Robert Lynch

The ‘dark playground’ is a term used to describe the behaviour of procrastinators. Instead of doing the task, they do some instant...

Rings of Power may be the worst example of an adaptation ever recorded on film. There are many reasons why a story may need to change...

I'm writing a story called 'The Case of the Girl in the Box' as a free piece when people sign up to my email list. The story was supposed...

By the 1st of September, I want to have The Case of the Girl in the Box finished. I’ve been working on this short story for a long while....

Last week I got the 4th Covid shot. The 2nd jab has been the worst for me; I felt rubbish for over a week. However, this one didn’t...

Last week I talked about my new schedule. The schedule lasted only one day. Part of my schedule includes a new fitness regime, for...

I’ve been thinking a lot about work uniforms. Well, the whole process of getting ready for work. For minimum wage Crappy Night Job, I get...

I’ve been lax in updating things on the website over the last couple of months. The biggest reason is I let the pandemic news into my...

I made a roster for the week in my last post, outside of the shifts I have at crappy night job. While a demoralising experience in many...

Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship with no memory, next to two dead people. He is on a mission to save the human race, if only he can...

For the last couple of months, I have been struggling to find any balance. Crappy night job hasn’t been very stable, and I haven’t been...

In 1964, Donald Horne published a book called The Lucky Country. The book was a commentary of Australia's political and sociological...

What motives people? How do they stay motivated? I've been thinking a lot about this lately. Creating a writing career, or for that...

The last few weeks have not gone to plan. I hurt my back and got a chest cold (just a regular cold, not anything serious). Now my back...

One of the things I learned at Uni was the Pomodoro Method. The idea is that regular short breaks help keep you at optimal productivity....

Space Seed is the story that introduces Khan Noonien Singh. The Enterprise finds a pre-warp human ship adrift and goes aboard to discover...

The transition back to working three days and writing two days per week has been about as rocky as I expected. I am not good at change,...

Justice League was released in 2017. The movie had a bunch of behind the scenes problems, which is all too common in Hollywood these...

I’m officially working days! Crappy night job has become crappy day job. After two weeks off, where I got in a good slog of rest,...

Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, and Ancillary Mercy make up the Imperial Radch trilogy by Ann Leckie, published in 2013-15. The...