Here's a finished song from a few months ago, written on the heels of this post. (How the hell was that all the way back in July? Time has roared past me. Well, it's still important.) First sung in public in December 2016 ( Read more... )

This has been at the back of my mind for weeks, since reading a Tumblr post that discusses the idea that US Navy subs which never return are still on patrol, not lost at sea. The resulting comment thread seemed to want to be a song. To top it all off, it's a Christmas song! I'm two months too late for this to be seasonally appropriate, but what the ( Read more... )

I accidentally a story. No, scratch that, I laboriously and intentionally a story. See subject line. I feel ill, but it was worth it. I am so happy to have finished this story, you have no idea. I haven't managed to finish prose fiction of any length for years ( Read more... )

I found this in my neglected word documents when I was looking for something else the other day. It needs a tune, and then a rewrite based on how singable it turns out to be.

Lost track of the date I wrote this, but I'm pretty sure it's from last summer at about this time, after I attended NecronomiCon, bought a bronze hand pendant from ( Read more... )

I found this among my papers from a few months ago, as I was tidying up just now. I recall I was trying to create the most generic weird horror protagonist/Call of Cthulhu PC ever ( Read more... )

Thanks to whoever nominated "Roman Shade" for a Rhysling Award. I've been forgetting to mention this, but just being nominated makes the poem get included in the yearly anthology, and they've sent around the last set of proofs. I may not have produced anything new to speak of for more than a year, but this is a good feeling. 

I want so many things that I just cannot get ( Read more... )

It gets harder and harder to start posting again every time I stop, because so much happens that I haven't told you about and I have this feeling of I MUST SUM UP EVERYTHING that would sound silly if I tried to explain it.  But the missing-friendslist got stronger than the feeling that I shouldn't skip, just now ( Read more... )

I'm working on a poem called "Rainbows."  ya rly.

This calls for follow-up poems called "Unicorns" and "Kittens."  Any other suggestions?  "Sunsets"?  "Butterflies"?  "Princesses"?  All saccharine title ideas are welcome (with the caveat that I may not manage to follow up on any of this). 

Holy shit, you guys
I wrote a story
Well, I finished the first draft of a story that still needs a lot of work
But still, I've been longing to write this frigging story for most of a year, and I finally did it
Unlike a lot of the other cool story ideas I've had in the past few years, this one lasted till I had two free days and no commitments and could ( Read more... )