Hacking my brain so I don’t always feel like a waste of life
Avoiding burnout while tending to the compulsion to make stuff
gaming the system
I'm a software engineer who writes, or a writer who engineers to pay for the time to write — the distinction has never been fully resolved. This site is where I put things that don't fit anywhere more sensible.
By day I design systems and interfaces. By night I write fiction, translations of forgotten Spanish texts, and short pieces about the quiet disasters of making things. Occasionally I write about other things entirely and pretend there is a unifying theme.
Available for freelance work — developmental fiction editing, structural commentary, line editing, copywriting, and home remedies for writer's block.
Get in touch →Correspondence
welcomed, even expected
recent writing
How am I supposed to function if I can’t even make a couple eggs?
I just want to eat some over-easy eggs without feeling like I'm being poisoned.
totally not stressing about the end of the worldA nice pen and a cheap notebook are all I need
Notebook paralysis is a diagnosable medical condition.
super chuffed, uncharacteristically soTech and Literature: Being of Two Worlds in the Age of AI
In which I've made peace with our future robot overlords.
kind of okay with it allNew project: The Weathered Quill
Sit down and write already...