Updating a website is tough when you don't really know what you're doing. For me, updating means porting my entire site over to a new domain so I can use the free WordPress instead of the paid one. The bonus with doing that is not only the saved costs, but greater access to more features…
A book collection or a life?
Two years ago I lost all of my books. A twenty-something year old collection of fiction, non-fiction, collector's editions, first editions, science texts and my own thesis. Yesterday, I walked 7km to get this book so I could start it again. Ahhh . . . But why this one in particular? Well . . .…
Just another day.
I thought about dying today. This isn’t anything new. Most days death passes through my mind. I’m a writer, aren’t I? Some of my characters die, some deal with their deaths. Others are constantly surrounded by it (looking at you, Azrael.) Others, well they give death to their counterparts like the villains they truly are.…
Mmmh.
Le sigh. Just a quick one this time... no writing update, just my state of mind. I can’t talk, so I write. I’m overwhelmed. There’s no other way to put it, and this isn’t a good thing. My head feels like it’s simultaneously exploding and being crushed, and my mind is doing that thing where…
Instincts…
Oops I think I did it again. Moving on from the character biographies I was writing a few days ago (and bear in mind, these aren’t essays, merely 200-400 words per character), I decided to officially start on my world-building document. I have all of this information in my head for the trilogy I’m about…
Musings of MarineManna 