Author Archives: liamsweeny

There are currents and waves in me. I can build Rome in a day and reach for the fiddle over the next three months and see it rendered in embers. Maybe it’s ADHD, who knows? Or maybe it’s the underlying assumption that we live in a cold, vast and indifferent universe and with the exceptionContinue reading “Don’t Read This”

I had some extra time to fool around on Facebook because my favorite morning gas station is shut down from Covid, and I happened upon an article, basically screenshots of a woman letting a guy down gently, and him blowing his stack. To his credit, he didn’t pull out the slew of words to describeContinue reading “Rejection, and the Guy that Called Her Twelve Times in Two Minutes”

Facebook loves you if you have something to promote. They love you so much that when you provide the link (and if you’re a writer, it’s almost universally Amazon) they throttle your post. Basically this means that the hundred people who see your picture of your cat’s asshole, only ten of them will see youContinue reading “Baring My Soul For Some Quick Sales”

No, this is not a Lordy Jesus post. This isn’t even about God per se, except that God is a character in the latest manuscript I just finished. Was it hard to make God a character? No. It wasn’t hard. It’s never hard to make a character. It’s just really hard to do it well.Continue reading “Introducing… God!”

As it usually does in my little bunker, my latest thought came from a social media post, and the many comment. Really, it was one comment, and the many replies to it. Got me thinking, and reflecting. The comment was about the lack of inclusion in the writing community, though it could really have appliedContinue reading “Why Representation Matters”

Every time I get on this blog, I make an earnest vow that I’m going to post regularly. And if you go back to the last post, December of 2020, and the post before that, sometime in 2018, you’ll know how good my steadfast vows are. Gas station ground beef patties are more dependable thanContinue reading “Lithium, and Other News”

My life as a writer, and as a person, is a never-ending swing dance of great intentions, ferocious energy, big plans, and no follow-through. I have this website to keep you abreast of what I’m doing as a writer, and maybe the sporadic nature of posts tells you everything you need to know. Nevertheless, I’veContinue reading “A New Start”