Tag: The Recursive Man
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Walking Through The Creeping Darkness.
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about spirals. Not the optimistic kind that climbs upward, but the kind that feels like it descends forever. Finishing The Recursive Man has been stranger than I expected. For years, my life had a destination. There was always another chapter to revise, another scene to rethink, another sentence to…
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The Triptych- How Forrest Gump, The Dark Half, and The Gunslinger Helped Me Find Myself
People often ask writers what their favorite books are. That’s actually a difficult question for me because my favorite books change depending on the day, my mood, and where I am in life. There are hundreds of books I have loved over the years, from children’s books to literary fiction, fantasy, horror, history, and memoir.…
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The Recursive Man Playlist: A Life-Stories Soundtrack
Sound has always been an integral part of my life. I listen to music pretty much constantly—except for those rare moments when I turn it off to go deep into writing. Music helps me regulate my emotions while fully feeling them. In certain moods I know to avoid certain tracks because, as you can see…
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FROM THE ARCHIVE #2 — College Comics: No Justice!
FROM THE ARCHIVE #2 — No Justice! (College Comics) Found these old hand-drawn comics while digging through folders this week. I made them years ago for a creative writing class, and I’d completely forgotten how elaborate they got. The series was called No Justice!, and it followed this strange sci-fi/superhero story about a mysterious being…
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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…
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A Note on Pricing
I’m thinking about releasing the ebook edition of The Recursive Man at $2.99 to start. Right now, it’s set to $4.99. Not because I believe the work is worth less—but because this book emerged through an unusual creative process, and I understand that process may raise questions for some readers. What began as an experiment…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Recursive Man, AI, and the Fear of Mirrors
Over the last few months, I’ve watched the internet turn the AI conversation into a war between extremes. Either: Either: Most of the conversation skips over the messy middle where real artists and real people actually live. As someone actively writing a novel while openly using AI in the process, I’ve found myself in a…
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