How I Got My Agent: A Story Even I Can Barely Believe
Christopher 4 June 14, 2021 Editing, General, My Approach, WritingThe story of how Christopher got his literary agent after more than 8 years, 7 manuscripts, and 200 rejections.
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Book Review: In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
Christopher 0 February 25, 2021 General, ReviewWinter is always the season when I read most. When you combine winter with the soul-crushing difficulty of quarantine life, reading becomes even more appealing! I received many terrific books for Christmas/my birthday and while I won’t be writing reviews for all of them, I wanted to take a little time to discuss those that…
An Adventure in Fun (and Pain): My First Nuzlocke
Christopher 0 January 16, 2021 General, Monocled GamerHow I lost a pig and placed all my hopes on the back of a caterpillar (no really).
Thoughts from Isolation
Christopher 0 March 20, 2020 General, Poetry, WritingSo I’ve been living the isolation life for almost a week now, experiencing the strange mental state that some have called plague mindset. The easiest way to summarize the feeling is the innate sense that something is very wrong. So very wrong, in fact, that you feel an urge to act…except that the best thing…
Sometimes Great Beginnings Start with Stops
Christopher 0 July 12, 2019 General, My Approach, WritingI’ve been writing for many years. If you want to be very specific, the first creative work I specifically remember making of my own accord was a three-page poem about wolves that I wrote in the third grade. I kept going after that, writing predominantly for fun until I suddenly found that writing was an…
Post and a Poem: Sad is Brave
Christopher 0 January 23, 2019 General, My Approach, PoetryFirst things first: it’s been a while since I’ve posted, and for that, I apologize. I could tell you that “a lot has happened since last post,” which would be true. Through a minor miracle, I started a new contract as a freelance technical writer. And, thanks to a lot of hard work (plus some…
Past Due Review: Transistor (2014 Game)
Christopher 0 August 27, 2018 General, Past Due Reviews, Worldbuilding, WritingSometimes, you miss the party on something in pop culture, whether it be a game, book, show, or movie. Years later, you finally get around to experiencing that whatever-it-was, and then you start a new series on your website where you write story-focused reviews for those things. Or at least, that’s what I’m doing! Today,…
Deep End (Poem)
Christopher 0 March 6, 2018 General, Poetry, WritingAnother day, another heavily rhythmic poem exploring the themes I find most frustrating in the current national debates. We need conversations; not yelling matches. We need understanding; not “agree to disagree.” The longer this goes on (and it’s already been going on for quite a long time), the farther we’ll get into the: Deep End…
Middle Ground (Poem)
Christopher 0 February 27, 2018 General, Poetry, WritingAs promised, I’ve returned with another poem to share. Like the last, this work is driven by my ongoing heartache and frustration with the way many prominent political leaders have responded to the tragedy in Parkland. More than that, though, today’s poem takes a stab at the breakdowns in communication that have been ongoing with…
Ad Nauseam (Poem)
Christopher 0 February 26, 2018 General, Poetry, WritingIt’s been over a week, now, since the tragedy at Parkland. If you are at all like me, you were devastated that such horror could happen again…and again…and again over these last years. Though I cannot imagine how those directly affected feel, in the days that followed I read the burgeoning crop of stances, responses,…