Tag: indie author
-
On Working LESS With AI and Why That Was Always The Plan.
Recently, I outlined more than 80 potential articles and story ideas for the Seen / Unseen Greenville project I’ve been working on. You may have noticed that I haven’t posted much over the last few weeks. You may not have noticed at all. Either way, it’s been intentional. Part of it is that I needed…
-
FROM THE ARCHIVE #1 — The Lonely White Walker (2012)
Going through old folders tonight, I found The Lonely White Walker—a Walking Dead fanfic I wrote back in 2012—and I was honestly stunned to realize people had reviewed it. Not just clicked on it… actually read it, followed it chapter to chapter, left thoughtful comments, waited for updates. I had forgotten that entirely. And honestly,…
-
Why I’m Releasing My Novel When It’s “Not Ready”
For the last few months, I’ve gone back and forth on whether I should release my upcoming novel, The Recursive Man, in its current form. Not because I don’t believe in the book. I do. Actually, I think it may be one of the most honest things I’ve ever made. But because I know people…
-
The Recursive Man: How a Recursive Ghost Story Became a Novel About Grief, Memory, and Staying Alive
There are books that arrive fully formed. And then there are books like The Recursive Man — books that evolve like weather systems, mutate across drafts, absorb years of life, and slowly reveal what they were actually about long after you thought you understood them. This wasn’t supposed to happen the way it did. At…
-
Fulcrum & Axis — Where the Work Stands
One of the strange things about building a long-term creative body of work is realizing that eventually the projects begin speaking to each other. At first, they feel disconnected:a memoir here,a horror screenplay there,a recursive literary experiment in another folder,a civic history project,a middle-grade camp novel,a political labor story,a fragmented notebook full of grief and…
Frank M. Anderson's Writing 