Writing, writing, and you guessed it…

Books and stories on the boil 📚 A series of otherworldly novelettes 📕 A sci-fi romance novella 📗 A contemporary romance novel 📘 A cookbook 📙

Staying active

I’m back at pole again, following a logistics shake-up. It’s really nice being back in a pole studio. My routine is now a self-styled mix of pole work, calisthenics, Pilates-inspired activities, and occasional heavy deadlifts.

Terra serenus

We've planted more natives, including an adorable “woolly bush” that really feels woolly! The banksias and finger lime have new growth. Our kangaroo paw is flowering. Midyim bushes are starting to spread. Oregano and dichondra are well established; we can be incidentally destructive with them now, and know they'll persist in providing us with lawn.

Recent reading/watching/playing

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
• The Substance (2024)
• Atlanta (TV)
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Vampire Survivors
• Frosthaven (TTS)

Misc learnings

Digital copyright (ebooks). The Highland Clearance. Cultural immune systems. Book cover design. Fiction archetypes. Wheel pottery. Typographic Age vs Age of Entertainment. Linguistics. Fantasy-based adult toys. Cnidarians. Mini golf. Old Shanghai.

Current obsessions

Embroidery. Sunday roast. Book cover design. Vampire lore. Slow productivity.

Pls no

Technopoly. Culture of uncare. Hyperactive Hive Mind. Hyperconsumption. Bullshit jobs. Big Social. Walking into spiderwebs.

This "Now" update was inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now page movement and Kohan Ikin’s Now page.