Status Update - 2026 Week 17

Overview ongoing writing projects weekly flash fiction These Are Not My Memories added to Patreon weekly flash fiction GREAT is draft complete and out to readers for feedback short story Corporeal Acquisitions being written, currently in first draft new weekly flash fiction started and in the exploratory phase set up blog at exsilium.heavyliftingindustries.com new accounts set up on Patreon and GoodReads These Are Not My Memories New flash fiction piece posted to Patreon. It’s free to read and includes an epub download option for paid Patreon members. ...

April 27, 2026 · 4 min · 642 words · David Bragg

Status Update - 2026 Week 16

Overview resumed work on short story Corporeal Acquisitions started and completed flash fiction piece These Are Not My Memories started flash fiction adaptation of short film script GREAT completed two new blog posts installed and started using taskwarrior and timewarrior created template repository for new writing projects wrote xq tool for extracting questions from files Corporeal Acquisitions In 2023 I was looking for a writing outlet and considering revisiting prose. I started working on building out a cosmic horror short story at the time. I had put around a week’s worth of effort into figuring out what story I was telling and building some basic structure. ...

April 25, 2026 · 4 min · 813 words · David Bragg

Writing for Flow

One of the ways that I try to organize my writing is for flow. For me, that means not having to stop or slow down. Keep my thoughts and keystrokes uninterrupted. My goal is to minimize the amount of things getting in the way of getting the words out. This is a brief introduction to the systems and software I use. I’ll go into more detail on most of these topics in future posts. ...

April 24, 2026 · 5 min · 909 words · David Bragg

The Time is Now

If you’re passively curious what’s going on here, the following paragraph is the tl;dr version. My name is Dave. I’ve been writing my entire life. My background is deeply rooted in screenwriting. My present circumstances allow me the time to invest heavily in writing. I’m using that time veer off my well worn screenwriting path toward prose. This blog will be where I talk about writing as a discipline, the tools I use for writing as a filthy Linux deviant, and my overall writing process. ...

April 22, 2026 · 6 min · 1166 words · David Bragg