BOOKS: THE BLACK ARCHIVE-FLUX

I love the various Archive series Obverse Books do. Deep critical dives into individual episodes of genre TV they’re the exact sort of thing I love to read and to do myself. I’ve had the pleasure of writing about the Star Trek: Discovery ‘Through the Valley of Shadows’ for Obverse as well as the Doctor …

BOOKS: THE BLACK ARCHIVE-FLUX

FACILITY 23-FEBRUARY MEGATHREAD

I’m doing the #facility23 challenge every week day, and every month we’re on a different asteroid in The Temenos Ark, a vast, cobbled together spaceship that fled the solar system when an alien piece of music swept through intent on taking over every sentient being. What happened next is the core of After the War, …

FACILITY 23-FEBRUARY MEGATHREAD

FACILITY 23-SIX WEEKS, THREE LESSONS

I’m now in Week 7 of #Facility23 and it’s become part of my daily creative process. The idea is to write a single room or location in a TTRPG environment every weekday and it’s going great! It’s teaching me a lot about process too and how to do very nearly everything I do better. Here …

FACILITY 23-SIX WEEKS, THREE LESSONS

AL DENTE: Bagel Loaf

Who’s hungry? Oh it has been a WHILE since we did one of these! So, it gives me tremendous pleasure to welcome you back to Al Dente, our (very) occasional cooking spot. This yeasty lad is a bagel loaf, based on Joshua Weissman‘s recipe in An Unapologetic Cookbook. I’ve made this a few times but …

AL DENTE: Bagel Loaf

100 DOORS-The Rules

Every decade the British Film Institute publish a curated list of the Greatest Movies of All Time. It is, of course, wrong because everyone has a different list and everyone’s list is right but it’s a lovely exercise. There’s a quote from Guillermo del Toro about these lists and what they do, which speaks viscerally …

100 DOORS-The Rules

Setting Up the Books

I got to do something really fun earlier today; a double notebook swap! At the start of the week too! It’s always a nice feeling, setting up the books for the next six weeks or so and I thought I’d walk you through it. On the left! My Travellers Notebook. Marguerite and I got our …

Setting Up the Books

It Can Be Here

This essay was originally published in the 16th December 2023 issue of The Full Lid Months ago, I wrote two lines that would start and end an essay. The first was this: Help isn’t coming. The original piece was born of the frustration Jenga required of working in a creative field in 2022. Pushing against …

It Can Be Here

AFTER THE WAR-PRIMER

I’ve been having great fun with Facility23 as a daily writing challenge and as we start to head to the end of the first month, now’s a good time to give you an idea of the setting. I’m writing it for After the War, the game my buddy Jason Pitre and co-created because it’s a …

AFTER THE WAR-PRIMER

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