Creative Interests
Books, art, music, and a sturdy defence of Vogon poetry. The third worst in the universe, and proud of it.
My Top 10s
A personal map of the books, films, music, games, places and poems I keep returning to, and what those choices reveal about the stories I most want to tell.
Read post12 Plot Categories
Collapse a taxonomy too far and meaning vanishes; expand it too far and it becomes unusable. Twelve narrative engines, stress-tested against The Odyssey, sit deliberately between the two.
Read postThe Pan Galactic Playlist
Disaster Area were so loud the audience listened from a concrete bunker thirty-seven miles away. A note on music, and knowing when to turn it up.
Read postIn Defence of Vogon Poetry
Vogon poetry is the third worst in the universe. It is also, in its own way, a useful lesson about making things at all.
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