“Oh,” she waved a hand and shifted herself so that she was sitting up against the flank of the big grey and black dapple horse. “Useful? Being nameless. Or, more to the point, if you don’t know your own true name… if you’ve never known a name of your own… well, it makes you like…
A Charm for the Nameless Child #4
The woman had a look of puzzlement on her face, clouding to mingled curiosity and suspicion. “A shivering child alone in the woods. Are you ghost or flesh?” But before the boy could answer, the horse shook his head and smiled with sharp teeth in a very unhorselike way. A faint red light shone in…
A Charm for the Nameless Child #3
The boy walked a long time in the darkness, tripping on roots, slipping down hillsides that were slick with leafy mould. The smells of the wet night drifted around him. Night-creatures raised their voices somewhere off in the woods. By chance, he came across a reedy pond so brimming with frogs that the sound was…
A Charm for the Nameless Child #2
Gold light shot from the windows and open doors of the cottages that made up the main thoroughway of Wurmgloath. A few people were still out and about. Their movements were nervous. Each of them was a mere shape of darkness against the soft light behind. He walked on, passing squat buildings in haphazard rows….
A Charm for the Nameless Child #1
The beginning of semester always knocks me around a bit, but things are calming down enough for me to start posting the next instalment of Caewen’s little tale. This story is a bit of a departure, where we see things from another point of view. It is my attempt to write something much more in…
Update on life and writing
I’m sure that I’ve been told that one should never start a post or update with an apology. But, here we are. I have been out of communication for a while now. Towards the middle of last year, I found myself slipping into a state of burnout. The upshot was that I needed to step…
Touching up the webpage
Not much to add. I’ve done some toying around with the webpage and changed the general appearance. At the moment, I prefer this incarnation to the last one. It is a bit more alive and colourful. Will continue to tinker though.
Feeling Better
I’ve been improving. The strange thing about burnout is that there is very little one can do to try and fix it. Taking on extra ‘self-care’ tasks may actually add to the feeling of overwhelming exhaustion. At some point I’d like put together something more coherent about getting past a state of burnout. For now,…
Burnout and Writing
Burnout is all over the internet at the moment. For the first time in my life I feel fashionable. I’ve been spending a bit of time just trying to give myself as much rest as I can get when not at work or looking after our little toddler. I’m feeling better for it, although I…
Okay, so, I’m definitely sailing close to burnout
This is something that I’ve been avoiding thinking about, or looking squarely at for some time now. Until the last few weeks, I wasn’t even certain what was going on, but I’m now fairly convinced that I’m wandering along the borderlands of burnout. I also think this is a mixed burnout. It’s not just writing…