No One Talks About How Embarrassing This All Is

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No One Talks About How Embarrassing This All Is

D.S.G. Burke 1/8/26 D.S.G. Burke 1/8/26

No One Talks About How Embarrassing This All Is

WHAT DO YOU MEAN PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO READ ALL THOSE WORDS I MADE UP WHILE I WAS ALONE?!

D.S.G. Burke 10/13/25 D.S.G. Burke 10/13/25

What’s the Deal with Pre-Ordering?

Every pre-order is a vote of confidence

D.S.G. Burke 10/22/24 D.S.G. Burke 10/22/24

Death Valley

No matter how messy, no matter how riddled with plot holes, you have to finish it.

D.S.G. Burke 6/9/24 D.S.G. Burke 6/9/24

Mean Higher High Water

Coming 2026! “Mean Higher High Water”

D.S.G. Burke 10/31/23 D.S.G. Burke 10/31/23

Generic November Writing Project

Let’s write 500 words a day this month!

D.S.G. Burke 11/15/22 D.S.G. Burke 11/15/22

What is Solarpunk?

Characters will still get murdered. The exciting question now is why?

D.S.G. Burke 9/25/22 D.S.G. Burke 9/25/22

How to (Really) Finish a Story

For lack of a better name, I call it Story Paragraphing

D.S.G. Burke 8/30/22 D.S.G. Burke 8/30/22

Let’s Practice Sondering

Sondering in the middle of Times Square would be disorienting and counter-productive

D.S.G. Burke 8/18/22 D.S.G. Burke 8/18/22

Books on my Cat, part 2

What if…

D.S.G. Burke 6/24/22 D.S.G. Burke 6/24/22