What, two sneak peeks in a week? Why not. Mostly because, starting a new chapter there's always a bit of... insecurity? I guess, as to how it's going. This is compounded by the fa...
2024-02-02 09:48:38 +0000 UTC View PostOops! What is wrong with me? Work and lack of sleep must be getting to me. Suddenly thought it was Friday and typed this up a day early. Guess I'll leave this here and just ...
2024-02-01 14:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostDespite a whole host of distractions and challenges this week, I've still managed to make a strong start, or at least build on last week's start, with Constant. I think I've got a solid found...
2024-01-31 10:15:31 +0000 UTC View PostStarting up with Chapter 6, I realised it'd been over a year since last writing in David's voice. The Interlude was in 3rd person (mostly) and the most recent bit of Silk and Shadows in 2nd p...
2024-01-30 13:05:26 +0000 UTC View PostMade a few minor tweak throughout, and published the second chapter of Silk and Shadows over the weekend to the usual places: FM, BCTS, TGStorytime. With that done, this week I'll be turning ...
2024-01-29 08:42:55 +0000 UTC View PostFound a little unexpected downtime today, so took that time to finish off what I think will be chapter 2 of Silk and Shadows. I've given it a proofread but it probably needs another pass befo...
2024-01-27 15:06:04 +0000 UTC View PostStart of week: 15,096
End of week: 19,317
Change: +4221
Not too bad a week for writing, accounting for real-world interruptions. A 12-hour work day this week didn't help, as...
2024-01-26 16:40:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello all. The week's writing continues apace: started Constant, and managed a bit of Song and Silk on the side. Don't want to shove it completely to one side yet, not until the current...
2024-01-24 20:44:55 +0000 UTC View PostNow that the first chapter of ASoSaS (not the greatest of acronyms) is published, I hope you'll indulge me a little rambling about the writing of it.
I read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy growin...
2024-01-21 23:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostWell, based off of patron Asklepios's comment, I decided--why not?--and trimmed the current chapter back to the first two scenes, and called that "Part 1". I've sent it off to FM to publish -...
2024-01-20 20:22:20 +0000 UTC View PostI suppose in some ways this short stort is an a
2024-01-19 11:08:23 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the horrendous work week, not a bad week for writing:
Start of week: 9261
End of week: 15,096
Change: +5,835
Currently averaging a little over 1,000/day, which is go...
2024-01-19 10:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostHello all! So, this'll be the final installment of sneak-peeking at the tentatively-titled Game of Silk and Shadows (I switched from "Season" to "Game" for the GoT echo). It's ...
2024-01-17 11:07:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
I carved out a little time to edit and fill out some of the "Unnamed Fantasy Short Story" side project this weekend, and below you can see what is possibly the first part of what is gr...
2024-01-14 22:33:55 +0000 UTC View PostStart of week: 2,786
End of week: 9,261
Change: +6,475
An excellent week for writing - for me, at least - and the unnamed Fantasy short story continues apace. I've reached a...
2024-01-12 16:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Turning some of my energies and efforts back to Constant, I started thinking about the Patreon front page and that rather ugly place-holder art at the top. When I first started the Patreon ov...
2024-01-11 22:03:17 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I thought I'd poke around a bit more with the AI Art software to see what I could generate; a little bit of downtime fun inspired by the recent short stort writing.
I'm using Artsmart her...
2024-01-10 17:08:00 +0000 UTC View PostI'm really enjoying the strong start to the writing year - I don't know how long it'll last before general exhaustion, illness, melancholy or any of the other inevitable downers of life creeps up, ...
2024-01-10 11:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Let's try a poll! I've never done one of these before on Patreon, so I'm curious to see how it goes. Alongside Constant, I'm writing a fantasy-themed short story. I'v...
2024-01-07 10:25:20 +0000 UTC View PostFirst update of the new year!
Start of week: 0 (!)
End of week: 2,786
Change: +2,786
A strong start to the year I feel, considering it wasn't possible to start any writing o...
2024-01-05 21:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings! Well, after the exhausting chaos of the festive period and New Year, some form of normality reasserts itself. I've been back to writing since the second (admitedly, only two ...
2024-01-03 18:12:20 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year, everyone! Here's to an awesome 2024, filled with happiness and joy, success and pleasure--and lots of writing.
2024-01-01 00:24:24 +0000 UTC View PostFinal part of the Interlude is now up on FM!
With the whole chapter out in the wild now, I'm curious to see how it go down. The number of hits is slowly ticking upwards - I suppose it's...
2023-12-31 08:15:28 +0000 UTC View Post
It's quite fun, and fascinating, trying to create images from text, though also somewhat frustrating. There's so much going on here, from the "unconscious" biases of the learning model (initially, ...
2023-12-30 09:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Recent patron "Bobbi" created these image of David/Cindy using AI, based on the awakening at the start of Season 2, Chapter 1. I went and retrieved the relevant passage. Here it is:
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Inspired by a recent comment, I thought it might be fun to experiment with a little AI art, in this case Stable Diffusion. I've got very little experience with this stuff, so literally just f...
2023-12-30 00:25:52 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas, everyone. It's a funny season, Christmas - joyous for some, and difficult for others - a week (or weeks) filled with expectations, stress, celebration and resentment. W...
2023-12-24 19:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt's an odd sort of Christmas gift, but just sent the second part of the interlude off to FM - hopefully it pops up soon!
Thanks, again, to everyone who helped make this possible--the ...
2023-12-24 08:21:49 +0000 UTC View PostStruggling a bit to find free time to write ove
2023-12-24 07:39:36 +0000 UTC View PostHere it is - the final version of the second pa
2023-12-22 00:09:02 +0000 UTC View Post