Marginalia on our search for meaning.

“Let me not seem to have lived in vain,” the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whispered on his deathbed, not realizing that the astronomical tables he was leaving behind would become the portal through which Kepler arrives at the laws of planetary motion; not realizing that the measure of an unwasted life is not what outlives it but how it was lived — how much integrity and authenticity and creative vitality filled these numbered days, these unrepeatable hours. Most of us will not leave behind a revolutionary insight into the nature of the universe, but we too forget that no matter… read article

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I wrote a piece on substack a while back - Game of Groans: Navigating the Endless Editing of a Fantasy Epic. Subtitled, 'Can I stop now please?' The Endless Task of Writing and Editing a Fantasy Novel Writing and editing a fantasy novel is a journey that can feel like an endless quest itself. Much like the heroes in the story, I embarked on an adventure that was both thrilling and painstaking.

It’s been a bookish kind of day in more ways than one, with a trip to Plymouth and Ferndale radio for a show celebrating books, books, and more books. Alongside two other authors, conversation illu…