52 Books of 2021
Hello all, and welcome back to a new year and a new season of rwblog, née Applied Dilettantery. As a housekeeping note, I’ll no longer be keeping to a...
Hop On Your Boat With A Shovel (AD S4E9)
I had a nice offsprint — I started Moss Roberts’ very long translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms — but tomorrow it’s back to writing. I wasn’t totally...
Nestled in a Remote Mountain Valley That Receives High Snowfall During the Winter (AD S4E8)
Writing update: I hit 22k words, but I’m feeling a bit burnt out, so I’ve decided to adopt a concept of “writing sprints” — I’ll take the next week off to...
All Writing’d Out (AD S4E7)
16,776 words out of 50,000, or about a third of the way done! “Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara) Standing before Flaming Aureole and Holding a Water Bottle”, Eastern...
A Cool Natural Stream That Turns On and Off Throughout the Day (AD S4E6)
Short missive tonight because it is my self-appointed NAprilWriMo. The count stands at 6,716 / 50,000. That means there won’t be much more than a few links I...
Patiently Waiting To Get Our Vaccines (AD S4E5)
I finally got around to finishing that outline! So, now I just need to write like crazy for the next month… With that said, these newsletters will probably...
Picking and Choosing Elements of Western Culture to Adopt (AD S4E4)
So I didn’t end up taking that outline more seriously and as a result didn’t finish it in time for April — I wish I could say “April Fools”, but I’m...
Hang Out With Some Horses, I Guess? (AD S4E3)
I don’t really have much to talk about this week so this is going to be a short issue mostly focused on links that caught my attention, sorry! “Dragon in the...
I Should Probably Take That Outline More Seriously (AD S4E2)
I was supposed to be writing an outline for the Next Novel™️ that I’m hoping to tackle in April, but instead I found myself bombing through The Sympathizer...
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,...
