Shana Tova! (Happy Rosh Hashanah)

It's the Jewish New Year. It's the year 5787 for the Jewish calendar. I don't really get it either. It's a lunisolar calendar that supposedly starts at the creation of the universe and has a leap year every 19 years. Anyway, it's celebrated by dipping apples in honey, which is always a nice … Continue reading →

Goal Post: Brain Meats Banged Up

I didn't finish chapter 5 of Darwin and the Deadland Queen. I came one section away from it after expecting to have more time. The big end of summer Pokemon event wasn't the big issue. Plans of other people changed, which resulted in my plans getting changed. So, the time I put aside … Continue reading →

9/11 in 2026

It's weird thinking about 9/11 after . . . 25 years. Geez. I still remember where I was when it happened. I was in college, woke up, and jumped online. Didn't put on the TV, so I had no idea what was going on. Someone sent me a message on AOL Instant Messenger saying 'someone flew a … Continue reading →

Poetry Day: The Trickster War

(This poem was going to connect to a story that I never got off the ground. It was going to be all of the tricksters from mythology messing with each other and humanity. They would eventually toppled human civilization and force humanity to hide in the wilderness. I couldn't get further … Continue reading →

7 Tips to Writing Gladiator Fights

While jousting is not included very often, we do end up seeing gladiator fights a lot in fiction. Of course, they are a fantasy version of it that doesn't really follow the more controlled ones of the past. Seriously, they had a lot of rules and a referee with the goal being more disarm and … Continue reading →

Legends of Windemere

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