• Paradiso Challenge, Day 5

    Saturday Snippet #1 Okay, I’m being very vulnerable here, you guys. The last time I published anything to the public, fiction-wise, was back in 2015, so this is a huge step for me. Whether or not this ends up being in the book is neither here nor there, but it does kind of give you…

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  • Paradiso Challenge, Day 4

    Free Friday or post some good fortune Well, I have no idea what to do with this one? Part of it is that I worked the last four days in a row (I work 12-hour night shifts as a nurse in the ICU), so my brain is not firing on all cylinders. I know what…

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  • Paradiso Challenge, Day 3

    Lies in Paradiso Oh, the lies in this story … I can’t give too many details away but a lot of the central mystery involves a lot of lying, mostly in the corporate sense. There is also a major plot between a married couple where the husband is very obviously keeping something from his wife,…

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  • Paradiso Challenge, Day 2

    Are your characters introverted or extraverted? Well, this one is easy: I have so many viewpoint characters that they cover the spectrum of introversion and extraversion, from the hermit Brick to the reserved Catherine to the flashy Ash to the life of the party Fan. I love every single one of these characters, even my…

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  • Paradiso Challenge, Day 1

    Introduce yourself & your WIP Although I’ve alluded to this story for several years, I do not think I’ve ever really introduced it in any proper way, so I guess now is the best time to do it! Paradiso is if Outer Worlds/Fallout, Battlestar Galactica, Bubblegum Crisis, Akira, Mass Effect, and Game of Thrones got…

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  • Paradiso Challenge

    Paradiso Challenge

    For the month of April, I’m taking a challenge I saw over on … Bluesky I think? Although it probably started out over on Instagram …

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  • Paradiso

    Paradiso

    And now to deviate from navel gazing, it’s time for an update on Paradiso! I’m happy to report that it’s coming along nicely, and I’ll be posting a couple things both here on the blog portion of this website and on the page dedicated to it. I’m really excited about this story and cannot wait…

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  • 155

    155

    I cannot remember the exact moment that I realized Christianity was not for me, and honestly, I don’t think there was one. It was just a myriad of occurrences, a thousand tiny cuts, one slap too many, that drove me away, but not in a bombastic way. Oh no, my friends, that faith went out…

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  • 154

    154

    I am not going to lie and say I’ve felt much more than despair the past, oh, week or so. Finding the energy to do anything more than just to lie down and doomscroll through my limited number of social media feeds has proven to be pretty difficult. My house looks terrible, and my planned…

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  • 153

    153

    I deleted my Facebook … well, it’s in the process of deletion. I have to wait a certain number of days before it becomes official, but whatever. My mind’s been made up. Instagram is going to follow shortly, which actually pains me a bit more, seeing as it was how I was primarily displaying my…

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