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Last updated: 5th September 2025.
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I think I have the flu, and I am feeling very sorry for myself. Possibly I overdid it by trying to push through last month's fatigue. Ah well. We live and learn.
Still in the strange hinterlands between major projects. I'm doing Couch to 80k as a way to ease back into longform writing (apologies to everyone I know, because I have been truly incapable of not mentioning this) and it's going pretty well. This sounds a bit sad, but I think I had forgotten that writing can be fun? It's nice to be in the process of remembering that.
Current Projects
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Not talking about this one just yet.
ī¸đ Couch to 80k đ
Just a lot of ten-minute writing exercises, really.
đĢ Flesh is The Way of The World đĢ
A novel about body horror, the apocalypse, and unspeakably traumatised teenagers. A passion project six years (and counting) in the making.
đ¤ Coover Award Judging đ¤
Very happy to have been invited back to judge the Robert Coover Award!
đ Learning Gamemaker đ
Unity are ethically reprehensible and I didn't really get on with Godot, so here we are.
đš The Creature You Could Be đš
A novelette that poses the question 'what if Victor Frankenstein was a sapphic YouTuber?'
đ° Shackle and Crown đ°
A game about Oxbridge, the magical boarding school fantasy, the general state of academia, and learning how to think.
đ° Assorted Applications đ°
The grind goes on.
Media Consumption
đ Cosmogramma by Courttia Newland, Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman), The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography by Andy Sharp.
đē Various horror films, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, all of Doctor Who in chronological order, The Summer Hikaru Died.
đšī¸ Phoenotopia: Awakening, Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, Dangan Ronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Hollow Knight: Silksong.