current projects

Conscious uncoupling

Moriah Jovan

All 3 readers of this blog might notice that the URL is different and things have been restructured. Or not. I mean, I do this for myself. It took me a year, but I think what I did was pretty fantastic.

My goal was to keep as much control over WordPress as possible, reduce the number of plugins I need, clean up the content, make things consistent, and, most importantly, make it look like I want it to. This involved cutting a lot of WP bullshit out and decluttering my plugins. Anything to be as independent as possible within the convenience of the WordPress1 platform. I had a lot of assistance from AI. Sue me. I still have some things to go, but I’m now comfortable saying “good enough” (for now). I’ll scrub the baseboards as I go. Read more →

Speculative folklore and magic

Moriah Jovan

Never fear! I’m working on A Babe in Winter. I just had to adjust the story’s priority because honestly, I wasn’t too keen on telling Mouse’s story at all, much less wrapped up in a quest. And I didn’t want the quest to become a series of vignettes, side-quests, and other such clichés. But now that I have abandoned Mouse back to his own mind, I can pick up where I left off in Black as Knight. Read more →