I am a project starter. I start projects. I cannot remember the last time I finished a project.

A short list of "current" projects:

• Blogging software that is self-hosted so I can get away from Livejournal
• Board game emulators in Java
• Role-playing game in Java
• AI analysis software in Java
• At least three short stories

Tamar and I just finished reading Chuck Palahniuk's novel Survivor. This post contains no major spoilers but does assume you have read the book and focuses on vague references to the ending ( Read more... )

While laid up from the remnants of some sort of flu/cold/nasty-icky-thing-that-makes-you-throw-up I decided to catch up on some reading from my Tome of Arthur C. Clarke.1 It has every of his published short stories in chronological order. One amusing thing I noticed was that during World War II, his stories were excessively dark and often ( Read more... )

I wrote this tonight, amongst a burgeoning story I have decided to write without trying to plot it out beforehand. I thought it was interesting enough to post here.Instead, she asked me about the field. I was still there almost every night. The field looked sad more than it used to and was hardly ever happy. It seemed glum or distracted. The only ( Read more... )

Ages ago I received a guitar for my birthday. The goal was to take class guitar or lessons from Bethel the following semester, but all of my Computer Science classes overlapped with whatever was offered and I was too lazy to get private lessons. As such, the guitar sat mostly unused until recently ( Read more... )

As much as I tell myself and others that I will finally get around to writing again I still have not. Ironically, I keep reading things and thinking that I could do better. But I don't ( Read more... )

I have finally decided to get started on filling out the content for a series of stories I have been thinking about for years. The tools I have decided to use are my trusty keyboard and the software that runs Wikipedia. It turns out that it works really well for keeping track of characters, plotlines, and anything else I want ( Read more... )

Artistic energy requires a certain amount of artistic food. I have discovered that if I want to write I should read as much as possible. By reading and absorbing literary art I charge a certain capacitor within me that can discharge my own writings ( Read more... )

Over the last year I have posted roughly 20 times. Hopefully I can get that number up a little as I am planning on returning to the task of writing at least one post every week. Unfortunately, my perfectionism gets in the way. I have lots of stuff started but things rarely get finished ( Read more... )

( Freewriting, copied from my notebook. )