I think it is little surprise that I create when I am in pain. I think that’s as valid a motivation to create as anything.
Read morePoetry Connections
There’s a genuine sense of connection, and that everlasting sense of a missed connection which lingers on the periphery of recent death.
Read moreFrieren: Beyond Journey's End—Finding Faith in Magic Again
It is a story which encourages you to slow down and appreciate not the great works of heroes and villains, but the small moments shared on the journey towards those great works.
Read moreTop Ten Movies: Valkyrie (2008)
Through the lens of a Cruise-led slick spy thriller we are woven into an apparently misfit bunch of disgusted and disgruntled officers…
Read moreTop Ten Movies: Star Trek (2009)
…the appeal of anything set in the Star Trek universe does not rely to some degree on a sincere, unabashed cheesiness backed with a core of almost saccharine sincerity.
Read moreTop Ten Movies: The Menu
…caution and comfort in equal measure, a cathartic release and a sympathetic ear ready to tell a joke over a wine tasting of longing and regret.
Read moreTop Five Stories: 2023
This year… we leave you the future, and if you die, you die star-brilliant.
Read moreMagic in Ashes: A Review
There is a pain to the world not even her characters seem prepared to fix. This is without mentioning the monsters, the conspiracy, the constant fighting and ever-present danger of surrendering to one’s darker impulses.
Read moreLecarian's Fang: A Review
Lecarian’s Fang is a novel of dragons, shapeshifters, spirits, magic, and the undead. What begins as a story of outsiders—a core which it never loses—quickly develops into a tale of love and loss, of fates greater than its characters can imagine, and of an exciting world offering promise, threat, and intrigue at every level.
Read moreTop Ten Movies: Ratatouille
I think, at the end of the day, that’s the effect any creative—cook, writer, painter, singer—desires from their work. To see the effect it has, to know it connects, that the sympathetic drive that leads us to share our unique perspectives on the world is not in vain but is, in fact, appreciated and understood is an endlessly rewarding blessing.
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