ESSAY: THE TERMINATOR PARADOX

I like 1984’s The Terminator. It’s a fun and exciting movie in which an unrelenting threat from the future turns a young woman’s life upside-down. I also love its sequel, 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, basically a two-hour chase scene on steroids. Both movies feature time travel. And neither movie could possibly happen the way… Continue reading ESSAY: THE TERMINATOR PARADOX

LIFE, OR NOTHING LIKE IT

It’s another month where I have nothing of any real interest to say, and this time I don’t even have anything I’m particularly pumped about sharing here. I read Drew Barrymore’s memoir Wildflower, which I really liked, but beyond that my life is pretty much a void. (Not in the nihilistic, “existential crisis” sense, just… Continue reading LIFE, OR NOTHING LIKE IT

AN ODE TO RACHAEL HERRON

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For a moment, I considered skipping the blog entry for June. The truth of the matter is that I haven’t done anything worth reporting. I can’t think of what to write. My brain has been in something of a fog, likely due to lack of sleep. (I’ve been staying up too late watching stuff.) And… Continue reading AN ODE TO RACHAEL HERRON

ANALYSIS PARALYSIS

(Or, HOW AI HAS MADE ME INCAPABLE OF DECIDING WHAT TO WRITE) Hello imaginary people on the internet who I pretend care about the things I have to say. It is your old pal, Random Writer from the internet. Today I want to talk about a phenomenon I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned once or twice… Continue reading ANALYSIS PARALYSIS

MOTIVATION IS A FINICKY THING

In the last post, I talked about how AI text generation has gotten me excited about writing for the first time in forever. (No, that’s not a Frozen reference. Stop trying to distract me. We’re barely a paragraph in!) That excitement / eagerness has not waned at all. But what has also not waned is… Continue reading MOTIVATION IS A FINICKY THING

SEEKING THE WHY

(Author’s NOTE: Some of these segments were written in mid-January and others in early February. I apologize if such time difference makes this disjointed in any way.) Back in April of 2022, I posted about my struggles finding the why of my writing. I won’t repeat it all here; if you really want to know… Continue reading SEEKING THE WHY

THE NANOWRIMO BLUES

You know me. I love National Novel Writing Month, that madcap event where thousands of writers try to pound together 50,000 words over the course of a single month. This thing has been part of my consciousness since I learned of its existence in 2004, and with only one exception I have participated every single… Continue reading THE NANOWRIMO BLUES