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O is for Outer Space

O is for Outer Space

Published by Kai on April 17, 2024

A little bit of a pivot today – I’ve talked about why I like True Crime, I’ve talked about how I read horror and draw inspiration from the idea of ‘normal’ and outside of that, and when we’re outside of that, how we try to impose something like normal back onto where we are. Outer space is a setting for several of my books – three series, a couple of horrors and a set of sideline stories that aren’t just about space, but the human condition. Space inspires me simply because it’s vast, and amazingly malliable. Plus, I listen to…

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N is for November

N is for November

Published by Kai on April 16, 2024

(author’s note – I appreciate that N for November should actually be ‘N for Nanowrimo’ but, I’m no longer part of Nanowrimo, and I know a lot of people that have been hurt, upset or otherwise pushed to places they’re not happy with.  There are currently no Municipal Liasons that I know of.  I had stepped down before November of last year, offering to stay on if someone picked up and learned with me, but no one did – and now… I understand that bad things have happened over on the forum, I also know that the handling of the…

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N is for normal

N is for normal

Published by Kai on April 16, 2024

In the list of words I tend not to use about me and my inspirations, and normal isn’t one of the words that tends to spring to mind (unless I’m masking). But normal is actually an inspiration for me.It’s a starting point – a way to contrast everything that people expect. Challenging the idea of normal, or at least that’s what I hope to do with my stories. Normal – the setting on a washing machine – isn’t exactly one of the things that I list as my qualities. I revel in being quirky, I guess, but honestly, it’s a…

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M is for Magic

M is for Magic

Published by Kai on April 15, 2024

I did something a bit out of character, because I should have also done L for Language, but I wanted everyone to see L for LudoSport, so instead of L for language, I’m doing M for Magic, and being a bit sneaky and talking about L for language instead.  But it’s also magic, and I’ll explain why. It’s magic to me at least. Did you know that every organised communication, written, oral or organised (math, code, music, linguistics) are all types of language to me.  I love to talk about math as a language because I get funny looks, but…

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M is for (e)motionless

M is for (e)motionless

Published by Kai on April 15, 2024

I made the mistake this morning of going into my spam comments and discovered a missive from someone else, who says he is dying.  Checking back onto his site, I see he just entered hospice care. The day after the comment he left.He will probably will never see this post.   His comment was very much ‘oh, silly child, you’re full of it’. He accused me of writing a 7th grader missive about my day to my parents – just the facts, no emotion. He assumed that it was because I write this way.  But still acknowledged I have a massive website,…

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M is for Meditation #MondayBlogs

M is for Meditation #MondayBlogs

Published by Kai on April 15, 2024

M is for Meditation I’ve always found that meditation is something that comes sorta easily to me.  Well, kinda. My brain still does the whole ‘chasing ideas into the flow of information thing’ instead of letting them go sometimes, and sometimes, I’m really bad at objectively labelling thinking and feeling thoughts, but, I’ve found, overall, that meditation is great for me. The thing is, it wasn’t always that way. It started, I guess, when the whole trend of working on meditations was something that was rolled out in the UK.  I’ve been through the mental health system a couple of…

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M is for Mourning

M is for Mourning

Published by Kai on April 15, 2024

Every year I get to the AtoZ and think about whether I should talk about losing friends, and every year I’ve decided that I won’t do it. And even this year, even though my writing is often dedicated to friends, even though my words are built around the things I do and know, so losing people – my friends and family – obviously changes how I see things and what I’ve talked about in my books.But, if I’m honest, I’m still a bit reluctant to open up old wounds. But…last night, I lost another friend and so, I thought I’d…

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L is for Ludosport (what else?) #AtoZ

L is for Ludosport (what else?) #AtoZ

Published by Kai on April 13, 2024

I’ve talked A LOT about LudoSport, and I’m entirely unapologetic about that.LudoSport is one of the best places I’ve ever discovered – an amazing community, an incredible group of people, great exercise and my mental health has been always better since starting with them. I think the last major post I did about LudoSport, before I had issues in October was the excitement about being under 100kgs for the first time in years, and about to go do a daggers course. I did the daggers course. I got sick soon after. So, if you’d like to know about the sport,…

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K is for Killing #AtoZ

K is for Killing #AtoZ

Published by Kai on April 12, 2024

Of all the letters I asked about, I got the most requests for the letter K.  ‘Could I talk about why Kaiberie?’.  ‘Why Kai?’ ‘how about project Kalypso?’ (eh, excuse me, that’s a secret….). One friend, who has asked to remain nameless, asked ‘why are you so interested in everything around killing.  You’re always able to talk about  everything from True Crime to serial killers, and police, and … all of it.’.So, I think I’ll talk about ‘killing’.  Killing time mostly. So. to address the elephant in the room – Project Kalypso is actually my true crime writing project. (look…

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J is for Jump (a poem)

J is for Jump (a poem)

Published by Kai on April 11, 2024

I looked round the space,A leap in front,a wall behind.On that wall is safety,a door, back to a lifeI could be…settled, safe,in the spaceI already made.but, that spacethat cage is only safe,because I know all of it.Or I could go outon that ledge.Take a leap,or hold on and stay.I look around the spacewhite hospital walls,a curtain between me and the rest of the world.I look around the space,blink in slow motion,feel myself slipbefore I lose the chanceto free myself.I jump…

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I is for ‘I am, I feel…’

I is for ‘I am, I feel…’

Published by Kai on April 10, 2024

Me and my inspirations, I’m guessing people might have expected ‘Inspiration’.Instead, I’m talking about who I am now, and how I manage my feelings.I will be talking about Psychosis over at Bi-polarbears, along with CPTSD, because I live with both, along with ANXIETY in all capitals.The three of them are part of who I am. They shape and sometimes shame or highlight every interaction I have with people. It took me a long time to grow up, as a person. In fact, I know I didn’t start any ‘real’ growth until the last few years.Firstly, I *am* a mother. I…

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H is for Home

H is for Home

Published by Kai on April 9, 2024

H is also for headache hell, over on Typing A Blank. There’s a lot of things that I consider as ‘home’. And, if you’ve gone off to read Typing A Blank, this post has a little bit of a different meaning than the ‘straight’ meaning.So, there’s the traditional idea of home – and I’ve lived in Gloucester and the Costwolds for so long now that I’ve actually got two places that I consider home.Here, in Gloucester, it’s home now.  It’s where I raised my kids through their teens to adulthood.  It’s where Tempus and I consider as our home. It’s…

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