Where does compulsion end,
and choice begin?
By day, I am a Senior Product Manager building technology for businesses. By night, and on weekends, and occasionally when I should know better, I write.
Now, I don't write because I chose to but it's more that I am compelled to. Stories find me before I find them and once that moral question pops into my swede, it won't leave. To scratch the itch, I plant it into a character whose logic I must follow to its end.
I personally believe that every single person is carrying a story worth telling. We are all philosophers capable of storytelling, whether you'd call yourself one or not. It is human and that is what we are. We are all working out what we think about guilt, justice, forgiveness, and what we owe each other.
The things I write, which I cannot call work, spans horror, comedy, drama, and speculative fiction. Different genres following the same compulsion about ordinary people brushing up against something larger than themselves, and the moral weight of what they do next. A story is a story and I do not lock myself to a single type.
My problem
I have thousands of ideas. Thousands. They lie dormant on my desktop, in notebooks, in the back of my noggin during meetings that I should be paying attention in. The maddening problem is that we only have so much time and skill on this planet, and most of these ideas will never make it past the notebook.
Committing to one idea means setting down a hundred others and that never gets easier for me. What you'll find on this site is a small fraction of what exists; the projects that fought their way to the front. There are entire worlds behind them that may never see the light.
How I use LLMs
Let's be honest... we're all using LLMs. If not today, then tomorrow. It has grown rapidly and it is sticking and staying but that isn't really the debate anymore. What is worth talking about is how it's being used, and whether people are being straight about it because many won't be and I'd rather just be upfront.
In the past, my cover art was done by me, patience and a lot of trial and error - and it really shows. AI has since transformed how I visualise my stories, helping me produce cinematic posters and imagery that actually match what I see in my bonce.
AI also helps me in the writing room. When a sentence isn't landing, or a character's backstory needs deepening, I'll use AI to reorchestrate and iterate. It's a great tool to pressure-test logic, find a cleaner delivery, or surface something I hadn't seen.
But I want to be clear... my stories are not written by AI. Every idea, structural choice, and moral question is mine. AI is a tool in the same way a chef uses a knife. They use dozens of tools, each with a specific purpose, at the right moment, in order to deliver a meal.
For me, the story is the meal, this site is the meny, and the tools exist to bring it to your table.
Tools
Machine: Surface Pro 11
Writing software: Final Draft
Artwork: AI-generated imagery (ChatGPT), composited and layered in Paint.net