Tag Archives: Wump and Toop
A Railgun Brain, Part XI
The darkness beyond the Hades line was complete, once again making Elan irrationally glad of his mum’s cardigan. With Þursheim’s sun far, far behind them and the closest stars – if he had to guess, from the slightly larger pinpricks … Continue reading
Interlude: How’s the Weather? Reboot!
I’m still very distracted but working on the second part of The Last Days of Earth, very pleased with how it’s going (83 pages, 38,000 words and counting). This means I haven’t had time to add anything to the Christmas Spectacular … Continue reading
My Ridiculously Photogenic Children, Again
It’s been a while since I posted anything and things have been pretty crazy, as always. I’m actually starting to get some proper writing done and am feeling good about it, hopefully I’ll have something to share soon but in … Continue reading
Ten
Today my impossible dork of a firstborn, who we have nicknamed “Wump” for the purposes of social media, is ten years old. Last weekend, we were up at the family cottage for midsummer. A few of the adults decided to … Continue reading
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (a review)
This review has some spoilers. So here’s your warning. I did a lot of directionless ranting and waffling in this post. Without even any pictures to break it up. But here’s one.
Random thoughts again, only now it’s Thursday.
I’m probably going to take another little hiatus while I work on the next book of The Steal of Time. For reference, that will be Grifter’s Heart and at latest draft I had five parts of it ready to post. That … Continue reading
Random … Tuesday thoughts? Yeah, Tuesday.
I sat and read the first two chapters of Tales of the Always Night to Wump and Toop tonight. It was an interesting experience. I became aware that the first main chapter was rather too much waffling and politics without … Continue reading
Random Saturday Thoughts, 2
Burns Supper tonight. I’m piping a little bit, although I don’t really want to anymore. I don’t want to do anything, I’m just so fucking exhausted all the time. Feeling okay this morning but it was a Hell of a … Continue reading
Return of the Jedi (a mini-review)
In preparation for Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker next week, and given our extremely packed schedule for the next few days, I decided to give Wump a crash course in Star Wars. Basically, we watched Episode VI: Return of … Continue reading
Write Weekend 2019
Well, work starts in a few hours and that means my Write Weekend is over for this year. My Write Weekend, in case I haven’t mentioned it before, is the 2-4-day stretch where Mrs. Hatboy goes to the summer cottage … Continue reading
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