Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

Editor. Writer. Professor. Host.

The Writing Groove: Getting It Back

Well, last night proved to be good for my mental health. I churned out 1203 words, some in The Spellweaver of Dern and some in a new short story that I just had to write because it was driving me nuts. The new story is being called “Steam Engines” at this point, because it lacks […]

Sitemeter Changed and I’m Not Happy

So Sitemeter, the website I use to track my traffic, has changed it’s entire interface…and I don’t like it. True, the new interface is pretty and reorganized, but it’s also slow as hell. I can’t even get it to the stats section. It just sits there on “loading” the whole time, and the pages I […]

Systematically Organizing

So my girlfriend and I have been organizing my writing according to “promise” and level of completion, which is a rather strange way of organizing one’s work. We’re trying to figure out which works are worth continuing while also figuring out which works need only editing, which works are good and need finishing, and which […]