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Everything tagged Works in Progress, wherever it's filed, newest first.
I want to print and bind my own books as manga-sized hardcovers with the art printed right on the case, like an old library edition. Here's what that takes, before I've glued a single thing.
I've got the Gridfinity baseplates printed and the bins are easy. What I can't find is a drawer cabinet worth putting them in.
What's in the songbook, where the songs came from, and where to hear the ones that made it onto a record.
The painting method I'm trying right now is loose watercolor washes first, then crisp line work over the top with paint markers. Here's why that order, and what to watch out for.
What my novel about a casualty notification officer and the widow who takes him apart is about, how it changed between drafts, and what's still unresolved.
Thread: Notes on the novels ↗A short film about a father and son, told in reverse. It opens at the son's funeral and walks back, scene by scene, to the night he came home from the hospital.
Thread: The ideas drawer ↗A sixteen-year-old in 1994 Seoul can hit Continue on his own life, and he spends every credit on a girl.
Thread: The ideas drawer ↗What Falling Stars is about, why the complete draft on the site is an early one, and what the rewrite changes.
Thread: Notes on the novels ↗What my Dreamland novel is about, the draft I threw out, how the current one changed, and the parts I still have to fix.
Thread: Notes on the novels ↗A secret program sends teenage pilots through time to patch a broken timeline, and the one leading them is being hunted by his own future self.
Thread: The ideas drawer ↗What my Y2K horror novel about a teenage dealer and his crew is about, where it came from, how it changed between drafts, and what still needs fixing.
Thread: Notes on the novels ↗A game design I've worked out on paper, where dying doesn't end the mission, it hands it to the next of your seven bodies.
Thread: The ideas drawer ↗How I tried to turn "things reach a flourish, then get optimized to death" into a scored benchmark, and what the reliability checks did to my early numbers.
Thread: The Art of Wander ↗A glowing door in the woods, a stranger's stash in a Dubai hotel room, and a man who hears the end of the world and goes back to sleep.
Thread: The ideas drawer ↗What my space novel about a scheduled cadet and a ship full of squatters is about, how it changed shape three times, and what the first draft still gets wrong.
Thread: Notes on the novels ↗Viral social media challenges keep knocking out real infrastructure in North Carolina, and the engineer who spots the pattern finds something from the future behind them.
Thread: The ideas drawer ↗An old man who can visit his own past can't stop trying to fix it, and every fix costs more than the last.
Thread: The ideas drawer ↗In an endless war across a cluster of planets, everyone who dies is reborn to fight again, and one soldier is the only one who remembers.
Thread: The ideas drawer ↗A spaceship full of loose predators, a world where the rich run out, a trip back to 1997 to fix everything, and two seeds that already grew into something bigger.
Thread: The ideas drawer ↗The idea behind the book I'm working on, where it came from, what it's shaping up to be, and the parts that still don't hold together.
Thread: The Art of Wander ↗