I Am Legion: A Game About One Soldier With Seven Bodies
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.
The ideas drawer · Note 3 ↗EXPLORE THE NOTEBOOK
Writing.
My own words: books in progress, short fiction, and notes on the process.
21published notes
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Measuring the Flourish: What a 50-Case Benchmark Held Up and What It Didn't
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.
The Art of Wander · Note 2 ↗
Three Short Stories I Haven't Written Yet
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.
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The Starship Ginsberg: A Teen Movie on a Ship That Won't Be Optimized
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.
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Post. Like. Rewrite.: A Techno-Thriller About Viral Challenges and an AI From the Future
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.
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When I Was Old: A Time-Travel Story About Leaving the Past Alone
An old man who can visit his own past can't stop trying to fix it, and every fix costs more than the last.
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Savestate: A Soldier Who Remembers Every Life He Died In
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.
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Story Seeds: The Ideas That Are Still a Paragraph or Two
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.
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The Art of Wander: Things Reach a Flourish, Then We Optimize Them to Death
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.
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