Wintertime: A Little Lament
Early nights. Biting winds. Freezing rain. No, I mean actual freezing rain. Wintertime has always been rough for me. The long periods of...
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morganeboydauthor
Jan 162 min read
The Hampton House Mystery: ARC Review
Look out, young detectives–The Hampton House Mystery, a new installment in Ellen Alexander’s Dinswood Chronicles, is a wonderful mystery...
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morganeboydauthor
Jan 93 min read
The Cycle of Lists: A Short Personal Narrative
Make a list. Cross each item off. Make a list. Cross each item off. The furious scribbling of pencil against sticky notes and scrap...
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morganeboydauthor
Jan 23 min read
2024 Goals: New Year, Not Quite-So-New Me
Last year, I opened this blog with a New Years’ resolutions post. Much has changed since then, as I described in my 2023 review post, but...
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morganeboydauthor
Dec 26, 20233 min read
Morgane's 2023 Year-In-Review
2023 was certainly a year. That’s pretty much all I can say. At the beginning of 2023, as I usually do, I outlined my goals as if 2023...
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morganeboydauthor
Dec 19, 202310 min read
The Train To Elsewhere
The train to Elsewhere. The train to Elsewhere was a story that was only ever told in a whisper, passed between disillusioned teenagers,...
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morganeboydauthor
Dec 5, 20232 min read
Ghosts of the Steel Road Announcement
With the end of the year approaching, it is time to begin to look at what will be upcoming next year. While I’ll be doing an official...
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morganeboydauthor
Nov 30, 20232 min read
NaNo 2023: A Burnt End
So, it’s finally happened. All semester, I’ve been running on a state of half-burnout, keeping myself afloat with periodic rest days and...
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morganeboydauthor
Nov 14, 20233 min read
Sustainability in the Self
Sustainability: The state of maintaining or increasing all forms of capital, including natural, social, and economic. Over the past...
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morganeboydauthor
Nov 8, 20232 min read
My NaNoWriMo Experiences
The phrase “NaNoWriMo” has a different meaning for everyone. For some, the phrase signals a time to be more intentional about setting...
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morganeboydauthor
Oct 31, 20233 min read
2023 NaNoWriMo Project Introduction
Another year, another NaNoWriMo. I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo a few times now, always doing the traditional 50k words for the first...
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morganeboydauthor
Oct 24, 20232 min read
Control, Alan Wake, and How They've Inspired My Writing
The floppy disk gives telekinetic powers. The fridge can (and will) kill you. And the rubber duck just wants to be really, really...
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morganeboydauthor
Oct 17, 20233 min read
Another Delivery at the Jacklantern Mansion
The worst stop on my mail route was the Jacklantern Mansion.
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morganeboydauthor
Oct 14, 20232 min read
The Hungry Dark: ARC Review
What would you do to save the only people who treated you with kindness? The Hungry Dark, the first book in the Magic, Monsters, and Radical
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morganeboydauthor
Oct 3, 20233 min read
Autumn: the Arrival of Magic and Darkness
Now that we’ve entered autumn in the northern atmosphere (though it doesn’t quite feel like yet), and are about one month from the end of...
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morganeboydauthor
Sep 26, 20232 min read
What's Upcoming
For this week, I wanted to give an update about the upcoming blog posts and updates I have planned for this blog.
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morganeboydauthor
Sep 19, 20232 min read
Perfectionism (and How I Made it Slightly Less Terrible)
If you can’t do it perfectly, why do it at all? All my life, that phrase has nagged me in the back of my mind. It didn’t matter if I was...
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morganeboydauthor
Aug 29, 20233 min read
How I (Try To) Focus
With the semester starting back up for me, it’s time for me to have to once again consider all of the ways I intend on keeping my focus...
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morganeboydauthor
Aug 22, 20233 min read
Narrative Podcasts: More than Just Talking Into a Microphone
When I was younger, I had a dream of creating a narrative podcast. I knew I could write, I knew I could at least sort-of act, and I knew...
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morganeboydauthor
Mar 17, 20232 min read
March Update: Spring is the Time for Change
The plan was to have my second blog post be a bit earlier than this. I won’t beat around the bush. I had so many plans and goals laid out...
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