I'm still reading  The Peregrine , and it is taking me a while. It is such beautiful writing but with no conflict, it is easy to set it down. But I always come back eventually, for the beautiful writing. It's like an expensive box of rare chocolate, you have one now and then and savor …
The Orville, episode 1
I had zero interest in seeing this show back when the trailer first came out. Though I used to enjoy Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane's brand of humor (farts, falling down, and mentioning things you've heard of before) is just not my thing anymore. But during my constant complaining about Star Trek: Discovery, I keep getting …
Star Trek: Discovery, episode 4
Well, I'm still watching. This episode, once again, keeps dragging me along like an abusive relationship. I get a little hint of interesting in that the deadly creature in the Captain's chambers is somehow a giant Tardigrade. This is a super cool idea because Tardigrades are super interesting and I don't think I've seen a Tardigrade …
Rejection
I often feel like I'm in an unresolved quantum state of love/hate toward my own writing. It fluctuates so quickly sometimes that I can't even read it. Nothing cures that like a rejection. Rejections magnify all faults and mute all positives. Now, maybe I can actually look at this story long enough to work on …
More word peeves
Here are a couple more things people do with words that annoy me! Writing voila as wala: Of course one might leave the accent off foreign words when typing them, but this is just too much. Saying you could care less when you mean you couldn't care less: Saying you COULD care less means that …
Jonas David 