Keenan’s Musings
Tuunish Saltkale (the recipe)
Tuunish Saltkale features in the spicer stories. It's a kind of salty stewed kale that you either love or hate. My friend Pepper asked me if I had a real dish in mind when I wrote about it, or whether I just made it up. Actually, at first I made it up and it was...
NaNoWriMo
It's National Novel Writing Month! Thousands of talented writers all over the world are sitting down and creating a Novel in a month, start to finish. I'm totally in awe of everybody who is taking part, because I'm utterly unable to do this myself. I'm the slowest...
Job Hunting
My stories are on hold, as I'm busy jobhunting. I need to earn a living, and I won't do that by writing in my free time, so I have to don a suit and go find real work. I had a few interviews this month, but nothing came of it so far. My qualification wasn't quite...
Twisted Religions
Religions fascinate me from a storytelling point of view. Every real-life religion has a ton of stories. There's a creation myth, exploits of the various gods or associated characters, and a bunch of tales to illustrate how one should or should not behave. Then...
Summer & writing
Summer is here, the weather is hot and dry, and my balcony is in need of attention. I don't feel like writing much in this weather, since I much rather enjoy the sun outside. Besides, my dayjob doesn't leave me much spare time at the moment, so the writing is...
Bilingual woes
I have a readership of about 3 people. Given that I haven't officially published anything (ever), that is quite nice, haha. I'm posting my stories in instalments to a private blog, where my friends can access it with a password for their entertainment. But recently,...