So after a long time of relative inactivity, I'm now relatively back. My current plan is to finish Holy Land and Room to Grow in parallel. Both stories are more than halfway done, and especially with Holy Land I need to just get through it. That story did not come about naturally. I had conceived it as a huge 100,000 word+ story, but there's just no time for that anymore. Room to Grow comes more naturally. It was supposed to be small, and I just have one and a half

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I've been in Toronto for two weeks. Got a bachelor suite that I don't have to share, and it's great. Incredible, given the price. No suspicious stains in the bathtub, no brown stuff baked onto the stove, and there's so much shelf space in the kitchen. And food is cheap here.

I didn't splurge on a memory foam mattress, so unfortunately I can't do this:

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I've started selling off furniture, looking at plane tickets and sending housing inquiries. By the end of August I'll be in an unfurnished bachelor's flat in Toronto with a suitcase, two at most. It's definitely the biggest move I've had to do on my own. You can't take much when you're traveling by plane. It's going to be hectic and stressful and very exciting. In February I was in Toronto for 2 days to meet the department, but living there long-term will be quite different.

With the new chapter of Holy Land, I have officially published over 250,000 words on this site. As a comparison, the OED contains entries for just 171,476 unique words in current use. I'm doing way better than those hacks at the dictionary factory!

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A few months is a long time. Long enough for Big Bad Borox to become Barnside, the hero of… barn sides, I guess. My personal head canon is that the current author is actually the adopted daughter or son of the original Big Bad Borox, who died as he lived, balls deep in a hog and firing two assault rifles into the air.

Thank you Cards against Humanity and Mad Libs.

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I'm home, exams went perfectly. I should be writing, right?

That's what I thought, until the Steam sale came along and gave me $5.49 Borderlands 2. This thing's like a full time job.

The Cabin Boy's Mother

Rated Teen for subject matter.

Morning Breeze has been the cabin boy of the Lady of Baltimare for as long as he can remember. But when a long tour through the tropics nearly takes his life, how much is he willing to lose for a chance at a better life?

A really sad story with a sweet ending, if I do say so myself.

This is a story that will certainly be of epic length upon completion. And it is an interesting read. The story has many original elements and deeply disturbed characters, and once you start reading it does pull you in. Maybe you have to force yourself to read the first half chapter or so, because there’s a lot of new ideas to digest, but once you get into the groove of things it’s easy to keep going. And because this story has so much at stake, it's only fair that I should warn you about the

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The Wayfarers is one of those stories that could have made it big were it not for some small details. The characters are interesting, the conflicts realistic, and the writing, though not perfect, is very readable.

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I’ve said it a lot before, but there are a lot of good writers on Fimfiction. Emylia Hawke is one of them. Her short story “Night Terrors” is grammatically perfect. There’s coherent dialogue, good pacing (for what it is), great establishment of settings and characters, and all the technical elements I expect from any competent author.

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