scop (n.): storytelling, engineering, and death
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The Hoard, not the Dragon
I think on the death of Beowulf in broad strokes: he’s been fifty winters a good king. Heorot and Grendel that far behind him. Then, the thief who inspired The Hobbit stole from the dragon’s hoard and Geatland burned.
So1, old-Beowulf arm...
Summer Adrift
tl;dr: I remain on hiatus from social. I wax on poetic a mite below, but that’s the gist. News: Ivan Duch composed a score for The Thief, and the second season is about finished.
The memory’s fuzzy here, but when I was young, my aun...
Annual Reflection 2024
Last year, I wrote an annual reflection based on seven difficult questions posed by Farnam Street. Reviewing my answers, I’m really pretty pleased about how effective — how much, much, much more effective — this practice has been beyond any...
If something captures your interest, this is your signal to write about it.
I went down a rabbithole just now reading a post by Cory Doctorow I stumbled over while asking, incredulously, hands raised-up by their shoulders: how? How does he write well so much?
This is a mouthful of a sentence, but it’s important...
Almanac // The Well
The well at the heart of the keep is set in a circle of jagged stones that had once been dressed smooth by a mason having done proud work. But the marches of the cyngdón1 — well, they meander, like rivers. And the keep was abandoned.
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V.P., Engineering. Librarian. Janeite. I make an award-winning, fully cast, low-fantasy mystery podcast called "The Thief," and I write about engineering, storytelling, and my experiences trying to make my fiction pay for itself.
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