7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 8 Creativity isn't a hobby for me. It's close to the center of who I am — the thing I'd still be doing if nobody ever read a word of it. Which is exactly why the nights it won't come feel like more than a bad night. I sit … Continue reading When Nothing Comes
The Room I Don’t Walk Into
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 7 I've spent this year trying to be one person. Not one person at work and another at home. Not a version for the office, a version for church, a version for my family. Same guy everywhere. Part of that is conviction — I don't want to play games … Continue reading The Room I Don’t Walk Into
The Voice I Like to Read
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 6 I read Phase Defiant somewhere between eight and ten times before I finished it. Not just to fix it — I'd already fixed a lot of it. I read it because I liked reading it. Every pass, it still struck me. I'd written the kind of book I … Continue reading The Voice I Like to Read
What You’re For
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 5 An AI tool will do almost anything you ask it to. For a while I treated that as the whole point — like the win was the capability. Look how much I can produce now. Look how fast. But something strange happens when capacity stops being the bottleneck. … Continue reading What You’re For
Introducing Myself
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 4 Before I can write a character, I have to introduce myself to them. That sounds strange for people I invented, but it's the truest way I know to describe it. I have to spend time — not just in the story I want to tell, but in the … Continue reading Introducing Myself
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