Blogs about Writing

Never in my life have I been so violently confronted by my brokenness than in the first year of separating from my husband in early 2023. My body and mind, both of which had historically …

An exercise from The Steal Like An Artist Journal I don’t know how these Friday newsletters come together. Or maybe I do. They usually start with an image I want to put at the top, …

Dark of course, but dancing shades that lap and swirl and churn and roil. Her eyes have depths she did not realise. No sound but the slap, clap of the metal hull bracing, leaping. With …

I occupy a corner of the internet where I’m largely secluded from a cis audience’s reaction to I Saw the TV Glow, the second feature from director Jane Schoenbrun. Instead, I see trans people dunk …

Over in Every, I wrote about how writing is more than a method for capturing ideas, it’s a way of exploring them: By externalizing your thoughts, writing puts you into conversation with yourself. It’s always …

In which I embark on a quixotic quest to make a physical book using web rendering technology.

I was rereading the Penny Arcade Eyrewood comics, and… I’m not sure this is the first time I’ve read “The Tithe” since I learned one of Jerry Holkins’ daughters is trans, but to me (a …

There's something which happened to me a couple of weeks ago which I've been meaning to mention here, but not got round to. I've finally been inspired to sit down and write about it today …

In my post about Denbigh notebooks, I linked to a site that had a photo of a Denbigh notebook from the 1960s: Drew Family Diaries. These diaries are worth a post of their own! Roger …

Part of what excites me about generative AI LLMs and GANs is the back-and-forth between language and representation. I’ve lately been playing more with MidJourney and Deep Dream Generator and a local install of Stable …

Hello everyone, this is a short housekeeping update episode. I wanted to point your attention to a new podcast project I've started. It's called CREATIVE JOURNEYS, and it's not so dissimilar to Travel Writing World. …

I have a story set in the modern day with supernatural traces, with three characters: a young boy, his bio dad, and his adoptive dad. The boy and his bio dad are Indian, the adoptive …