What’s New, Rooby-Doo? (Applied Dilettantery S4E1)
Well, that was a fun experiment. Unfortunately the results from our three month A/B test just came in and looks like it’s a no-ship. (That’s a joke, albeit...
Dragon Farming (AD S3E15)
“Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Fairy Feeding Lingzhi Fungus to a Dragon”, 101-100 BC Dragon Farming Dragon farming is a tough job, yes it is, but it’s my...
From the Travelogue of Multan Dhzon: The Desert Libraries of Tingiz (AD S3E14)
Hello all, I hope you had a wonderful Square February. I don’t have much to report, but I am thinking of slowly reintroducing short essays to the newsletter,...
The Structure, Part VII (AD S3E12)
The complete story can be found here. Celestograph by August Strindberg The Structure, Part VII Tamblyn and Thoman stepped towards the center of the large,...
The Factory (AD S3E11)
Applied Dilettantery is on vacation. Come back next week for the conclusion of “The Structure”. In the meantime, here is an old story I wrote a long time...
Parvis (AD S3E10)
Applied Dilettantery is on vacation. Come back in two weeks for the conclusion of “The Structure”. In the meantime, here is some flash fiction. “Flüelen,...
The Structure, Part VI (S3E9)
Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here. Part IV can be found here. Part V can be found here. Part VI can be found...
The Structure, Part V (S3E8)
The Structure, Part V (S3E8) Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here. Part IV can be found here. Celestograph by...
The Structure, Part IV (S3E7)
Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here. Celestograph by August Strindberg The Structure, Part IV Tamblyn saw the...
The Structure, Part III (S3E6)
Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Celestograph by August Strindberg The Structure, Part III The structure drew closer. It continued to...
The Structure, Part II (S3E5)
Part I can be found here. Celestograph by August Strindberg The Structure, Part 2 A week later, the ship drifting ever closer to the mysterious structure,...
The Structure, Part I (S3E4)
Celestograph by August Strindberg The Structure, Part I The generation ship floated, gently, upon the solar winds of a distant star. “Andromeda?” said...
The House, Part III (S3E3)
You can find the entirety of The House, lightly edited, on my website. The Haunted House: We Both Saw a Large Pale Light, Odilon Redon, 1896 The House, Part...
The House, Part II (S3E2)
In case you missed it, you can find part I here. The Haunted House: We Both Saw a Large Pale Light, Odilon Redon, 1896 The House, Part II It was a cloudless...
The House, Part I (S3E1)
Hello and welcome to season 3 of Applied Dilettantery. As you’ve probably noticed, the newsletters have been getting shorter and shorter — to be frank, I’m...
Rewriting Everything in the Rough Draft (AD S2E11)
Every time I start writing a newsletter I feel I have nothing to talk about — I’ve veered away from planning like it’s a deer that just leapt onto the road —...
Getting Sidetracked Building A Detailed Universe (AD S2E10)
As the days get shorter, so do the newsletters. A stray comment from Sherry had me thinking: why do I write this newsletter, anyway? I think the two main...
Isn’t That Just New Years’ Resolutions? (AD S2E9)
Rough draft completed, with a total of 51,434 words. However, it is very, very rough — I will take November to basically completely rewrite it. And then,...
Surprising, and Maybe Even Unfair (AD S2E8)
48,000 words. Just 2,000 left to go before the rough draft is done! Two essays this week, no miscellanea (didn’t you have enough miscellanea the last two...
An Anthology of Obsessions (S2E7)
Wait, it’s newsletter day again? That can’t be correct — let me check the calendar. Ah, I see it is in fact newsletter day again. I’m sad to report that, for...
