Learned Geek Blog

Completing a novel, submitting to Novel90, and honoring the patient hound who inspired a character that watches across 500 years.

What NaNoWriMo taught me about process: write fast to discover, revise slow to refine, and be ruthless about your patterns.

What 400+ Celtic deities taught me about moral complexity: forces that are neither good nor evil, but necessary and dangerous at once.

A worldbuilding breakthrough: what if Irish stone circles weren't just settings, but a neural network across the land?

The brutal revision where I cut every explanation of my supernatural forces—and learned to trust my readers.

How I stopped writing chatty demons and learned to ground the supernatural in universal human experience.

Every novel has an origin story. Mine started with a superhero game avatar, transformed when my dog died, and became literary dark fantasy.