down this road, just the...